The Minor Counties Championship 1902

61 MATCH NUMBER 38 : HERTFORDSHIRE V NORTHAMPTONSHIRE At The West Herts Cricket Club Ground, Cassio Road, Watford on Monday 28, Tuesday 29 July 1902 Result: Match drawn – Northamptonshire won on first innings Points: Northamptonshire 1 Toss: Northamptonshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Northamptonshire 2 (H G Driffield, F Jones) First day score: Northamptonshire 224; Hertfordshire 76-6 wickets (Capt G O Bigge 6*, H J Hill 8*) Northamptonshire W H Kingston c Coleman b White 0 (1) c Coleman b Butcher 15 Thompson, G J c Doll b Whately 78 G K Papillon c Fastnedge b White 0 (2) not out 20 Cox, M b White 0 (3) not out 1 * T Horton c Coleman b White 82 East, W c C T Rudd b White 25 A S Wetherall b White 26 L T Driffield b W J Rudd 0 + F Jones b White 0 H Hawkins run out 1 H G Driffield not out 0 Extras b 8, lb 4 12 b 4, lb 4 8 Total 224 (1 wicket) 44 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 0 14 164 170 212 218 223 224 224 Second innings 36 - - - - - - - - - White 33.5 12 54 7 - - (1) 5 3 9 0 - - Coleman 23 4 86 0 - - (2) 4 0 17 0 - - Golding 10 0 29 0 - - (3) 3 1 2 0 - - Rudd, W J 19 8 26 1 - - Whately 4 0 17 1 - - Butcher (4) 2 1 3 1 - - C T Rudd (5) 1 0 5 0 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 89.5 24 224 10 0 0 15 5 44 1 0 0 Hertfordshire (Followed on) White, H E c Jones b East 10 (1) b East 41 Golding, A J b Thompson 0 (3) c Jones b Thompson 23 C T Rudd b Thompson 22 (4) c Jones b Thompson 15 A Butcher c East b Thompson 1 (8) b East 1 C C T Doll b Thompson 18 (6) c Horton b Thompson 11 Coleman, W E c Kingston b Hawkins 10 (7) c Papillon b H G Driffield 107 Capt G O Bigge not out 20 (2) c East b Thompson 8 H J Hill c Jones b Thompson 21 (5) b East 47 * + C D Fastnedge b East 1 (9) c L T Driffield b Thompson 48 E G Whately b East 3 (10) not out 1 Rudd, W J b Thompson 4 Extras b 2, lb 1 3 b 8, lb 1 9 Total 113 (9 wickets declared) 311 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 11 13 41 52 67 91 92 100 113 Second innings 23 67 87 94 128 177 195 289 311 - Thompson 24.1 5 60 6 - - (2) 29 3 109 5 - - East 17 4 36 3 - - (4) 21 4 46 3 - - Hawkins 5 2 10 1 - - (5) 10 0 30 0 - - L T Driffield 2 1 4 0 - - (1) 10 2 36 0 - - H G Driffield (3) 9 0 44 1 - - Horton (6) 3 0 15 0 - - Cox (7) 4 0 22 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 48.1 12 113 10 0 0 86 9 311 9 0 0 Notes: This return match was drawn with the point for first innings lead going to Northamptonshire. The game at Northampton in June had been won by Northamptonshire. The visitors enforced the follow-on, but Hertfordshire were able to declare 200 runs ahead with 45 minutes play left. For Northamptonshire, Thompson took 11 wickets in the match for 169 runs. There were 7 fours in Horton’s 82 and 1 six and 5 fours in Thompson’s 78. In the visitors’ first innings, these two players put on 150 runs for the fourth wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. For the home team, Coleman’s 107, an innings of 90 minutes, contained 13 fours, 6 threes and 7 twos. With Fastnedge, he put on 94 runs for the eighth wicket in Hertfordshire’s second innings, which was the equal highest partnership for that wicket during the sesaon. When dismissing Wetherall in the Northamptonshire first innings, White reached the career milestone of 300 wickets in championship matches, and when dismissing Fastnedge in the Hertfordshire first innings, East reached the career milestone of 200 wickets in championship matches. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Herts Advertiser 2 August; Watford Observer 2 August; Northampton Daily Chronicle 29,30 July; Northampton Daily Reporter 30 July; Northampton Herald 2 August; Northampton Mercury 1 August; The Sportsman 1 August.