The Minor Counties Championship 1905

29 MATCH NUMBER 3 : NORTHUMBERLAND V DURHAM At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 June 1905 Result: Durham won by nine wickets Points: Durham 3 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: O Firth and G P Harrison Debutants: Northumberland none; Durham 2 (J P Allix, J Thackeray) First day score: Northumberland 189 and 12-2 wickets (M Chambers 0*); Durham 284 Northumberland * F G H Clayton b Thackeray 1 (1) b Thackeray 1 C F Stanger-Leathes b Combey 0 (4) c Kirtley b Elliot 12 S W Anderson c Stoner b Combey 19 (5) c Thackeray b Adamson 54 J Hansell c Horsley b Combey 17 (2) c Allix b Thackeray 8 Marshall, J b Thackeray 3 (6) b Thackeray 26 Chambers, M lbw b Thackeray 1 (3) lbw b Thackeray 57 F W Gillespie c Kirtley b Thackeray 40 (7) b Brydon 12 C M Skinner b Brydon 58 (8) b Thackeray 4 G T Milne c Allix b Brydon 24 (9) lbw b Thackeray 0 + G E Wilkinson c Stoner b Thackeray 4 (10) lbw b Brydon 8 Elsey, G not out 2 (11) not out 1 Extras b 12, lb 4, w 4 20 b 3, lb 18, w 8, nb 1 30 Total 189 213 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 14 40 46 50 60 126 174 183 189 Second innings 11 12 44 143 161 183 198 198 205 213 Thackeray 24.4 5 68 5 4 - (1) 30 10 61 6 - - Combey 12 3 29 3 - - (6) 1 0 4 0 - - Brydon 10 1 33 2 - - (2) 27.2 11 39 2 - - Stoner 3 0 16 0 - - (5) 3 1 6 0 - - Adamson 3 0 21 0 - - (4) 10 1 44 1 8 - Elliot 2 1 2 0 - - (3) 20 7 29 1 - 1 Extras - - 20 0 - - - - 30 0 - - Total 54.4 10 189 10 4 0 91.2 30 213 10 8 1 Durham R Bousfield b Skinner 0 (1) b Milne 13 C Y Adamson c Hansell b Chambers 65 (2) not out 46 * E W Elliot b Marshall 69 (3) not out 60 A B Horsley c and b Elsey 63 J P Allix c Hansell b Marshall 1 + J Kirtley c Chambers b Marshall 21 T Coulson st Wilkinson b Marshall 4 Stoner, A b Elsey 21 J Combey c Elsey b Skinner 15 R Y Brydon c Gillespie b Elsey 11 J Thackeray not out 9 Extras lb 4, w 1 5 0 Total 284 (1 wicket) 119 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 134 136 142 196 208 247 252 264 284 Second innings 13 - - - - - - - - - Skinner 21 3 99 2 1 - (1) 8 1 39 0 - - Elsey 14.4 1 41 3 - - (3) 5 0 12 0 - - Milne 7 0 26 0 - - (2) 11 1 38 1 - - Clayton 7 0 39 0 - - Marshall 16 4 49 4 - - (4) 6 1 22 0 - - Chambers 8 0 25 1 - - (5) 4 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 73.4 8 284 10 1 0 34 3 119 1 0 0 Notes: Durham won by nine wickets at 4.40 pm on the second day. For the winners, the debutant Thackeray took 11 wickets in the match for 129 runs. There were 11 fours, and 1 six and 5 fours respectively in Elliot’s two innings of 69 and 60 not out. Adamson’s 65 and Horsley’s 63 both included 8 fours. In the Durham first innings, Adamson and Ellio t added 134 runs for the second wicket and, in the second innings for the same wicket they added an undefeated 106. For the losers, Skinner’s 58 included 10 fours and Chambers’s 57 and Anderson’s 54 both contained 7 fours. In the Northumberland first innin gs, Gillespie and Skinner put on 66 for the seventh wicket. The 50 extras conceded in the two Northumberland innings were the most by a side during the season. [Missing: Complete] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 13,14 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 13,14 June; The Sportsman 14 June.