The Minor Counties Championship 1903

66 MATCH NUMBER 43 : BEDFORDSHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At The Bedford Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 August 1903 Result: Match drawn – Bedfordshire won on first innings Points: Bedfordshire 1 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: R Humphrey and S Wrigley Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Staffordshire none First day score: Bedfordshire 319; Staffordshire 78-2 wickets (W Brown 42*, R C Page 1*) Bedfordshire N D T Oliver c Fereday b Page 117 B L Peel c Dearing b Fereday 58 Wharmby, G E b Grose 66 * H R Orr c Grose b Page 19 Brown, T A c Dearing b Page 5 L C R Thring c W Brown b Page 18 Pepper, C b Fereday 11 L Parbury c Fereday b Page 11 + Capt F E Rowe b Grose 7 Rev R H Moss b Grose 0 S Brown not out 0 Extras b 1, lb 4, w 1, nb 1 7 Total 319 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 87 226 250 258 286 290 298 298 315 319 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Brown, W 5 0 19 0 - - Grose 18 0 99 3 1 1 Pallett 10 4 43 0 - - Moore 6 2 15 0 - - Fereday 22 5 79 2 - - Stratton 3 0 17 0 - - Page 14.4 1 40 5 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - Total 78.4 12 319 10 1 1 Staffordshire (Followed on) Brown, W c and b Wharmby 60 (1) not out 107 Fereday, J B b Wharmby 18 (2) c Rowe b S Brown 12 * H D Stratton c Moss b Wharmby 15 (3) b Oliver 49 R C Page b Wharmby 25 (4) c Rowe b Thring 34 A Hollowood lbw b S Brown 7 (5) not out 28 W J Beddows b T A Brown 19 E Moore b Wharmby 0 J Poole c Moss b Wharmby 3 + H Dearing b T A Brown 4 Pallett, H J st Rowe b Parbury 1 T A Grose not out 12 Extras b 9, lb 5, w 1 15 b 10, lb 1, w 1 12 Total 179 (3 wickets) 242 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 41 73 129 138 138 138 146 162 163 179 Second innings 39 126 172 - - - - - - - S Brown 18 6 29 1 - - (4) 12 2 45 1 - - Moss 7 1 24 0 - - (3) 9 7 5 0 - - Wharmby 38 14 68 6 - - (1) 16 2 50 0 - - Brown, T A 13 5 20 2 - - (2) 12 2 35 0 - - Parbury 15 5 23 1 - - (5) 10 2 18 0 - - Thring 2 2 0 0 - - (7) 19 5 39 1 - - Pepper (6) 6 2 19 0 - - Oliver (8) 7 0 16 1 - - Orr (9) 2 0 2 0 - - Peel (10) 4 3 1 0 - - Rowe (11) 1 1 0 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 93 33 179 10 1 0 98 26 242 3 1 0 Notes: This match was drawn after Staffordshire had followed on 140 runs in arrears. For Bedfordshire, there were 10 fours, 8 threes and 9 twos in Oliver’s 117, an innings of 2½ hours. Wharmby’s 66 contained 4 fours, and Peel’s 58 6 fours. In the Bedfordshire innings. Oliver and Wharmby added 139 runs for the second wicket. For the visitors, W Brown scored 107 not out, an innings of 3½ hours. He also scored 60 in the first innings. All eleven members of the Bedfordshire team bowled in the Staffordshire second innings. It was the second time that this had happened in a championship match. The previous occasion was in 1898, at the County Ground, Swindon, when all 11 of the Wiltshire team bowled in the Worcestershire second innings. [Missing: In Staffordshire first innings boundaries in W Brown’s 60 and who bowled wide; in Staffordshire second innings breakdown of W Brown’s 107 not out and who bowled wide.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Birmingham Daily Post 6,7 August; Bedford Record 11 August; Bedfordshire Mercury 7 August; Bedfordshire Standard 7 August; Bedfordshire Times 7 August; Staffordshire Advertiser 8 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 5,6 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 8 August; Luton News 6 August; The Sportsman 6,7 August.