The Minor Counties Championship 1902

86 MATCH NUMBER 63 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Wendover Road, Aylesbury on Wednesday 20, Thursday 21 August 1902 Result: Buckinghamshire won by 209 runs Points: Buckinghamshire 3 Toss: Buckinghamshire Umpires: H Coulson and R Rogers Debutants: Buckinghamshire none; Hertfordshire 1 (R G Pridmore) First day score: Buckinghamshire 163 and 53-1 (C R H Gresson 14*, F N Bird 24*); Hertfordshire 88 Buckinghamshire E C Hobbs b White 8 (2) b W J Rudd 7 Wright, M W c Hill b White 10 (6) c W J Rudd b Coleman 25 * P J de Paravicini c Compton b W J Rudd 10 (5) not out 90 C R H Gresson c Compton b White 35 (1) b White 38 F N Bird b Grundy 25 (3) b Coleman 80 J T Weatherby lbw b Grundy 27 (7) b Coleman 11 + C E Cobb c Butcher b White 22 (4) b Coleman 0 A W Roberts b Grundy 4 (8) b W J Rudd 11 P C F de Paravicini b Grundy 1 (9) not out 11 Page, H not out 3 Nash, G b White 0 Extras b 15, lb 3 18 b 15, lb 4 19 Total 163 (7 wickets declared) 292 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 18 42 102 102 140 156 160 160 163 Second innings 134 134 134 225 265 - - - White 34 10 76 5 - - (1) 20 4 34 1 - - W J Rudd 22 5 55 1 - - (2) 41 8 99 2 - - Coleman 3 0 9 0 - - (3) 32 5 96 4 - - Grundy 8 5 5 4 - - (4) 14 5 30 0 - - Golding (5) 2 0 14 0 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - - - 19 0 - - Total 67 20 163 10 0 0 109 22 292 7 0 0 Hertfordshire White, H E b Nash 36 (1) b Wright 2 Golding, A J c Cobb b Wright 0 (2) b Page 14 T H K Dashwood c Hobbs b Wright 3 (3) b Wright 0 A Butcher b Nash 3 (4) b P J de Paravicini 8 + L W Compton c P C F de Paravicini b Nash 4 (5) b Roberts 14 * H J Hill c P J de Paravicini b Wright 0 (6) c Cobb b Nash 14 C T Rudd st Cobb b Nash 8 (7) c Weatherby b Nash 10 Coleman, W E c Weatherby b Wright 4 (8) c and b Roberts 65 R G Pridmore st Cobb b Nash 0 (9) b Nash 0 A F Grundy not out 24 (10) st Cobb b Nash 11 Rudd, W J b Nash 5 (11) not out 7 Extras b 1 1 b 9, lb 1, nb 3 13 Total 88 158 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 16 48 57 57 88 Second innings 7 9 27 57 82 104 158 Wright 22 8 29 4 - - (1) 30 16 34 2 - - Nash 21.4 5 58 6 - - (2) 35 16 69 4 - - Page (3) 14 6 20 1 - - P J de Paravicini (4) 1 0 1 1 - - Roberts (5) 7.2 2 21 2 - 3 Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 43.4 13 88 10 0 0 87.2 40 158 10 0 3 Notes: Buckinghamshire won this return match by 209 runs with just 7 minutes left for play. A last wicket partnership of 54 runs between Coleman and W J Rudd nearly denied the home team victory. The meeting between the two teams in July at St Albans had been drawn. For the winners, Nash took 10 wickets in the match for 127 runs. There were 6 fours in P J de Paravicini’s 90 not out, and 11 fours in Bird’s 80. In the Buckinghamshire second innings, Gresson and Bird put on over one hundred runs for the second wicket. For Hertfordshire, Coleman scored 65. The 63 overs bowled by Rudd in the match were the joint second highest of the season . [An alternative version of this score based on Buckinghamshire sources gives the first day close of play scores of Gresson 24 not out and Bird 14 not out.] [Missing: Part fall of wickets; in Buckinghamshire 2 nd inns size of second wicket partnership; in Hertfordshire 2 nd inns boundaries in Coleman’s 65; precise time completed.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 23 August; Bucks Herald 23 August; South Bucks Free Press 22 August; Herts Advertiser 23 August; Hertfordshire Standard 22 August; The Sportsman 20,21,22 August.