The Minor Counties Championship 1901

33 MATCH NUMBER 10 : HERTFORDSHIRE V NORFOLK At The Bishop’s Stortford Cricket Club Ground, Cricketfield Lane, Bishop’s Stortford on Thursday 20, Friday 21 June 1901 Result: Hertfordshire won by an innings and 38 runs Points: Hertfordshire +1, Norfolk -1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: H Shaw and A Stockwin Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Norfolk 4 (Rev D M M Bartlett, H B Fraser, Capt H D Mason, G A Scott) First day score: Hertfordshire 332; Norfolk 99-2 wickets (Rev D M M Bartlett 27*, Capt H D Mason 20*) Hertfordshire J H Hickin b Pilch 20 White, H E c Mason b Scott 101 Golding, A J st Blake b Shore 16 * H J Hill c Mason b Shore 37 E H Wales c Blake b Raikes 24 D J Cassavetti c and b Scott 6 W H Marsh st Blake b Raikes 13 + C H Titchmarsh lbw b Pilch 54 Coleman, W E c Scott b Raikes 34 J A Prout not out 17 Rudd, W J b Pilch 0 Extras b 9, nb 1 10 Total 332 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 50 84 159 188 202 223 228 300 302 332 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Shore 12 0 76 2 - - Scott 20 1 58 2 - 1 Raikes 24 0 102 3 - - Pilch 15.5 1 68 3 - - Ireland 2 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - Total 73.5 2 332 10 0 1 Norfolk (Followed on) Rev W F G Sandwith lbw b Rudd 33 (3) c Titchmarsh b White 13 H B Fraser run out 11 (2) run out 34 Rev D M M Bartlett b White 28 (4) c Hickin b Marsh 4 Capt H D Mason b Marsh 22 (5) b Golding 4 C F Garnett c Cassavetti b White 22 (6) c Cassavetti b Golding 27 G A Scott c Hill b White 2 (10) b White 9 R G Pilch b Marsh 3 (7) b Golding 4 * + G F Blake not out 20 (1) c Titchmarsh b Coleman 0 M W Ireland b White 5 (8) not out 38 E B Raikes c Titchmarsh b White 1 (9) b Golding 0 Shore, C c Cassavetti b White 0 (11) c Golding b White 3 Extras b 4, lb 4, w 1 9 b 2 2 Total 156 138 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 36 64 101 107 114 132 143 151 156 156 Second innings 0 13 32 54 82 82 87 97 134 138 White 20 4 57 6 - - (1) 16.3 3 58 3 - - Coleman 10 1 28 0 1 - (2) 11 2 39 1 - - Rudd 9 3 17 1 - - Marsh 13 1 45 2 - - (3) 7 1 13 1 - - Golding (4) 10 3 26 4 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 2 1 - - Total 52 9 156 10 1 0 44.3 9 138 10 0 0 Notes: Hertfordshire won by an innings at 3.00 pm on the second day. For the winners, White scored 101 and took 9 wickets in the match for 115 runs. His century, an innings of 2 hours, included 1 six, 8 fours, 4 threes and 11 twos. Titchmarsh’s 54 contained 4 fours and he reached his fifty in an hour. In the Hertfordshire innings, Titchmarsh and Coleman added 72 runs for the eighth wicket. In the Hertfordshire innings when he had scored 55, White reached the career milestone of two thousand runs in championship matches. When Blake caught Wales in the Hertfordshire innings, he reached the career milestone of fifty wicket- keeping dismissals. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Herts Advertiser 29 June; Hertfordshire Standard 28 June; Watford Observer 28 June; Eastern Daily Press 21,22 June; Eastern Evening News 20,21 June; Norfolk Chronicle 29 June; Norwich Mercury 29 June.