The Minor Counties Championship 1901

40 MATCH NUMBER 17 : HERTFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Hertford Cricket Club Ground, Ball’s Park, Mangrove Road, Hertford on Monday 8, Tuesday 9 July 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: - Brown and J J Tuck Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Cambridgeshire 3 (A E Bellars, O W Bocock, H C Tebbutt) First day score: Hertfordshire 154 and 18-0 wicket (W H Marsh 12*, C C T Doll 6*); Cambridgeshire 146 Hertfordshire A Butcher b Hayward 8 Golding, A J b Gardner 22 White, H E c Watts b Bryan 47 (3) lbw b Bryan 29 H J Hill b Bryan 21 (4) not out 100 C C T Doll b Hayward 0 (2) b Scott 56 W H Nicholls b Hayward 2 C H Titchmarsh b Hayward 6 Coleman, W E c Watts b Bryan 12 (5) not out 24 * + C D Fastnedge b Hayward 11 W H Marsh not out 3 (1) b Bryan 111 Rudd, W J b Bryan 2 Extras b 11, lb 3, w 6 20 b 10, lb 4, w 2, nb 1 17 Total 154 (3 wickets declared) 337 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 67 113 114 116 118 129 149 149 154 Second innings 126 201 242 - - - - - - - Hayward 24 3 58 5 - - (3) 20 4 75 0 - - Bryan 21.4 6 39 4 - - (4) 22 6 82 2 - - Bellars 7 1 17 0 1 - (1) 10 1 39 0 1 - Gardner 5 1 20 1 5 - (6) 3 0 16 0 1 - Bocock (2) 5 0 17 0 - - Scott (5) 8 0 43 1 - 1 Briggs (7) 9 0 48 0 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - - - 17 0 - - Total 57.4 11 154 10 6 0 77 11 337 3 2 1 Cambridgeshire * J H Widdicombe b Coleman 22 (1) b Coleman 10 H C Tebbutt b Coleman 0 (2) b Coleman 9 C T Scott c Marsh b White 1 (3) b Golding 19 + Watts, G H b Rudd 45 (5) c Hill b Nicholls 67 E Briggs c Rudd b Golding 12 (4) c Golding b White 9 H L Gardner c Fastnedge b Rudd 13 (6) b White 0 Hayward, D M not out 21 (7) b Nicholls 14 Bryan, W b Coleman 9 (8) lbw b Rudd 48 M C Fison b White 6 (11) not out 1 O W Bocock run out 3 (9) b Marsh 12 A E Bellars b White 0 (10) not out 10 Extras b 8, lb 6 14 b 8, lb 4 12 Total 146 (9 wickets) 211 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 7 53 77 95 101 116 137 140 146 Second innings 11 28 47 49 49 129 134 175 210 - White 15.1 4 34 3 - - (1) 27 9 39 2 - - Coleman 22 3 48 3 - - (2) 25 7 57 2 - - Rudd 17 8 24 2 - - (5) 8 2 22 1 - - Golding 7 2 17 1 - - (3) 6 1 18 1 - - Marsh 3 0 9 0 - - (4) 6 0 22 1 - - Nicholls (6) 10 1 41 2 - - Extras - - 14 1 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 64.1 17 146 10 0 0 82 20 211 9 0 0 Notes: This match ended with the Cambridgeshire last wicket pair holding out for a draw in the last over, after Bryan had been dismissed just before the close. The Hertfordshire declaration had set Cambridgeshire a victory target of 346 runs in 3 hours. For the home team, there were 9 fours, 4 threes and 14 twos in Marsh’s 111, scored in 150 minutes, and 15 fours, 5 threes and 9 twos in Hill’s 100 not out, scored in 48 minutes. Doll’s 56 contained 6 fours. In the Hertfordshire second innings, Marsh and Doll put on 126 for the first wicket. Watts’s 67 for Cambridgeshire included 11 fours. The Cambridgeshire second innings total of 211 for 9 wickets was the highest fourth innings of the season. When he had scored 4 runs in the Hertfordshire second innings, Coleman reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [ An alternative version of this score found, in the Hertfordshire scorebook and Hertfordshire newspapers gives Bellars conceding 14 runs and Gardner 23 runs respectively in the Hertfordshire first innings, but it is not supported by the published averages in Wisden and Cambridgeshire newspapers and has not been adopted.] [Missing: Umpire Brown initials.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Herts Advertiser 13 July; Hertfordshire Standard 13 July; Watford Observer 13 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 12 July; The Sportsman 9,10 July.