The Minor Counties Championship 1901

34 MATCH NUMBER 11 : BEDFORDSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The Dunstable Grammar School Ground, West Parade, Dunstable on Monday 24, Tuesday 25 June 1901 Result: Hertfordshire won by ten wickets Points: Hertfordshire +1, Bedfordshire -1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: A Buswell and A Stockwin Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Hertfordshire 1 (C C T Doll) First day score: Hertfordshire 288; Bedfordshire 124 and 24-2 wickets (G Pollitt 4*)) Hertfordshire J H Hickin b Brown 58 (2) not out 4 White, H E c Rainsford b Parbury 5 Golding, A J c Brown b Parbury 95 A Butcher lbw b Parbury 11 D J Cassavetti b Parbury 6 * H J Hill b Brown 5 (1) not out 10 R C Grellet c Peel b Parbury 9 C C T Doll c Brown b Horton 30 W H Marsh c and b Brown 11 Coleman, W E not out 48 Rudd, W J c and b Parbury 1 Extras b 8, lb 1 9 0 Total 288 (no wicket) 14 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 122 133 155 178 189 200 223 276 288 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Parbury 38.4 4 129 6 - - (2) 1.1 0 6 0 - - Brown 33 5 99 3 - - (1) 2 0 8 0 - - Horton 11 2 32 1 - - Rainsford 6 2 19 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 88.4 13 288 10 0 0 3.1 0 14 0 0 0 Bedfordshire (Followed on) Pollitt, G b Coleman 0 (2) c Hill b White 48 Taylor, F b Coleman 18 (5) c and b White 7 B L Peel lbw b Coleman 37 (3) b Coleman 0 Gregory, E B W c Marsh b White 7 (4) c and b White 18 L C R Thring b Coleman 0 (9) b Coleman 2 * H R Orr c and b Rudd 7 (6) b Coleman 50 L Parbury lbw b Rudd 10 (7) c Grellet b Coleman 0 Brown, T A c Hickin b Rudd 0 (8) c Golding b Rudd 13 + E E Apthorp b Coleman 6 (10) b Coleman 0 R G L Horton not out 5 (1) c and b Coleman 18 F J Rainsford b Coleman 0 (11) not out 2 Extras b 29, lb 5 34 b 14, lb 5 19 Total 124 177 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 43 68 68 91 91 93 115 119 124 Second innings 22 22 68 83 117 118 172 174 174 177 White 9 2 27 1 - - (3) 22 6 46 3 - - Coleman 16.4 4 48 6 - - (2) 22 5 77 6 - - Rudd 8 4 15 3 - - (1) 14 2 35 1 - - Extras - - 34 0 - - - - 19 0 - - Total 33.4 10 124 10 0 0 58 13 177 10 0 0 Notes: Hertfordshire won by ten wickets shortly before 1.30 pm on the second day, having enforced the follow-on. For the winners, Coleman took 12 wickets in the match for 125 runs. Golding’s 95 included 9 fours and Hickin’s 58 contained 2 fours. In the Hertfordshire first innings, Hickin and Golding put on 111 runs for the second wicket, which was joint third highest for that wicket during the season, and Doll and Coleman added 53 runs for the ninth. For Bedfordshire, Orr scored 50. In the Bedfordshire second innings, Orr and Brown added 54 runs for the seventh wicket. The 53 extras conceded in the two Bedfordshire innings were the highest in a match during the season. When dismissing Horton in the Bedfordshire second innings, Coleman reached the career milestone of one hundred wickets in championship matches. [Missing: Hertfordshire wicket-keeper; in Bedfordshire 2 nd inns boundaries in Orr’s 50.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Dunstable Borough Gazette 26 June; Herts Advertiser 29 June; Hertfordshire Standard 28 June; Watford Observer 28 June; The Sportsman 25,26 June.