Minor Counties Championship 1908

94 MATCH NUMBER 61 : NORFOLK V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 August 1908 Result: Norfolk won by an innings and 154 runs Points: Norfolk 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: F Newman and W Pate Debutants: Norfolk none; Cambridgeshire 1 (M Gray) First day score: Norfolk 272-2 wickets (G A Stevens 100*, L Barratt 8*) Norfolk C E Dunning c Watts b Morgan 99 O H C Dunell c Hunt b Stibbon 58 + G A Stevens not out 170 * L Barratt not out 66 B Cozens-Hardy M Falcon Gibson, E R G Pilch Smith, E W A K Watson J N Worman Extras w 1 7 Total (2 wickets declared) 400 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 110 242 - - - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 33 11 85 0 - - C H Pigg 14 3 48 0 - - Brown 9 2 56 0 - - Reid 3 0 34 0 - - Stibbon 12.4 1 77 1 - - Crouch 5 1 29 0 1 - Morgan 13 0 60 1 - - Hunt 1 0 4 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - Total 90.4 18 400 2 1 0 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) L J Reid c and b Gibson 8 (2) b Gibson 32 W C Hunt c Stevens b Smith 14 (3) b Gibson 6 F E Morgan b Smith 1 (4) c Gibson b Smith 5 T W Brown b Smith 0 (5) c Falcon b Gibson 6 O J Stibbon c Smith b Gibson 0 (6) b Gibson 0 C H Pigg c and b Smith 21 (7) c and b Smith 13 + Watts, G H run out 20 (8) c Barratt b Smith 1 M Gray not out 21 (1) c Pilch b Smith 5 * C Pigg b Smith 1 (9) not out 18 Coulson, H c Dunell b Smith 1 (10) c Dunning b Smith 16 W J B Crouch c Cozens-Hardy b Gibson 16 (11) c Dunell b Smith 9 Extras 23 9 Total 126 120 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 23 23 23 27 54 79 87 126 Second innings 8 15 31 31 64 120 Smith 22 11 46 6 - - (2) 18.1 6 54 6 - - Gibson 18.3 6 49 3 - - (1) 19 4 57 4 - - Worman 3 1 8 0 - - Extras - - 23 1 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 43.3 18 126 10 - - 37.1 10 120 10 - - Notes: Norfolk won by an innings and 154 runs at 5.05 pm on the second day, after Cambridgeshire followed on 274 runs behind on first innings. On the first day rain stopped play at 1.05 pm and the match did not resume until 5.00 pm. Norfolk lost just 2 wickets, a new record for a team winning a match in the Championship. Cambridgeshire were dismissed twice on the second day. For the winners, there were 31 fours, 3 threes and 6 twos in Stevens’s 170 not out, scored in 2 hours and 25 minutes. Dunning’s 99 cotained 13 fours, Barratt’s 66 not out 8 fours, and Dunell’s 58 9 fours. In the Norfolk innings there were three century partnerships, with Dunning and Dunell putting on 110 runs for the first wicket, Dunning and Stevens 132 for the second, and Stevens and Barratt 158 unbroken for the third. In the match, Smith took 12 wickets for 100 runs. Stibbon had a ‘king pair’ for Cambridgeshire, being dismissed first ball in both innings. Pilch kept wicket for Norfolk in the visitors second innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 6,7 August; Eastern Evening News 5,6 August; Norfolk Chronicle 8 August; Norwich Mercury 8 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 7 August; East Anglian Daily Times 6,7 August; The Sportsman 6,7 August; Cricket 13 August, p 351.