The Minor Counties Championship 1903

88 MATCH NUMBER 65 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Wendover Road, Aylesbury on Wednesday 19, Thursday 20 [no play] August 1903 Result: Match drawn – Hertfordshire won on first innings Points: Hertfordshire 1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: A G Eldridge and R Rogers Debutants: Buckinghamshire none; Hertfordshire 2 (G J Willans, H Williams) First day score: As match – rain prevented play on second day Hertfordshire Golding, A J c Bird b Wright 6 (2) c Holbrooke b Page 9 + E H Wales st Cobb b Page 8 (1) b Wright 2 * H J Hill b Page 10 (3) c Page b Nash 31 White, H E b Wright 8 (4) lbw b Wright 12 E J Metcalfe c Edmunds b Page 4 (5) c Page b Nash 3 H Williams c Page b Wright 0 (6) c Stacey b Wright 0 C T Rudd c Bird b Page 11 (7) c substitute (G Kentish) b Nash 2 G J Willans c Holbrooke b Wright 0 (8) st Hobbs b Nash 3 Coleman, W E c Gresson b Wright 11 (9) not out 6 Harding, E R b Page 2 (10) b Wright 7 Rudd, W J not out 1 (11) b Wright 0 Extras 0 b 5 5 Total 61 80 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 22 25 39 58 60 61 Second innings 21 55 58 58 60 66 80 80 Wright 18 9 26 5 - - (1) 15 6 25 5 - - Page 17.5 7 35 5 - - (2) 8 0 32 1 - - Nash (3) 6 1 18 4 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 35.5 16 61 10 0 0 29 7 80 10 0 0 Buckinghamshire C R H Gresson b Harding 8 (1) not out 6 E C Hobbs b White 1 (2) c Wales b Harding 0 F N Bird b White 0 * P J de Paravicini b White 0 (5) c White b Harding 10 + C E Cobb c Metcalfe b Harding 5 Wright, M W b White 0 T Stacey c White b Harding 4 C C Edmunds c and b Harding 0 Rev S W R Holbrooke b Harding 0 (3) b White 0 Page, H b White 0 (4) b White 0 Nash, G not out 0 (6) not out 4 Extras b 2 2 b 1 1 Total 20 (4 wickets) 21 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 9 9 13 16 17 20 20 20 Second innings 2 3 3 16 - - - - - - White 8 4 13 5 - - ( ) 4 1 18 2 - - Harding 8 6 5 5 - - ( ) 4 2 2 2 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 16 10 20 10 0 0 8 3 21 4 0 0 Notes: This return match, which was played for Nash’s benefit, was drawn with rain preventing any play on the second day. The game between the two sides at St Albans in July had also been drawn. 34 wickets fell on the first day, and Buckinghamshire needed 122 runs in their second innings to win and had already lost 4 batsmen for 21 runs. Buckinghamshire’s first innings total of 20 was the lowest total yet for a completed innings in the Championship, being lower than the 22 runs scored by Bedfordshire v Oxfordshire at Oxford in 1901. For the home team, Wright took 10 wickets in the match for 51 runs. Cobb became ill on the first day and in the Hertfordshire second innings Hobbs kept wicket and Kentish fielded as substitute and caught C T Rudd. During the match three batsmen were dismissed without scoring in either innings and in the home side’s first innings six batsmen were dismissed without scoring. [The bowling analyses for White and Harding in the Buckinghamshire second innings have not been found in any of the sources listed and have been derived from the averages in Wisden, which also include two friendly matches against the MCC.] [Missing: Part fall of wickets; in Buckinghamshire second innings bowling details to check derived analyses is correct.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 22 August; Bucks Herald 22 August; South Bucks Free Press 21 August; South Bucks Standard 21 August; Herts Advertiser 22 August; Hertfordshire Express 22 August; Watford Observer 22 August; The Sportsman 20,21 August.