Minor Counties Championship 1908

173 HERTFORDSHIRE 1908 Championship matches: Played 9, won 3, lost 3, drawn 3 (won on first innings 3, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings none) Position: First out of five in East Division, losing semi-finalist in play-offs Won: v Bedfordshire at Bedford ES, v Norfolk at St Albans and v Cambridgeshire at Hitchin Lost: v Suffolk at Watford, v Suffolk at Felixstowe and v Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent Drawn – won on first innings: v Norfolk at Norwich, v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge and v Bedfordshire at Watford Drawn – lost on first innings: None Drawn – no decision on first innings: None Captain: H M Harford (7 matches) – A Butcher (2 matches) led the side in the two matches in which H M Harford did not play Wicket-keepers: C D Fastnedge (4 matches), R B Cowley (2 matches), E H Cuthbertson (1 match), A F Leighton (1 match) and C H Titchmarsh (1 match) Debutants: 4 (J N Cowley, P W R Doll, H W Englefield and E L Wright) Final season: 3 (P W R Doll, H W Englefield and C D Fastnedge) Hon Secretary: Dr J Earl Norman Professionals: 3 (W E Coleman, A J Golding and H E White) Home grounds 3 : Hitchin Cricket Club Ground, Hitchin Hill, London Road, Hitchin – new ground (1 match); The County Ground, Clarence Park, St Albans (1 match); and West Herts Cricket Club Ground, Cassio Road, Watford (2 matches) Notes: Hertfordshire again were top of the East Division but were heavily defeated in the semi final of the play offs by Staffordshire. Jack Golding and Charles Titchmarsh led the batting averages with 656 runs at 50.46 and 535 at 41.15 respectively. Harry White again took most wickets – 67 at 15.22 – and was supported by Bill Coleman with 40 at 22.22 and Bill Marsh with 24 at 13.66. During the season Harry White reached the career milestones of five thousand runs and six hundred wickets. Other career milestones passed were fifty catches by Bill Coleman and one hundred matches by Arthur Butcher, Bill Coleman and Jack Golding. HERTFORDSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1908 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 4 players who made their Championship debut for Hertfordshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1908 was the last or only season that these 3 players appeared for Hertfordshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I A Butcher 9 15 0 100 320 21.33 1 1 3 6 - - - - - - - - - Dr A E Clarke 4 7 1 43* 108 18.00 - - 2 6 - 44 1 184 3 61.33 1-26 - - Coleman, W E 9 13 0 34 148 11.38 - - 4 4 - 334.1 81 889 40 22.22 7-86 1 3 J N Cowley + 1 1 1 58* 58 - - 1 - - - 0.5 0 2 1 2.00 1-2 - - R B Cowley 4 6 0 27 62 10.33 - - 2 3 1 - - - - - - - - E H Cuthbertson 3 6 0 30 52 8.66 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - M H C Doll 4 7 1 7 13 2.16 - - 2 1 - 5 1 19 1 19.00 1-19 - - P W R Doll + 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - G G Dumbelton 6 10 2 29* 124 15.50 - - 1 2 - 44.4 11 128 6 21.33 3-35 - - H W Englefield + 4 6 1 6 13 2.60 - - 1 1 - 28 5 82 2 41.00 2-25 - - C D Fastnedge 4 5 4 13* 16 16.00 - - - 3 1 - - - - - - - - Golding, A J 9 15 2 195 656 50.46 1 3 1 13 - 7 0 38 0 - - - - H M Harford 7 10 2 82 182 22.75 - 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - L G Hosier 1 - - - - - - - - 1 - 3 1 6 0 - - - - A F Leighton 1 2 0 8 13 6.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - W H Marsh 7 9 2 47* 73 10.42 - - 3 1 - 147.1 48 328 24 13.66 6-54 - 2 H S Mason 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 2 - 13 4 41 2 20.50 2-41 - - C T Rudd 5 6 0 46 115 19.16 - - 1 - - 7 0 51 0 - - - - C H Titchmarsh 9 15 2 104 535 41.15 2 3 1 9 1 1 0 4 0 - - - - White, H E 9 15 0 60 348 23.20 - 2 - 9 - 428.5 118 1020 67 15.22 8-30 2 6 E L Wright + 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO/R - - - - 220 - - - - 1 - - - 187 4 - - - - Total 99 152 18 195 3057 22.81 4 11 26 66 3 1063.4 270 2979 150 19.86 8-30 3 11 (21 players) (6 ball overs) Note: In Match 84 F Roberson retired out in the Cambridgeshire second innings. FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 3 players made their last appearance for Hertfordshire in the Championship in 1908. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I P W R Doll 1908 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - H W Englefield 1908 4 6 1 6 13 2.60 - - 1 1 - 168 82 2 41.00 2-25 - - C D Fastnedge 1896 57 79 23 73* 736 13.14 - 1 10 51 18 - - - - - - - (3 players)