Minor Counties Championship 1908

47 MATCH NUMBER 14 : DURHAM V LINCOLNSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The Victoria Ground, Clarence Road, West Hartlepool on Monday 29, Tuesday 30 June 1908 Result: Match drawn - Lincolnshire won on first innings Points: Lincolnshire 3 Toss: Durham Umpires: T Cornwall and M Myers Debutants: Durham none; Lincolnshire 1 (J F Smith) First day score: Durham 179; Lincolnshire 225 Durham J F Best b Geeson 24 (1) run out 56 * T Coulson b Geeson 0 (2) b Geeson 2 J M Russell b Cooke 0 (9) b Geeson 19 T Kinch run out 27 (4) b Geeson 14 E B Proud c Allen b Broughton 1 (3) b Riley 38 + G P Gore c Ward b Broughton 0 (6) c Turner b Broughton 25 Turnbull, G c and b Broughton 22 (7) b Geeson 31 J Bewick st Allen b Broughton 9 (8) b Geeson 32 Stoner, A H c Turner b Geeson 56 (5) b Cooke 0 Morris, A run out 27 (10) b Geeson 12 Thackeray, J not out 8 (11) not out 1 Extras b 3, lb 1, nb 1 5 b 20, lb 5 25 Total 179 255 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 5 51 52 52 64 78 105 158 179 Second innings 6 72 120 120 120 159 192 234 254 255 Cooke 6 0 35 1 - - (1) 20 6 62 1 - - Geeson 22.4 3 70 3 - - (2) 33 9 75 6 - - Broughton 12 1 40 4 - 1 (4) 17 3 58 1 - - Riley 6 1 28 0 - - (3) 10 3 35 1 - - Hibbert 1 0 1 0 - - Extras - - 5 2 - - - - 25 1 - - Total 47.4 5 179 10 0 1 80 21 255 10 0 0 Lincolnshire * W E Thompson lbw b Bewick 42 (1) b Bewick 37 Hibbert, W J c Gore b Morris 60 (2) b Morris 1 Rev C G Ward c and b Morris 9 (4) c Bewick b Morris 66 Broughton, J J c Morris b Turnbull 37 (3) b Morris 6 Turner, G c Stoner b Turnbull 39 (5) b Morris 9 J F Smith b Morris 1 (10) b Morris 7 Riley, E E c and b Morris 1 (7) not out 25 Geeson, F lbw b Morris 5 (8) c Gore b Morris 2 E T Cooke lbw b Turnbull 4 (9) c Morris b Thackeray 15 W C Milner b Morris 2 (6) b Morris 3 + Allen, G J not out 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 14, lb 11 25 b 14, lb 5, w 1, nb 1 21 Total 225 (9 wickets) 192 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 114 121 140 202 205 207 213 217 225 225 Second innings 9 21 99 118 133 135 151 171 192 - Morris 33 9 66 6 - - (1) 30 6 70 7 - 1 Turnbull 17.2 1 45 3 - - (2) 15 3 27 0 - - Thackeray 17 1 59 0 - - (3) 11 2 23 1 1 - Stoner 6 1 13 0 - - (4) 8 2 22 0 - - Bewick 10 4 17 1 - - (5) 13 2 29 1 - - Extras - - 25 0 - - - - 21 0 - - Total 83.2 16 225 10 0 0 77 15 192 9 1 1 Notes: Match drawn with Lincolnshire winning on first innings, after being set a victory target of 210 runs in three hours. For the visitors, there were 8 fours in Ward’s 66 and 7 fours in Hibbert’s 60. In the Lincolnshire first innings, Thompson and Hibbert put on 114 runs for the first wicket. For the home team, Morris took 13 wickets in the match for 136 runs, including 7 for 70 in the Lincolnshire second innings. Stoner’s 56 included 9 fours and Best’s 56 7 fours. In the Durham first innings, Stoner and Morris added 53 runs for the ninth wicket. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Journal 30 June; 1 July; Grimsby News 3 July; The Sportsman 4 July; Cricket 9 July, p 263.