The Minor Counties Championship 1901

86 MATCH NUMBER 63 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Monday 19, Tuesday 20 August 1901 Result: Cambridgeshire won by 12 runs Points: Cambridgeshire +1; Bedfordshire -1 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: C E Bartram and R Humphrey Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Cambridgeshire 241; Bedfordshire 130-3 wickets (H R Orr 64*, T A Brown 1*) Cambridgeshire Hayward, D M b Brown 51 (9) run out 11 * J H Widdicombe c Pollitt b Parbury 29 (2) c Brooks b Parbury 8 R S Swann-Mason b Thring 75 (4) b Thring 3 + Watts, G H c Hawksley b Parbury 18 (5) b Brown 13 Hobbs J B run out 5 (6) b Thring 0 W R Thomas b Hawksley 16 (7) lbw b Thring 10 A J Rich c and b Thring 0 (8) b Thring 11 H C Tebbutt c Gregory b Thring 10 (1) c Brown b Parbury 7 V F de Lisle not out 16 (3) b Brown 3 R S Hicks c Pope b Thring 0 (10) c and b Thring 2 Bryan, W b Hawksley 2 (11) not out 2 Extras b 18, nb 1 19 b 5 5 Total 241 75 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 31 125 160 176 209 211 213 237 237 241 Second innings 11 17 21 29 33 37 55 58 68 75 Brown 29 6 71 1 - - (1) 14 4 34 2 - - Parbury 28 2 87 2 - - (2) 5 0 23 2 - - Hawksley 17.1 4 35 2 - 1 Thring 17 3 29 4 - - (3) 9.3 3 13 5 - - Extras - - 19 1 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 91.1 15 241 10 0 1 28.3 7 75 10 0 0 Bedfordshire F G Brooks b Hayward 7 (2) b Hayward 18 Pollitt, G c Tebbutt b Bryan 41 (1) b Hayward 0 * H R Orr b Hayward 81 (4) b Bryan 21 L C R Thring c Hayward b Bryan 6 (5) c and b Hayward 5 Brown, T A c Thomas b Hayward 20 (6) lbw b Hayward 0 R F A Orr c Hobbs b Hayward 15 (7) b Hayward 0 B L Peel b Bryan 21 (8) b Bryan 4 C G Pope b Hayward 5 (9) not out 11 J F D Hawksley lbw b Hayward 4 (10) b Bryan 0 L Parbury c Widdicombe b Bryan 0 (11) b Bryan 6 + Gregory, E B W not out 13 (3) lbw b Hayward 2 Extras b 7, lb 8 15 b 5, lb 3, nb 1 9 Total 228 76 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 107 124 157 178 185 199 211 215 228 Second innings 0 3 32 40 40 44 57 57 58 76 Bryan 33.5 6 79 4 - - (2) 14 2 32 4 - - Hayward 37 9 90 6 - - (1) 14 4 35 6 - 1 Swann-Mason 9 1 32 0 - - Thomas 3 0 12 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 82.5 16 228 10 0 0 28 6 76 10 0 1 Notes: Cambridgeshire won by 12 runs. In this return game Bedfordshire required 89 runs to win in 150 minutes. The match between the two sides at Bedford in July had been drawn. For the winners, Hayward took 12 wickets for 125 runs in the match, and Bryan 8 for 111. There were 2 fours in Swann-Mason’s 75, scored in 135 minutes, and 4 fours in Hayward’s 51. For Bedfordshire, H R Orr’s 81 included 10 fours. Press reports indicate the pitch was breaking up on the afternoon of the second day. When he had scored 37 runs in the Cambridgeshire first innings, Hayward reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 23 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 23 August; Bedfordshire Standard 23 August; The Sportsman 20,21 August.