Minor Counties Championship 1895

27 MATCH NUMBER 14 : CHESHIRE V WORCESTERSHIRE At The Oxton Cricket Club Ground, Townfield Lane, Oxton, Birkenhead on Monday 22, Tuesday 23 July 1895 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Worcestershire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cheshire 2 (J Bretherton, M Court); Worcestershire: None First day score: Worcestershire 169; Cheshire 135-7 wickets (A Hollowood 16*, M Court 9*) Worcestershire Arnold, E G c and b Bretherton 8 (2) b Brown 29 Bowley, F L b Brown 11 (1) run out 96 * H K Foster b Brown 20 (3) c Disney b Brown 3 G E Bromley-Martin c Smith b Bromley-Davenport 33 (4) b Bretherton 1 E P Jobson c Court b Bretherton 53 (6) b Brown 20 Millward, A c Court b Brown 12 (5) run out 67 A W Isaac b Smith 5 (7) lbw b Brown 6 + T B Rhodes b Smith 4 (8) not out 21 Bird, W not out 11 Raynor, S b Smith 0 Fereday, J B absent - (9) c Disney b Smith 2 Extras b 6, lb 3, nb 3 12 b 4, lb 2, w 1, nb 1 8 Total 169 (8 wickets declared) 253 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 18 20 51 112 145 151 154 169 169 - Second innings 65 93 94 156 181 193 222 253 - - Bretherton 25 10 51 2 - - (1) 23 5 71 1 - - Brown 26 6 62 3 - - (2) 39 12 89 4 - - Bromley-Davenport 11 2 20 1 - 3 (4) 11 2 36 0 1 1 Smith 10.4 2 24 3 - - (3) 19 6 49 1 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 8 2 - - Total 72.4 20 169 9 0 3 92 25 253 8 1 1 Cheshire * J Ravenscroft run out 5 (1) b Arnold 5 Pointon, T c Arnold b Raynor 34 (2) not out 76 Davenport, G b Millward 10 (3) not out 60 Bates, J R c Bird b Raynor 21 Brown, S c Bowley b Jobson 25 Smith, E b Raynor 5 H R Bromley-Davenport b Raynor 0 Hollowood, A b Bird 35 M Court not out 24 + Disney, J J b Millward 1 J Bretherton b Millward 0 Extras b 6, lb 12 18 b 1, lb 3, nb 1 5 Total 178 (1 wicket) 146 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 18 48 74 95 95 115 115 177 178 178 Second innings 20 - - - - - - - - - Millward 33.3 10 48 3 - - (2) 10 1 36 0 - - Arnold 20 10 30 0 - - (1) 14 6 17 1 - - Raynor 27 11 53 4 - - (3) 13 5 32 0 - - Bird 13 3 24 1 - - (4) 12 1 38 0 - - Jobson 1 0 5 1 - - Bromley-Martin (5) 9 2 18 0 - 1 Extras - - 18 1 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 94.3 34 178 10 0 0 58 15 146 1 0 1 Notes: Match drawn after the Worcestershire declaration left Cheshire a second innings victory target of 245 runs in two hours. For the visitors, Bowley’s 96 included 16 fours, and Millward’s 67 6 fours. In the Cheshire second innings, Pointon and Davenport had an unbroken stand of 126 for the second wicket. Pointon’s 76 not out was the second highest innings of the season by a batsman in the fourth innings of a match. The match aggregate of 746 was the third highest of the year. Berrow’s Worcester Journal reported that Fereday did not arrive at the ground in time to bat in the Worcestershire first innings “due to a misunderstanding”. [Missing: Umpires; in Worcestershire 1 st inns boundaries in Jobson’s 53; in Cheshire 2 nd inns boundaries in Pointon’s 76 not out and Davenport’s 60 not out.] Sources: Cheshire County News 26 July; Cheshire Evening Echo 23, 24 July; Liverpool Daily Post 24 July; Liverpool Mercury 23,24 July; Berrow’s Worcester Journal 27 July; Worcester Herald 27 July; Worcestershire Echo 23,24 July; The Cricket Field 27 July; Sporting Chronicle 23,24 July; Sporting Life 23,24 July; The Sportsman 23,24 July.