Minor Counties Championship 1908

57 MATCH NUMBER 24 : LINCOLNSHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The Grantham Town Cricket Club Ground, London Road, Grantham on Wednesday 8 [no play], Thursday 9 July 1908 Result: Match drawn – Staffordshire won on first innings Points: Staffordshire 3 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Lincolnshire 1 (A W Foster); Staffordshire none First day score: Rain prevented play on first day Staffordshire P Briggs run out 15 (6) c Hibbert b Foster 2 Brown, W b Holsinger 30 (8) b Foster 4 Barnes, S F c Allen b Geeson 0 Fereday, J B b Holsinger 1 (3) c Harrisson b Foster 3 Hollowood, A b Holsinger 13 * H D Stratton b Holsinger 2 E H Bourne c Foster b Holsinger 6 (1) c Allen b Harrisson 18 J W Johnson b Holsinger 30 (4) b Foster 0 Bucknell, A not out 32 (7) not out 2 + J Poole b Riley 7 (5) b Foster 2 Mee, R J run out 1 (2) b Harrisson 1 Extras b 6, lb 2 8 b 1 1 Total 145 (7 wickets declared) 33 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 29 34 58 60 61 70 125 144 145 Second innings 8 19 19 23 27 28 33 - - - Geeson 35 8 61 1 - - Broughton 4 0 12 0 - - Holsinger 27 13 37 6 - - Riley 4.5 0 27 1 - - (2) 2 0 11 0 - - Harrisson (1) 5 0 16 2 - - Foster (3) 2.2 0 5 5 - - Extras - - 8 2 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 70.5 21 145 10 0 0 9.2 0 33 7 0 0 Lincolnshire * W E Thompson c and b Barnes 10 Hibbert, W J b Barnes 0 (2) not out 15 Broughton, J J b Mee 1 (3) b Barnes 0 Turner, G c Brown b Mee 0 (4) b Mee 12 Riley, E E c and b Bucknell 13 (5) b Bucknell 7 R E Williams c Hollowood b Bucknell 15 L S Harrisson b Barnes 0 (1) b Barnes 5 Geeson, F not out 3 A W Foster b Barnes 1 Holsinger, A c Hollowood b Barnes 1 + Allen, G J b Barnes 0 Extras lb 10 10 b 8, nb 2 10 Total 54 (4 wickets) 49 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 13 15 15 42 45 45 50 54 54 Second innings 9 9 40 49 - - - - - - Barnes 13.5 5 20 6 - - (1) 6 2 13 2 - 1 Mee 10 4 17 2 - - (2) 8 2 20 1 - 1 Bucknell 3 0 7 2 - - (3) 2.3 0 6 1 Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 26.5 9 54 10 0 0 16.3 4 49 4 0 2 Notes: Rain-affected drawn match with Staffordshire winning on first innings. Rain prevented any play on the first day. The Staffordshire declaration left Lincolnshire with a victory target of 125 runs in 50 minutes. With the visitors seeking quick runs, Foster, who was an occasional bowler with his club, took 5 wickets for 5 runs in the Staffordshire second innings in his debut match. In the Staffordshire first innings, Johnson and Bucknell put on 55 runs for the eighth wicket. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 11 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 8,9 July; The Sportsman 10 July; Cricket 16 July, p 278.