Minor Counties Championship 1908

53 MATCH NUMBER 20 : BEDFORDSHIRE V NORFOLK – EAST DIVISION At The Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Thursday 2, Friday 3 July 1908 Result: Match drawn – Bedfordshire won on first innings Points: Bedfordshire 3 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: T H Holton and A Rudd Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Norfolk 1 (Capt C C O Gascoigne) First day score: Bedfordshire 432; Norfolk 36-0 wicket (Rev J G McCormick 31*, C E Dunning 4*) Bedfordshire R W Rice c Dunning b Pilch 27 Holdstock, H F c Stevens b Leman 76 Wharmby, G E c Cozens-Hardy b Dunning 150 L C R Thring b Leman 46 * H R Orr c Leman b Smith 2 H Squire b Gibson 67 W E King c substitute (O Pointer) b Leman 1 W Brown not out 15 + E E Apthorp st Stevens b Smith 32 Rev R H Moss c substitute (O Pointer) b Smith 0 D H Peel c Stevens b Gibson 2 Extras w 1, nb 4 14 Total 432 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 61 165 226 233 371 372 387 428 428 432 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Gibson 31 6 104 2 - - Pilch 22 2 110 1 - - Smith 14 2 69 3 - 3 Cozens-Hardy 3 1 13 0 1 - Leman 23 4 86 3 - - Barratt 3 0 23 0 - - Dunning 3 0 13 1 - 1 Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 99 15 432 10 1 4 Norfolk (Followed on) Rev J G McCormick c Apthorp b Moss 35 (1) b Moss 7 C E Dunning c Wharmby b Moss 4 (7) not out 2 L H Leman b Moss 0 (6) not out 5 O H C Dunell b Peel 40 (3) c Rice b Wharmby 75 + G A Stevens not out 100 (4) c Rice b Wharmby 15 * L Barratt c Rice b Peel 0 (2) st Apthorp b Wharmby 166 B Cozens-Hardy c Apthorp b Peel 2 (5) c Apthorp b Wharmby 51 R G Pilch c Rice b Moss 32 Capt C C O Gascoigne b Moss 0 Gibson, E c Apthorp b Wharmby 12 Smith, E W c Moss b Wharmby 0 Extras 7 1 Total 232 (5 wickets) 322 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 40 40 55 122 122 134 190 190 232 232 Second innings 12 138 157 296 317 - - - - - Wharmby 20 5 38 2 - - (1) 28 3 95 4 - - Moss 31 3 91 5 - - (2) 13 6 47 1 - - Peel 14 1 77 3 - - (4) 8 2 26 0 - - King 5 1 14 0 - - (7) 3 0 12 0 - - Orr 2 0 5 0 - - (5) 6 0 61 0 - - Holdstock (6) 3 0 21 0 - - Squire (8) 6 0 33 0 - - Thring (3) 2 0 26 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 72 10 232 10 - - 69 11 322 5 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Bedfordshire winning on first innings after enforcing the follow-on with Norfolk 200 runs behind on first innings. For the home side, there were 17 fours and 9 threes in Wharmby’s 150, scored in 2 hours and 40 minutes. Holdstock’s 76 contained 5 fours , and Squire’s 67 included 7 fours. In the Bedfordshire innings, there were two century partnerships, with Holdstock and Wharmby adding 104 for the second wicket, and Wharmby and Squire 138 for the fifth. For Norfolk, there were 23 fours, 3 threes and 19 twos in Barratt’s 166, scored in 2¼ hours, and 10 fours, 3 threes and 12 twos in Stevens’s 100 not out, an innings of an hour and 40 minutes. Dunell’s 75 contained 15 fours and Cozens-Hardy’s 51 included 6 fours. In the Norfolk first innings Stevens and Pilch added 56 runs for the seventh wicket. In the Norfolk second innings, Barratt and Dunell added 126 runs for the second wicket, and Barratt and Cozens-Hardy 139 for the fourth. On the morning of the match, V Stephens, who had originally been selected to play as the Norfolk wicket-keeper, sprained his thumb after falling in the bathroom at his hotel in Bedford. Gascoigne was wired to take his place but did not arrive at the ground until the close of the Bedfordshire innings. G A Stevens took over the wicket-keeping duties, and O Pointer, of the Bedford Grammar School XI, fielded as substitute and held 2 catches. [Missing: Extras breakdown.] Sources : Bedfordshire Mercury 10 July; Bedfordshire Standard 10 July; Bedford and County Record 7 July; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 4 July; Eastern Daily Press 3,4 July; Eastern Evening News 2,3 July; Norfolk Chronicle 4 July; Norwich Mercury 8 July; Sporting Life 3,4 July; The Sportsman 3,4 July; Cricket 9 July, p 263.