Minor Counties Championship 1907

176 SUFFOLK 1907 Championship matches: Played 8, won 2, lost 4, drawn 2 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Third out of five in East Division Won: v Bedfordshire at Bedford ES and v Bedfordshire at Bury St Edmunds Lost: v Hertfordshire at Hertford, v Norfolk at Ipswich, v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge and v Hertfordshire at Ipswich Drawn – won on first innings: v Norfolk at Norwich Drawn – lost on first innings: None Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Cambridgeshire at Felixstowe Captain: P W Cobbold (4 matches) – F H Mustard (4 matches) captained the side in the four matches in which P W Cobbold did not play Wicket-keepers: F Hollings (4 matches), A H Lang (1 match), C M Phillips (1 match) and E Pritchett (1 match). It is not known who kept wicket in the match against Bedfordshire at Bury St Edmunds Debutants: 7 (A B Barnes, H E Brown, W Chatterton, P C Curteis, F Hollings, A H Lang and R Lee) Final season: 8 (G G S Brander, H E Brown, W Chatterton, P C Curteis, F A H Henley, Rev R Ll Hodgson, G B Robins and R J Taylor) Hon Secretary: Rev R Ll Hodgson Professionals: 6 (W Chatterton, F Hollings, W Penfold, W Quaife, R J Taylor and F G Trudgett) Home grounds 3 : The Bury and West Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Cemetery Road, Bury St Edmunds (1 match); The Town Ground, Dellwood Avenue, Felixstowe (1 match); and The Ipswich and East Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Portman Road, Ipswich (2 matches) Notes: With only two matches won, the same number as in each of the three previous seasons, Suffolk finished third in the East Division. Bedfordshire replaced Staffordshire in the fixture list. The leading batsmen were Frank Mustard with 285 runs at 40.71 and Walter Quaife with 305 at 27.72. ‘Tots’ Trudgett and William Penfold each took 32 wickets, the former at a cost of 10.93 each and the latter at 13.31 each. They were closely followed by the captain Philip Cobbold who claimed 26 wickets at a cost of 12.26 each in spite of the fact that he played in only half of the matches. SUFFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1907 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 7 players who made their Championship debut for Suffolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1907 was the last or only season that these 8 players appeared for Suffolk in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I A B Barnes + 2 4 0 12 29 7.25 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - G G S Brander 2 4 0 12 25 6.25 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - H E Brown + 1 2 0 16 16 8.00 - - 1 - - 20 1 68 2 34.00 2-68 - - C Catchpole 2 2 0 19 33 16.50 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - W Catchpole 2 4 0 38 79 19.75 - - - - - - - - - - - - - H S Chapman 1 2 0 15 15 7.50 - - 1 1 - 10 2 56 0 - - - - Chatterton, W + 2 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - P W Cobbold 4 6 0 30 74 12.33 - - - 5 - 151.5 50 319 26 12.26 6-51 1 3 P C Curteis + 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - H F Fox 2 3 0 18 37 12.33 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - J Francis 1 2 0 14 18 9.00 - - - - - 6 1 27 0 - - - - J N Goldsmith 5 8 5 14* 33 11.00 - - - - - 53 7 167 2 83.50 2-85 - - F A H Henley 2 2 0 16 17 8.50 - - - 1 - 27 1 119 4 29.75 3-35 - - Rev R Ll Hodgson 1 2 0 10 10 5.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Hollings, F + 4 7 0 42 98 14.00 - - - 6 1 - - - - - - - - H W Lake 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - - A H Lang + 3 4 0 33 60 15.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - R Lee + 1 2 0 23 42 21.00 - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - V J Lewis 3 6 0 21 46 7.66 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - D Mustard 5 9 0 39 129 14.33 - - - 3 - 8 0 31 4 7.75 4-31 - - F H Mustard 5 8 1 110* 285 40.71 1 1 - 1 - 64 10 222 10 22.20 5-53 - 1 Penfold, W 5 9 1 16 66 8.25 - - - 8 - 160.4 44 426 32 13.31 5-41 - 2 C M Phillips 3 4 2 18 66 33.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - E Pritchett 2 4 0 24 52 13.00 - - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - Quaife, W 7 11 0 78 305 27.72 - 2 - 5 - - - - - - - - - K Raynor 2 4 0 48 108 27.00 - - 1 1 - 12 3 44 2 22.00 2-32 - - G B Robins 1 2 0 16 23 11.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - H F Steel 2 2 0 3 5 2.50 - - - - - 25 5 71 6 11.83 4-40 - - Taylor, R J 1 2 0 5 6 3.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Trudgett, F G 8 11 6 10* 52 10.40 - - 2 7 - 132.5 28 350 32 10.93 7-56 - 2 C S Wilson 2 2 0 16 25 12.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - H L Wilson 5 7 0 84 119 17.00 - 1 1 1 - 14.1 2 49 2 24.50 2-49 - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 153 - - - - - - - - 177 2 - - - - Total 88 138 15 110* 2028 16.48 1 4 11 53 2 684.3 154 2126 124 17.14 7-56 1 8 (32 players) (6 ball overs) Note: In Match 14 in both Hertfordshire innings runs bowling are two in excess.