The Minor Counties Championship 1905

79 MATCH NUMBER 53 : NORFOLK V OXFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich on Wednesday 9, Thursday 10 August 1905 Result: Norfolk won by an innings and 33 runs Points: Norfolk 3 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: H Coulson and G Perkins Debutants: Norfolk none; Oxfordshire 1 (B H E Price) First day score: Norfolk 301; Oxfordshire 128-6 wickets (F Bridgwater 0*) Norfolk L Barratt c J W Marsh b Price 92 Rev J G McCormick b Eade 5 C E Dunning c Rogers b Eade 4 * Rev G B Raikes b Arnett 112 Rev A R Hoare b Rogers 39 E F Penn b Rogers 1 A K Watson c Arnett b Eade 28 M W Ireland b Eade 4 J N Worman b Rogers 1 + G Allen c Roberts b Eade 1 Smith, E W not out 0 Extras 14 Total 301 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 18 170 252 259 268 277 278 285 301 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Rogers 26 7 71 3 - - Eade 28.2 9 78 5 - - Arnett 6 0 46 1 - - Bridgwater 7 1 45 0 - - Price 8 0 47 1 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 75.2 17 301 10 - - Oxfordshire (Followed on) G A Roberts b Worman 15 (2) c Allen b Smith 4 + Rev J W Marsh st Allen b Smith 0 (1) c Ireland b Raikes 12 R Hartley b Raikes 17 (3) b Worman 23 * J F Marsh lbw b Hoare 50 (4) b Raikes 4 P Bancalari b Raikes 0 (5) c Dunning b Raikes 0 W H Follett lbw b Hoare 37 (6) c Ireland b Raikes 13 Bridgwater, F b Raikes 9 (7) c Hoare b Raikes 4 H J M Eade run out 5 (8) c Penn b Raikes 1 B H E Price b Smith 0 (10) b Worman 17 M G Arnett st Allen b Raikes 0 (11) not out 6 Rogers, A not out 2 (9) c Ireland b Hoare 22 Extras nb 1 11 16 Total 146 122 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 30 36 36 123 128 133 142 143 146 Second innings 6 30 34 34 58 65 67 68 112 122 Smith 15 6 36 2 - 1 (1) 11 6 17 1 - - Worman 16 7 22 1 - - (3) 10 3 13 2 - - Raikes 9.2 1 41 4 - - (2) 19 1 76 6 - - Penn 4 0 24 0 - - Hoare 5 0 12 2 - - (4) 1.4 1 0 1 - - Extras - - 11 1 - - - - 16 0 - - Total 49.2 14 146 10 0 1 41.4 11 122 10 - - Notes: Norfolk won by an innings and 33 runs at 2.00 pm on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. Fo r the winners, Raikes’s 112 contained 16 fours, 5 threes and 11 twos, scored in 2¼ hours. Raikes also took 10 wickets in the match for 117 runs. There were 13 fours in Barratt’s 92. In the Norfolk innings, Barratt and Raikes added 152 runs for the third wi cket. For the losers, J F Marsh’s 50 included 7 fours. Newspaper reports state that overnight rain had made the wicket “rather tricky” on the second da y. Raikes’s feat of scoring one hundred runs and taking ten wickets in the match was the second best all -round performance of the season. [Missing: Extras breakdown.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 10,11 August; Eastern Evening News 9,10 August; Norfolk Chronicle 12 August; Norwich Mercury 12 August; Jackson’s Oxford Journal 12 August; Oxford Chronicle 18 Augus t; Oxford Times 12 August; East Anglian Daily Times 10,11 August; The Sportsman 10,11 August.