The Minor Counties Championship 1902

78 MATCH NUMBER 55 : STAFFORDSHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13 [no play] August 1902 Result: Match drawn – Staffordshire won on first innings Points: Staffordshire 1 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (W H Twigg); Bedfordshire none First day score: As match – rain prevented play on second day Staffordshire * H D Stratton b Moss 14 Hollowood, A c Moss b Thring 26 W B Burns b Moss 37 Brown, W b Moss 0 Fereday, J B c Wharmby b Moss 3 (2) not out 3 J A Bourne c Jeakings b Moss 31 Grimshaw, T b Moss 8 (4) not out 2 W H Twigg lbw b Wharmby 8 (1) b Wharmby 0 F H Wynne b Moss 0 + J Poole not out 2 (3) c Orr b Moss 0 Barton, J b Wharmby 5 Extras b 4, lb 1 5 b 5, nb 1 6 Total 139 (2 wickets) 11 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 39 49 51 65 84 96 127 127 131 139 Second innings 0 7 - - - - - - - - Wharmby 13.1 4 33 2 - - (2) 4 3 2 1 - - Brown, T A 11 3 27 0 - - Oclee 10 4 17 0 - - Thring 12 2 20 1 - - Moss 26 13 31 7 - - (1) 4 3 3 1 - 1 Oliver 1 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 73.1 26 139 10 0 0 8 6 11 2 0 1 Bedfordshire L C R Thring b Bourne 4 F G Brooks st Poole b Bourne 16 N D T Oliver c W Brown b Bourne 6 L G Stileman-Gibbard c and b Bourne 15 * H R Orr c W Brown b Grimshaw 36 Pollitt, G c Twigg b Bourne 1 Wharmby, G E lbw b W Brown 3 Brown, T A c Grimshaw b W Brown 21 H W Oclee b Bourne 8 Rev R H Moss not out 11 + W R Jeakings b Grimshaw 0 Extras lb 4 4 Total 125 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 18 41 44 66 92 97 110 120 125 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Bourne 17 2 62 6 - - Barton 8 0 28 0 - - Brown, W 10 4 19 2 - - Grimshaw 4.5 2 12 2 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - Total 39.5 8 125 10 0 0 Notes: Rain prevented play on the second day of this drawn return match. The match between the two sides at Dunstable in July had also been drawn. For Staffordshire, Burns top-scored with 37 and Bourne took 6 wickets for 62 runs in the Bedfordshire innings. For the visitors, Moss took 7 wickets for 31 runs in the Staffordshire first innings. Orr’s 36 was the Bedfordshire highest score. [ In the Staffordshire first innings, an alternative to the scorebook based on Staffordshire newspapers attributes to Thring one over bowled by Oclee, off which 2 runs were scored. Bedfordshire sources give the runs conceded by Thring as 21 which is one run in excess.] [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 16 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 12,13 August; Bedford Record 19 August; Bedfordshire Times 15 August; The Sportsman 13,14 August.