The MInor Counties Championship 1900

113 DURHAM 1900 Championship matches: Played 8, won 4, lost none, drawn 4. Position: First equal with Glamorgan and Northamptonshire out of fourteen Won: v Northumberland at Burnmoor, v Cambridgeshire at Sunderland, v Norfolk at Norwich, and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn: v Northamptonshire at South Shields, v Norfolk at Darlington, v Northumberland at Jesmond, and v Northamptonshire at Northampton. Captain: J F Whitwell (7 matches) ñ E W Elliot was captain in the match in which J F Whitwell did not play Wicket-keeper: J Kirtley (8 matches) Debutants: 6 (T Coulson, W Nisbet, S Pike, E Shaw, J H Shaw and L Smith) Final season for team: 2 (T B Robinson and L Smith) Hon Secretary: W R Wilson Umpires: G Hudson and T Hutton Professionals: 5 (J Butler, R Clarke, S Pike, J H Shaw and G Turnbull) Home grounds 4: Burnmoor Cricket Club Ground, St Barnabas Way, Burnmoor (1 match), Darlington Cricket Club Ground, Feethamís, Darlington (1 match), South Shields Cricket Club Ground, Wood Terrace, Westoe, South Shields (1 match), and Sunderland Cricket Club Ground, Ashbrooke, Sunderland (1 match) Notes: Durham shared the Championship with Glamorgan and Northamptonshire. It was the second time they had done so, the first being in 1895, the inaugural year of the competition, when Durham were joint winners with Norfolk and Worcestershire. Eight matches were played, compared with 10 in 1899, Surrey 2 nd XI no longer being met. Bousfield became the second Durham player, after E W Elliot, to pass the career milestone of a thousand runs in the Championship. DURHAM MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1900 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 6 players who made their Championship debut for Durham during the season. Names in bold indicate that 1900 was the last or only season that these 2 players appeared for Durham in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I R Bousfield 7 8 0 91 226 28.25 - 2 - 3 - 17 4 56 0 - - - - A Burn 5 8 0 45 122 15.25 - - 2 3 - 27 10 55 3 18.33 2-35 - - Butler, J 8 8 0 40 76 9.50 - - 2 6 - 214.3 63 500 24 20.83 5-33 - 1 Clarke, R 8 9 2 57* 176 25.14 - 1 1 8 - 230.1 68 522 31 16.83 7-41 - 2 T Coulson + 6 7 1 35 81 13.50 - - 2 3 - - - - - - - - - W S Dobson 2 2 0 72 85 42.50 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - E W Elliot 8 10 0 85 270 27.00 - 2 - 2 - 11.4 3 34 1 34.00 1-23 - - A B Horsley 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - J Kirtley 8 8 3 16 66 13.20 - - 1 7 5 - - - - - - - - W Nisbet + 2 2 0 10 19 9.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Pike, S + 4 3 1 24* 24 12.00 - - 2 - - 52.4 14 151 7 21.57 4-17 - - T B Robinson 1 2 0 22 24 12.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - E Shaw + 7 6 1 21 50 10.00 - - - 1 - 150 32 444 11 40.36 4-78 - - Shaw, J H + 1 - - - - - - - - - - 6 2 13 1 13.00 1-13 - - L Smith + 5 5 0 34 57 11.40 - - - 5 - 3 0 11 0 - - - - Turnbull, G 3 3 1 30* 50 25.00 - - 1 3 - 70 18 185 7 26.42 4-41 - - J F Whitwell 7 10 1 99 258 28.66 - 2 - 3 - 3 0 13 0 - - - - W F Whitwell 5 7 1 21 90 15.00 - - - 2 - 170 49 394 35 11.25 7-87 2 4 Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 112 - - - - - - - - 134 6 - - - - Total 88 98 11 99 1786 20.52 0 8 11 49 5 955 263 2512 126 19.93 7-41 2 7 (18 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY ñ CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 2 players made their last appearance for Durham in the Championship in 1900. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I T B Robinson 1899 4 7 1 77 160 26.66 - 1 2 3 - - - - - - - - L Smith 1900 5 5 0 34 57 11.40 - - - 5 - 18 11 0 - - - - (2 players)