Minor Counties Championship 1907

36 MATCH NUMBER 4 : LINCOLNSHIRE V LANCASHIRE 2 ND XI At The People’s Park, Grimsby on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 June 1907 Result: Lancashire 2 nd XI won by 8 runs Points: Lancashire 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Lancashire 2 nd XI Umpires: Not known Debutants: Lincolnshire 11 (Whole team); Lancashire 2 nd XI 4 (J Bradshaw, J W Hedley, A R Sladen, W K Tyldesley) First day score: Lancashire 2 nd XI 124; Lincolnshire 86 Lancashire 2 nd XI A Hartley b Geeson 6 (1) b Cooke 31 J Thwaites b Geeson 0 (2) st Allen b Sheckell 4 Tyldesley, G E b Cooke 4 (3) b Broughton 13 V Hope b Geeson 18 (4) lbw b Broughton 6 J W Hedley b Broughton 6 (5) c Broughton b Cooke 2 Harrison, R st Allen b Geeson 20 (6) hit wkt b Broughton 1 * T Ainscough run out 28 (7) c Thompson b Cooke 0 Tyldesley, W K not out 16 (8) c Geeson b Broughton 12 Bradshaw, J b Geeson 6 (10) not out 8 Sladen, A R lbw b Broughton 11 (9) hit wicket b Broughton 0 + Blomley, B run out 0 (11) c Allen b Broughton 0 Extras b 8, nb 1 9 b 11, lb 3, nb 1 16 Total 124 93 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 12 12 35 39 87 91 100 123 124 Second innings 33 43 59 60 63 65 67 67 93 93 Geeson 29.5 9 47 5 - - (1) 7 1 12 0 - - Cooke 7 3 15 1 - - (2) 14 2 33 3 - 1 Broughton 22 5 51 2 - 1 (4) 9 4 11 6 - - Weigall 1 0 2 0 - - Sheckell (3) 3 0 21 1 - - Extras - - 9 2 - - - - 16 0 - - Total 59.5 17 124 10 0 1 33 7 93 10 0 1 Lincolnshire Rev C G Ward b Harrison 19 (3) b Sladen 3 * W E Thompson c Bradshaw b Hope 25 (5) b Hope 24 Broughton, J J c Bradshaw b Hope 2 (4) b Sladen 33 L A F Weigall c Thwaites b Hope 7 (6) lbw b Hope 6 Geeson, F c G E Tyldesley b Sladen 5 (2) run out 3 Riley, E E lbw b Hope 0 (7) c G E Tyldesley b Sladen 11 J Redwood c W K Tyldesley b Harrison 11 (1) c G E Tyldesley b Harrison 17 H O Knight lbw b Harrison 3 (9) b Hope 0 H W Sheckell st Blomley b Harrison 1 (10) c Sladen b Harrison 3 E T Cooke not out 0 (8) b Hope 6 + Allen, G J b Harrison 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 8, lb 4, nb 1 13 b 14, nb 3 17 Total 86 123 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 34 39 53 68 68 72 84 85 86 86 Second innings 6 22 33 75 88 101 120 120 121 123 Sladen 14 7 19 1 - - (1) 15 1 49 3 - 3 W K Tyldesley 7 0 17 0 - - (4) 3 0 5 0 - - Harrison 13 4 24 5 - - (2) 14.5 4 30 2 - - Hope 16 7 13 4 - 1 (3) 11 2 22 4 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 17 1 - - Total 50 18 86 10 0 1 43.5 7 123 10 0 3 Notes: Lancashire 2 nd XI won this match by 8 runs shortly before 5 pm on the second day. It was the inaugural match for Lincolnshire in the Championship, though the previous County Club had played matches in 1895 which counted towards the table for their opponents. Requiring 132 runs to win in their second innings in around 4 hours, Lincolnshire fell just 9 runs short. When they had reached 120 for the loss of 6 wickets, it had seemed probable that the home side would win, but the last four wickets added only 3 runs. For the winners, Hartley top-scored with 31 which included 3 fours. In the Lincolnshire second innings, Broughton’s 33 contained 3 fours. This was the first time th at a championship match was played at the ground . [An alternative version of this score, found only in the Lancashire Recopied Scorebook and not in any of the other sources listed , including the Manchester Guardian, gives in the Lancashire second innings W K Tyldesley scoring 13 not 12, extras 15 not 16, and Broughton conceding 12 runs not 11.] [Missing: Umpires; in Lancashire second innings extras’ details one short.] Sources: Lancashire Recopied Scorebook; Grimsby News 7 June; Manchester Guardian 6,8 June; The Sportsman 6,7 June.