The Minor Counties Championship 1905

46 MATCH NUMBER 20 : HERTFORDSHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans on Wednesday 12, Thursday 13 July 1905 Result: Match drawn – Hertfordshire won on first innings Points: Hertfordshire 2 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: R Barber and T H Holton Debutants: Hertfordshire 2 (T F Dwight, C T Tasker Evans); Bedfordshire 2 (J Cavanagh, P L Gaminara) First day score: Hertfordshire 179 and 3-2 wickets (J Goodall 3*); Bedfordshire 139 Hertfordshire White, H E c W Brown b Wharmby 0 (5) c and b King 85 Golding, A J c Apthorp b Wharmby 14 (4) b King 33 A Butcher b T A Brown 11 (6) b King 52 G G Dumbelton c Orr b Wharmby 69 (7) c W Brown b Orr 29 Coleman, W E run out 28 (8) c Taylor b Orr 73 C T Tasker Evans b Wharmby 0 E G Blow b T A Brown 2 (2) b T A Brown 0 * H M Harford b T A Brown 1 T F Dwight b Wharmby 34 (9) not out 3 + Goodall, J b Wharmby 1 (3) b T A Brown 9 Harding, E R not out 1 (1) b Wharmby 0 Extras 18 19 Total 179 (8 wickets declared) 303 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 33 33 84 84 96 98 175 178 179 Second innings 0 3 14 97 170 303 - - Wharmby 30.5 8 61 6 - - (1) 23 1 74 1 - - Brown, T A 27 10 60 3 - - (2) 18 4 44 2 - - King 4 0 20 0 - - (4) 30 5 84 3 - - Orr 8 1 20 0 - - (3) 17.5 1 82 2 - - Extras - - 18 1 - - - - 19 0 - - Total 69.5 19 179 10 - - 88.5 11 303 8 - - Bedfordshire L G Stileman-Gibbard b Coleman 10 (4) b Coleman 3 Pollitt, G b White 16 (2) b Coleman 33 Brown, T A lbw b White 3 (3) c Harding b Coleman 12 * H R Orr b Coleman 15 (1) b White 9 P L Gaminara b Coleman 3 (7) b Harding 0 J Cavanagh b White 7 (8) b Coleman 11 W E King run out 8 (9) not out 8 F Taylor b Tasker Evans 34 (5) b Harding 4 Wharmby, G E b Coleman 25 (6) b Harding 8 W Brown not out 0 (10) not out 4 + E E Apthorp c Goodall b Coleman 3 Extras 15 15 Total 139 (8 wickets) 107 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 27 31 35 42 57 68 68 136 136 139 Second innings - - Coleman 23.4 7 53 5 - - (1) 22 7 27 4 - - White 21 6 43 3 - - (2) 22 10 25 1 - - Harding 6 1 18 0 - - (3) 13 4 22 3 - - Tasker Evans 6 2 10 1 - - (4) 11 4 8 0 - - Golding (5) 7 4 10 0 - - Extras - - 15 1 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 56.4 16 139 10 - - 75 29 107 8 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Hertfordshire winning on first innings, after Bedfordshire had been set a second innings victory target of 344 runs in 3 hours. For the home team, White scored 85, Coleman 73, Dumbelton 69 and Butcher 52. In the Hertfordshire first innings, Dumbelton and Dwight put on 77 runs for the eighth wicket. Coleman took 9 wickets in the match for 80 runs. For Bedfordshire, Taylor and Wharmby added 68 for the eighth wicket in the first innings. In the second innings, Pollitt batted for 2½ hours in scoring 33 to help save the match for the visitors. In the Hertfordshire second innings, the career milestone of two thousand runs in championship matches was reached both by Butcher when he had scored 19 and by Coleman when 16. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire first innings boundaries in Dumbelton 69; in Hertfordshire second innings boundaries in White’s 85, Coleman’s 73 and Butcher’s 52.] Sources: West Herts and Watford Observer 15 July; Bedfordshire Standard 14 July; The Sportsman 13,14 July.