The Minor Counties Championship 1901

36 MATCH NUMBER 13 : SURREY 2 ND XI V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI At The Oval, Kennington, London on Thursday 27, Friday 28 June 1901 Result: Yorkshire 2 nd XI won by four wickets Points: Yorkshire 2 nd XI +1; Surrey 2 nd XI -1 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: T Morley and J J Tuck Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI 1 (L M H Gooder); Yorkshire 2 nd XI 1 (H Myers) First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 131; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 221 Surrey 2 nd XI Baker, A c Higgins b Ringrose 0 (1) b Ringrose 11 Goatly, E G c Frank b Ringrose 12 (2) c Higgins b Bedford 30 Thompson, H c Ringrose b Wainwright 3 (4) c Frank b Ringrose 65 Marshall, C c Frank b Ringrose 0 (5) c Higgins b Bedford 11 * K E M Barker b Ringrose 0 (6) c Tait b Frank 40 Gooder, L M H c Higgins b Bedford 78 (3) c Oyston b Frank 14 Kersley, T c and b Wainwright 2 (7) st Higgins b Frank 0 Clode, H P c Higgins b Wainwright 10 (11) not out 0 Nice, E H L c Ingleby b Ringrose 3 (8) b Ringrose 20 H O Dolbey st Higgins b Ringrose 12 (9) b Ringrose 19 + Strudwick, H not out 0 (10) b Wainwright 2 Extras b 8, w 1, nb 2 11 b 12, lb 3, w 1, nb 4 20 Total 131 232 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 14 14 14 18 28 50 69 129 131 Second innings 20 37 70 92 171 171 199 212 232 232 Ringrose 21.2 7 49 6 - 1 (1) 20 2 69 4 - 3 Wainwright 17 4 45 3 1 - (2) 9.2 0 25 1 1 - Oyston 3 1 8 0 - 1 (4) 12 3 20 0 - - Frank 2 0 13 0 - - (3) 14 1 63 3 - - Bedford 3 1 5 1 - - (5) 8 1 22 2 - - Myers (6) 4 2 4 0 - 1 Swalwell (7) 2 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 20 0 - - Total 46.2 13 131 10 1 2 69.2 9 232 10 1 4 Yorkshire 2 nd XI R S Swalwell not out 109 (1) b Dolbey 14 Rudston, H b Dolbey 4 (2) not out 65 Myers, H c Strudwick b Dolbey 19 (3) b Nice 4 Tait, T b Dolbey 0 (4) c Strudwick b Dolbey 10 Ingleby, C W b Kersley 64 (5) b Dolbey 0 + Higgins, J b Nice 15 (6) c Strudwick b Kersley 0 * R W Frank b Nice 0 (7) b Nice 2 Wainwright, W b Kersley 1 (8) not out 29 Ringrose, W b Kersley 0 Oyston, C b Kersley 0 Bedford, W b Nice 0 Extras b 7, lb 2 9 b 15, lb 4, w 1, nb 1 21 Total 221 (6 wickets) 145 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 44 44 198 215 215 218 218 218 221 Second innings 32 41 63 63 71 86 - - - - Dolbey 14 1 56 3 - - (3) 14 3 44 3 - - Nice 19.4 7 52 3 - - (1) 19 5 46 2 - 1 Clode 8 0 35 0 - - Gooder 3 1 10 0 - - (4) 3 0 10 0 1 - Kersley 11 2 42 4 - - (2) 5 0 24 1 - - Thompson 8 3 17 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 21 0 - - Total 63.4 14 221 10 0 0 41 8 145 6 1 1 Notes: Yorkshire 2 nd XI won by 4 wickets on the second day. For the winners, Swalwell carried his bat in the first Yorkshire innings scoring 109 not out. It was the only instance during the season. His innings lasted 210 minutes and included 13 fours, 6 threes and 8 twos. Rudston’s 65 not out contained 8 fours and Ingleby’s 64 included 10 fours. In the first Yorkshire innings, Swalwell and Ingleby put on 154 runs for the fourth wicket, which was the highest for that wicket during the season. In the second innings, Rudston and Wainwright added an undefeated 59 runs for the seventh wicket. Ringrose took 10 wickets in the match for 118 runs. For Surrey 2 nd XI, Kersley performed the ‘hat-trick’ in the visitors’ first innings, his victims being Wainwright, Ringrose and Oyston. There were 12 fours in the debutant Gooder’s 78, and 1 five and 4 fours in Thompson’s 65. In the home team’s first innings, Gooder and Dolbey put on 60 runs for the ninth wicket. The 5 catches held by Higgins in the match equalled the Championship record for a wicket-keeper achieved on four previous occasions. [Missing: Time completed.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Surrey Year Book 1901, p 121; Yorkshire Year Book 1902, p 149; Huddersfield Examiner 29 June; Yorkshire Post 28,29 June; The Sportsman 28,29 June.