The Minor Counties Championship 1901

78 MATCH NUMBER 55 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORFOLK At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 August 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: D Bookless and R Rogers Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Norfolk 3 (R A A Beresford, A Finch, E J Mann) First day score: Cambridgeshire 71-4 wickets (G H Watts 30*) Cambridgeshire * J H Widdicombe c Mann b Pilch 0 Hayward, D M b Pilch 7 Rev H Gray b Pilch 8 Rev P Hattersley-Smith b Heslop 22 + Watts, G H c and b Leman 106 C T Scott c Page b Pilch 52 A J Rich not out 6 W Prest not out 1 Bryan, W M C Fison H C Tebbutt Extras b 2, lb 2, nb 2 6 Total (6 wickets declared) 208 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 15 21 71 193 205 - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Pilch 20 4 61 4 - 1 Leman 16 3 55 1 - 1 Heslop 10 3 23 1 - - Barratt 4 0 23 0 - - Garnett 3 1 12 0 - - Beresford 4 0 12 0 - - Finch 3 0 16 0 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - Total 60 11 208 6 0 2 Norfolk G G Heslop b Hayward 19 W L B Hayter b Hayward 0 L Barratt b Gray 5 E J Mann c Watts b Bryan 18 L H Leman not out 16 R A A Beresford * + G F Blake A Finch C F Garnett S D Page R G Pilch Extras b 5, lb 1, nb 1 7 Total (4 wickets) 65 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 18 26 65 - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Gray 14 4 27 1 - 1 Hayward 15 8 20 2 - - Bryan 6 2 11 1 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - Total 35 14 65 4 0 1 Notes: This rain-affected return match ended as a draw, as had the game between the two teams the previous week at Norwich. Only an hour of play was possible before lunch on the first day, and there was no play on the second day before 2.35 pm. Watts’s innings of 106 for Cambridgeshire contained 12 fours, 8 threes and 6 twos, and lasted 2 hours. There were 6 fours in Scott’s 52 scored in 85 minutes. In the Cambridgeshire innings, Watts and Scott added 122 for the fifth wicket, which was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. Norfolk were an all-amateur team. When he had scored 31 in the Cambridgeshire innings, Watts reached the career milestone of two thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Cambridge Weekly News 16 August; Eastern Daily Press 15,16 August; Eastern Evening News 14,15 August; Norfolk Chronicle 17 August; Norwich Mercury 17 August; East Anglian Daily Times 15,16 August; The Sportsman 15,16 August.