The Minor Counties Championship 1902

41 MATCH NUMBER 18 : BEDFORDSHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At The Dunstable Grammar School Ground, West Parade, Dunstable on Thursday 10, Friday 11 July 1902 Result: Match drawn – Staffordshire won on first innings Points: Staffordshire 1 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: T Hanson and A Stockwin Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Staffordshire 1 (J N Burns) First day score: Bedfordshire 280; Staffordshire 20-1 wicket (F H Hassall 10*, J A Bourne 0*) Bedfordshire F G Brooks c Page b W Brown 101 Pollitt, G b Bourne 8 * H R Orr run out 1 (1) c W Brown b Bourne 0 L C R Thring b Page 44 (3) not out 50 Brown, T A c Clapham b Bourne 0 (5) not out 5 Wharmby, G E c Crane b W Brown 22 F B Brooks c Clapham b W Brown 7 (4) c Eagland b Page 16 L Parbury b Bourne 25 G U A Read b W Brown 11 + E E Apthorp b W Brown 2 H W Oclee not out 46 (2) b Eagland 14 Extras b 10, lb 3 13 b 2, lb 1, nb 1 4 Total 280 (3 wickets) 89 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 27 117 118 164 179 194 208 214 280 Second innings 0 34 75 - - - - - - - Brown, W 30 6 67 5 - - Bourne 20.3 0 76 3 - - (1) 7 1 28 1 - - Clapham 9 1 32 0 - - (3) 4 1 20 0 - 1 Crane 5 0 35 0 - - Stratton 5 0 24 0 - - Page 8 1 24 1 - - (4) 3 1 8 1 - - Eagland 4 1 9 0 - - (2) 8 2 29 1 - - Extras - - 13 1 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 81.3 9 280 10 0 0 22 5 89 3 0 1 Staffordshire G W Crane c Orr b T A Brown 10 Hassall, F H c F B Brooks b Parbury 12 J A Bourne b T A Brown 20 * H D Stratton c Wharmby b Thring 38 Brown, W b Wharmby 81 H Eagland c Oclee b Parbury 0 Hollowood, A b Wharmby 43 R C Page c T A Brown b Thring 24 J N Burns b Thring 31 + J Poole b Wharmby 2 Clapham, J R not out 20 Extras b 9 9 Total 290 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 20 24 55 134 135 196 227 262 267 290 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Brown, T A 27 6 75 2 - - Parbury 16 1 70 2 - - Wharmby 29.2 11 73 3 - - Thring 18 2 59 3 - - Oclee 1 0 4 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - Total 91.2 20 290 10 0 0 Notes: This match was drawn, with Staffordshire leading on first innings. Their ninth wicket fell at 267, still 13 runs behind, but a last wicket partnership of 23 between Poole and Clapham gave them the lead on first innings. On the first day, a heavy storm prevented play between the lunch interval and 4.30 pm. For Bedfordshire, there were 9 fours, 4 threes and 9 twos in F G Brooks’s 101 and 7 fours in Thring’s 50 not out. In the home team’s first innings, Parbury and Oclee added 66 runs for the tenth wicket. For the visitors, W Brown’s 81, scored in 2 hours, contained 11 fours. Stumps were drawn early on the second day at 5.15 pm to allow the Staffordshire team to catch an earlier and more convenient train home. [An alternative version of this score based on the Bedfordshire sources gives in the Bedfordshire first innings the runs conceded by Clapham as being 31 not 32 and Crane 36 not 35.] [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Bedfordshire Advertiser 18 July; Bedford Record 15 July; Bedfordshire Standard 18 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 10,11,12 July; The Sportsman 11,12 July.