Minor Counties Championship 1908

56 MATCH NUMBER 23 : YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At Rotherham Cricket Club Ground, Clifton Lane, Rotherham on Monday 6, Tuesday 7 July 1908 Result: Staffordshire won by 101 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W Copeland and J Gregory Debutants: Yorkshire 2 nd XI 2 (A Drake, W H Micklethwait); Staffordshire none First day score: Staffordshire 201; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 72-6 wickets (M W Booth 23*, H Harrison 8*) Staffordshire P Briggs c Booth b Brown 77 (1) c Rudston b Booth 10 Brown, W c Brown b Booth 8 (6) b Brown 8 Barnes, S F b Brown 1 (2) b Brown 4 Fereday, J B b Brown 1 (4) c Grimshaw b Brown 5 Hollowood, A c Rudston b Brown 19 (7) b Booth 3 * H D Stratton b Drake 22 (3) b Brown 10 E H Bourne c Rudston b Brown 17 (5) b Brown 41 J W Johnson b Booth 14 (8) c Wilson b Booth 3 Bucknell, A c Brown b Booth 22 (9) c Micklethwait b Booth 7 + J Poole b Booth 9 (10) not out 1 Mee, R J not out 6 (11) b Brown 0 Extras b 4, lb 1 5 b 8, w 1 9 Total 201 101 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 20 23 27 123 127 146 168 183 196 201 Second innings 18 26 32 37 61 70 80 100 101 101 Brown 27 8 84 5 - - (1) 16.5 2 41 6 - - Booth 23 2 66 4 - - (2) 16 1 51 4 1 - Harrison 6 1 16 0 - - Drake 7 0 30 1 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 63 11 201 10 0 0 32.5 3 101 10 1 0 Yorkshire 2 nd XI * R W Frank c Briggs b Barnes 0 (8) c Poole b Mee 1 Rudston, H c Poole b Barnes 1 (2) c Poole b Mee 0 Wilson, B B b Mee 15 (1) b Barnes 5 Grimshaw, C H b Barnes 5 (4) c Barnes b Bucknell 14 Turner, A run out 14 (3) c Poole b Barnes 8 W H Micklethwait b Barnes 8 (6) b Barnes 0 Booth, M W not out 39 (5) b Mee 9 Harrison, H b Bucknell 15 (9) not out 18 Drake, A c Brown b Barnes 0 (7) c Johnson b Barnes 26 + Dolphin, A run out 4 (10) b Mee 3 Brown, W c Bucknell b Barnes 0 (11) b Barnes 1 Extras b 6, lb 3, nb 1 10 b 1, lb 1, nb 3 5 Total 111 90 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 5 19 35 38 50 96 97 105 111 Second innings 0 11 24 36 37 53 54 79 89 90 Barnes 25.2 8 46 6 - 1 (1) 17.4 7 28 5 - 1 Mee 17 6 44 1 - - (2) 18 5 37 4 - 2 Bucknell 8 5 11 1 - - (3) 7 1 20 1 - - Extras - - 10 2 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 50.2 19 111 10 0 1 42.4 13 90 10 0 3 Notes: Staffordshire won by 102 runs on the second day. For the winners, Barnes took 11 wickets in the match for 74 runs. There were 10 fours in Briggs’s 77. For Yorkshire 2 nd XI, Brown took 11 wickets in the match for 125 runs. 2,400 spectators were present on the first day with gate receipts of £63. This was the first championship match played at this venue. [Missing: Precise time completed.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Yorkshire Year Book 1909, p 106; Yorkshire Post 7,8 July; Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 11 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 6,7 July; The Sportsman 7,8 July; Cricket 16 July, p 279.