Minor Counties Championship 1907

173 NORFOLK 1907 Championship matches: Played 8, won 4, lost 2, drawn 2 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings none) Position: Second out of five in East Division Won: v Suffolk at Ipswich, v Hertfordshire at Norwich, v Bedfordshire at Norwich and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Lost: v Hertfordshire at Watford and v Cambridgeshire at Norwich Drawn – won on first innings: v Bedfordshire at Bedford GS Drawn – lost on first innings: v Suffolk at Norwich Drawn – no decision on first innings: None Captain: L Barratt (7 matches) – Lt Col S F Charles (1 match) captained the side in the match in which L Barratt did not play Wicket-keepers: Lt Col S F Charles (6 matches), Lt B Buxton (1 match) and S D Page (1 match) Debutants: 4 (Lt B Buxton, M Falcon, G Stevens and G A Stevens) Final season: 5 (Lt B Buxton, Lt Col S F Charles, Rev A R Hoare, G R Jackson and G Starling) Joint Hon Secretaries: E G Buxton and A M Jee Assistant Secretary: C F Taylor Professionals: 3 (E Gibson, E W Smith and G Stevens) Home Ground 1: The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich (4 matches) Notes: Norfolk keenly felt the absence of George Raikes, both as a batsman and as a bowler. Veteran Legh Barratt resumed the captaincy and performed steadily with the bat, amassing 266 runs at 24.18. The only other batsmen to aggregate more than 200 runs were both debutants; Geoffrey Stevens scored 322 runs at 24.76 whilst Michael Falcon made a spectacular start to his career, despite playing in only the final three matches of the season, hitting two centuries and finishing with 285 runs at 57.00. With James Worman falling away, the bowling depended almost entirely on the professionals, Ted Gibson and Billy Smith; in a season in which no other bowler took more than 11 wickets, Gibson took 33 at 16.60 and Smith took 60 at 14.36 which included 15 for 92 against Hertfordshire at Norwich. Bedfordshire replaced Oxfordshire in the fixture list. NORFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1907 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 4 players who made their Championship debut for Norfolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1907 was the last or only season that these 5 players appeared for Norfolk in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I L Barratt 7 11 0 115 266 24.18 1 1 1 2 - 3 1 7 0 - - - - G W Birkbeck 2 4 0 43 66 16.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Lt B Buxton + 1 2 1 35* 51 51.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Lt Col S F Charles 6 8 1 45 146 20.85 - - - 7 3 - - - - - - - - J J Compton 1 2 0 23 23 11.50 - - 1 1 - 9 3 30 1 30.00 1-26 - - O H C Dunell 4 7 0 53 119 17.00 - 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - C E Dunning 2 3 1 78 95 47.50 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - M Falcon + 3 5 0 112 285 57.00 2 - - 1 - 14 2 63 1 63.00 1-62 - - E T Garnier 4 7 1 90 158 26.33 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - Gibson, E 8 11 5 48* 147 24.50 - - 2 8 - 233.1 67 548 33 16.60 5-41 1 3 Rev A R Hoare 5 8 0 45 131 16.37 - - - 1 - 45.5 5 169 11 15.36 5-42 - 2 M W Ireland 5 8 1 34* 107 15.28 - - 1 3 - 55 17 131 7 18.71 3-7 - - G R Jackson 1 1 0 16 16 16.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - L H Leman 2 3 0 26 58 19.33 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - S D Page 1 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - R G Pilch 1 2 0 20 21 10.50 - - - - - 19 2 61 2 30.50 2-46 - - Smith, E W 8 11 1 43 67 6.70 - - 3 5 - 314.1 61 862 60 14.36 8-48 2 5 G Starling 3 5 1 14 29 7.25 - - 1 1 - 12 0 63 0 - - - - Stevens, G + 3 5 0 58 104 20.80 - 1 1 0 - 12 1 60 0 - - - - G A Stevens + 8 13 0 134 322 24.76 1 1 2 4 - - - - - - - - - A K Watson 4 6 0 105 158 26.33 1 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - B K Wilson 5 8 0 20 73 9.12 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - J N Worman 4 6 2 42 121 30.25 - - - 4 - 93.2 21 260 11 23.63 5-83 - 1 Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 126 - - - - 1 - - - 196 4 - - - - Total 88 137 14 134 2691 21.87 5 6 13 [47] 4 810.3 180 2450 130 18.84 8-48 3 11 48 (23 players) (6 ball overs) The catcher is not known in one match. FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 5 players made their last appearance for Norfolk in the Championship in 1907. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Lt B Buxton 1907 1 2 1 35* 51 51.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - Lt Col S F Charles 1906 14 20 1 54 327 17.21 - 1 - 18 8 - - - - - - - Rev A R Hoare 1895 19 27 1 89 686 26.38 - 4 - 10 - 1114 560 35 16.00 5-30 - 4 G R Jackson 1906 2 2 0 16 17 8.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - G Starling 1905 11 20 2 74 284 15.77 - 2 5 6 - 368 234 9 26.00 5-39 - 1 (5 players)