Minor Counties Championship 1908

51 MATCH NUMBER 18 : LANCASHIRE 2 ND XI V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The East Lancashire Cricket Club Ground, The Meadows, Blackburn on Wednesday 1, Thursday 2 July 1908 Result: Staffordshire won by 2 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: T Cornwall and H Walmsley Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (E Vost); Lancashire 2 nd XI 5 (L W Cook, A Groves, C P Leese, H L Simms, F H Turner) First day score: Staffordshire 133 and 55-5 wickets (E Vost 13*, J W Johnson 0*); Lancashire 2 nd XI 102 Staffordshire Brown, W run out 12 (1) c Turner b Sladen 22 P Briggs b Sladen 35 (2) b Sladen 6 Barnes, S F c Heap b Turner 21 (4) c Heap b Cook 2 * H D Stratton b Sladen 12 (3) b Cook 7 Hollowood, A c Turner b Sladen 6 (5) c Groves b Sladen 11 E H Bourne c Simms b Cook 0 (6) c Heap b Sladen 1 Vost, E c Rowlands b Cook 0 (7) b Cook 22 J W Johnson c Turner b Sladen 3 (8) b Sladen 0 + C L Winser c Sladen b Cook 18 (9) c Groves b Sladen 6 Bucknell, A c Groves b Sladen 13 (10) not out 11 Mee, R J not out 4 (11) c Simms b Sladen 3 Extras b 8, nb 1 9 b 4 4 Total 133 95 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 31 62 84 88 89 89 91 100 129 133 Second innings 17 32 34 35 49 59 69 76 89 95 Rowlands 7 1 21 0 - - Cook 21.3 5 71 3 - - (1) 16 1 48 3 - - Sladen 15 5 28 5 - 1 (2) 15.1 4 43 7 - - Turner 1 0 4 1 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 44.3 11 133 10 0 1 31.1 5 95 10 0 0 Lancashire 2 nd XI C P Leese lbw b Mee 1 (1) c Winser b Barnes 34 V Hope c Barnes b Mee 1 (2) run out 27 Harrison, R c Johnson b Mee 3 (3) c Brown b Mee 5 Heap, J S c Winser b Mee 32 (4) c Winser b Barnes 21 F H Turner c Barnes b Mee 7 (5) b Barnes 5 H L Simms c Winser b Mee 23 (6) b Barnes 6 Cook, L W c Hollowood b Barnes 0 (7) c Winser b Mee 0 * T Ainscough b Mee 11 (8) c Brown b Barnes 4 Sladen, A R c Briggs b Barnes 10 (9) run out 14 Rowlands, L S c Bucknell b Mee 5 (10) lbw b Bucknell 5 + Groves, A not out 0 (11) not out 1 Extras b 4, nb 5 9 nb 2 2 Total 102 124 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 5 17 26 60 61 81 91 93 102 Second innings 57 63 67 79 100 101 104 104 123 124 Barnes 15 2 56 2 - 3 (1) 17 8 41 5 - 1 Mee 16.4 5 26 8 - 2 (2) 13 0 61 2 - 1 Bucknell 2 0 11 0 - - (3) 3.5 0 19 1 - - Vost (4) 1 0 1 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 2 2 - - Total 33.4 7 102 10 0 5 34.5 8 124 10 0 2 Notes: Staffordshire won this closely fought and low-scoring match by the narrow margin of 2 runs on the second day amid reported scenes of considerable excitement. For the winners, Mee took 10 wickets in the match for 87 runs, including 8 for 26 in the Lancashire 2 nd XI first innings. For the losers, Sladen took 12 wickets in the match for 71 runs, including 7 for 43 in the Staffordshire second innings. Press reports indicate the wicket was greatly in aid of the bowlers. This was the first championship match played at this venue. [Missing: Precise time completed.] Sources: Lancashire Recopied Scorebook; Staffordshire Scorebook; Blackburn Times 4 July; Blackburn Weekly Telegraph 4 July; Staffordshire Advertiser 4 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 1,2 July; Yorkshire Post 2,3 July; The Sportsman 2,3 July; Cricket 9 July, p 263.