Minor Counties Championship 1908

101 MATCH NUMBER 68 : SUFFOLK V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Bury and West Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Cemetery Road , Bury St Edmunds on Friday 7, Saturday 8 August 1908 Result: Suffolk won by nine wickets Points: Suffolk 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Suffolk none; Cambridgeshire none First day score: Cambridgeshire 167; Suffolk 215-7 wickets (F H Mustard 28*, C S Wilson 9*) Cambridgeshire L J Reid b Penfold 2 (2) c C S Wilson b Penfold 57 R S Swann-Mason c Hill-Wood b Mustard 38 (1) c H L Wilson b Penfold 2 K G Reid b Penfold 9 (3) b F T D Wilson 18 * C Pigg c Penfold b Mustard 4 (4) b Ireland 8 Coulson, H b F T D Wilson 23 (5) c Pritchett b F T D Wilson 1 + Watts, G H c C S Wilson b Penfold 3 (6) c Raynor b Penfold 17 O W Bocock b Mustard 43 (7) c Pritchett b Penfold 19 T W Brown c Pritchett b Penfold 14 (8) b Mustard 1 A E Bellars c Lang b Penfold 4 (9) c H L Wilson b Penfold 2 O J Stibbon c H L Wilson b Penfold 8 (10) b Ireland 3 W J B Crouch not out 4 (11) not out 0 Extras 15 14 Total 167 142 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 19 24 67 80 131 147 162 167 Second innings 2 53 67 85 112 121 124 139 142 Penfold 31.4 14 57 6 - - (1) 27.4 10 45 5 - - Mustard 23 5 60 3 - - (2) 21 8 33 1 - - F T D Wilson 13 4 35 1 - - (4) 14 3 31 2 - - Ireland (3) 12 6 19 2 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 67.4 23 167 10 - - 74.4 27 142 10 - - Suffolk E Pritchett b Swann-Mason 54 Quaife, W b Coulson 6 (3) not out 8 J F Ireland c Pigg b Stibbon 90 K Raynor c Crouch b Swann-Mason 0 (2) c and b K G Reid 5 H L Wilson b Coulson 15 * F H Mustard c L J Reid b K G Reid 56 S H Hill-Wood b Stibbon 4 Capt F T D Wilson b Coulson 0 (1) not out 15 C S Wilson b Coulson 33 + A H Lang c K G Reid b Coulson 10 Penfold, W not out 1 Extras 13 0 Total 282 (1 wicket) 28 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 117 117 141 186 248 280 282 Second innings 8 - - - - - - - - - Bellars 13 2 50 0 - - Coulson 32 8 76 5 - - (1) 2.4 0 17 0 - - Brown 7 0 29 0 - - Swann-Mason 7 0 37 2 - - K G Reid 7.4 0 38 1 - - (2) 2 0 11 1 - - Stibbon 12 1 39 2 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 78.4 11 282 10 - - 4.4 0 28 1 0 0 Notes: Suffolk won by 9 wickets on the second day. For the winners, Penfold took 11 wickets in the match for 102 runs. There were 2 sixes and 4 fours in Ireland’s 90, 6 fours in Mustard’s 56 and 4 fours in Pritchett’s 54. In the Suffolk first innings Pritchett and Ireland added 110 for the second wicket. For the losers, L J Reid scored 57. The 24 maidens bowled by Penfold were equal highest number for a match during the season. On the first day Lang kept wicket for Suffolk until lunch after which Pritchett took over the duties. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Cambridgeshire first innings fall of seventh wicket; in Cambridgeshire second innings boundaries in L J Reid’s 57 and fall of fourth wicket; in Suffolk first innings fall of sixth and seventh wickets; precise ti me completed.] Sources: Bury and Norwich Post 14 August; East Anglian Daily Times 8.10 August; Cambridge Daily News 8,10 August; Cambridge Independent Press 14 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 14 August; The Sportsman 8,10 September; Cricket 20 August, p 359.