The Minor Counties Championship 1901

94 MATCH NUMBER 71 : HERTFORDSHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans on Monday 26 [no play], Tuesday 27 August 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Rain prevented play Bedfordshire F G Brooks c Pank b White 7 Pollitt, G c Golding b Rudd 0 Taylor, F c Coleman b White 9 * H R Orr b Pank 33 L C R Thring lbw b Pank 11 Brown, T A c Doll b White 8 C G Pope not out 15 B L Peel b White 1 L Parbury b Pank 4 + W R Jeakings b White 2 J F D Hawksley absent - Extras b 4 4 Total 94 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 11 19 32 66 73 74 87 94 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - White 15.3 6 46 5 - - Rudd 8 4 17 1 - - Pank 8 1 27 3 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - Total 31.3 11 94 9 0 0 Hertfordshire A Butcher b Brown 12 T H K Dashwood b Thring 31 C C T Doll c Hawksley b Thring 65 Golding, A J b Brown 9 J H Hickin b Hawksley 4 White, H E st Jeakings b Parbury 13 Coleman, W E run out 6 W H Marsh not out 28 H W Pank b Thring 7 * + C D Fastnedge not out 18 Rudd, W J Extras b 5, lb 3, nb 1 9 Total (8 wickets declared) 202 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 33 51 76 83 108 149 157 168 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Brown 27 8 55 2 - - Parbury 8 1 35 1 - - Thring 24 6 79 3 - - Hawksley 9 1 24 1 - 1 Extras - - 9 1 - - Total 68 16 202 8 0 1 Notes: This return match was drawn, with the rain precluding any play on the first day and preventing the start of the Bedfordshire second innings after the Hertfordshire declaration on the second day. The match between the two sides at Dunstable in June had been won by Hertfordshire. For the home team, Doll’s 65 contained 7 fours. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Herts Advertiser 31 August; Watford Observer 31 August; Bedfordshire Standard 30 August; The Sportsman 28 August.