Minor Counties Championship 1908

68 MATCH NUMBER 35 : DURHAM V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The Sunderland Cricket Club Ground, Ashbrooke, Sunderland on Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 July 1908 Result: Durham won by ten wickets Points: Durham 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: T Cornwall and M Myers Debutants: Durham 1 (A P Ashley); Staffordshire none First day score: Staffordshire 69 and 57-7 wickets (W Brown 25*, H D Stratton 2*); Durham 121 Staffordshire P Briggs b Morris 9 (1) b Morris 6 Brown, W lbw b Turnbull 6 (2) not out 44 Barnes, S F b Morris 6 (6) b Morris 8 E W Page b Morris 8 (3) b Morris 2 Fereday, J B lbw b Morris 12 (4) lbw b Morris 2 Hollowood, A c Coulson b Morris 2 (5) b Morris 4 A Devey b Turnbull 0 (7) b Morris 1 + C L Winser b Turnbull 9 (8) lbw b Morris 1 * H D Stratton c Ashley b Morris 9 (9) b Thackeray 7 Bucknell, A not out 0 (10) b Thackeray 0 Mee, R J b Morris 1 (11) c and b Bewick 2 Extras b 3, lb 4 7 b 10, lb 2 12 Total 69 89 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 15 21 30 46 49 50 50 66 68 69 Second innings 19 23 27 41 51 53 55 78 86 89 Morris 15.1 5 33 7 - - (1) 24 7 34 7 - - Turnbull 15 2 29 3 - - (2) 18 4 35 0 - - Thackeray (3) 7 5 6 2 - - Bewick (4) 1.4 1 2 1 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 30.1 7 69 10 0 0 50.4 17 89 10 0 0 Durham C Y Adamson c Winser b Barnes 21 (1) not out 28 J F Best st Winser b Barnes 0 (2) not out 8 H Brooks c Brown b Barnes 0 A P Ashley lbw b Mee 0 * T Coulson run out 4 Turnbull, G b Barnes 52 J Bewick c Page b Bucknell 17 Stoner, A H not out 21 + J Kirtley b Bucknell 0 Morris, A c Hollowood b Bucknell 1 Thackeray, J run out 0 Extras b 5 5 lb 2 2 Total 121 (no wicket) 38 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 2 5 9 78 83 113 113 121 121 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barnes 20 7 58 4 - - (1) 3 1 7 0 - - Mee 17 6 33 1 - - (2) 3 1 6 0 - - Bucknell 14.4 4 20 3 - - (3) 4.4 1 22 0 - - Brown 4 1 5 0 - - Fereday (4) 4 3 1 0 - - Extras - - 5 2 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 55.4 18 121 10 0 0 14.4 6 38 0 0 0 Notes: Durham won this low-scoring match by 10 wickets at 12.55 pm on the second day. For the winners, Morris took 14 wickets in the match for 67 runs, taking 7 for 33 in the Staffordshire first innings and 7 for 34 in the second. There were 7 fours in Turnbull’s 52. For the visitors, Brown carried his bat through the Staffordshire second innings of 2¼ hours scoring 44 not out, one of three instances during the season. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Staffordshire Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Journal 23,24 July; Staffordshire Advertiser 25 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 22,23 July; Yorkshire Post 23,24 July; The Sportsman 23,24 July; Cricket 30 July, p 310.