The Minor Counties Championship 1903

52 MATCH NUMBER 29 : DURHAM V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Hartlepool Cricket Club Ground, Clarence Road, West Hartlepool on Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 July 1903 Result: Durham won by six wickets Points: Durham 3 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Durham 1 (H Salmon); Cambridgeshire none First day score: Cambridgeshire 72 and 102-9 wickets (J P Allix 20*, W Bryan 3*); Durham 94 Cambridgeshire W Prest b Smith 0 (1) b Smith 15 Bacon, J b Smith 5 (2) c Turnbull b Smith 9 F E Morgan b Smith 11 (3) c Adamson b Turnbull 1 + Watts, G H b Butler 10 (4) c and b Turnbull 3 Hayward, D M c Horsley b Turnbull 3 (5) c Salmon b Butler 11 P A French b Turnbull 3 (6) b Newsome 21 J P Allix c Elliot b Turnbull 27 (7) not out 21 W E Gardner b Butler 0 (8) b Newsome 3 * R S Hicks b Smith 1 (9) c Parrington b Butler 1 F P C Pemberton lbw b Turnbull 0 (10) b Turnbull 3 Bryan, W not out 5 (11) b Turnbull 12 Extras b 6, lb 1 7 b 8, lb 4 12 Total 72 112 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 15 22 29 37 37 40 58 61 72 Second innings 24 33 37 39 68 73 83 86 99 112 Turnbull 18.3 10 31 4 - - (1) 21.3 6 25 4 - - Smith 13 4 24 4 - - (2) 18 5 38 2 - - Butler 5 2 10 2 - - (3) 13 5 15 2 - - Newsome (4) 10 3 22 2 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 36.3 16 72 10 0 0 62.3 19 112 10 0 0 Durham C Y Adamson b Hayward 7 (1) c French b Hayward 16 Butler, J b Hayward 21 (2) retired hurt 43 * E W Elliot b French 15 (3) b Hayward 1 A B Horsley c Bryan b Hayward 9 (4) lbw b Hayward 11 R C Cumberlege not out 8 (5) b Hayward 4 T E Parrington b Hayward 1 (6) not out 9 A Newsome b French 1 (7) not out 0 H Salmon c Watts b Hayward 5 + J Kirtley b Hayward 8 Turnbull, G b Hayward 0 Smith, T b French 8 Extras b 8, lb 3 11 b 5, lb 3 8 Total 94 (4 wickets) 92 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 45 53 61 63 64 69 79 79 94 Second innings 51 54 68 78 - - - - - - Hayward 12 2 30 7 - - (1) 16.2 2 43 4 - - Watts 5 0 24 0 - - French 7.5 0 29 3 - - (2) 7 1 23 0 - - Morgan (3) 2 1 8 0 - - Bryan (4) 8 2 10 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 24.5 2 94 10 0 0 33.2 6 92 4 0 0 Notes: Durham won by 6 wickets on the second day. No batsman scored fifty. For the losers, Hayward took 11 wickets in the match for 73 runs, including 7 for 30 in the Durham first innings. In the Durham second innings Butler retired hurt, shortly before the match was won, with an injured left eye after playing a ball into his face. In the Durham second innings, Adamson was dismissed after he had reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. The score has not been found in any of the Cambridgeshire newspapers. [All sources and accounts, except the Durham Scorebook, give Elliot as being lbw b French.] [Missing: Umpires; in Durham first innings who kept wicket when Watts bowled; time completed.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 23,24 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 23,24 July; Newcastle Daily Leader 23,24 July; Northern Daily Mail 22,23 July.