Minor Counties Championship 1895

25 MATCH NUMBER 12 : DURHAM V WORCESTERSHIRE At The Norton Cricket Club Ground, Station Road, Norton on Monday 15, Tuesday 16 July 1895 Result: Durham won by 39 runs Points: Durham 1, Worcestershire -1 Toss: Durham Umpires: M Heavisides and unknown Debutants: Durham 1 (Rev G W A Firth); Worcestershire 3 (R D Burrows, H K Foster, A W Isaac) First day score: Durham 125 and 51-0 wicket (J Young 26*, J WWelford 21*); Worcestershire 148 Durham Welford, J W c Arnold b Millward 0 (2) c Rhodes b Millward 30 J Young b Bird 24 (1) b Raynor 36 C Y Adamson b Millward 22 (3) c Rhodes b Bird 20 J F Whitwell c Raynor b Millward 0 (4) b Burrows 39 W H Wilson c Romney b Millward 11 (5) b Burrows 20 Rev G W A Firth st Straw b Millward 16 (6) c Fereday b Burrows 18 * W F Whitwell c Isaac b Arnold 36 (7) run out 29 A WWelch b Millward 4 (8) c Arnold b Burrows 0 + Lambert, T run out 7 (9) c Straw b Bird 10 Gregory, J c Rhodes b Millward 1 (10) st Straw b Bird 10 Nichol, D not out 4 (11) not out 0 Extras 0 b 4, lb 1 5 Total 125 217 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 46 46 46 64 89 109 113 116 125 Second innings 67 71 113 141 158 185 186 198 214 217 Millward 24 7 45 7 - - (1) 19 2 67 1 - - Raynor 9 1 43 0 - - (3) 12 0 39 1 - - Bird 9 3 22 1 - - (5) 17.2 4 27 3 - - Arnold 5 0 15 1 - - (2) 9 2 30 0 - - Burrows (4) 20 3 35 4 - - Fereday (6) 5 0 14 0 - - Extras - - 0 1 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 47 11 125 10 0 0 82.2 11 217 10 0 0 Worcestershire Arnold, E G lbw b Gregory 25 (2) b Nichol 4 T B Rhodes lbw b Gregory 4 (1) b Gregory 1 * H K Foster c Lambert b W F Whitwell 38 (3) c Welch b Gregory 21 Millward, A b Gregory 2 (4) b Nichol 45 F W Romney b Nichol 41 (5) b Gregory 0 A W Isaac b Gregory 0 (6) c J F Whitwell b Gregory 75 Fereday, J B lbw b Nichol 10 (7) c Gregory b Nichol 3 + Straw, T lbw b Gregory 7 (8) b Nichol 0 Raynor, S c Lambert b Nichol 13 (9) c Lambert b Gregory 1 Burrows, R D b Nichol 0 (10) b Gregory 0 Bird, W not out 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 7, lb 1 8 b 1, lb 3, nb 1 5 Total 148 155 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 55 70 72 72 114 126 146 146 148 Second innings 5 11 37 47 97 121 139 148 148 155 W F Whitwell 11 5 24 1 - - (4) 10 3 27 0 - - Gregory 24 11 37 5 - - (1) 34.1 16 44 6 - - Nichol 21 6 57 4 - - (2) 33 9 67 4 - 1 Welch 8 2 22 0 - - (3) 7 1 12 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 64 24 148 10 0 0 84.1 29 155 10 0 1 Notes: Durham won by 39 runs just before 6.00 pm on the second day. For the winners Gregory took 11 wickets in the match for 81 runs. For Worcestershire, Isaac’s 75 contained 9 fours. Worcestershire’s second innings total of 155 was the second highest fourth innings total of the season. [Missing: Second umpire.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 16,17 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 16,17 July; Northern Echo 16,17 July; North Star 16,17 July; Berrow’s Worcester Journal 20 July; Birmingham Post 16,17 July; Worcester Daily Times 15,16 July; Worcester Herald 20 July; Worcestershire Echo 16,17 July; Sporting Chronicle 16 July.