The Minor Counties Championship 1903

48 MATCH NUMBER 25 : BEDFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Dunstable Grammar School Ground, West Parade, Dunstable on Thursday 16, Friday 17 July 1903 Result: Bedfordshire won by an innings and 219 runs Points: Bedfordshire 3 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Cambridgeshire 4 (G W Clark, W E Gardner, J Richardson, G B Robins) First day score: Bedfordshire 399; Cambridgeshire 3-1 wicket (J H Widdicombe 0*) Bedfordshire B L Peel st Richardson b G B Robins 131 Pollitt, G b Bryan 2 Wharmby, G E not out 163 * H R Orr c - Robins b Bryan 22 Brown, T A b Bryan 13 L C R Thring c Clark b Bryan 10 + Capt E F Rowe c Widdicombe b Bacon 2 Rev L G Brown b Bryan 8 L Parbury st Richardson b Bryan 3 C L K Peel st Richardson b Bacon 1 S Brown c Gilbert b Bryan 6 Extras w 4 38 Total 399 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 271 308 324 355 357 369 390 393 399 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Bryan 35.4 6 115 7 - - Bellars 21 4 83 0 4 - Gilbert 4 0 28 0 - - Bacon 11 0 54 2 - - Widdicombe 4 0 21 0 - - G P M Robins 6 0 25 0 - - G B Robins 4 0 35 1 - - Extras - - 38 0 - - Total 85.4 10 399 10 4 0 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) * J H Widdicombe c Pollitt b T A Brown 0 (2) c C L K Peel b Wharmby 6 F K Robinson b S Brown 3 ( ) c and b Wharmby 4 E D Gilbert b S Brown 2 (1) c Rowe b Wharmby 30 Bacon, J b T A Brown 29 (3) c Thring b T A Brown 0 G P M Robins b T A Brown 23 (4) c Thring b T A Brown 0 W E Gardner run out 2 (5) b Wharmby 18 + J Richardson c Pollitt b T A Brown 8 ( ) b T A Brown 9 G B Robins c Wharmby b T A Brown 0 ( ) not out 3 Bryan, W c T A Brown b Wharmby 2 ( ) b Wharmby 6 A E Bellars c and b T A Brown 6 ( ) b T A Brown 0 G W Clark not out 0 ( ) b T A Brown 9 Extras 16 4 Total 91 89 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 5 13 66 75 79 79 84 89 91 Second innings 14 15 15 56 89 S Brown 10 2 37 2 - - Brown, T A 19 7 27 6 - - (1) 17.3 3 44 5 - - Parbury 4 1 4 0 - - Wharmby 5.5 4 7 1 - - (2) 17 5 41 5 - - Extras - - 16 1 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 38.5 14 91 10 - - 34.3 8 89 10 - - Notes: Bedfordshire won by an innings and 219 runs shortly before 3.00 pm on the second day. The margin of victory was the second largest of the season. The Cambridgeshire team were without Gray, Hayward, Swann-Mason and Watts. The start on Thursday was delayed by rain until 1.10 pm. For the winners, there was 1 six, 15 fours and 13 threes in Wharmby’s 163 not out, and 1 six and 16 fours in B L Peel’s 131. In the Bedfordshire innings they put on 257 runs for the second wicket, which was a new Championship record exceeding the 240 added by H R Elliot and E W Elliot for Durham against Northumberland in early June. Wharmby’s 163 not out was the third highest individual innings of the season. T A Brown took 11 wickets in the match for 71 runs. The Bedfordshire total of 399 was the third highest of the season. For Cambridgeshire, Bryan took 7 wickets for 115 runs in the Bedfordshire innings, and Gilbert top-scored with 30. The 115 runs conceded by Bryan were the second most in an innings during the season. The 3 stumpings made by the debutant Richardson in the Bedfordshire innings were the most during the season, a feat shared with two others. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Bedfordshire innings which Robins caught Orr; duration and twos and threes in B L Peel’s 131 and duration and twos in Wharmby’s 163 not out; in Cambridgeshire second innings part batting order, and part fall of wickets.] Sources: Bedford Record 21 July; Bedfordshire Advertiser 17,24 July; Bedfordshire Mercury 24 July; Bedfordshire Standard 24 July; Bedfordshire Times 24 July; Dunstable Advertiser 25 July; Dunstable Borough Gazette 22 July; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 25 July; Luton News 23 July; Cambridge Daily News 18 July; Cambridge Independent Press 24 July; Hertfordshire Standard 24 July; The Sportsman 17,18 July.