The Minor Counties Championship 1901

83 MATCH NUMBER 60 : NORTHAMPTONSHIRE V DURHAM At The County Ground, Abington Lane, Northampton on Friday 16, Saturday 17 August 1901 Result: Durham won by 47 runs Points: Durham +1, Northamptonshire -1 Toss: Durham Umpires: W Attwell and J E West Debutants: Durham none; Northamptonshire none First day score: Durham 197 and 20-3 wickets (A Burn 2*); Northamptonshire 144 Durham * J F Whitwell c and b East 6 (5) c Smith b Thompson 5 Butler, J b Thompson 4 (9) lbw b Driffield 0 R Bousfield c Horton b Thompson 54 (1) b East 4 E W Elliot b Thompson 8 (3) b Thompson 6 A Burn b Thompson 0 (4) b Thompson 32 T Prince b Thompson 0 (2) b East 7 A B Horsley run out 0 (6) b Thompson 1 W F Whitwell run out 0 (7) c Smith b Thompson 0 Turnbull, G lbw b Horton 103 (8) b Thompson 14 T E Parrington not out 6 (10) b Thompson 18 + J Kirtley b Thompson 2 (11) not out 5 Extras b 9, lb 2, nb 3 14 b 1, nb 1 2 Total 197 94 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 10 29 29 29 31 31 173 189 197 Second innings 5 16 20 28 36 36 66 67 71 94 Thompson 23.3 2 85 6 - 3 (1) 16.5 4 46 7 - 1 East 19 8 47 1 - - (2) 11 1 35 2 - - Driffield 8 2 20 0 - - (3) 5 3 11 1 - - Colson 1 0 7 0 - - H E Kingston 3 0 22 0 - - Horton 2 1 2 1 - - Extras - - 14 2 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 56.3 13 197 10 0 3 32.5 8 94 10 0 1 Northamptonshire G K Papillon run out 3 (1) lbw b Turnbull 18 W H Kingston lbw b Turnbull 12 (2) lbw b Turnbull 10 Thompson, G J c Prince b Butler 41 (3) lbw b W F Whitwell 4 H E Kingston c W F Whitwell b Burn 43 (4) b Turnbull 29 East, W c Burn b W F Whitwell 6 (7) c Prince b W F Whitwell 23 Colson, G H lbw b Burn 0 (6) b W F Whitwell 0 C R Wetherall c and b W F Whitwell 2 (9) b W F Whitwell 0 * T Horton st Kirtley b Turnbull 6 (5) b W F Whitwell 0 R F Knight c Kirtley b Butler 9 (10) not out 1 + B C Smith not out 7 (8) lbw b Turnbull 13 L T Driffield c Turnbull b Butler 6 (11) b W F Whitwell 0 Extras b 7, lb 2 9 b 2 2 Total 144 100 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 56 60 111 111 113 115 130 136 144 Second innings 21 26 38 41 41 75 99 99 100 100 W F Whitwell 17 7 31 2 - - (1) 25.5 8 54 6 - - Butler 21.3 4 46 3 - - Turnbull 13 3 43 2 - - (2) 25 10 44 4 - - Burn 8 2 15 2 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 59.3 16 144 10 0 0 50.5 18 100 10 0 0 Notes: This match was the Championship decider, as both teams were the only ones to have been undefeated at this stage of the season, and it was won by Durham by 47 runs. The match between the two teams at Darlington in July, which Northamptonshire had been just one wicket away from winning, had been drawn. For the winners, there were 15 fours, 4 threes and 11 twos in Turnbull’s 103, scored in 80 minutes, and 3 fours in Bousfield’s 54. In the first Durham innings, Bousfield and Turnbull put on 142 runs for the eighth wicket, which was a new Championship record, exceeding the 130 added by G J Thompson and F Warren for Northamptonshire against Durham at West Hartlepool in 1899. For Northamptonshire, Thompson took 13 wickets in the match for 131 runs. The start of the Northamptonshire second innings was delayed for over an hour by rain. The Durham first innings of 197 was the lowest total of the season to include a century. [Missing: Time completed.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Northampton Daily Chronicle 17 August; Northampton Herald 24 August; Northampton Mercury 23 August; Newcastle Daily Journal 17,19 August; Newcastle Daily Leader 17,19 August; The Sportsman 17,19 August.