The MInor Counties Championship 1900

118 NORTHUMBERLAND 1900 Championship matches: Played 10, won 3, lost 1, drawn 6. Position: Fourth equal with Buckinghamshire out of fourteen Won: v Norfolk at Norwich, v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge, and v Cambridgeshire at Jesmond Lost: v Durham at Burnmoor Drawn: v Northamptonshire at Northampton, v Staffordshire at Wolverhampton, v Northamptonshire at Jesmond, v Staffordshire at Jesmond, v Norfolk at Jesmond, and v Durham at Jesmond. Captain: F G H Clayton (10 matches) Wicket-keepers: L W Greenwood (7 matches) and G E Wilkinson (3 matches) Debutants: 2 (Maj C E Greenway and G E Wilkinson) Final season for team: None Hon Secretary: F G H Clayton Umpire: C E Bartram Professionals: 5 (M Chambers, G Elsey, L W Greenwood, J Marshall and E Tomlin) Home ground 1: The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne (5 matches) Notes: With a settled team and calling on only 14 players, Northumberland had an improved season ending up fourth equal in the competition compared with eighth in 1899. The county played the same number of matches as in the previous year, but Staffordshire replaced Surrey 2 nd XI on the fixture list. Tomlin took all ten wickets for 31 runs in the first Norfolk innings at Norwich. It was the fourth time this feat had been achieved, but the average was the best. For the first time for any county since the inauguration of the competition, none of the Northumberland team was playing their last match for the county. Career milestones passed during the season were Elsey one hundred wickets and Mortimer one thousand runs. Research, undertaken since the 1899 book was issued, has revealed a second initial for L W Greenwood. NORTHUMBERLAND MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1900 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 2 players who made their Championship debut for Northumberland during the season. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I S P Bell 9 13 2 41 198 18.00 - - 1 4 - - - - - - - - - Chambers, M 8 10 0 48 116 11.60 - - 2 5 - 17 5 42 1 42.00 1-7 - - F G H Clayton 10 12 1 47 240 21.81 - - 1 3 - 128.5 26 363 15 24.20 5-62 - 1 Elsey, G 10 11 1 48 141 14.10 - - 1 9 - 334 90 788 43 18.32 6-35 1 4 F W Gillespie 5 4 0 27 42 10.50 - - 1 4 - 3 0 13 0 - - - - Maj C E Greenway + 6 7 0 50 196 28.00 - 2 2 4 - - - - - - - - - Greenwood, L W 7 8 4 23 44 11.00 - - 2 6 5 - - - - - - - - J Hansell 10 15 5 133 503 50.30 1 3 - 7 - 31 2 129 5 25.80 3-54 - - Marshall, J 10 10 3 76 167 23.85 - 1 2 7 - 184.1 47 490 27 18.14 8-71 - 1 R G E Mortimer 10 15 1 57 255 18.21 - 1 - 1 - 8 0 47 0 - - - - V Thompson 10 13 0 103 333 25.61 1 2 - 5 - 6 0 14 0 - - - - Tomlin, E 10 10 2 42 188 23.50 - - - 10 - 258.5 87 589 42 14.02 10-31 1 3 Rev E W R Walters 2 3 0 26 40 13.33 - - - 2 - 32 14 66 4 16.50 2-18 - - G E Wilkinson + 3 2 0 8 12 6.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 189 - - - - - - - - 148 7 - - - - Total 110 133 19 133 2664 23.36 2 9 12 67 5 1002.5 271 2689 144 18.67 10-31 2 9 (14 players) (6 ball overs)