Minor Counties Championship 1908

120 MATCH NUMBER 87 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V SUFFOLK – EAST DIVISION At the Newmarket Cricket Club Ground, Cricket Field Road, Newmarket on Monday 17, Tuesday 18 August 1908 Result: Match drawn - Suffolk won on first innings Points: Suffolk 3 Toss: Suffolk Umpires: G J Rye and J Stevens Debutants: Cambridgeshire 1 (H Hayhoe); Suffolk 3 (J H Cread, E Mortimer, E G Neave) First day score: Suffolk 516-6 wickets declared; Cambridgeshire 103-1 wicket (R S Swann-Mason 35*, F Roberson 37*) Suffolk H Bassett run out 54 Quaife, W c Watts b Tebbutt 9 Capt F T D Wilson c Pigg b L J Reid 30 J F Ireland run out 221 H L Wilson c Watts b Swann-Mason 48 * F H Mustard c Gray b Bocock 100 + A H Lang not out 24 Hollings, F not out 4 J H Cread E Mortimer E G Neave Extras nb 6 26 Total (6 wickets declared) 516 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 31 94 120 268 461 498 - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 20 2 65 0 - - Tebbutt 21 4 121 1 - 6 Gray 14 0 81 0 - - L J Reid 7 0 73 1 - - Bocock 10 1 60 1 - - Roberson 4 0 27 0 - - Swann-Mason 8 1 63 1 - - Extras - - 26 2 - - Total 84 8 516 6 0 6 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) Rev R S Swann-Mason st Lang b F T D Wilson 127 L J Reid c Mustard b Cread 18 (5) not out 50 F Roberson c Ireland b Bassett 50 (1) b Mustard 0 K G Reid b Cread 23 (7) not out 11 H C Tebbutt c F T D Wilson b Bassett 9 (6) c Mortimer b F T D Wilson 11 + Watts, G H c Mustard b F T D Wilson 2 (3) c Mustard b Cread 10 B Gray c Cread b F T D Wilson 19 O W Bocock c Mustard b Bassett 16 H Hayhoe b Bassett 15 (4) b F T D Wilson 52 Coulson, H c and b F T D Wilson 5 * C Pigg not out 10 (2) c F T D Wilson b Cread 0 Extras w 3 65 nb 1 9 Total 359 (5 wickets) 143 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 34 130 221 248 256 302 303 334 341 359 Second innings 0 4 11 106 - - - - - Cread 24 6 51 2 2 - (2) 10 3 40 2 - 1 Mustard 18 2 48 0 - - (1) 9 1 28 1 - - Ireland 7 0 20 0 1 - (3) 10 2 34 0 - - Bassett 41 16 69 4 - - F T D Wilson 45.2 12 88 4 - - (5) 7 2 22 2 - - Neave 3 0 7 0 - - (4) 4 1 10 0 - - Mortimer 2 1 11 0 Extras - - 65 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 140.2 37 359 10 3 0 40 9 143 5 0 1 Notes: Drawn return match with Suffolk winning on first innings. Cambridgeshire had followed on 157 runs behind on first innings. The match between the two sides at Bury St Edmunds earlier in the month had been won by Suffolk. For the visitors, there were 35 fours, 3 threes and 16 twos in Ireland’s 221, scored in 160 minutes, and 16 fours in Mustard’s 100, an innings of 80 minutes. Ireland’s 221was the second highest individual score of the season. Bassett scored 54. Suffolk’s 516-6 declared was the second highest score of the season. In the Suffolk innings, Ireland and H L Wilson added 148 runs for the fourth wicket and Ireland and Mustard 193 for the fifth. For the home side, Swann-Mason’s 127 contained 10 fours, 6 threes and 16 twos and his innings lasted 4¾ hours. There were 7 fours in Roberson’s 50, Hayhoe scored 52 and L J Reid 50 not out. The 65 extras conceded in the Cambridgeshire first innings were the highest of the season. In the home side’s first innings, the 16 maidens bowled by Bassett was equal highest of the season, while the 45.2 overs bowled by F T D Wilson was the most in an innings. 619 runs were scored on the first day and 1,018 in the match, the second highest match aggregate of the season. The match was set aside for Watts’s benefit. This was the first time the ground had been used as a venue for a championship match. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Suffolk innings, boundaries in Bassett’s 54; in Cambridgeshire second innings boundaries in Hayhoe’s 52 and L J Reid’s 50 not out and fall of fifth wicket.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 17,18 August; Cambridge Express 21 August; Cambridge Independent Press 21 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 21 August; East Anglian Daily Times 18,19 August; Newmarket Journal 22 August; Eastern Daily Press 18,19 August; The Sportsman 18,19 August; Cricket 27 August, p 380.