Minor Counties Championship 1895

30 MATCH NUMBER 17 : STAFFORDSHIRE V CHESHIRE At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 29, Tuesday 30 July 1895 Result: Cheshire won by 105 runs Points: Staffordshire -1 Toss: Cheshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Staffordshire 3 (W H Calkin, G McHarg, W E Walker); Cheshire 2 (G Radcliffe, A Smith) First day score: Cheshire 77 and 89-4 wickets (G Davenport 37*, G Radcliffe 25*); Staffordshire 60 Cheshire Pointon, T run out 19 (1) b Turner 7 * J Ravenscroft c Mott b Darlow 16 (2) b Turner 4 Davenport, G c and b Turner 5 (3) b Turner 37 J Cookson b Turner 11 (4) b Calkin 10 Brown, S b Turner 16 (5) b Turner 2 Hollowood, A b Darlow 3 (9) c Copestake b Turner 25 Smith, E lbw b Darlow 0 (7) b Turner 16 Radcliffe, G c J Brown b Turner 2 (6) b Darlow 25 + Disney, J J b Darlow 0 (10) not out 1 Smith, A not out 1 (8) b Walker 0 E C Ryland b Turner 0 (11) b Turner 4 Extras 4 5 Total 77 136 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 26 39 51 67 68 70 73 73 77 77 Second innings 9 20 45 89 89 136 Turner 22.4 7 41 5 - - (2) 32.4 16 50 7 - - Darlow 22 9 32 4 - - (1) 15 2 38 1 - - Brown, J (3) 7 2 12 0 - - Calkin (4) 7 3 6 1 - - Brown, W (5) 3 0 10 0 - - Walker (6) 5 0 15 1 - - Extras - - 4 1 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 44.4 16 77 10 - - 69.4 23 136 10 - - Staffordshire * C C Mott b S Brown 26 (1) b Ryland 5 King, J run out 1 (2) c Hollowood b A Smith 1 Brown, W c Davenport b A Smith 10 (3) c Davenport b Ryland 0 J H Copestake c Ravenscroft b A Smith 0 (4) c Pointon b Ryland 0 W E Walker b S Brown 4 (5) b S Brown 22 W H Calkin c Davenport b S Brown 2 (6) c Ravenscroft b Ryland 3 Brown, J lbw b A Smith 3 (7) run out 0 Rev P E Mainwaring b S Brown 1 (9) b S Brown 0 Turner, W H not out 10 (8) not out 12 Darlow, J F b S Brown 0 (10) lbw b Ryland 1 + G McHarg run out 2 (11) c S Brown b Ryland 0 Extras 1 4 Total 60 48 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 21 21 30 34 39 46 51 51 60 Second innings 2 2 2 16 20 20 39 39 48 48 Brown, S 20.1 11 13 5 - - (3) 4 4 0 2 - - Ryland 7 0 14 0 - - (2) 14.3 3 19 6 - - Smith, A 13 1 32 3 - - (1) 11 3 25 1 - - Extras - - 1 2 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 40.1 12 60 10 - - 29.3 10 48 10 - - Notes: Cheshire won this return match at 1.40 pm on the second day. The encounter between the two sides at Stockport in June had been drawn. The highest individual batsman’s score was Davenport’s second innings 37. Newspaper reports indicate that the wicket favoured the bowlers throughout the game. For the losers, Turner took 12 wickets in the match for 91 runs, including 7 for 50 in the Cheshire second innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Cheshire 2 nd inns fall of 3 rd , and 7 th to 9 th wickets.] Sources: Staffordshire Post 29,30 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 26,29,30 July; Birmingham Daily Post 30,31 July; Cheshire County News 2 August; Cheshire Evening Echo 30 July; Liverpool Daily Post 31 July; Stockport Advertiser 2 August; Sporting Chronicle 30,31 July; The Sportsman 29,30,31 July.