Minor Counties Championship 1908

84 MATCH NUMBER 51 : BEDFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Luton Town Cricket Club Ground, Wardown Park, Bedford Road, Luton on Monday 3, Tuesday 4 August 1908 Result: Bedfordshire won by 167 runs Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire 1 (N Keenan); Cambridgeshire 2 (F Bryan, B Gray) First day score: Bedfordshire 212; Cambridgeshire 265-9 wickets (C Pigg 17*, F E Collier 4*) Bedfordshire R W Rice lbw b Coulson 31 (1) c Bryan b Coulson 91 B L Peel b Coulson 10 (2) b Coulson 20 Wharmby, G E c C H Pigg b Coulson 21 (3) c Watts b Gray 36 Holdstock, H F c Gray b Brown 27 (6) c Watts b Hunt 34 * H R Orr c Brown b Coulson 26 (4) b Coulson 4 H Squire c C H Pigg b Brown 13 (7) c Hunt b Gray 30 L C R Thring b Coulson 14 (5) c C H Pigg b Gray 11 H O Sutherland b Coulson 16 (8) c Reid b Gray 56 N Keenan b C H Pigg 26 (9) not out 13 + E E Apthorp b C H Pigg 8 (10) c Watts b Coulson 23 Pestell, F E not out 6 (11) not out 4 Extras b 13, lb 1 14 b 8, lb 1 9 Total 212 (9 wickets declared) 331 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 22 63 64 108 137 142 169 178 196 212 Second innings 30 91 198 204 - Coulson 29 5 76 6 - - (1) 37 10 127 4 - - Brown 15 0 58 2 - - (2) 15 1 59 0 - - Gray 7 0 42 0 - - (3) 12 1 69 4 - - C H Pigg 6.1 2 22 2 - - (4) 5 1 27 0 - - Hunt (5) 5 0 40 1 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 57.1 7 212 10 0 0 74 13 331 9 0 0 Cambridgeshire L J Reid run out 34 (2) c Pestell b Peel 1 W C Hunt c Rice b Wharmby 32 (3) b Peel 6 O W Bocock lbw b Orr 16 (4) b Wharmby 2 B Gray st Apthorp b Orr 1 (5) st Apthorp b Wharmby 10 T W Brown b Wharmby 14 (6) c Apthorp b Wharmby 3 C H Pigg c Thring b Pestell 66 (7) c Wharmby b Peel 5 + Watts, G H c Thring b Orr 52 (8) c Apthorp b Peel 0 Coulson, H run out 6 (9) b Wharmby 14 * C Pigg c Peel b Wharmby 26 (10) b Peel 6 F W Bryan hit wicket b Pestell 15 (11) not out 9 F E Collier not out 24 (1) c Peel b Wharmby 0 Extras b 14, lb 10 24 b 1, lb 6, w 2, nb 1 10 Total 310 66 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 57 90 94 125 227 229 260 310 Second innings 5 5 5 26 31 31 31 66 Wharmby 32.2 6 105 3 - - (1) 16 4 29 5 - - Peel 8 0 52 0 - - (2) 15.5 8 27 5 2 1 Pestell 20 4 67 2 - - (3) 1 1 0 0 - - Orr 16 3 62 3 - - Extras - - 24 2 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 76.2 13 310 10 0 0 32.5 13 66 10 2 1 N otes: Bedfordshire won by 167 runs on the second day. For the winners, Rice scored 91 and there were 10 fours in Sutherland’s 56. Newspaper reports indicate the wicket began to crumble badly on the second day. For the losers, C H Pigg’s 66 contained 10 fours and Watts’s 52 included 8 fours. In the Cambridgeshire first innings, C H Pigg and G H Watts added 102 runs for the sixth wicket, and C Pigg and Collier 50 for the last wicket. The train conveying the visitors was late, so play on the first day did not start until 12 noon. The 66 overs bowled by Coulson in the match were the most by a bowler during the season. 1,200 spectators were reported to be present on the first day. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; in Bedfordshire second innings boundaries in Rice’s 91; precise time completed.] Sources: Bedfordshire Standard 7 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 8 August; Luton News 6 August; Cambridge Daily News 3,4 August; Cambridge Independent Press 7 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 7 August; The Sportsman 4,5 August; Cricket 13 August, p 343.