The Minor Counties Championship 1902

71 MATCH NUMBER 48 : BEDFORDSHIRE V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE At The Bedford Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Wednesday 6,Thursday 7 August 1902 Result: Match drawn – no decision on first innings Points: None awarded Toss: Buckinghamshire Umpires: J O’Connor and C Powell Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Buckinghamshire none First day score: Buckinghamshire 182-6 wickets (T Stacey 13*, G Kentish 16*) Buckinghamshire C R H Gresson c Wharmby b Brown 4 E C Hobbs b Wharmby 57 Langley,F c and b Wharmby 23 F N Bird c Stileman-Gibbard b Wharmby 55 * P J de Paravicini c Brooks b Brown 1 Austin, H A b Wharmby 2 T Stacey not out 22 Kentish, G c Oclee b Wharmby 19 Page, H b Wharmby 0 A S Ward c Pollitt b Brown 7 + S Ussher lbw b Brown 5 Extras 11 Total 206 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 43 132 140 142 151 206 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Wharmby 38 20 61 6 - - Brown 36 8 99 4 - - Parbury 6 1 22 0 - - Moss 4 2 6 0 - - Oclee 2 1 7 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - Total 86 32 206 10 - - Bedfordshire F G Brooks c Austin b Kentish 14 Pollitt, G b Kentish 3 * H R Orr not out 23 L G Stileman-Gibbard not out 6 Brown, T A + W R Jeakings J F Morris Rev R H Moss H W Oclee L Parbury Wharmby, G E Extras 3 Total (2 wickets) 49 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings - - - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Page 12 6 21 0 - - Kentish 11 5 25 2 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - Total 23 11 49 2 - - Notes: This rain-affected match was drawn with no decision on first innings. Play on the first day was delayed for an hour until 12.30 pm, and then only two overs were bowled before rain drove the players back into the pavilion. The game started again after lunch, but shortly after Gresson was dismissed rain returned and play was not resumed until just before 4 pm. On the second day rain again stopped play after Bedfordshire had scored 49 for 2 wickets in their first innings and the match was subsequently abandoned. For Buckinghamshire, Hobbs scored 57 and Bird 55 . [The Bedfordshire bowling analysis has not been found in any of the sources listed and has been derived by subtraction from the Bedfordshire averages published in Wisden and the Bedfordshire Annual Report. In addition, Page’s bowling analysis has been reconciled with the Buckinghamshire averages in Wisden.] [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Buckinghamshire inns boundaries in Hobbs’s 57 and Bird’s 55, and confirmation of Bedfordshire bowling analysis.] Sources: Bedford Record 12 August; Bedfordshire Advertiser 8 August; Bedfordshire Mercury 8 August; Bedfordshire Standard 8 August; Bedfordshire Times 8 August; Dunstable Advertiser 9 August; Dunstable Borough Gazette 13 August; Luton News 14 August; Luton Reporter 8 August; Bucks Advertiser 9 August; Bucks Herald 9 August; South Bucks Free Press 8 August; Wolverton Express 8 August; The Sportsman 7,8 August.