Minor Counties Championship 1908

64 MATCH NUMBER 31 : LINCOLNSHIRE V LANCASHIRE 2 ND XI – NORTH DIVISION At The Black Swan Ground, Stepping Stones Lane, Spalding on Monday 20, Tuesday 21 July 1908 Result: Lincolnshire won by 4 runs Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Lincolnshire Umpires: J Gregory and H Walmsley Debutants: Lincolnshire 1 (W S Brown); Lancashire 2 nd XI 4 (F R Carmichael, H Foley, R Nall, J Valiant) First day score: Lincolnshire 145 and 13-2 wickets (W S Brown 8*); Lancashire 2 nd XI 104 Lincolnshire * W E Thompson lbw b Rowlands 12 (4) lbw b Rowlands 0 J Raby b Rowlands 6 (1) b Rowlands 2 Broughton, J J b Rowlands 7 (5) b Rowlands 5 L S Harrisson c Valiant b Sladen 15 (10) not out 23 Turner, G st Groves b Rowlands 8 (11) b Tyldesley 5 Riley, E E b Sladen 10 (7) c Heap b Rowlands 0 R E Williams c and b Rowlands 17 (8) b Tyldesley 22 E T Cooke b Rowlands 16 (9) b Tyldesley 2 Geeson, F lbw b Rowlands 35 (6) lbw b Rowlands 12 W S Brown c and b Rowlands 4 (2) b Rowlands 10 + Allen, G J not out 0 (3) c Tyldesley b Heap 2 Extras b 12, lb 2, nb 1 15 b 9, lb 5, w 1 15 Total 145 98 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 19 30 31 49 56 68 90 132 140 145 Second innings 6 13 15 22 29 29 58 65 68 98 Heap 17 6 26 0 - - (2) 16 7 21 1 - - Rowlands 33.2 9 52 8 - - (1) 29 13 42 6 - - Sladen 15 1 40 2 - 1 (3) 5 4 3 0 - - Foley 3 1 12 0 - - Tyldesley (4) 12.2 4 17 3 1 - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 68.2 17 145 10 0 1 62.2 28 98 10 1 0 Lancashire 2 nd XI F R Carmichael c Thompson b Geeson 30 (1) c Cooke b Geeson 14 Heap, J S run out 9 (2) b Broughton 2 Tyldesley, W K c Thompson b Cooke 2 (3) b Geeson 6 R Nall lbw b Geeson 0 (4) b Geeson 12 J A Schofield run out 4 (5) c Thompson b Geeson 0 H Foley c Geeson b Cooke 16 (6) c Riley b Broughton 9 Valiant, J c Geeson b Broughton 4 (7) c Riley b Geeson 15 Sladen, A R b Geeson 13 (8) c Riley b Broughton 43 * T Ainscough st Allen b Geeson 7 (9) b Geeson 22 Rowlands, L S not out 4 (10) not out 5 + Groves, A b Broughton 6 (11) b Geeson 1 Extras b 7, lb 2 9 b 4, lb 1, nb 1 6 Total 104 135 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 24 28 33 38 58 66 81 87 95 104 Second innings 12 16 25 29 34 52 84 116 131 135 Cooke 12 4 38 2 - - (3) 7 1 15 0 - - Geeson 20 3 46 4 - - (1) 22.2 8 56 7 - - Broughton 8 2 11 2 - - (2) 17 4 51 3 - 1 Riley (4) 2 0 7 0 - - Extras - - 9 2 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 40 9 104 10 0 0 48.2 13 135 10 0 1 Notes: Lincolnshire won this close return match by 4 runs at 4.30 pm on the second day. Loud and lengthy applause was reported to have greeted the fall of Groves’s wicket, which saw the home side victors by a very narrow margin. Lincolnshire had also won when the teams met at Lancaster earlier in the month. For the winners, Geeson took 11 wickets in the match for 102 runs including 7 for 56 in the Lancashire 2nd XI second innings. For the losers Rowlands took 14 wickets in the match for 94 runs, including 8 for 52 in the Lincolnshire first innings. No batsman scored more than Sladen’s 43, which contained 6 fours. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Lancashire Recopied Scorebook; Lincolnshire Free Press 28 July; The Sportsman 21,22 July ; Cricket 23 July, p 302.