Minor Counties Championship 1907

110 MATCH NUMBER 78 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At Fenner’s University Cricket Grou nd, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 August 1907 Result: Bedfordshire won by an innings and 60 runs Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Bedfordshire 1 (A C Smith) First day score: Bedfordshire 409; Cambridgeshire 14-2 wickets (T W Brown 4*, T S W Thomas 2*) Bedfordshire B L Peel b Coulson 1 Holdstock, H F run out 23 Wharmby, G E c Gray b Tebbutt 39 + J Cavanagh c and b Gray 8 L C R Thring lbw b Coulson 94 * H R Orr b Coulson 50 A C Smith b Coulson 2 WE King not out 119 C B Atkinson b Coulson 19 W Brown c B W Pigg b L J Reid 7 A F Morcom b Brown 30 Extras nb 1 17 Total 409 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 59 70 84 170 184 253 288 315 409 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Bellars 9 2 23 0 - - Coulson 29 4 119 5 - - Tebbutt 16 0 75 1 - 1 Gray 12 1 58 1 - - Brown 8.5 0 62 1 - - Thomas 2 0 19 0 - - L J Reid 7 0 36 1 - - Extras - - 17 1 - - Total 83.5 7 409 10 - 1 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) K G Reid b Wharmby 1 (2) c Cavanagh b Wharmby 8 L J Reid c Holdstock b Wharmby 7 (1) c Cavanagh b Wharmby 0 T W Brown b Wharmby 11 (3) b Peel 3 T S W Thomas c Morcom b Wharmby 57 (4) b Peel 0 H C Tebbutt lbw b Peel 54 (5) b Peel 7 B W Pigg b Peel 0 (6) c Thring b Peel 33 W A Gray c Atkinson b Wharmby 10 (7) lbw b Peel 2 + Watts, G H b Peel 1 (8) b Wharmby 18 Coulson, H c Brown b Peel 22 (9) c Cavanagh b Morcom 43 * C Pigg c Brown b Wharmby 1 (10) b Morcom 5 A E Bellars not out 7 (11) not out 23 Extras b 13, lb 1 14 b 21, lb 1 22 Total 185 164 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 7 33 115 115 146 147 168 171 185 Second innings 0 3 3 15 47 59 93 134 164 Morcom 24 6 58 0 - - (3) 7.4 3 22 2 - - Wharmby 31 8 62 6 - - (1) 26 9 59 3 - - Peel 16.3 1 51 4 - - (2) 21 7 53 5 - - Thring (4) 1 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 22 0 - - Total 71.3 15 185 10 0 0 55.4 19 164 10 0 0 Notes: Bedfordshire won this return match by an innings and 60 runs on the second day, with under quarter of an hour to spare after enforcing the follow-on. Bedfordshire had also won the match between the two sides at Luton earlier in the month. For the winners, King scored 119 not out, Thring 94, which included 7 fours, and Orr 50. In the Bedfordshire innings, Thring and King put on 69 runs for the seventh wicket, and King and Morcom added 94 for the tenth. For the losers, Thomas scored 57 and Tebbutt 54. Two rain showers interrupted play on the afternoon of the first day, and a short shower interfered with play on the second day when Cambridgeshire had lost four wickets in their second innings. [Missing: Umpires; in Bedfordshire innings e xtras breakdown, duration and breakdown of King’s 119 not out and boundaries in Orr’s 50; in Cambridgeshire first innings boundaries in Thomas’s 57 and Tebbutt’s 54; in Cambridgeshire second innings fall of sixth wicket; precise time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 14,15 August; Cambridge Independent Press 16 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 16 August; Bedfordshire Standard 23 August; Bedfordshire Times 16 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 17 August; Luton News 22 August; Luton Reporter 23 August; Eastern Daily Press 15,16 August; The Sportsman 15,16 August.