The Minor Counties Championship 1901

71 MATCH NUMBER 48 : BEDFORDSHIRE V OXFORDSHIRE At The Cricket Ground, Luton Hoo Park, Luton on Friday 9, Saturday 10 August 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Oxfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire 2 (J D Hawksley, R F A Orr); Oxfordshire none First day score: Oxfordshire 242; Bedfordshire 145-4 wickets (H R Orr 64*, R F A Orr 23*) Oxfordshire + J WMarsh b Brown 29 (1) b Brown 40 H Bassett c Thring b Brown 34 (2) c Jeakings b Brown 34 G Holloway c Brown b Parbury 27 (3) c Pollitt b Hawksley 10 J F Marsh st Jeakings b Parbury 88 (4) c Thring b Brown 28 Rogers, P c Taylor b Brown 17 (5) c Pollitt b Parbury 59 M Molloy c Hawksley b Parbury 0 (6) c Taylor b Brown 1 T H K Moulder c Jeakings b Brown 16 (7) c and b Brown 4 Rogers, A run out 14 (8) c Jeakings b Parbury 7 * C C Bradford not out 5 (9) not out 14 F B Roberts c Jeakings b Brown 0 (10) st Jeakings b Parbury 2 H J M Eade b Brown 5 (11) not out 9 Extras nb 1 7 nb 1 6 Total 242 (9 wickets declared) 214 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 57 73 125 200 200 201 220 234 234 242 Second innings 57 82 92 139 153 169 188 191 198 - Hawksley 9 1 39 0 - 1 (3) 14 1 45 1 - 1 Parbury 28 3 115 3 - - (2) 22 1 87 3 - - Brown 23.2 5 52 6 - - (1) 36 9 76 5 - - Thring 8 4 29 0 - - Extras - - 7 1 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 68.2 13 242 10 0 1 72 11 214 9 0 1 Bedfordshire F G Brooks c J W Marsh b P Rogers 8 (2) c Holloway b A Rogers 1 Pollitt, G b P Rogers 32 (1) c Eade b Bassett 55 * H R Orr c J W Marsh b A Rogers 72 (5) not out 32 L C R Thring c P Rogers b A Rogers 11 Brown, T A c Molloy b A Rogers 0 (4) c P Rogers b Eade 5 R F A Orr c P Rogers b A Rogers 38 (3) c J F Marsh b A Rogers 6 Taylor, F run out 8 (7) not out 4 B L Peel not out 2 (6) b Bassett 1 J F D Hawksley c Molloy b P Rogers 17 L Parbury c J W Marsh b P Rogers 0 + W R Jeakings absent - Extras 6 0 Total 194 (5 wickets) 104 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 28 56 91 97 164 175 175 194 194 - Second innings 1 45 - - - - - Rogers, A 23.1 6 72 4 - - (1) 11 2 38 2 - - Rogers, P 22 2 81 4 - - (2) 6 0 23 0 - - Eade 4 0 16 0 - - (4) 5 0 16 1 - - Bassett 5 0 19 0 - - (3) 9 0 27 2 - - Extras - - 6 1 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 54.1 8 194 9 - - 31 2 104 5 0 0 Notes: This match was drawn. The Oxfordshire declaration set Bedfordshire a target of 263 runs to win in a little over two hours. Bad light caused the game’s abandonment at 5.45 pm on the second day. For the home team, Brown took 11 wickets in the match for 128 runs. H R Orr scored 72 and Pollitt 55. For the visitors, J F Marsh’s 88 included 18 fours and P Rogers scored 59. In the Bedfordshire first innings, the late arrival of Jeakings at the ground on the second day led to him forfeiting his innings. The 202 runs conceded by Parbury in the match were joint highest of the season, and a new Championship record. T Smart of Wiltshire was to equal it later in the day playing against Devon at Exeter. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Oxfordshire 2 nd inns boundaries in P Rogers’s 59; in the Bedfordshire 1 st inns boundaries in Orr’s 72; in Bedfordshire 2 nd inn boundaries in Pollitt’s 55, and fall of third to fifth wickets.] Sources: Bedfordshire Standard 16 August; Bedfordshire Times 16 August; Luton News 15 August; Jackson’s Oxford Journal 17 August; Oxford Chronicle 16 August; Oxford Times 17 August; The Sportsman 10,12 August.