The Minor Counties Championship 1901

30 MATCH NUMBER 7 : HERTFORDSHIRE V NORTHAMPTONSHIRE At The West Herts Ground, Cassio Road, Watford on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 June 1901 Result: Northamptonshire won by five wickets Points: Northamptonshire +1, Hertfordshire -1 Toss: Northamptonshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire 1 (Rev H J E Burrell); Northamptonshire 1 (G M Soames) First day score: Northamptonshire 290; Hertfordshire 116-4 wickets (A J Golding 59*) Northamptonshire * T Horton c Burrell b White 8 (6) b Marsh 0 W H Kingston b Marsh 46 (2) c Marsh b White 54 Thompson, G J b Marsh 29 H St A Hall c and b White 20 Colson, G H lbw b Stevens 14 (4) c Marsh b White 24 East, W b Coleman 7 G K Papillon lbw b Burrell 92 (1) b White 11 C R Wetherall c Fastnedge b White 53 (5) not out 17 + B C Smith b Burrell 2 (7) not out 9 G M Soames c Burrell b White 0 Panter, G not out 0 (3) b Coleman 6 Extras b 13, lb 5, w 1 19 b 2 2 Total 290 (5 wickets) 123 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 77 93 110 130 138 288 290 290 290 Second innings 19 36 86 107 110 - - - - - Coleman 20 5 56 1 - - (2) 10 2 29 1 - - White 38 9 93 4 - - (1) 20.4 3 53 3 - - Stevens 13 2 53 1 - - Burrell 2.1 0 9 2 1 - (3) 7 1 27 0 - - Marsh 14 3 45 2 - - (4) 3 0 12 1 - - Golding 5 0 15 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 92.1 19 290 10 1 0 40.4 6 123 5 0 0 Hertfordshire (Followed on) Golding, A J c Thompson b East 61 (1) c Papillon b East 15 J H Hickin c Smith b East 13 (4) c Smith b East 0 H J Hill c Papillon b East 17 (6) c Wetherall b Thompson 101 A Butcher b Thompson 1 (8) c and b Horton 33 Rev H J E Burrell st Smith b East 24 (5) c Kingston b East 0 White, H E c East b Thompson 20 (3) b Thompson 0 Coleman, W E c East b Thompson 3 (7) c Panter b East 27 W H Marsh b Thompson 0 (9) b East 11 * + C D Fastnedge not out 27 (2) c Smith b Thompson 16 C H Titchmarsh b East 1 (10) b Thompson 8 Stevens, H W b Thompson 8 (11) not out 0 Extras b 2, nb 1 3 b 7, lb 8, w 4, nb 3 22 Total 178 233 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 28 48 49 116 126 131 141 142 143 178 Second innings 34 34 34 34 34 69 174 213 233 233 Thompson 26.2 6 53 5 - 1 (2) 24 3 92 4 - 3 East 26 7 79 5 - - (1) 25 2 55 5 - - Panter 5 0 39 0 - - (3) 5 0 26 0 - - Soames 3 1 4 0 - - (4) 7 1 18 0 4 - Horton (5) 3 0 20 1 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 22 0 - - Total 60.2 14 178 10 0 1 64 6 233 10 4 3 Notes: Northamptonshire won this return match with 20 minutes to spare, having required 122 runs for victory in two hours. The visitors thus completed the double over Hertfordshire, having won at Northampton when the two teams met in May. For the winners, East took 10 wickets in the match for 134 runs and Thompson 9 for 145. There were 14 fours in Papillon’s 92, 6 fours in Kingston’s 54, and 5 fours in Wetherall’s 53. In the Northamptonshire first innings, Papillon and Wetherall added 150 runs for the seventh wicket in 90 minutes. It was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. For Hertfordshire, there was 1 six, 17 fours, 2 threes and 3 twos in Hill’s 101, an innings of two hours. In the home team’s second innings, Hill and Butcher put on 105 runs for the seventh wicket, which was the third best for that wicket during the season. A feature of the Hertfordshire second innings was that the first five wickets all fell at the same total - 34. When dismissing Fastnedge in the Hertfordshire second innings, Thompson became the first bowler to reach the career milestone of three hundred wickets in championship matches. In the Northamptonshire first innings, when he had scored 5, East reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Umpires; precise time completed.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Herts Advertiser 13 June; Watford Observer 15 June; Northampton Daily Chronicle 10,11,12 June; Northampton Daily Recorder 10,11,12 June; Northampton Herald 15 June; Northampton Mercury 14 June.