The Minor Counties Championship 1903

74 MATCH NUMBER 51 : OXFORDSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The Hertford College Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford on Friday 7, Saturday 8 August 1903 Result: Match drawn – Hertfordshire won on first innings Points: Hertfordshire 1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: H Coulson and W Hearne Debutants: Oxfordshire none; Hertfordshire none First day score: Hertfordshire 263; Oxfordshire 60-1 wicket (J WMarsh 22*, H Bassett 22*) Hertfordshire A Butcher b A Rogers 17 (7) not out 15 Golding, A J b A Rogers 15 (1) c Smith b Wakelin 59 C C T Doll b A Rogers 4 (8) not out 14 White, H E c P Rogers b A Rogers 26 (2) b A Rogers 15 Capt G O Bigge b P Rogers 34 (3) b Wakelin 44 E J Metcalfe b A Rogers 1 (4) c J WMarsh b Wakelin 6 * H J Hill c P Rogers b Brooks 20 (5) c J F Marsh b Wakelin 10 Coleman, W E b A Rogers 22 (6) b Wakelin 0 + E H Wales b Wakelin 57 C T Rudd b Molloy 29 Rudd, W J not out 29 Extras b 6, lb 3 9 b 8, lb 3 11 Total 263 (6 wickets declared) 174 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 263 Second innings - - - - Rogers, A 36 9 90 6 - - (1) 8 1 25 1 - - Rogers, P 30 4 73 1 - - (3) 4 1 32 0 - - Brooks 12 3 24 1 - - (2) 4 0 28 0 - - Wakelin 3 0 6 1 - - (5) 7 0 39 5 - - Bassett 8 2 12 0 - - (6) 7 0 25 0 - - Molloy 7 2 22 1 - - (4) 1 0 14 0 - - J WMarsh 5 0 27 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 11 0 - - Total 101 20 263 10 0 0 31 2 174 6 0 0 Oxfordshire + J W Marsh b Coleman 25 (1) b White 26 Rev C H S Gmelin b Coleman 7 ( ) c Wales b W J Rudd 2 H Bassett c Bigge b White 53 ( ) b Coleman 1 * J F Marsh b Coleman 50 ( ) c White b W J Rudd 0 W Smith b White 7 ( ) not out 51 W S Case b White 0 (8) c White b Metcalfe 25 Rogers, P c White b W J Rudd 10 ( ) b Coleman 8 M T Molloy c and b W J Rudd 4 (2) c Coleman b W J Rudd 29 E Wakelin lbw b W J Rudd 7 (9) not out 20 W T Brooks not out 2 Rogers, A c C T Rudd b W J Rudd 1 Extras b 13, lb 1 14 b 9, lb 2 11 Total 180 (7 wickets) 173x 174 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 180 Second innings 81 121 - - - White 36 16 55 3 - - (3) 16 7 19 1 - - Coleman 26 9 43 3 - - (1) 20 5 67 2 - - W J Rudd 23 5 36 4 - - (2) 26 8 52 3 - - Golding 2 1 6 0 - - Metcalfe 5 1 11 0 - - (5) 4 0 17 1 - - C T Rudd 2 0 15 0 - - Hill (4) 1 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 11 0 - - Total 94 32 180 10 0 0 67 20 174 7 0 0 Notes: This match was drawn after the Hertfordshire declaration set Oxfordshire a target of 258 runs in 150 minutes. For the home team, Bassett scored 53, Smith 51 not out and J F Marsh 50. Smith and Wakelin added 53 runs undefeated for the eighth wicket in the Oxfordshire second innings. For Hertfordshire, Golding scored 59 and Wales 57. Wales and W J Rudd added over 50 for the tenth wicket in the Hertfordshire first innings. In the Hertfordshire second innings the first hundred runs were scored in 35 minutes. J WMarsh is reported as bowling without taking off his wicket-keeping pads. When he had scored 20 in the Hertfordshire second innings, Golding reached the career milestone of two thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire first innings boundaries in Wales’s 57; in Hertfordshire second innings boundaries in Golding’s 59; in Oxfordshire first innings boundaries in Bassett’s 53 and J F Marsh’s 50; in Oxfordshire second innings runs batting one short, boundaries in Smith’s 51 not out, and part batting order.] Sources: Abingdon Herald 15 August; Oxford Chronicle 14 August; Oxford Journal 15 August; Oxford Times 15 August; Barnet Times 14 August; Herts Advertiser 15 August; Herts Leader 11 August; Hertfordshire Express 15 August; Hertfordshire Standard 14 August; St Albans Gazette 12 August; Watford Observer 15 August; The Sportsman 8,10 August.