Minor Counties Championship 1907

46 MATCH NUMBER 14 : HERTFORDSHIRE V SUFFOLK At The Hertford Cricket Club Ground, Balls Park, Mangrove Road, Hertford on Friday 21, Saturday 22 June 1907 Result: Hertfordshire won by nine wickets Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Suffolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Suffolk none First day score: Suffolk 185 and 2-1 wicket (F G Trudgett 2*); Hertfordshire 140 Suffolk Quaife, W lbw b Golding 51 (3) c Butcher b White 18 J Francis b Shelford 14 (4) c White b Coleman 4 D Mustard b White 19 (5) b Coleman 7 K Raynor b White 0 (6) c Shelford b White 13 V J Lewis b White 5 (8) c Golding b Coleman 2 + C M Phillips b White 18 (7) not out 13 H S Chapman c Shelford b White 15 (2) lbw b White 0 A B Barnes b White 5 (11) c Tasker-Evans b Coleman 12 H W Lake b White 0 (10) b Coleman 0 * P W Cobbold c Titchmarsh b Tasker-Evans 30 (9) c and b Coleman 3 Trudgett, F G not out 6 (1) retired not out 2 Extras 22 1 Total 185 75 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 41 84 84 98 124 128 142 142 177 185 Second innings 2 18 28 38 46 55 59 63 75 - Coleman 17 2 50 0 - - (1) 18.4 6 42 6 - - White 25 8 51 7 - - (2) 18 6 32 3 - - Shelford 6 1 19 1 - - Tasker-Evans 12 1 36 1 - - Golding 1 0 7 1 - - Extras - - 22 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 61 12 185 10 - - 36.4 12 75 9 - - Hertfordshire Golding, A J b Trudgett 5 (1) b Cobbold 5 G G Dumbelton c Chapman b Cobbold 7 C H Titchmarsh b Trudgett 7 (3) not out 54 White, H E c Barnes b Raynor 32 A Butcher b Cobbold 49 (2) not out 55 H J Sharpe b Cobbold 0 C T Tasker-Evans c Cobbold b Raynor 5 Coleman, W E c Lake b Cobbold 20 * H M Harford not out 4 + Goodall, J b Trudgett 4 Shelford, W c Phillips b Cobbold 5 Extras 2 10 Total 140 (1 wicket) 124 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 13 31 68 69 92 124 129 135 140 Second innings 13 - - - - - - - - - Cobbold 31.2 16 40 5 - - (1) 17 7 30 1 - - Trudgett 20 4 59 3 - - Francis 1 0 9 0 - - (4) 5 1 18 0 - - Raynor 10 3 32 2 - - (3) 2 0 12 0 - - Chapman (2) 10 2 56 0 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 62.2 23 142x 10 - - 34 10 126x 1 - - 140 124 Notes: Hertfordshire won this match by nine wickets at 2.55 pm on the second day. Hertfordshire had been set a victory target of 121 runs in over four hours. For the winners, White took 10 wickets in the match for 83 runs, including 7 for 51 in the Suffolk first innings. Butcher scored 55 not out and Titchmarsh 54 not out. For Suffolk, Quaife scored 51. The Hertfordshire first innings total was originally stated as being 142, but overnight a mistake was found which had credited Butcher with 2 runs too many and his score was reduced from 51 to 49 and the Hertfordshire total was reduced to 140. In the Suffolk second innings, Trudgett had to retire overnight because he was called away as a result of his wife’s illness. In the Hertfordshire second innings But cher and Titchmarsh shared an unbroken partnership of 111. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Suffolk first inings boundaries in Quaife’s 51; in Hertfordshire first innings runs bowling 2 i n excess; in Hertfordshire second innings runs bowling 2 in exc ess, boundaries in Butcher’s 55 not out and in Titchmarsh’s 54 not out.] Sources: Hertfordshire Mercury 29 June; West Herts and Watford Observer 25 June; East Anglian Daily Times 22,24 June.