The Minor Counties Championship 1901

128 BEDFORDSHIRE 1901 Championship matches: Played 10, won none, lost 6, drawn 4. Position: Fourteenth equal with Berkshire, Devon and Norfolk out of seventeen Lost: v Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent, v Surrey 2 nd XI at Bedford Modern School, v Hertfordshire at Dunstable, v Surrey 2 nd XI at The Oval, v Oxfordshire at Oxford, and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn: v Cambridgeshire at Bedford Grammar School, v Staffordshire at Bedford County School, v Oxfordshire at Luton, and v Hertfordshire at St Albans. Captain: H R Orr (10 matches) Wicket-keepers: E E Apthorp (1 match), C H Browning (2 matches), Capt H A Fulton (1 match), E B W Gregory (1 match), W R Jeakings (4 matches) and R E Wedgwood (1 match) Debutants: 15 (H V Baumgartner, F B Brooks, C H Browning, Capt H A Fulton, E B W Gregory, J F D Hawksley, H F Holdstock, H Moore, Rev R H Moss, R F A Orr, L Parbury, F J Rainsford, L G Stileman-Gibbard, R E Wedgwood and E B Winch) Final season for team: 11 (W F Brown, C H Browning, Capt H A Fulton, E B W Gregory, J F D Hawksley, R G L Horton, H Moore, R F A Orr, C G Pope, S G Wilkinson and E B Winch) Hon Secretaries: R W Allen and WW Marks Professionals: 5 (T A Brown, E B W Gregory, H Moore, G Pollitt and F Taylor) Home grounds 5: Bedford County School Ground, Elstow, Bedford (1 match); Bedford Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford (1 match); Bedford Modern School Ground, Clarendon Street, Bedford – new ground (1 match); Dunstable Grammar School Ground, West Parade, Dunstable (1 match); and Cricket Ground, Luton Hoo Park, Luton (1 match). Notes: Bedfordshire had a poor season, with no wins and sharing last place with Berkshire, Devon and Norfolk. The number of matches played was increased from eight to ten, with Cambridgeshire being added to the fixture list. F Taylor played as a professional having appeared as an amateur in 1900. During the season, T A Brown passed the career milestone of one hundred wickets for Bedfordshire. BEDFORDSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1901 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 15 players who made their debut in a championship match for Bedfordshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1901 was the last or only season that these 11 players appeared for bedfordshire in a championship match. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I E E Apthorp 1 2 0 6 6 3.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - H V Baumgartner + 1 2 0 5 6 3.00 - - - - - 4.5 1 15 1 15.00 1-15 - - F B Brooks + 3 5 0 30 39 7.80 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - F G Brooks 8 14 0 133 386 27.57 2 - 1 4 - - - - - - - - - Brown, T A 10 18 2 68* 299 18.68 - 2 4 14 - 319.2 63 837 39 21.46 6-52 1 3 W F Brown 1 2 1 4* 4 4.00 - - 1 - - 11 1 23 1 23.00 1-23 - - C H Browning + 2 4 1 3 6 2.00 - - 1 2 2 - - - - - - - - Capt H A Fulton + 1 1 0 4 4 4.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Gregory, E B W + 4 8 1 18 47 6.71 - - 2 2 - 5 0 31 1 31.00 1-31 - - J F D Hawksley + 3 3 0 17 21 7.00 - - 1 3 - 49.1 7 143 4 35.75 2-35 - - H F Holdstock + 1 2 1 8* 8 8.00 - - 1 1 - 6 0 28 0 - - - - R G L Horton 1 2 1 18 23 23.00 - - - - - 11 2 32 1 32.00 1-32 - - W R Jeakings 4 3 2 7* 9 9.00 - - - 6 7 - - - - - - - - Moore, H + 2 4 1 7 11 3.66 - - 1 1 - 14 1 67 2 33.50 2-47 - - J F Morris 3 5 1 11 16 4.00 - - 3 1 - 1 0 2 0 - - - - Rev R H Moss + 3 5 1 17 35 8.75 - - - 1 - 45 11 110 4 27.50 2-21 - - H R Orr 10 18 1 81 504 29.64 - 3 - 3 - 1 0 7 0 - - - - R F A Orr + 3 6 0 38 66 11.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - L Parbury + 10 15 1 30 141 10.07 - - 4 2 - 298.1 35 1057 55 19.21 8-89 1 5 B L Peel 7 12 1 40 150 13.63 - - 2 2 - - - - - - - - - Pollitt, G 10 18 0 78 431 23.94 - 3 5 4 - - - - - - - - - C G Pope 2 3 2 15* 31 31.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - F J Rainsford + 2 4 1 14 22 7.33 - - 1 1 - 9 2 33 0 - - - - L G Stileman-Gibbard + 4 7 1 22 81 13.50 - - - - - 9 0 24 0 - - - - Taylor, F 6 11 1 33 88 8.80 - - 2 4 - - - - - - - - - L C R Thring 5 8 0 50 121 15.12 - 1 1 4 - 65.3 17 171 12 14.25 5-13 - 1 R E Wedgwood + 1 2 1 13 23 23.00 - - - - 3 - - - - - - - - S G Wilkinson 1 2 0 13 13 6.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - E B Winch + 1 2 0 9 11 5.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 151 - - - - - - - - 112 5 - - - - Total 110 188 21 133 2753 16.48 2 9 35 57 12 849 140 2692 125 21.53 8-89 2 9 (29 players) (6 ball overs)