Minor Counties Championship 1907

106 MATCH NUMBER 74 : HERTFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At the West Herts Cricket Club Ground, Cassio Road, Watford on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 August 1907 Result: Hertfordshire won by eight wickets Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire 1 (R B Cowley); Cambridgeshire none First day score: Hertfordshire 194; Cambridgeshire 58 and 33-2 wickets (K G Reid 12*, H R Barker 0*) Hertfordshire A Butcher c Watts b Coulson 8 (1) lbw b Thomas 31 T H K Dashwood c K G Reid b Barker 45 (2) b Brown 30 Golding, A J b Coulson 13 (3) not out 6 White, H E c and b Bellars 34 (4) not out 0 C H Titchmarsh b Coulson 43 R B Cowley b Coulson 15 C T Rudd lbw b Coulson 5 M H C Doll c and b Gray 9 * H M Harford c Watts b Gray 10 W H Marsh not out 2 + C D Fastnedge c Bellars b Gray 0 Extras b 6, lb 3, w 1 10 9 Total 194 (2 wickets) 76 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 19 47 93 116 154 177 191 194 Second innings - - - - - - - - Coulson 31 11 46 5 - - (1) 4 0 25 0 - - Bellars 11 2 44 1 1 - Brown 9 0 55 0 - - (3) 2 0 9 1 - - B W Pigg 1 0 4 0 - - Barker 6 0 22 1 - - Gray 5.3 1 13 3 - - (2) 3 0 19 0 - - Thomas (4) 1.1 0 14 1 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 63.3 14 194 10 1 0 10.1 0 76 2 - - Cambridgeshire (Followed on) K G Reid c Harford b Rudd 0 (1) b White 13 L J Reid c Fastnedge b White 3 (2) c Cowley b Golding 0 H R Barker b Marsh 8 (4) run out 3 T S W Thomas c Doll b White 13 ( ) c Fastnedge b Marsh 10 T W Brown c Rudd b White 0 ( ) b Doll 40 B W Pigg b Marsh 0 ( ) b Marsh 0 W A Gray not out 9 (3) c Butcher b White 16 + Watts, G H c Rudd b Marsh 7 (8) c Harford b Golding 51 Coulson, H c Rudd b White 0 ( ) c Cowley b Doll 7 * C Pigg b White 0 ( ) b White 18 A E Bellars c Fastnedge b Marsh 4 ( ) not out 38 Extras b 10, lb 4 14 b 11, lb 4 15 Total 58 211 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 37 38 58 Second innings 62 117 211 White 15 6 26 5 - - (1) 39.4 11 83 3 - - Rudd 7 1 9 1 - - (5) 13 1 39 0 - - Marsh 7.2 3 9 4 - - (2) 16 5 33 2 - - Doll (4) 7 2 25 2 - - Golding (3) 8 2 16 2 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 15 1 - - Total 29.2 10 58 10 0 0 83.4 21 211 10 0 0 Notes: Hertfordshire won this return match by eight wickets at 4.05 pm on the second day, after enforcing the follow-on. The win ensured that Hertfordshire won their section and qualified for the semi-finals. The match between the two sides at Cambridge in July had also been won by Hertfordshire. For Hertfordshire, there were 6 fours in Dashwood’s 45. For Cambridgeshire Watts scored 51. In the Cambridgeshire second innings, Brown and Watts added 55 for the seventh wicket. On the second day, rain immediately after lunch delayed the start of the Hertfordshire second innings for an hour. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Hertfordshire second innings extras breakdown; in Cambridgeshire second innings part batting order and boundaries in Watts’s 51.] Sources: Hertfordshire Standard 16 August; West Herts and Watford Observer 17 August; Cambridge Daily News 12,13,14 August; Cambridge Independent Press 16 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 16 August; The Sportsman 13,14 August.