The Minor Counties Championship 1905

158 SUFFOLK 1905 Championship matches: Played 8, won 2, lost 3, drawn 3 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Tenth equal with Staffordshire out of nineteen Won: v Norfolk at Ipswich, and v Cambridgeshire at Bury St Edmunds Lost: v Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent, v Norfolk at Norwich, and v Oxfordshire at Felixstowe Drawn – won on first innings: v Staffordshire at Felixstowe Drawn – lost on first innings: v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Oxfordshire at Oxford. Captain: H F Fox (5 matches) – S C Newton captained the side in the 3 matches in which H F Fox did not play Wicket-keepers: H A Butt (1 match), R Gorell-Barnes (2 matches), C M Phillips (1 match) and E Pritchett (4 matches) Debutants: 10 (H A Butt, Maj R H Dewing, R Gorell-Barnes, S C Newton, W Penfold, W Quaife, H G Quilter, O H A Walters, C S Wilson and H L Wilson) Final season: 3 (P T Francis, S C Newton and H G Quilter) Hon Secretary: R Ll Hodgson Professionals: 3 (W Penfold, W Quaife and F G Trudgett) Home grounds 3: The Bury and West Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Cemetery Road, Bury St Edmunds (1 match); The Town Ground, Dellwood Avenue, Felixstowe (2 matches); and The Ipswich and East Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Portman Road, Ipswich (1 match). Notes: In their second season in the competition, Suffolk met the same opponents as in 1904. Although only two matches were won, the same number as in 1904, the team rose from fourteenth place to tenth equal. One of the debutants, Herbert Wilson, was later to captain the side from 1910 to 1912, and after the War Sussex. The leading wicket-takers were Phillip Cobbold, who only played in half the matches, with 30 wickets at 13.50 and ‘Tots’ Trudgett with 29 wickets at 14.17. The leading run scorers were Fran k Mustard with 264 runs at 33.00, Ronald Gorell- Barnes with 216 at 27.00, Herbert Wilson with 255 at 25.50, and Walter Quaife, the former Sussex and Warwickshire player, with 312 runs at 24.00. The last three were debutants. No career milestones were reached during the season. For the second season running health concerns prevented Herbert Fox from playing in the final three matches. In his place, Stephen Newton, the former Cambridge University Blue, Somerset captain, Middlesex aand MCC player, who had a residential qualification for Suffolk, was invited to lead the side at the age of 52. SUFFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1905 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 10 players who made their Championship debut for Suffolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1905 was the last or only season that these 3 players appeared for Suffolk in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I H A Butt + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - 1 - - - - - - - - P W Cobbold 4 7 0 21 65 9.28 - - - 5 - 184.4 63 405 30 13.50 8-76 - 3 Maj R H Dewing + 4 7 1 88* 155 25.83 - 1 1 3 - - - - - - - - - H F Fox 5 8 2 39* 153 25.50 - - - 5 - 5 0 17 0 - - - - P T Francis 2 3 0 28 65 21.66 - - - - - - - - - - - - - J N Goldsmith 7 8 3 11* 27 5.40 - - 1 2 - 98.4 24 273 11 24.81 5-8 - 2 R Gorell-Barnes + 5 8 0 136 216 27.00 1 - 2 3 - 12 2 37 0 - - - - Rev R L Hodgson 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - R D Inskip 1 - - - - - - - - 1 - 14.3 2 58 4 14.50 4-58 - - H W Lake 3 3 1 59 68 34.00 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - D Mustard 1 2 0 6 11 5.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - F H Mustard 5 8 0 73 264 33.00 - 1 - 4 - 86 15 282 13 21.69 5-65 - 1 S C Newton + 3 5 0 50 64 12.80 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - Penfold, W + 6 10 2 48 121 15.12 - - 1 2 - 182.5 44 532 23 23.13 5-62 - 1 C M Phillips 1 - - - - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - E Pritchett 4 7 0 77 111 15.85 - 1 3 7 2 - - - - - - - - Quaife, W + 8 13 0 93 312 24.00 - 1 - 2 - - - - - - - - - H G Quilter + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - K Raynor 4 5 0 41 99 19.80 - - 1 2 - 2 0 14 0 - - - - Trudgett, F G 7 11 3 17 61 7.62 - - 2 3 - 158 41 411 29 14.17 9-14 1 2 O H A Walters + 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C S Wilson + 5 9 1 93 187 23.37 - 1 1 6 - 10 1 51 0 - - - - H L Wilson + 7 12 2 68 255 25.50 - 1 2 5 - 22 5 77 1 77.00 1-51 - - H S Wrinch 2 3 1 56* 72 36.00 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 135 - - - - - - - - 247 3 - - - - Total 88 133 16 136 2441 20.86 1 9 18 53 3 775.4 197 2404 114 21.08 9-14 1 9 (24 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 3 players made their last appearance for Suffolk 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 P T Francis 1904 5 8 1 54 135 19.28 - 1 1 2 - 12 20 0 - - - - S C Newton 1905 3 5 0 50 64 12.80 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - H G Quilter 1905 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - (3 players)