The Minor Counties Championship 1901

136 HERTFORDSHIRE 1901 Championship matches: Played 10, won 3, lost 4, drawn 3. Position: Eleventh out of seventeen Won: v Norfolk at Bishop’s Stortford, v Bedfordshire at Dunstable, and v Norfolk at Norwich Lost: v Northamptonshire at Northampton, v Northamptonshire at Watford, v Buckinghamshire at St Albans, and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn: v Cambridgeshire at Hertford, v Buckinghamshire at Aylesbury, and v Bedfordshire at St Albans. Captain: C D Fastnedge (6 matches) – A Butcher (1 match), H J Hill (2 matches) and G E B Pritchett (1 match) were captains in the 4 matches in which Fastnedge did not play Wicket-keepers: C D Fastnedge (6 matches), G E B Pritchett (1 match), C H Titchmarsh (2 matches) – not known for one match Debutants: 7 (M F Blake, Rev H J E Burrell, C H Cook, C C T Doll, W J Rudd, E G Whately and W P Williams) Final season for team: 11 (M F Blake, C H Cook, J H Hickin, C C Hoyer Millar, W H Nicholls, H W Pank, C Pigg, G E B Pritchett, J A Prout, H W Stevens and W P Williams) Hon Secretary: Dr J Earl Norman Professionals: 6 (W E Coleman, A J Golding, W J Rudd, H W Stevens, H E White and G Wilders) Home grounds 4: Bishop’s Stortford Town Cricket Club Ground, Cricket Field Lane, Bishop’s Stortford (1 match), Hertford Cricket Club Ground, Ball’s Park, Mangrove Road, Hertford – new ground (1 match); The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans (2 matches), and West Herts Ground, Cassio Road, Watford (1 match). Notes: Having failed to win a match in 1900, Hertfordshire won 3 in 1901, but also lost 4 and ended up in eleventh place. They met the same opponents as 1900. Of the 7 players making their debut for Hertfordshire during the season, Rev H J E Burrell had played for Norfolk in 1900. Of the 11 players playing their final match for Hertfordshire, C Pigg was to appear for Cambridgeshire from 1903 to 1911. Career milestones passed during the season were two thousand runs by H E White, a thousand runs by A Butcher and W E Coleman, and a hundred wickets by W E Coleman. HERTFORDSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1901 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 7 players who made their Championship debut for Hertfordshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1901 was the last or only season that these 11 players appeared for Hertfordshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I M F Blake + 1 2 0 10 10 5.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Rev H J E Burrell + 3 6 0 35 92 15.33 - - 1 5 - 9.1 1 36 2 18.00 2-9 - - A Butcher 8 12 1 131 297 27.00 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - D J Cassavetti 2 2 0 6 12 6.00 - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - Coleman, W E 10 16 2 48* 278 19.85 - - 2 2 - 304.5 59 870 46 18.91 7-29 1 4 C H Cook + 1 2 1 4 5 5.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - T H K Dashwood 3 5 0 96 157 31.40 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - C C T Doll + 5 8 0 65 199 24.87 - 2 1 3 - - - - - - - - - C D Fastnedge 6 10 3 27* 120 17.14 - - - 5 3 - - - - - - - - Golding, A J 10 16 1 95 397 26.46 - 3 - 5 - 56.5 9 159 9 17.66 4-26 - - R C Grellet 2 3 0 9 15 5.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - J H Hickin 4 6 1 58 99 19.80 - 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - H J Hill 5 9 2 101 297 42.42 2 - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - C C Hoyer Millar 1 2 0 11 12 6.00 - - - - - 4 1 14 0 - - - - W H Marsh 9 15 2 111 237 18.23 1 - 2 4 - 54 7 171 7 24.42 2-45 - - E H E Morgan 2 3 0 49 77 25.66 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - W H Nicholls 1 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - - - 10 1 41 2 20.50 2-41 - - H W Pank 2 3 1 20* 45 22.50 - - - 1 - 12 3 35 3 11.66 3-27 - - C Pigg 2 3 1 15* 24 12.00 - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - G E B Pritchett 1 2 1 7* 8 8.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - J A Prout 2 3 1 17* 29 14.50 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - Rudd, W J + 9 10 4 15* 33 5.50 - - 2 5 - 219.4 72 445 23 19.34 4-34 - - Stevens, H W 2 4 1 8 12 4.00 - - 1 - - 26 3 99 1 99.00 1-53 - - C H Titchmarsh 4 6 1 54 107 21.40 - 1 - 6 - - - - - - - - - E H Wales 1 1 0 24 24 24.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - E G Whately + 2 4 0 34 62 15.50 - - - - - 18 3 65 4 16.25 3-30 - - White, H E 10 16 0 101 339 21.18 1 - 1 7 - 392.1 85 1030 59 17.45 7-85 1 4 Wilders, G 1 1 0 14 14 14.00 - - - - - 2 0 11 0 - - - - W P Williams + 1 2 0 17 17 8.50 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 189 - - - - - - - - 271 7 - - - - Total 110 173 23 131 3209 21.39 5 8 17 61 3 1108.4 244 3247 163 19.92 7-29 2 8 (29 players) (6 ball overs)