The MInor Counties Championship 1900

32 MATCH NUMBER 13 : NORFOLK V NORTHUMBERLAND At The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich on Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 June 1900 Result: Northumberland won by seven wickets Points: Northumberland 1, Norfolk -1 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: C E Bartram and G T Rye Debutants: Norfolk 3 (Rev H J E Burrell, J J Compton, L H Leman); Northumberland none First day score: Norfolk 88 and 34-6 wickets (G G Heslop 16*, J J Compton 3*); Northumberland 119. Norfolk Rev J G McCormick b Tomlin 31 (1) b Tomlin 1 P W Partridge b Tomlin 1 (2) c Thompson b Elsey 1 Rev H J E Burrell b Tomlin 12 (3) c Gillespie b Elsey 3 L Barratt c Hansell b Tomlin 7 (4) c Chambers b Elsey 3 * + G F Blake b Tomlin 3 (5) c Bell b Tomlin 1 G G Heslop not out 20 (6) c Tomlin b Elsey 36 S D Page c Thompson b Tomlin 0 (7) run out 4 J J Compton c Mortimer b Tomlin 4 (8) run out 3 R G Pilch c Thompson b Tomlin 0 (9) c Clayton b Elsey 0 L H Leman c Greenwood b Tomlin 2 (10) not out 6 Shore, C c Marshall b Tomlin 0 (11) b Tomlin 3 Extras b 8 8 lb 2 2 Total 88 63 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 34 53 59 60 60 68 68 82 88 Second innings 3 7 10 11 11 23 34 38 56 63 Elsey 10 1 28 0 - - (1) 19 6 43 5 - - Tomlin 17.5 5 31 10 - - (2) 18.2 13 18 3 - - Marshall 8 3 21 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 2 2 - - Total 35.5 9 88 10 0 0 37.2 19 63 10 0 0 Northumberland R G E Mortimer b Leman 31 (2) b Compton 12 Chambers, M c Blake b Barratt 2 J Hansell c Page b Barratt 3 (3) not out 15 S P Bell lbw b Shore 4 (4) b Compton 0 * F G H Clayton c Leman b Compton 14 (5) not out 1 V Thompson c Shore b Compton 3 (1) b Shore 1 Elsey, G c Blake b Barratt 18 F W Gillespie c McCormick b Shore 12 Marshall, J not out 19 Tomlin, E c McCormick b Shore 9 + Greenwood, L W c Compton b Barratt 1 Extras b 2, lb 1 3 b 1, lb 3 4 Total 119 (3 wickets) 33 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 12 32 51 57 60 77 90 109 119 Second innings 4 25 25 - - - - - - - Shore 25 6 52 3 - - (1) 6 3 8 1 - - Barratt 17.2 6 30 4 - - (4) 4 3 1 0 - - Leman 7 1 15 1 - - Compton 7 2 19 2 - - (3) 3.3 2 8 2 - - Pilch (2) 6 0 12 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 56.2 15 119 10 0 0 19.3 8 33 3 0 0 Notes: Northumberland won by seven wickets at 1.40 pm on the second day. Play ended early on the first day because of bad light. For Northumberland, Tomlin took all 10 wickets in the Norfolk first innings for 31 runs. It was statistically the best innings bowling performance of the season. It was a new record for the Championship, bettering the 10 wickets for 37 runs by D M Hayward for Cambridgeshire against Norfolk in 1898. No other bowler took 10 wickets in an innings during the season. Altogether in the match Tomlin took 13 wickets for 49 runs. Heslopís 36 for Norfolk was the highest individual innings in the match. The run aggregate of 303 runs was the third lowest of the season for a completed match. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 28, 29 June; Eastern Evening News 27,29 June; Norfolk Chronicle 30 June; Norwich Mercury 30 June; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 28,29 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 28,29 June; The Sportsman 28,29 June.