The Minor Counties Championship 1901

27 MATCH NUMBER 4 : NORTHAMPTONSHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Abington Lane, Northampton on Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 May 1901 Result: Northamptonshire won by an innings and 204 runs Points: Northamptonshire +1, Staffordshire -1 Toss: Northamptonshire Umpires: D Bookless and J Gregory Debutants: Northamptonshire 1 (G Panter); Staffordshire 2 (J R Clapham, J F Fernie) First day score: Northamptonshire 310-8 wickets (G J Thompson 164*, B C Smith 4*) Northamptonshire * T Horton b Brown 0 G K Papillon b Grimshaw 2 Thompson, G J not out 164 W H Kingston c Brown b Grimshaw 30 H St A Hall b Grimshaw 8 East, W b Grimshaw 6 Colson, G H b Booth 1 C R Wetherall b Grimshaw 40 R F Knight b Grimshaw 44 + B C Smith not out 4 Panter, G Extras b 10, lb 1 11 Total (8 wickets declared) 310 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 2 52 64 80 81 178 296 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Brown 18 5 54 1 - - Grimshaw 37 8 79 6 - - Clapham 23 6 61 0 - - Booth 6 1 22 1 - - Cattell 13 1 53 0 - - Hassall 3 0 13 0 - - Ellams 2 0 17 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - Total 102 21 310 8 0 0 Staffordshire (Followed on) Hollowood, A st Smith b East 15 (2) c and b East 21 Brown, W c Smith b East 2 (3) c Horton b East 0 F Ellams b Thompson 2 (4) c Kingston b Thompson 0 Grimshaw, T c and b Thompson 3 (5) b Panter 11 Hassall, F H b East 5 (6) c Colson b Thompson 0 J F Fernie b Thompson 0 (7) lbw b Panter 4 B H Cattell b Thompson 0 (8) lbw b Thompson 6 Clapham, J R b Thompson 1 (10) not out 6 * Rev P E Mainwaring c Horton b Thompson 1 (1) c Thompson b East 10 Booth, G c East b Thompson 0 (9) b Panter 2 + G McHarg not out 0 (11) b Panter 7 Extras b 1, lb 2 3 b 6, lb 1 7 Total 32 74 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 9 21 25 26 26 28 32 32 32 Second innings 26 26 31 31 35 39 48 56 74 74 Thompson 10.3 4 12 7 - - (1) 14 4 29 3 - - East 10 3 17 3 - - (2) 7 2 24 3 - - Panter (3) 6.1 2 14 4 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 20.3 7 32 10 0 0 27.1 8 74 10 0 0 Notes: Northamptonshire won by an innings and 204 runs at 2.10 pm on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. The visitors were bowled out twice on the second day in two hours and 45 minutes. Staffordshire’s first innings total of 32 was the third lowest of the season. For the winners, Thompson scored 164 not out with 2 fives, 12 fours, 11 threes and 11 twos, an innings of 4 hours and forty minutes. It was the third highest innings of the season. He also took 10 wickets in the match for 41 runs. He was on the field for all but two minutes of the game, and his all-round performance wa the second best of the season on the basis used in the statistical survey. Thompson and Wetherall added 97 runs for the seventh wicket, and Thompson and Knight put on 118 runs for the eighth wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. The match started late at 1.15 pm on the first day as the Staffordshire team’s train had failed, through a misunderstanding, to stop at Northampton and carried on to Bletchley. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Northampton Daily Chronicle 29 May; Northampton Daily Reporter 29,30 May; Northampton Herald 1 June; Northampton Mercury 31 May; Staffordshire Advertiser 1 June; The Sportsman 30,31 May.