Minor Counties Championship 1907

99 MATCH NUMBER 67 : STAFFORDSHIRE V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 7, Thursday 8 August 1907 Result: Yorkshire 2 nd XI won by an innings and 91 runs Points: Yorkshire 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W Copeland and O Firth Debutants: Staffordshire none; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 1 (H Watson) First day score: Staffordshire 96; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 206-3 wickets (A Turner 20*, G Tattersall 11*) Staffordshire P Briggs b Deyes 0 (8) c Tattersall b Leyland 0 Brown, W c Turner b Deyes 9 (1) b Deyes 4 Barnes, S F b Leyland 20 (3) lbw b Harrison 2 * H D Stratton b Leyland 15 (6) b Leyland 17 Hollowood, A c Watson b Booth 17 (7) run out 26 E H Bourne c Watson b Deyes 3 (5) b Deyes 1 R C Page b Leyland 1 (4) c Turner b Harrison 7 Fereday, J B not out 21 (2) b Deyes 5 + C L Winser st Watson b Leyland 2 (9) c Tattersall b Leyland 2 Mee, R J c Grimshaw b Leyland 4 (10) b Leyland 14 Bucknell, A b Leyland 4 (11) not out 4 Extras 0 b 5 5 Total 96 87 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 12 41 48 51 60 69 72 78 96 Second innings 8 11 13 20 22 52 52 54 81 87 Deyes 18 6 35 3 - - (1) 14 5 39 3 - - Harrison 6 0 20 0 - - (2) 19 8 14 2 - - Leyland 15.5 0 34 6 - - (3) 9.2 2 29 4 - - Booth 3 1 7 1 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 42.5 7 96 10 0 0 42.2 15 87 10 0 0 Yorkshire 2 nd XI Rudston, H b Barnes 85 Hardisty, C H b Mee 16 Grimshaw, C H b Bucknell 69 Turner, A b Mee 43 * G Tattersall b Bucknell 25 Roebuck, D b Bucknell 1 Booth, M W c Bucknell b Mee 3 + Watson, H b Bucknell 1 Leyland, E run out 4 Harrison, H not out 4 Deyes, G b Bucknell 15 Extras b 6, nb 2 8 Total 274 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 33 174 176 244 246 246 247 255 255 274 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barnes 29 9 73 1 - 1 Mee 31 7 85 3 - 1 Bucknell 27.2 9 57 5 - - Page 7 0 21 0 - - Bourne 2 0 17 0 - - Brown 2 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 8 1 - - Total 98.2 25 274 10 0 2 Notes: Yorkshire 2 nd XI won this return match by an innings and 91 runs at 4.20 pm on the second day. The match between the two teams at Wakefield in June had been drawn. For the winners, there were 1 five and 10 fours in Rudston’s 85 and 6 fours in Grimshaw’s 69. Together, they put on 14 1 runs in the Yorkshire 2 nd XI innings for the second wicket. Leyland took 10 wickets in the match for 63 runs. Rain delayed the start on the second day until noon. Newspaper reports indicate that the drying wicket became increasingly difficult to bat on. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Yorkshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 10 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 7,8 August; Yorkshire Post 8,9 August; Birmingham Daily Post 8,9 August; The Sportsman 8,9 August.