The Minor Counties Championship 1905

144 CAMBRIDGESHIRE 1905 Championship matches: Played 8, won none, lost 3, drawn 5 (won on first innings 3, lost on first innings 2, no decision on first innings none) Position: Thirteenth out of nineteen Won: None Lost: v Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds, v Norfolk at Cambridge, and v Norfolk at Norwich Drawn – won on first innings: v Suffolk at Cambridge, v Dorset at Cambridge, and v Cornwall at Cambridge Drawn – lost on first innings: v Cornwall at Truro, and v Dorset at Poole Drawn – no decision on first innings: None. Captain: Rev H Gray (6 matches) – Rev R S Swann-Mason (2 matches) captained the side in the matches in which Rev H Gray did not play Wicket-keepers: A H Bristowe (1 match) and G H Watts (7 matches) Debutants: 9 (H R Barker, A H Bristowe, W J B Crouch, Rev C G Dewberry, J F Gaskell, W A Gray, F Hayward, O J Stibbon and C D F Waters.) Final season: 6 (C I L Allix, E Briggs, P A Chaloner, Rev C G Dewberry, L A Gilbert and C J Odams) Hon Secretary: Maj O Papworth Professionals: 3 (H Coulson, D M Hayward and G H Watts.) Home ground 1: Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge (4 matches). Notes: By failing to win a match Cambridgeshire dropped from tenth equal in 1904 to thirteenth place in the table. Eight matches were played compared with ten in 1904. Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire were no longer met and Dorset were added to the fixture list. With no other player taking twenty wickets, the captain Horace Gray stood out as the leading bowler taking 48 wickets at under 14 apiece. The next best was 19 wickets for 29.73 by Daniel Hayward. After an absence of six years, Harry Coulson returned to the side and headed the batting averages. He was to make his mark largely as a bowler, playing his last match in 1922 at the age of 57. During the season Richard Swann-Mason reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. He was the third Cambridgeshire player to do so after George Watts in 1899 and Daniel Hayward in 1901. CAMBRIDGESHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH AVERAGES 1905 In the averages below, + after the name denotes the 9 players who made their Championship debut for Cambridgeshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1905 was the last or only season that these 6 players appeared for Cambridgeshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I C I L Allix 2 3 1 16* 17 8.50 - - 1 4 - - - - - - - - - H R Barker + 1 2 2 0* 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - O W Bocock 2 3 0 5 8 2.66 - - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - E Briggs 3 5 0 78 134 26.80 - 1 - 1 - 5 0 22 0 - - - - A H Bristowe + 6 10 0 83 203 20.30 - 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - P A Chaloner 2 3 1 10* 17 8.50 - - 1 - - 5 0 45 0 - - - - Coulson, H 5 8 0 85 287 35.87 - 3 1 2 - 111.5 42 218 9 24.22 3-46 - - W J B Crouch + 3 5 0 48 85 17.00 - - - 1 - 9 1 43 0 - - - - Rev C G Dewberry + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - P A French 2 3 0 50 64 21.33 - 1 - - - 3 0 9 0 - - - - J F Gaskell + 2 3 1 5* 6 3.00 - - 1 - - 21 2 71 6 11.83 5-33 - 1 L A Gilbert 3 6 1 38 86 17.20 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Rev H Gray 6 9 2 42 101 14.42 - - 1 1 - 202.4 35 662 48 13.79 8-81 2 7 W A Gray + 2 4 0 75 108 27.00 - 1 1 - - 4 1 8 0 - - - - Hayward, D M 6 10 1 22 98 10.88 - - 3 3 - 188 39 565 19 29.73 4-9 - - F Hayward + 1 1 0 44 44 44.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - C J Odams 1 1 0 11 11 11.00 - - - - - 2 2 0 0 - - - - F P C Pemberton 1 2 0 7 7 3.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - B W Pigg 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - - 4 0 29 0 - - - - C Pigg 1 2 0 3 3 1.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - G P M Robins 7 11 1 32* 93 9.30 - - 3 7 - - - - - - - - - O J Stibbon + 2 3 0 16 18 6.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Rev R S Swann-Mason 7 12 2 70* 237 23.70 - 2 1 4 - 35 6 109 3 36.33 1-13 - - H C Tebbutt 1 1 0 19 19 19.00 - - - 1 - 10 0 41 1 41.00 1-25 - - T S W Thomas 4 8 0 71 204 25.50 - 1 - 1 - 34.2 2 160 5 32.00 3-47 - - C D F Waters + 8 13 4 34* 89 9.88 - - 2 2 - 107 23 334 12 27.83 6-39 1 1 Watts, G H 8 13 0 83 343 26.38 - 3 1 5 3 13 2 32 1 32.00 1-32 - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 204 - - - - - - - - 217 5 - - - - Total 88 145 16 85 2488 19.28 0 13 25 37 3 754.5 155 2565 109 23.53 8-81 3 9 (27 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 6 players made their last appearance for Cambridgeshire in the Championship in 1905. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I C I L Allix 1904 3 3 1 16* 17 8.50 - - 1 4 - - - - - - - - E Briggs 1900 12 19 0 78 375 19.73 - 2 1 3 - 426 259 5 51.80 1-18 - - P A Chaloner 1900 3 4 1 10* 18 6.00 - - 1 - - 54 64 0 - - - - Rev C G Dewberry 1905 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - L A Gilbert 1903 15 23 2 87 424 20.19 - 3 3 2 - - - - - - - - C J Odams 1904 3 3 0 11 26 8.66 - - - - - 42 15 1 15.00 1-15 - - (6 players)