Minor Counties Championship 1907

89 MATCH NUMBER 57 : BEDFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE At The Luton Cricket Club Ground, Wardown Park, Luton on Monday 5, Tuesday 6 August 1907 Result: Bedfordshire won by three wickets Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Cambridgeshire none First day score: Cambridgeshire 159; Bedfordshire 341-8 wickets (G E Wharmby 69*, W Brown 11*) Cambridgeshire K G Reid c Morcom b Wharmby 12 (2) c Morcom b Wharmby 23 L J Reid b Morcom 0 (1) c Apthorp b Morcom 9 P A French b Morcom 6 (3) b Peel 29 T S W Thomas b Morcom 16 (4) b Morcom 0 E D Gilbert b Morcom 0 (7) c Wharmby b Morcom 30 P W Gray c and b Morcom 0 (6) b Wharmby 15 + Watts, G H not out 61 (5) c Peel b Wharmby 0 Coulson , H c Brown b Wharmby 25 (8) b Morcom 57 B W Pigg b Morcom 0 (9) c Thring b Wharmby 86 * C Pigg c Morcom b Wharmby 15 (10) not out 21 A E Bellars st Apthorp b Wharmby 18 (11) c Apthorp b Peel 18 Extras nb 1 6 nb 1 26 Total 159 314 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 16 16 20 22 66 67 91 125 159 Second innings 30 30 35 52 80 80 138 265 273 314 Wharmby 22.3 2 70 4 - - (2) 29 5 83 4 - - Morcom 23 2 73 6 - 1 (1) 26 2 128 4 - 1 Peel 2 0 10 0 - - (3) 14.2 1 41 2 - - Orr (4) 6 2 19 0 - - Thring (5) 7 1 17 0 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 26 0 - - Total 47.3 4 159 10 0 1 82.2 11 314 10 0 1 Bedfordshire B L Peel c C Pigg b Bellars 109 (1) c Watts b Coulson 7 Pollitt, G c Thomas b Coulson 5 (4) c and b B W Pigg 8 Holdstock, H F c Watts b Bellars 0 L C R Thring c Thomas b Coulson 7 (2) c Gilbert b Coulson 7 * H R Orr c L J Reid b Gray 95 (6) st Watts b Gray 48 J Cavanagh lbw b Bellars 20 (3) b Coulson 29 W E King b Bellars 0 (7) not out 10 Wharmby, G E not out 69 (5) b Coulson 8 + E E Apthorp c Bellars b Coulson 13 (8) b Coulson 0 W Brown not out 11 A F Morcom (9) not out 5 Extras w 3, nb 1 12 11 Total (8 wickets declared) 341 (7 wickets) 133 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 19 20 27 211 232 232 255 313 - - Second innings 8 17 37 54 77 125 128 - - - Coulson 28 5 102 3 - 1 (1) 18.1 4 50 5 - - Bellars 21 3 77 4 2 - (2) 5 1 22 0 - - L J Reid 4 0 31 0 - - B W Pigg 9 0 58 0 1 - (3) 11 0 45 1 - - Gray 10 0 61 1 - - (4) 1 0 5 1 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 11 0 - - Total 72 8 341 8 3 1 35.1 5 133 7 - - Notes: Bedfordshire won this match on the second day. Needing 133 runs for victory in their second innings in 100 minutes, the home team scored the winning run with 7 wickets down and 4 minutes to spare. For the winners, there were 10 fours in Peel’s 109. Orr scored 95, and Wharmby scored 69 not out. In the Bedfordshire first innings, Peel and Orr added 184 for the fourth wicket and Wharmby and Apthorp 58 for the eighth wicket. Morcom took 10 wickets in the match for 201 runs. For the losers, B W Pigg scored 86, Watts 61 not out, and Coulson 57. In the Cambridgeshire second innings, Coulson and B W Pigg put on 127 for the eighth wicket. The match was Pollitt’s ben efit. Over 3,000 spectators were present on the first day when receipts exceeded £50. The match aggregate of 947 runs was the third highest of the season. The 201 runs conceded by Morcom in the match were the third highest of the season. [Missing: Umpire s; extras breakdown; precise time completed; in Cambridgeshire first innings boundaries in Watts’s 61 not out; in Bedfordshire first innings duration of Peel’s 109 and boundaries in Orr’s 95 and Wharmby’s 69 not out; in Cambridgeshire second innings bounda ries in Coulson’s 57 and B W Pigg’s 86.] Sources: Bedfordshire Advertiser 9 August; Bedfordshire Standard 9 August; Bedfordshire Times 9 August; Luton Reporter 9 August; Cambridge Daily News 6,7 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 9 August; The Sportsman 6,7 August.