The MInor Counties Championship 1900

126 MINOR COUNTIES V WEST INDIANS : REPRESENTATIVE MATCH At The County Ground, Abington Lane, Northampton on Monday 25, Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 June 1900 Result: West Indians won by 61 runs Toss: West Indians Umpires: W Clark and A Stockwin First day score: West Indians 184-7 wickets (W Bowring 8*, D C St C Hinds 0*) Second day score: West Indians 206 and 52-1 wicket (D C St C Hinds 35*, W Bowring 10*); Minor Counties 261 West Indians C A Ollivierre b Thompson 69 (1) b Thompson 7 G C Learmond c Thompson b Creber 14 (5) b Lowe 0 M M Kerr b Thompson 0 (9) b East 1 P I Cox b Thompson 40 (4) c Horton b Williams 35 * S W Sproston lbw b Thompson 2 (6) c Horton b Lowe 2 + L S Constantine b Creber 27 (7) b Lowe 8 Burton, W J st Smith b Creber 19 (8) b Lowe 6 W Bowring b Thompson 18 (3) c Williams b East 30 D C St C Hinds b Thompson 11 (2) c Williams b Lowe 68 W H Mignon not out 0 (10) c and b Williams 4 Woods, S b Thompson 0 (11) not out 1 Extras nb 1 6 8 Total 206 170 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 28 29 112 128 149 184 198 206 206 Second innings 52 96 110 110 116 132 139 169 170 Thompson 24 4 84 7 - 1 (2) 17 3 37 1 - - Creber 24 1 68 3 - - (1) 6 0 21 0 - - Lowe 8 0 44 0 - - (4) 15 2 50 5 - - Williams 2 0 4 0 - - (3) 10 2 26 2 - - East (5) 15 5 28 2 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 58 5 206 10 0 1 63 12 170 10 - - Minor Counties R A Williams Berkshire c Hinds b Woods 37 (1) c Constantine b Burton 1 Thompson, G J Northants c Hinds b Birton 58 (2) lbw b Woods 0 E W Elliot Durham b Burton 26 (3) run out 0 L T Driffield Northants b Burton 3 (8) b Mignon 10 East, W Northants c Burton b Mignon 37 (4) b Woods 7 Creber, H Glamorgan b Ollivierre 6 (5) c Woods b Burton 2 + B C Smith Northants c Learmond b Woods 13 (6) c Constantine b Burton 12 C J T Pool Northants b Burton 39 (7) b Woods 3 * T Horton Northants c Constantine b Burton 17 (9) not out 9 Lowe, S Glamorgan not out 13 (10) b Mignon 1 J F Stops Northants c Constantine b Burton 4 (11) b Woods 2 Extras 8 nb 1 7 Total 261 54 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 72 118 128 133 144 169 212 261 Second innings 1 1 6 8 16 28 28 47 54 Woods 17 2 57 2 - - (2) 22.4 8 31 4 - 1 Burton 29.3 12 55 6 - - (1) 19 14 11 3 - - Ollivierre 13 5 37 1 - - Constantine 8 2 26 0 - - Mignon 16 8 36 1 - - (3) 4 2 5 2 - - Cox 8 1 33 0 - - Hinds 5 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 7 1 - - Total 96.3 30 261 10 - - 45.4 24 54 10 0 1 Notes: West Indians won by 61 runs at 4.55 pm on the third day. It was the first win of their tour. Three days were allocated to this fixture, but it was not first-class. The organisation of the Minor Counties XI lay in the hands of A J Darnell, the Northamptonshire Hon Secretary, and he was unable to get together a representative team. The team that played included seven Northamptonshire players, including two late replacements ñ Pool and Stops. The latter had played his one and only championship match for Northamptonshire back in 1895. For the winners, Olivierre scored 69 with 9 fours and Hinds 68 with 1 five and 6 fours. Burton took 9 wickets in the match for 66 runs. For the Minor Counties, there were 2 fours in Thompsonís 58. He also took 8 wickets in the match for 121 runs, including 7 for 84 in the West Indians first innings. Elliot and Thompson had previously played for the Minor Counties representative team; the remainder were debutants. By an unusual coincidence, the ënot outí batsmen on both the first and second day were the same players - Bowring and Hinds. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Wisden 1901, p 432; Northampton Daily Chronicle 25,26,27 June; Northampton Daily Reporter 25,26 June; Northampton Herald 30 June; Northampton Mercury 29 June; The Sportsman 26,27,28 June; Sporting Chronicle 26,27,28 June; Sporting Life 26,27,28 June; The Times 26,27,28 June.