The Minor Counties Championship 1903

72 MATCH NUMBER 49 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Friday 7, Saturday 8 August 1903 Result: Cambridgeshire won by 95 runs Points: Cambridgeshire 3 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: H Mycroft and J T Parnham Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Staffordshire none First day score: Cambridgeshire 119 and 91-6 wickets (C Pigg 22*, Rev H Gray 8*); Staffordshire 53 Cambridgeshire Rev R S Swann-Mason b Page 30 (3) c Briggs b Hollowood 10 T S W Thomas c Beddows b Moore 1 (1) b Moore 10 H C Tebbutt c Stratton b Moore 0 (11) not out 4 + Watts, G H b Page 7 (4) c Poole b Hollowood 5 Hayward, D M c Beddows b Moore 18 (5) b Moore 19 E D Gilbert run out 4 (7) b Grose 0 C Pigg c Briggs b Moore 26 (6) run out 24 J C Falkner c Beddows b Page 0 (2) c Poole b Moore 14 F E Morgan st Poole b Moore 6 (10) b Moore 1 L A Gilbert c Hollowood b Moore 4 (9) b Hollowood 4 * Rev H Gray not out 11 (8) b Hollowood 31 Extras b 10, lb 1, nb 1 12 b 4, lb 2 6 Total 119 128 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 4 21 64 69 75 77 86 97 119 Second innings 26 26 32 61 62 63 113 120 124 128 Brown 4 0 9 0 - - (7) 1 1 0 0 - - Moore 23.1 2 57 6 - - (1) 20.4 4 54 4 - - Page 14 6 26 3 - - (2) 6 1 25 0 - - Stratton 2 0 3 0 - - (5) 2 0 4 0 - - Clapham 2 0 7 0 - - Grose 1 0 1 0 - - (6) 5 1 15 1 - - Crane 1 0 4 0 - - (4) 4 3 1 0 - - Hollowood (3) 12 5 23 4 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - - - 6 1 - - Total 47.1 8 119 10 0 1 50.4 15 128 10 0 0 Staffordshire P Briggs b Gray 4 (1) b Gray 0 Brown, W b Gray 0 (2) c Morgan b Hayward 0 * H D Stratton b Gray 6 (3) b Hayward 2 R C Page b Gray 0 (4) lbw b Hayward 45 A Hollowood lbw b Hayward 22 (5) c L A Gilbert b Hayward 1 G W Crane c Hayward b Gray 0 (6) c and b Hayward 2 W J Beddows b Hayward 0 (7) b Hayward 31 + J Poole c Pigg b Gray 0 (9) b Hayward 0 T A Grose not out 8 (8) lbw b Hayward 0 E Moore b Gray 7 (10) not out 2 Clapham, J R c Swann-Mason b Gray 2 (11) c Tebbutt b Hayward 6 Extras b 3, lb 1 4 b 6, lb 4 10 Total 53 99 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 9 10 32 34 34 34 36 51 53 Second innings 0 0 9 11 13 84 84 86 93 99 Hayward 10 3 10 2 - - (1) 27.1 13 33 9 - - Gray 9.5 3 39 8 - - (2) 27 11 41 1 - - Thomas (3) 3 1 12 0 - - Falkner (4) 3 1 3 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 19.5 6 53 10 0 0 60.1 26 99 10 0 0 Notes: Cambridgeshire won by 95 runs at around 3.00 pm on the second day. For the winners, Hayward took 11 wickets in the match for 43 runs, including 9 for 33 in the second innings, which was statistically the best innings bowling performance of the season. Gray took 9 for 80, including 8 for 39 in the first innings. In the Cambridgeshire second innings, Pigg and Gray put on 50 runs for the seventh wicket. For Staffordshire, Moore took 10 wickets in the match for 111 runs. Page top-scored with 45. In the Staffordshire second innings, Page and Beddows added 71 runs for the sixth wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. [Missing: In Cambridgeshire first innings who bowled no ball.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Cambridge Chronicle 14 August; Cambridge Independent Press 14 August; Staffordshire Advertiser 15 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 4 August; Birmingham Daily Post 8,10 August; The Sportsman 8,10 August.