Minor Counties Championship 1895

79 WORCESTERSHIRE MINOR COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1895 Championship matches: Played 10, won 5, lost 2, drawn 3; position equal first with Durham and Norfolk Won: v Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent, v Hertfordshire at Watford, v Staffordshire at Stourbridge, v Cheshire at Worcester, and v Durham at Kidderminster Lost: v Durham at Norton, and v Hertfordshire at Malvern Drawn: v Oxfordshire at Oxford, v Cheshire at Oxton, and v Oxfordshire at Dudley Captain: H K Foster – E G Bromley-Martin (2 matches) and P H Foley (1 match) captained the team in the 3 matches in which H K Foster did not play Wicket-keepers: T B Rhodes (2 matches), and T Straw (8 matches) Secretary: P H Foley Umpires: J Edge, - Veitch Professionals: 12 (E G Arnold, A Bird, W Bird, F L Bowley, R D Burrows, J B Fereday, F Hunt, A Millward, S Raynor, W Riley, T Straw, F G Willoughby) Home grounds 5: Tipton Road, Dudley (1 match), Chester Road North, Kidderminster (1 match), Malvern College, Malvern (1 match), Amblecote, Stourbridge (1 match), Boughton Park, Worcester (1 match) Notes: There was initially some argument as to whether Worcestershire shared the title with Durham and Norfolk, since applying the method used in the First-Class County Championship would have placed Worcestershire third. However, it was subsequently agreed that a simple points method should be followed. + Indicates that 1895 was the only season these 8 players appeared for Worcestershire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Arnold, E G 10 16 1 37 214 14.26 - - 2 8 - 276.1 108 466 46 10.13 6-28 - 4 Bird, A 4 6 1 29 80 16.00 - - - 4 - 122.2 45 225 16 14.06 5-22 - 1 Bird, W + 3 3 3 11* 11 - - - - 1 - 75.2 24 142 7 20.28 3-27 - - R Boucher + 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - 5 1 20 0 - - - - Bowley, F L 8 14 2 96 238 19.83 - 1 - 4 - - - - - - - - - E G Bromley-Martin 5 7 0 50 134 19.14 - 1 1 3 - 47.4 17 93 7 13.28 6-54 - 1 G E Bromley-Martin 6 10 1 106 257 28.55 1 - 1 2 - 9 2 18 0 - - - - Burrows, R D 3 4 0 9 12 3.00 - - 2 - - 25.1 6 39 6 6.50 4-35 - - E G M Carmichael + 1 2 0 3 4 2.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fereday, J B 4 5 0 12 31 6.20 - - - 1 - 5 0 14 0 - - - - P H Foley 1 1 1 4* 4 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - H K Foster 7 12 1 46 198 18.00 - - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - R E Foster 3 5 1 7 10 2.50 - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - - J Howard 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Hunt, F 1 1 0 16 16 16.00 - - - - - 6 2 8 0 - - - - A W Isaac 2 4 0 75 86 21.50 - 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - E P Jobson 7 10 2 88* 233 29.12 - 2 1 3 - 1 0 5 1 5.00 1-5 - - P H Latham + 2 3 0 46 56 18.66 - - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - Millward, A 9 15 1 67 262 18.71 - 1 1 3 - 205.4 75 400 26 15.38 7-45 - 1 T M Pike + 2 4 1 22 30 10.00 - - 2 1 - 1.2 0 8 0 - - - - Raynor, S 9 12 4 15 60 7.50 - - 2 3 - 282.1 86 693 50 13.86 7-48 2 4 T B Rhodes 3 6 1 21* 48 9.60 - - 1 5 - - - - - - - - - Riley, W + 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 - - - - - 18 4 25 1 25.00 1-18 - - F W Romney 3 4 0 41 87 21.75 - - 1 4 - - - - - - - - - G H T Simpson 1 2 0 23 44 22.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - W E Smithson + 1 1 0 14 14 14.00 - - - - - 4 0 9 0 - - - - Straw, T 8 11 2 24 61 6.77 - - 1 10 4 - - - - - - - - W H W Wilkes 3 5 0 37 87 17.40 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Willoughby, F G + 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - 18 4 34 1 34.00 1-13 - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 119 - - - - - - - - 122 7 - - - - Total 110 167 22 106 2406 16.59 1 6 23 64 4 1102 2374 [2,321]* 168 13.81 7-452 11 2320 13.80 (29 players) (5 ball overs) * Runs conceded bowling one in excess. No Worcestershire bowling analyses have yet been discovered for Match 28 v Oxfordshire at Dudley, where Arnold and Raynor bowled throughout the only Oxfordshire innings. The bowling analyses of these two bowlers for this match have therefore been derived from the Worcestershire Championship averages in the 1896 James Lillywhite’s Cricketer’s Annual, as explained in the notes to that match.