The Minor Counties Championship 1902

39 MATCH NUMBER 16 : YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI V SURREY 2 ND XI At The Harrogate Cricket Club Ground, St George’s Road, Harrogate on Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 July 1902 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by eight wickets Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 3 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: D Bookless and H Briscoe Debutants: Yorkshire 2 nd XI 2 (T Stringer, B B Wilson); Surrey 2 nd XI none First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 316; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 86-8 wickets (T Stringer 7*) Surrey 2 nd XI E Wiltshire c Outram b Stringer 52 (1) b Stringer 8 Holland, F C b Brown 80 (2) c Swalwell b Stringer 11 Moulder, J H c Frank b Brown 11 (3) not out 11 Lees, W S b Oyston 3 (4) not out 3 Davis, W E lbw b Oyston 4 * K E M Barker b Brown 5 Gooder, L M H not out 92 G H Hadfield lbw b Stringer 0 Smith, W C c Stringer b Myers 43 Kersley, T b Brown 0 + Strudwick, H b Brown 17 Extras b 5, lb 3, nb 1 9 0 Total 316 (2 wickets) 33 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 t6 7 8 9 10 First innings 88 128 138 142 149 183 188 238 253 316 Second innings 19 19 - - - - - - - - Brown 29.1 3 113 5 - 1 (1) 4.5 0 24 0 - - Oyston 20 4 54 2 - - Stringer 15 2 63 2 - - (2) 4 0 9 2 - - Myers 7 1 17 1 - - Frank 8 0 47 0 - - Wilson 4 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 83.1 10 316 10 0 1 8.5 0 33 2 0 0 Yorkshire 2 nd XI (Followed on) Rudston, H c Moulder b Hadfield 15 (1) c Davis b Lees 2 R S Swalwell c Smith b Hadfield 20 (2) b Lees 100 Myers, H b Lees 3 (3) c Strudwick b Smith 21 + Higgins, J c Barker b Hadfield 0 (4) c Davis b Kersley 8 B B Wilson c Kersley b Lees 3 (5) b Hadfield 0 Outram, R c Strudwick b Smith 25 (6) c Lees b Davis 52 Newstead, J T c Smith b Lees 7 (7) c Lees b Smith 3 * R W Frank b Hadfield 5 (8) c Hadfield b Holland 47 Stringer, T c Holland b Lees 11 (9) st Strudwick b Davis 5 Oyston, C not out 4 (10) not out 3 Brown, W c Moulder b Lees 2 (11) b Smith 0 Extras lb 1 1 b 5, lb 2, w 1 8 Total 96 249 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 30 37 40 41 41 53 63 86 94 96 Second innings 2 41 95 95 152 155 212 241 248 249 Lees 18 7 29 5 - - (1) 23 8 50 2 1 - Hadfield 14 0 56 4 - - (3) 9 4 30 1 - - Smith 4 2 9 1 - - (2) 25.2 7 78 3 - - Kersley 1 0 1 0 - - (4) 6 3 10 1 - - Gooder (5) 8 4 24 0 - - Davis (6) 8 1 34 2 - - Holland (7) 6 1 15 1 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 37 9 96 10 0 0 85.2 28 249 10 1 0 Notes: Surrey 2 nd XI won this return game by eight wickets shortly before 5.00 pm on the second day, having enforced the follow-on. The rain-affected match between the two sides at The Oval in June had been drawn. For the winners, there were 8 fours in Gooder’s 92 not out, 9 fours in Holland’s 80 and 7 fours in Wiltshire’s 52. In the Surrey first innings, Gooder and Smith added 50 runs for the eighth wicket and Gooder and Strudwick 63 for the tenth. For Yorkshire 2 nd XI, Swalwell scored 100, including 14 fours, 2 threes and 8 twos, an innings of two hours. Outram’s 52, scored in 2 and a quarter hours, contained 5 fours. In the Yorkshire second innings, Swalwell and Frank put on 57 runs for the seventh wicket. When catching Outram in the Yorkshire first innings, Strudwick reached the career milestone of 50 dismissals in championship matches. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Yorkshire Year Book 1903, p 168; Harrogate Advertiser 5 July; Yorkshire Post 3,4 July ; Surrey Year Book 1902, p 123; The Sportsman 3,4 July.