Minor Counties Championship 1907

115 MATCH NUMBER 83 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORFOLK At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Friday 16, Saturday 17 August 1907 Result: Norfolk won by an innings and 107 runs Points: Norfolk 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: F Rudd and J Stevens Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Norfolk none First day score: Norfolk 325; Cambridgeshire 103-7 wickets (A E Bellars 5*) Norfolk M Falcon b Coulson 112 G A Stevens b Coulson 54 G R Jackson lbw b Coulson 16 M W Ireland b Coulson 1 L H Leman c Brown b Coulson 26 A K Watson lbw b L J Reid 8 * L Barratt st Watts b L J Reid 2 J N Worman c L J Reid b B W Pigg 42 + S D Page c Tebbutt b Coulson 2 Gibson, E not out 48 Smith, E W c Watts b B W Pigg 0 Extras b 10, lb 4 14 Total 325 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 107 139 143 199 220 230 230 234 322 325 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 33 8 79 6 - - Brown 3 0 12 0 - - Bellars 15 2 52 0 - - Gray 8 1 21 0 - - L J Reid 14 0 85 2 - - B W Pigg 9.4 2 44 2 - - Tebbutt 3 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 85.4 13 325 10 0 0 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) T S W Thomas b Smith 54 (3) c Falcon b Smith 17 W A Gray b Smith 0 (4) c Smith b Gibson 5 T W Brown c Page b Gibson 6 (6 ) not out 25 H C Tebbutt st Page b Gibson 0 (5) b Smith 7 K G Reid c Leman b Gibson 1 (10) b Smith 2 + Watts, G H lbw b Smith 20 (8) c Ireland b Smith 3 B W Pigg c Barratt b Smith 15 (7) b Gibson 1 A E Bellars b Gibson 5 (11) c Ireland b Gibson 7 Coulson, H b Smith 7 (9) b Gibson 5 L J Reid c Stevens b Gibson 13 (2) b Smith 14 * C Pigg not out 0 (1) c Smith b Gibson 1 Extras b 2 2 b 6, nb 2 8 Total 123 95 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 15 15 29 69 91 103 105 117 123 Second innings 1 33 41 43 52 53 67 77 82 95 Gibson 20.5 3 48 5 - - (2) 17.1 7 41 5 - - Smith 22 5 50 5 - - (1) 18 3 46 5 - 2 Worman 3 0 23 0 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 45.5 8 123 10 0 0 35.1 10 95 10 0 2 Notes: Norfolk won this return match by an innings and 107 runs before lunch on the second day at 12.43 pm, after enforcing the follow-on. The match between the two sides at Norwich had been won by Cambridgeshire. For the winners, Gibson and Smith both took 10 wickets in the match, with Gibson 10 for 89 and Smith 10 for 96. There were 8 fours, 9 threes and 14 twos in Falcon’s 112, scored in 2¾ hours. Stevens’s 54 included 4 fours. In the Norfolk innings, Falcon and Stevens put on 107 runs f or the first wicket, and Worman and Gibson added 88 for the ninth. For the home side, Thomas scored 54 in the Cambridgeshire first innings. [Missing: In Cambridgeshire first innings boundaries in Thomas’s 54.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 16,17 August; Cambridge Independent Press 23 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 23 August; Eastern Daily Press 17,19 August; Eastern Evening News 16,17 August; Norfolk Chronicle 24 August; Norwich Mercury 21 August; East Anglian Daily Times 17,19 August; The Sportsman 17,19 August.