Minor Counties Championship 1908

95 MATCH NUMBER 62 : STAFFORDSHIRE V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 August 1908 Result: Match drawn - Staffordshire won on first innings Points: Staffordshire 3 Toss: Yorkshire 2 nd XI Umpires: J Gregory and S Wrigley Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (E G Baxter); Yorkshire 2 nd XI 1 (B Emmett) First day score: Yorkshire 2 nd XI 163; Staffordshire 137-3 wickets (W Brown 44*, S F Barnes 10*) Yorkshire 2 nd XI * Rudston, H c Eardley b Barnes 34 (1) b Barnes 8 Turner, A c Vost b Barnes 43 (2) c Baxter b Bourne 55 Bell, - c and b Mee 15 (3) b Barnes 0 Roebuck, D b Mee 1 (4) c Vost b Eardley 17 W H Micklethwait b Barnes 7 (5) b Eardley 7 Broadbent, A b Barnes 15 (6) c Baxter b Barnes 5 Richardson, A L c Stratton b Barnes 9 (7) b Brown 51 Drake, A c Dearing b Barnes 6 (8) not out 16 + Emmett, B c Vost b Eardley 1 Harrison, H b Bourne 14 Hartington, H E not out 6 Extras b 3, lb 8, nb 1 12 b 4, lb 1, w 1, nb 1 7 Total 163 (7 wickets) 166 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 77 92 98 106 106 117 127 137 148 163 Second innings 13 13 40 48 53 141 166 - - - Barnes 33 13 54 6 - 1 (1) 22 11 37 3 - - Eardley 11 2 34 1 - - (3) 18 6 40 2 - - Mee 24 9 42 2 - - (2) 18 9 27 0 - 1 Brown 5 2 18 0 - - (7) 2 1 4 1 - - Vost 3 1 3 0 - - (5) 8 1 18 0 - - Bourne 0.2 0 0 1 - - (4) 7 1 25 1 - - Fereday (6) 2 0 8 0 1 - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 76.2 27 163 10 0 1 77 29 166 10 1 1 Staffordshire P Briggs b Broadbent 0 Brown, W c Emmett b Hartington 45 * H D Stratton b Hartington 18 Fereday, J B c Rudston b Broadbent 40 Barnes, S F c Richardson b Harrison 79 Vost, E b Harrison 51 E G Baxter not out 21 E H Bourne b Hartington 17 + H Dearing Mee, R J H Eardley Extras b 23, lb 7, w 2, nb 1 33 Total (7 wickets declared) 304 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 30 120 139 256 273 304 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Broadbent 27 5 79 2 - - Hartington 28.5 5 84 3 - - Drake 7 3 12 0 - - Richardson 13 1 49 0 - - Harrison 17 4 47 2 2 1 Extras - - 33 0 - - Total 92.5 18 304 7 2 1 Notes: Drawn return match with Staffordshire winning on first innings. Staffordshire won when the two teams met at Rotherham in July. For the winners, there were 1 five and 6 fours in Barnes’s 79 and 5 fours in Vost’s 51. For the visitors, Turner’s 55 included 1 five and 4 fours and Richardson’s 51 5 fours. The 24 maidens bowled by Barnes in the match was equal highest in a match of the season. In the Staffordshire innings S F Barnes and E Vost added 117 runs for the fifth wicket. [Missing: Initials of Bell; precise time completed.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Yorkshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 8 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 5,6,7 August; The Sportsman 6,7 August; Cricket 13 August, p 350.