Minor Counties Championship 1895

28 MATCH NUMBER 15 : HERTFORDSHIRE V NORFOLK At The Bishop’s Stortford Cricket Club Ground, Cricket Field Lane, Bishop’s Stortford on Thursday 25, Friday 26 July 1895 Result: Hertfordshire won by 113 runs Points: Hertfordshire 1, Norfolk -1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: G T Rye and W T Westell Debutants: Hertfordshire 11 (Whole team); Norfolk 4 (Sgt M Cockburn, L R T Frere, R H Mornement, F A Tipple) First day score: Hertfordshire 117 and 87; Norfolk 48 and 9-2 wickets (S D Page 0*) Hertfordshire Titchmarsh, V A b Cowles 13 (1) c Page b Shore 2 White, H E b Cowles 20 (5) c Tipple b Cowles 0 H J Hill c Tipple b Shore 2 (8) c Tipple b Shore 4 W H Nicholls b Shore 0 (7) c Page b Shore 15 Hearn, W c Frere b Shore 1 (9) not out 8 A Butcher c Page b Shore 0 (10) c Raikes b Shore 12 * C Pigg b Shore 8 (3) st Frere b Shore 18 E R Hill c and b Shore 0 (11) c Shore b Tipple 3 + G E B Pritchett c Cockburn b Shore 15 (6) c Skrimshire b Cowles 1 Rev W H Heale not out 22 (4) st Frere b Shore 8 Field, F c Darnell b Shore 30 (2) c Skrimshire b Mornement 0 Extras b 6 6 b 14, nb 2 16 Total 117 87 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 117 Second innings 87 Shore 26.3 4 60 8 - - (1) 23 12 25 6 - - Cowles 15 8 21 2 - - (3) 7 0 20 2 - - Raikes 7 1 19 0 - - (5) 7 4 9 0 - 1 Mornement 1 0 1 0 - - (2) 6 2 15 1 - 1 Tipple 6 3 10 0 - - (4) 2.2 2 2 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 16 0 - - Total 55.3 16 117 10 0 0 45.2 20 87 10 0 2 Norfolk * G B Raikes c Butcher b Titchmarsh 2 (2) b White 2 J F Skrimshire hit wicket b White 0 (1) c H J Hill b White 6 S D Page b Titchmarsh 13 (3) c Butcher b White 3 E A Massingham b White 0 (4) run out 0 Cowles, S R B b White 0 (6) b White 5 R H Mornement c E R Hill b White 9 (5) c White b Titchmarsh 0 Sgt M Cockburn c Pigg b White 4 (7) b Titchmarsh 2 Darnell, A F c Heale b White 1 (8) st Pritchett b White 0 F A Tipple b White 0 (9) not out 5 + L R T Frere c Nicholls b Titchmarsh 3 (10) b White 14 Shore, C not out 8 (11) b Titchmarsh 0 Extras b 6, lb 2 8 b 5, w 1 6 Total 48 43 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 48 Second innings 12 13 43 Titchmarsh 16 12 13 3 - - (1) 13.3 7 21 3 - - White 16 7 27 7 - - (2) 13 6 16 6 1 - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 6 1 - - Total 32 19 48 10 0 0 26.3 13 43 10 1 0 Notes: Hertfordshire won by 113 runs after 45 minutes of play on the second day. The match marked Hertfordshire’s debut in the Championship. For the winners, Titchmarsh and White bowled unchanged through both Norfolk innings. White took 13 wickets in the match for 43 runs, including 7 for 27 in the Norfolk first innings. For the losers, Shore, who took 8 wickets 60 runs in the Hertfordshire first innings, had match figures of 14 for 85 which was statistically the second best match bowling performance of the season. The match aggregate of 295 runs was the second lowest for a completed match during the season. Norfolk’s second innings score of 43 was the third lowest of the season. [Missing: Fall of wickets; time completed.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Herts Advertiser 3 August; Watford Observer 3 August; West Herts Post 2 August; Norfolk Cricket Annual 1896, p 22-25; Eastern Daily Press 26,27 July; The Cricket Field 3 August; Sporting Life 26,27; The Sportsman 22,25,26,27 August.