The MInor Counties Championship 1900

44 MATCH NUMBER 25 : DURHAM V NORTHAMPTONSHIRE At The South Shields Cricket Club Ground, Wood Terrace, South Shields on Friday 27, Saturday 28 [no play] July 1900 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Northamptonshire Umpires: G Hudson and A Stockwin Debutants: Durham none; Northamptonshire none First day score: As match - rain prevented play on second day Northamptonshire C J T Pool b Shaw 144 Thompson, G J b Shaw 23 W H Kingston lbw b Clarke 97 Colson, G H c Nisbet b Pike 26 East, W c Elliot b Butler 33 F Warren b Butler 12 L T Driffield c Dobson b Pike 60 H E Kingston st Kirtley b Pike 14 + B C Smith not out 56 * T Horton not out 41 W G Pinner Extras b 4, lb 6, nb 1 11 Total (8 wickets declared) 517 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 67 228 277 307 332 361 414 420 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Pike 32 8 103 3 - - Butler 30 6 110 2 - - Shaw 38 3 127 2 - - Clarke 32 2 115 1 - - Bousfield 11 2 33 0 - - Elliot 6 1 11 0 - 1 Whitwell 2 0 7 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - Total 151 22 517 8 0 1 Durham R Bousfield Butler, J Clarke, R T Coulson W S Dobson E W Elliot + J Kirtley W Nisbet Pike, S E Shaw * J F Whitwell Notes: This match was drawn, with rain preventing any play on the second day. Northamptonshire batted all day on the Friday and scored 517-8 wickets, which was both the highest total of the season and a record score for the Championship, exceeding the 501 for 8 wickets declared by Durham against Cambridgeshire at West Hartlepool in 1898. For the visitors, there was 1 six, 22 fours, 3 threes and 5 twos in Poolís innings of 144, an innings of 2 hours and 15 minutes. W H Kingstonís 97 included 12 fours, Driffieldís 60 ñ scored in 25 minutes ñ contained 10 fours and Smithís 56 not out included 1 six and 6 fours. Pool and W H Kingston put on 161 for the second wicket, Driffield and H E Kingston 53 runs for the seventh wicket, and Smith and Horton had an unbroken partnership of 97 runs for the ninth wicket. The second wicket partnership of 161 runs was the second highest for that wicket during the season, and the unbroken partnership of 97 runs for the ninth wicket was the highest of the season. The 517 runs scored by Northamptonshire on the first day were the most on a single day during the season. The 127 runs conceded by Shaw were the third highest number in an innings during the season. In the Northamptonshire innings, four of the Durham bowlers conceded over one hundred runs. The previous highest had been two, which had occurred on a number of occasions. During his innings of 41 not out, Horton passed the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 28 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 28 July; Northampton Daily Reporter 28 July; The Sportsman 30 July.