The Minor Counties Championship 1902

121 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 1902 Championship matches: Played 8, won 3, lost 3, drawn 2 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Sixth out of sixteen Won: v Berkshire at Reading, v Hertfordshire at Aylesbury, and v Berkshire at Aylesbury Lost: v Wiltshire at Bletchley, v Wiltshire at Trowbridge, and v Bedfordshire at Aylesbury Drawn – won on first innings: none Drawn – lost on first innings: v Hertfordshire at St Albans Drawn – no decision: v Bedfordshire at Bedford GS. Captain: P J de Paravicini (8 matches) Wicket-keepers: C E Cobb (3 matches), P C F de Paravicini (4 matches) and S Ussher (1 match) Debutants: 9 (H G Coghlan, P C F de Paravicini, Dr C J Deynes, H Gurney, E C Hobbs, C Langley, A W Roberts, S Ussher and F Weatherby) Final season: 10 (H J Austin, H G Coghlan, Dr C J Deynes, H Gurney, E Houchin, Capt S D Maul, A W Roberts, S Ussher, F Weatherby and J T Weatherby) Hon Secretary: G R Ward Professionals: 10 (H J Austin, E S Boddy, E Houchin, H Jones, G Kentish, C Langley, F Langley, G Nash, H Page and M WWright) Home grounds 2: The County Ground, Wendover Road, Aylesbury (3 matches); and The Cricket Ground, Bletchley Park, Bletchley (1 match). Notes: Buckinghamshire fell from third to sixth place in the table. Bedfordshire replaced Norfolk in the fixture list. There remains an element of uncertainty about the appearances of C Langley and S Ussher. The Buckinghamshire averages in Wisden are calculated on the basis that F Langley played in all 8 matches, but all match score reports for the relevant match give the initial ‘C’. The Wisden averages give R Ussher, his brother, as playing in two matches, whereas the match score reports give the initial ‘S’. The player bowled in the first match and kept wicket in the second. Milestones passed during the year were two thousand runs by both M WWright and P J de Paravicini. A W Roberts, who played for Buckinghamshire for just one season, had played two matches for Oxfordshire, one in 1896 and another in 1897. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1902 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 9 players who made their Championship debut for Buckinghamshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1902 was the last or only season that these 10 players appeared for Buckinghamshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Austin, H J 1 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - F N Bird 4 6 0 80 252 42.00 - 3 1 3 - - - - - - - - - Boddy, E S 1 2 0 9 9 4.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - C E Cobb 3 4 0 22 26 6.50 - - 1 3 6 - - - - - - - - H G Coghlan + 3 6 1 37* 81 16.20 - - 1 1 - 22.4 3 78 4 19.50 3-39 - - P C F de Paravicini + 7 12 2 29 111 11.10 - - 2 9 2 - - - - - - - - P J de Paravicini 8 14 2 90* 397 33.08 - 1 - 6 - 1 0 1 1 1.00 1-1 - - Dr C J Deynes + 1 2 0 3 3 1.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - G R Greaves 1 2 0 41 82 41.00 - - - - - 7 1 25 0 - - - - C R H Gresson 4 6 0 50 128 21.33 - 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - H Gurney + 1 2 0 6 12 6.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - E C Hobbs + 8 14 0 72 257 18.35 - 2 2 18 - - - - - - - - - Houchin, E 2 3 1 1* 2 1.00 - - 1 - - 22 1 76 0 - - - - A W Johnson 1 2 0 4 5 2.50 - - - - - 4 1 28 0 - - - - Jones, H 1 2 1 46 50 50.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - A W Keen 1 1 1 0* 0 - - - - 1 - 12 3 51 0 - - - - Kentish, G 3 5 0 32 64 12.80 - - 1 1 - 56 14 168 9 18.66 6-85 - 1 Langley, C + 1 2 0 13 22 11.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Langley, F 4 7 0 34 89 12.71 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - Capt S D Maul 3 6 0 35 88 14.66 - - - 2 - 7 0 26 4 6.50 4-26 - - Nash, G 3 3 0 9 11 3.66 - - 1 - - 125.5 40 311 29 10.72 6-10 2 4 Page, H 8 13 7 17* 71 11.83 - - 2 3 - 173.3 49 395 21 18.80 5-32 - 2 A W Roberts + 2 4 0 11 16 4.00 - - 1 1 - 7.2 2 21 2 10.50 2-21 - - T Stacey 2 3 1 22* 25 12.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - S Ussher + 2 3 0 29 34 11.33 - - 1 - - 10 1 49 1 49.00 1-24 - - A S Ward 3 3 0 7 14 4.66 - - 1 1 - 1 0 1 0 - - - - F Weatherby + 1 - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - J T Weatherby 2 4 0 27 38 9.50 - - 2 3 - - - - - - - - - Wright, M W 7 13 1 79 369 30.75 - 4 2 6 - 339.3 143 591 49 12.06 7-38 2 4 Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 187 - - - - - - - - 89 3 - - - - Total 88 145 17 90* 2445 19.10 0 11 23 63 8 788.5 258 1910 123 15.52 7-38 4 11 (29 players) (6 ball overs)