The Minor Counties Championship 1905

89 MATCH NUMBER 63 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORFOLK At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Monday 14, Tuesday 15 August 1905 Result: Norfolk won by an innings and 2 runs Points: Norfolk 3 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: T H Holton and G Perkins Debutants: Cambridgeshire 1 (W A Gray); Norfolk 1 (O H C Dunell) First day score: Cambridgeshire 224; Norfolk 227-7 wickets (O H C Dunell 0*) Cambridgeshire Rev R S Swann-Mason c Barratt b Worman 20 (2) b Worman 0 T S W Thomas c Allen b Worman 32 (1) b Gibson 1 W A Gray c Allen b Worman 19 (3) c Gibson b Worman 0 A H Bristowe c Starling b Gibson 38 (4) run out 1 + Watts, G H c Hoare b Worman 19 (5) c Hoare b Worman 35 L A Gilbert b Gibson 0 (6) c Watson b Worman 9 Coulson, H b Hoare 43 (7) b Worman 0 Hayward, D M b Gibson 0 (8) c Barratt b Worman 0 G P M Robins not out 32 (9) b Gibson 1 C D F Waters b Hoare 0 (10) c Hoare b Worman 4 * Rev H Gray b Hoare 14 (11) not out 13 Extras nb 3 7 4 Total 224 68 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 53 55 97 131 133 133 133 197 203 224 Second innings 1 1 1 6 26 28 28 47 53 68 Smith 9 1 29 0 - 3 Worman 38 5 112 4 - - (1) 15.2 2 35 7 - - Starling 8 2 21 0 - - Gibson 12 2 33 3 - - (2) 15 5 29 2 - - Hoare 7.1 0 22 3 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 74.1 10 224 10 0 3 30.2 7 68 10 - - Norfolk P A Fryer c Robins b H Gray 11 Rev J G McCormick b H Gray 12 Rev A R Hoare b H Gray 53 G Starling b Coulson 15 A K Watson st Watts b Thomas 59 * L Barratt b H Gray 33 J N Worman run out 25 O H C Dunell b H Gray 9 + G Allen not out 34 Gibson, E c and b Hayward 6 Smith, E W c Waters b Hayward 7 Extras 30 Total 294 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 42 72 114 178 224 227 248 271 294 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hayward 28 2 85 2 - - H Gray 25 2 109 5 - - Coulson 8 0 30 1 - - Waters 4 0 15 0 - - W A Gray 4 1 8 0 - - Thomas 3 0 17 1 - - Extras - - 30 1 - - Total 72 5 294 10 - - Notes: Norfolk won by an innings and 2 runs at 1.30 pm on the second day. For the winners, Worman took 11 wickets in the match for 147 runs, including 7 for 35 in the Cambridgeshire second innings. Watson scored 59 with 8 fours and Hoare 53. Watson reached his fifty in 45 minutes, and Hoare’s innings lasted just over an hour. For Cambridgeshire, Coulson and Robins put on 64 runs for the eighth wicket in their first innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Norfolk innings boundaries in Hoare’s 53.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 18 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 18 August; Eastern Daily Press 16,17 August; Eastern Evening News 14,15 August; Norfolk Chronicle 19 August; Norwich Mercury 19 August; East Anglian Daily Times 15,16 August; The Sportsman 15,16 August.