The Minor Counties Championship 1902

128 HERTFORDSHIRE 1902 Championship matches: Played 10, won 2, lost 3, drawn 5 (won on first innings 3, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Seventh out of sixteen Won: v Dorset at Broxbourne, and v Oxfordshire at Bishop’s Stortford Lost: v Northamptonshire at Northampton, v Bedfordshire at Hertford, and v Buckinghamshire at Aylesbury Drawn – won on first innings: v Buckinghamshire at St Albans, v Dorset at Blandford Forum, and v Oxfordshire at Oxford Drawn – lost on first innings: v Northamptonshire at Watford Drawn – no decision: v Bedfordshire at Bedford CS. Captain: C D Fastnedge (7 matches) – A Butcher (1 match) and H J Hill (2 matches) were captains in the three matches in which C D Fastnedge did not play Wicket-keepers: L W Compton (2 matches) and C D Fastnedge (7 matches) – It is not known who kept wicket in the match v Bedfordshire at Bedford CS Debutants: 10 (E W Bishop, E G Blow, R V Buxton, L W Compton, G G Dumbleton, S G Etheridge, A F Grundy, Rev G M Hall, R G Pridmore and C T Rudd) Final season: 7 (E W Bishop, R V Buxton, L W Compton, Rev G M Hall, E H E Morgan, E G Whately and G Wilders) Hon Secretary: Dr J Earl Norman Professionals: 5 (W E Coleman, A J Golding, W J Rudd, H E White and G Wilders) Home grounds 5: Bishop’s Stortford Cricket Club, Cricket Field Lane, Bishop’s Stortford (1 match); Broxbourne Cricket Club, Mill Lane Close, Broxbourne – new ground (1 match); Hertford Cricket Club, Balls Park, Mangrove Road, Hertford (1 match); The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans (1 match); and West Herts Cricket Club, Cassio Road, Watford (1 match). Notes: Hertfordshire had a more successful season, rising from eleventh place in 1901 to seventh. Dorset and Oxfordshire replaced Cambridgeshire and Norfolk on the fixture list. Career milestones passed during the season were one thousand runs by H J Hill, and three hundred wickets by H E White. HERTFORDSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1902 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 10 players who made their Championship debut for Hertfordshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1902 was the last or only season that these 7 players appeared for Hertfordshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Capt G O Bigge 3 4 1 67 105 35.00 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - E W Bishop + 1 2 0 9 14 7.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - E G Blow + 2 3 0 4 6 2.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rev H J E Burrell 2 3 0 18 29 9.66 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - A Butcher 10 14 0 43 142 10.14 - - 1 5 - 2 1 3 1 3.00 1-3 - - R V Buxton + 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - D J Cassavetti 1 1 0 83 83 83.00 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - Coleman, W E 10 13 1 107 304 25.33 1 1 2 6 - 234.3 37 664 33 20.12 6-21 - 3 L W Compton + 2 3 0 15 33 11.00 - - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - T H K Dashwood 2 3 0 7 10 3.33 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - C C T Doll 3 5 0 18 50 10.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - G G Dumbleton + 4 6 2 71* 118 29.50 - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - S G Etheridge + 1 1 0 5 5 5.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - C D Fastnedge 7 10 2 48 143 17.87 - - 1 7 - - - - - - - - - Golding, A J 10 15 0 69 324 21.60 - 2 2 3 - 62.4 11 185 6 30.83 3-24 - - R C Grellet 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - A F Grundy + 3 5 1 24* 53 13.25 - - - 1 - 60 18 153 9 17.00 4-5 - - Rev G M Hall + 1 2 1 1* 2 2.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - H M Harford 1 1 0 3 3 3.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - H J Hill 8 12 0 76 321 26.75 - 2 2 5 - - - - - - - - - W H Marsh 4 5 0 14 28 5.60 - - 2 - - 6 0 29 0 - - - - E H E Morgan 2 3 0 36 45 15.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - R G Pridmore + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - C T Rudd + 6 9 0 56 143 15.88 - 1 - 4 - 1 0 5 0 - - - - Rudd, W J 10 13 6 12* 42 6.00 - - 3 3 - 208 54 417 20 20.85 6-20 - 1 E H Wales 1 2 0 6 8 4.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - E G Whately 2 3 1 3 6 3.00 - - - 1 - 18 1 84 2 42.00 1-17 - - White, H E 10 15 1 109 341 24.35 1 - 1 8 - 306 66 764 55 13.89 8-49 1 6 Wilders, G 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 151 - - - - 1 - - - 236 3 - - - - Total 110 158 16 109 2530 17.81 2 9 18 54 1 898.1 188 2540 129 19.69 8-49 1 10 (29 players) (6 ball overs)