Minor Counties Championship 1907

98 MATCH NUMBER 66 : NORFOLK V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich on Wednesday 7, Thursday 8 August 1907 Result: Cambridgeshire won by four wickets Points: Cambridgeshire 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: T Attewell and G J Rye Debutants: Norfolk 2 (Lt B Buxton, M Falcon); Cambridgeshire 1 (T W Brown) First day score: Norfolk 243; Cambridgeshire 195-4 wickets (H C Tebbutt 49*, T S W Thomas 23*) Norfolk Rev A R Hoare c and b Coulson 9 (6) b Brown 1 E T Garnier b Brown 90 (2) c Watts b Tebbutt 12 M Falcon b Brown 35 (7) c K G Reid b L J Reid 25 G A Stevens lbw b Brown 0 (1) c K G Reid b Tebbutt 5 A K Watson c Gray b Brown 9 (3) c Brown b Tebbutt 27 * L Barratt lbw b Tebbutt 36 (4) c Bellars b Brown 54 B K Wilson c and b Brown 5 (5) c L J Reid b Tebbutt 9 + Lt B Buxton not out 35 (8) c Gilbert b Tebbutt 16 J N Worman c and b L J Reid 15 (9) not out 39 Gibson, E lbw b L J Reid 0 (10) c Thomas b Tebbutt 6 Smith, E W b Tebbutt 1 (11) run out 1 Extras b 4, lb 4 8 b 7, lb 1 8 Total 243 203 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 42 127 127 141 155 163 211 238 238 243 Second innings 6 42 51 66 66 140 140 184 197 203 Coulson 22 10 43 1 - - (2) 17 6 28 0 - - Bellars 8 3 33 0 - - (5) 6 2 15 0 - - Gray 6 1 22 0 - - (6) 3 0 9 0 - - Tebbutt 11.1 0 53 2 - - (1) 15.2 0 63 6 - - Thomas 3 0 24 0 - - Brown 14 2 53 5 - - (3) 10 2 41 2 - - L J Reid 2 0 7 2 - - (4) 11 0 39 1 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 8 1 - - Total 66.1 16 243 10 0 0 62.2 10 203 10 0 0 Cambridgeshire K G Reid c Worman b Gibson 56 (1) run out 12 L J Reid b Worman 46 (2) b Smith 5 W A Gray lbw b Gibson 9 (3) c Wilson b Smith 4 H C Tebbutt b Worman 87 (4) not out 38 T W Brown b Gibson 1 (5) c Buxton b Smith 4 * T S W Thomas b Smith 25 (6) b Smith 5 B W Pigg c Gibson b Worman 103 (7) b Worman 5 + Watts, G H b Falcon 2 (8) not out 4 Coulson, H b Worman 10 E D Gilbert b Worman 8 A E Bellars not out 1 Extras b 14, lb 2, w 3, nb 1 20 b 1, nb 2 3 Total 368 (6 wickets) 80 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 85 111 130 136 207 289 304 325 363 368 Second innings 6 19 24 31 43 74 - - - - Gibson 30 8 95 3 - - Smith 30 6 98 1 - 1 (2) 13 1 48 4 - 2 Worman 28.2 4 83 5 - - (1) 13 4 29 1 - - Falcon 12 1 62 1 3 - Hoare 2 0 10 0 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - - - 3 1 - - Total 102.2 19 368 10 3 1 26 5 80 6 0 2 Notes: Cambridgeshire won by four wickets at 6.20 pm on the second day with 10 minutes to spare, having required in their second innings 79 runs to win in an hour and a quarter. For the winners, there were 13 fours, 3 threes and 10 twos in Pigg’s 103, an innings of just 88 minutes. Tebbutt’s 87 contained 10 fours and K G Reid’s 56 7 fours. In the Norfolk second innings Tebbutt took 6 wickets for 63 runs. For Norfolk, Garnier’s 90 included 11 fours and Barratt’s 54 contained 7 fours. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 8,9 August; Eastern Evening News 7,8 August; Norwich Mercury 10 August; Cambridge Chronicle 9 August; Cambridge Daily News 7,8,9 August; East Anglian Daily Times 8,9 August; The Sportsman 8,9 August.