Minor Counties Championship 1895

24 MATCH NUMBER 11 : STAFFORDSHIRE V DURHAM At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 July 1895 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Durham Umpires: T Hutton and unknown Debutants: None First day score: Durham 425-6 wickets (J F Whitwell 61*, A WWelch 9*) Durham R H Mallett b Briscoe 70 Welford, J W c Copestake b W Brown 153 J Young run out 27 C Y Adamson b Darlow 18 J F Whitwell not out 61 W H Wilson b Harrison 69 * W F Whitwell b Harrison 6 A WWelch not out 9 Gregory, J + Lambert, T Nichol, D Extras b 10, lb 1, w 1 12 Total (6 wickets declared) 425 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 165 252 266 282 397 403 - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Darlow 24 6 73 1 - - Briscoe 34 12 78 1 - - Gilbert 12 1 66 0 - - Brown, J 17 4 64 0 - - King 11 3 37 0 - - Brown, W 9 2 25 1 1 - Harrison 7 1 27 2 - - Mott 4 1 15 0 - - Mainwaring 7 0 28 0 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - Total 125 30 425 6 1 0 Staffordshire (Followed on) * C C Mott st Lambert b Welch 15 (1) c Lambert b Nichol 14 Brown, W b W F Whitwell 0 (4) not out 90 King, J b Gregory 12 (3) not out 48 W E Harrison b Nichol 73 J H Copestake c Adamson b Nichol 5 Brown, J c Mallett b W F Whitwell 24 C A W Gilbert c Adamson b W F Whitwell 29 (2) b Gregory 18 Rev P E Mainwaring c Adamson b Gregory 35 Briscoe, H c Nichol b Gregory 6 + C E Booth not out 5 Darlow, J F st Lambert b Nichol 0 Extras b 3, lb 2, w 1, nb 2 8 b 3 3 Total 212 (2 wickets) 173 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 22 39 44 94 146 191 206 212 212 Second innings 27 39 - - - - - - - - W F Whitwell 27 12 59 3 1 2 (1) 11 6 16 0 - - Welch 15 4 45 1 - - (4) 11 2 29 0 - - Gregory 28 12 43 3 - - (3) 14 7 21 1 - - Nichol 19.1 8 37 3 - - (2) 13 4 37 1 - - Wilson 4 2 8 0 - - (6) 5 1 12 0 - - Mallett 2 0 4 0 - - (8) 3 1 7 0 - - J F Whitwell 2 0 8 0 - - (7) 5 1 18 0 - - Adamson (5) 2 0 13 0 - - Young (9) 6 1 17 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 97.1 38 212 10 1 2 70 23 173 2 0 0 Notes: Drawn return match, with Staffordshire saving the game after having followed on 213 runs behind. The game between the two sides in June at Sunderland had also been drawn. Durham’s 425-6 declared was the highest team score of the season. Welford’s 153 was the highest individual innings of the year and included 1 six, 23 fours, 5 threes and 12 twos. There were 11 fours in Mallett’s 70, and 6 fours in both Wilson’s 69 and J F Whitwell’s 61 not out. In the Durham innings, Mallett and Welford put on 165 for the first wicket and J F Whitwell and Wilson 115 for the fifth. For Staffordshire, W Brown’s 90 not out contained 14 fours and Harrison’s 73 6 fours. In the Staffordshire second innings, King and W Brown added an undefeated 134 for the third wicket. The match aggregate of 810 runs was the highest of the season. In all, 18 players bowled in this game, nine from each side. [Missing: One umpire; in Durham inns duration of Welford’s innings of 153.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 13 July; Staffordshire Post 10,11 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 10,11 July; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 11,12 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 11,12 July; Sporting Chronicle 11,12 July; The Sportsman 11,12 July.