Minor Counties Championship 1908

73 MATCH NUMBER 40 : HERTFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Hitchin Cricket Club Ground, Hitchin Hill, London Road, Hitchin on Friday 24, Saturday 25 July 1908 Result: Hertfordshire won by 166 runs Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Cambridgeshire 4 (F E Collier, H A Ford, H W Fromant, W C Hunt) First day score: Hertfordshire 125 and 18-2 wickets (A J Golding 8*, W H Marsh 6*); Cambridgeshire 122 Hertfordshire A Butcher b Coulson 5 (1) b Coulson 2 Golding, A J b Coulson 7 (2) b Pigg 96 C H Titchmarsh run out 34 (5) lbw b Coulson 8 White, H E b Coulson 22 (6) b Coulson 60 E H Cuthbertson b Coulson 2 (3) b Coulson 0 Coleman, W E b Coulson 3 (7) c Watts b Coulson 34 M H C Doll b Coulson 7 (8) b Coulson 2 * H M Harford b Coulson 17 (9) not out 20 W H Marsh b Pigg 2 (4) b Coulson 12 + C D Fastnedge not out 13 (10) b Swann-Mason 1 H W Englefield c Collier b Pigg 0 (11) b Swann-Mason 1 Extras 13 w 1 32 Total 125 268 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 40 68 125 Second innings 2 2 46 66 199 268 Bellars 6 3 18 0 - - (2) 13 4 32 0 1 - Coulson 23 7 33 7 - - (1) 37 10 79 7 - - Swann-Mason 1 0 2 0 - - (3) 4 0 7 2 - - Fromant 3 0 10 0 - - (5) 8 1 28 0 - - Pigg 14.4 0 49 2 - - (4) 16 2 77 1 - - Reid (6) 3 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 13 1 - - - - 32 0 - - Total 47.4 10 125 10 - - 81 17 268 10 1 0 Cambridgeshire L J Reid c White b Coleman 6 (1) b White 0 W C Hunt b White 9 (2) b Coleman 1 O W Bocock b Marsh 7 (3) c Fastnedge b Coleman 16 F E Collier c Doll b White 0 ( ) b Coleman 1 * Rev R S Swann-Mason b Coleman 6 ( ) b White 17 C H Pigg b White 5 ( ) b White 8 Coulson, H b White 7 ( ) c Titchmarsh b White 0 + Watts, G H c White b Marsh 47 ( ) b White 20 H W Fromant b Marsh 16 (4) c Butcher b White 9 H A Ford b Marsh 2 ( ) not out 0 A E Bellars not out 0 ( ) c Butcher b White 19 Extras 17 14 Total 122 105 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 22 22 28 39 47 59 115 122 122 Second innings 0 2 26 44 99 105 White 30 13 43 4 - - (1) 22.4 5 49 7 - - Coleman 26 9 40 2 - - (2) 17 6 30 3 - - Marsh 13 6 22 4 - - (3) 5 0 12 0 - - Extras - - 17 0 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 69 28 122 10 - - 44.4 11 105 10 - - Notes: Hertfordshire won by 166 runs on the second day. For the winners, White took 11 wickets in the match for 92 runs, including 7 for 49 in the Cambridgeshire second innings. There were 9 fours in Golding’s 96 and White scored 60. In the Hertfordshire second innings, Golding and White added 133 runs for the fifth wicket. For the losers, Coulson took 14 wickets in the match for 112 runs, including 7 for 33 in the Hertfordshire first innings and 7 for 79 in the second. In the Cambridgeshire first innings, Watts and Fromant put on 56 runs for the eighth wicket. This was the first use of this venue for a championship match. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire second innings boundaries in White’s 60; in Cambridgeshire second innings part batting order; precise time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 25,27 July; Cambridge Independent Press 31 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 31 July; The Sportsman 25 July; Cricket 6 August, p 326.