The Minor Counties Championship 1901

88 MATCH NUMBER 65 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Wendover Road, Aylesbury on Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 August 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Buckinghamshire 1 (A W Johnson); Hertfordshire none First day score: Hertfordshire 270; Buckinghamshire 66-2 wickets (C E Cobb 25*) Hertfordshire A Butcher c Johnson b Kentish 131 (6) not out 36 White, H E run out 10 (1) c Kentish b Page 7 Golding, A J c H J Bird b Wright 13 (2) b Page 8 C C T Doll b Johnson 2 (3) b Wright 7 Coleman, W E b Johnson 4 (5) c Cobb b Wright 0 E G Whately b Page 34 (4) c Cobb b Wright 23 W H Marsh b Shaw 24 (7) b Page 10 * + G E B Pritchett b Johnson 1 (9) not out 7 Wilders, G b Johnson 14 Rudd, W J lbw b Johnson 0 H W Pank not out 20 (8) b Wright 18 Extras b 13, lb 1, w 3 17 b 2, lb 1 3 Total 270 (7 wickets declared) 119 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 39 56 60 114 190 192 214 214 270 Second innings 9 16 32 36 45 71 106 - - - Wright 45 20 69 1 2 - (1) 35 22 37 4 - - Page 35 13 70 1 - - (2) 32 10 69 3 - - Johnson 25 9 66 5 - - (3) 4 1 10 0 - - Kentish 9.2 2 25 1 - - Shaw 8 1 23 1 1 - Extras - - 17 1 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 122.2 45 270 10 3 0 71 33 119 7 0 0 Buckinghamshire + C E Cobb b Coleman 33 (2) not out 18 Rev E D Shaw b Coleman 8 (1) lbw b White 1 F N Bird c Doll b Whately 24 (3) not out 19 Wright, M W c Golding b White 5 Boddy, E S b Coleman 15 H J Bird c Doll b Coleman 5 * P J de Paravicini not out 28 T Stacey b White 5 Kentish, G b White 19 A W Johnson run out 20 Page, H b Coleman 39 Extras b 14, lb 2, nb 1 17 w 1 1 Total 218 (1 wicket) 39 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 66 73 87 99 104 111 133 163 218 Second innings 12 - - - - - - - - - White 32 11 69 3 - - (2) 5 1 15 1 1 - Coleman 34.1 6 100 5 - - (1) 6 1 23 0 - - Rudd 5 3 6 0 - - Wilders 2 0 11 0 - - Whately 4 2 7 1 - - Pank 4 2 8 0 - - Extras - - 17 1 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 81.1 24 218 10 0 1 11 2 39 1 1 0 Notes: This return match was drawn.. The game between the two teams at St Albans in July had been won by Buckinghamshire. For Hertfordshire, Butcher’s 131 contained 9 fours, 5 threes and 23 twos in an innings of 270 minutes, and he was last man out. A feature of the match was two first innings tenth wicket partnerships of over 50 runs. Butcher and Pank put on 56 runs for the tenth wicket for Hertfordshire, while de Paravicini and Page had a last wicket partnership of 55 for Buckinghamshire. Wright’s 80 overs and 42 maidens in the match were both the highest of the season. The 22 maidens he bowled in the second innings was the second highest total in an innings. The 67 overs bowled in the match by Page was the third most during the season. When he had scored 14 in the Hertfordshire first innings, Butcher reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. When dismissing Coleman in the Hertfordshire second innings, Wright became the second bowler after G J Thompson of Northamptonshire to reach the career milestone of three hundred wickets in championship matches. [Missing: Umpires; in the Buckinghamshire 1 st inns who bowled the no ball.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Bucks Advertiser 24 August; Bucks Herald 24 August; South Bucks Free Press 23 August; Hertfordshire Standard 23 August; The Sportsman 21,22,23 August.