The Minor Counties Championship 1901

39 MATCH NUMBER 16 : BEDFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Bedford Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Monday 1, Tuesday 2 July 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire 2 (Capt H A Fulton, L G Stileman-Gibbard); Cambridgeshire 3 (M C Fison, J W Horne, C T Scott) First day score: Bedfordshire 324; Cambridgeshire 0-0 wicket (C T Scott 0*, J W Horne 0*) Bedfordshire F G Brooks run out 133 Pollitt, G c Watts b Hayward 78 B L Peel c Watts b Hayward 40 * H R Orr c W R Thomas b Hayward 25 Brown, T A c T S W Thomas b Bryan 9 F B Brooks run out 3 L G Stileman-Gibbard st Watts b Hayward 18 + Capt H A Fulton b Hayward 4 J F Morris not out 5 Rev R H Moss st Watts b Bryan 1 L Parbury run out 3 Extras nb 1 5 Total 324 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 186 228 273 282 324 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hayward 39 8 95 5 - 1 Bryan 29 7 92 2 - - T S W Thomas 7 0 34 0 - - Briggs 3 0 14 0 - - Scott 4 0 15 0 - - W R Thomas 7 0 15 0 - - Watts 8 1 39 0 - - Fison 3 0 15 0 - - Extras - - 5 3 - - Total 100 16 324 10 0 1 Cambridgeshire C T Scott c Fulton b Brown 15 J W Horne b Brown 11 W R Thomas b Moss 7 E Briggs c Morris b Moss 0 T S W Thomas c Brown b Parbury 12 + Watts, G H c and b Brown 39 E B Darby b Brown 0 Hayward, D M c F G Brooks b Parbury 8 M C Fison not out 7 Bryan, W not out 5 * J H Widdicombe Extras 9 Total (8 wickets) 113 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 20 39 39 41 88 90 106 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Brown 32 15 48 4 - - Parbury 22 8 35 2 - - Moss 10 4 21 2 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - Total 64 27 113 8 - - Notes: This rain-interrupted match was drawn, with two hours lost on the first day and no play possible after lunch on the second as heavy rain set in. F G Brooks scored 133 with 14 fours, 9 threes and 12 twos, an innings of 210 minutes. It was the first century by a Bedfordshire player in the Championship. Pollitt’s 78 included 8 fours. The two put on 186 runs for the Bedfordshire first wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. There were 3 ‘run outs’ in the home team’s innings. For Cambridgeshire, Watts top-scored with 39, an innings containing 6 fours. Briggs kept wicket for Cambridgeshire when Watts bowled. [Missing: Umpires: extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Bedfordshire Standard 5 July; Bedfordshire Times 5 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 5 July; The Sportsman 2,3 July.