Minor Counties Championship 1909

102 MATCH NUMBER 71 : NORFOLK V LINCOLNSHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich on Wednesday 4, Thursday 5 August 1909 Result: Lincolnshire won by six wickets Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Lincolnshire Umpires: T Attewell and R Barber Debutants: Norfolk none; Lincolnshire none First day score: Norfolk 175; Lincolnshire 112-8 wickets (R E Williams 17*, F Geeson 0*) Norfolk Rev J G McCormick c Williams b Broughton 27 (1) c Crookes b Cooke 12 E T Garnier b Riley 26 (2) b Cooke 0 G A Stevens run out 9 (4) b Cooke 13 O H C Dunell b Riley 2 (3) c and b Cooke 8 N W Stevens run out 0 (5) b Cooke 0 * B K Wilson c Day b Riley 20 (8) b Cooke 0 Allsopp, T C b Broughton 5 (6) b Cooke 0 + R H Fowler c Crookes b Cooke 53 (7) b Broughton 1 Stevens, G run out 21 (9) lbw b Broughton 1 Gibson, E c Ward b Cooke 0 (10) not out 2 Smith, E W not out 0 (11) st Allen b Broughton 0 Extras 12 1 Total 175 38 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 50 59 68 96 98 168 175 Second innings 10 25 26 26 26 35 35 35 38 38 Cooke 11.1 1 33 2 - - (1) 8 3 16 7 - - Geeson 15 4 35 0 - - Broughton 24 3 50 2 - - (2) 7.3 0 21 3 - - Riley 23 8 45 3 - - Extras - - 12 3 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 73.1 16 175 10 - - 15.3 3 38 10 - - Lincolnshire Rev C G Ward b Smith 0 (1) c McCormick b Gibson 28 Day, J W b Smith 12 (2) c McCormick b Gibson 23 Broughton, J J b Smith 15 (3) b Smith 8 T Hedworth b Smith 16 (4) b Smith 0 * W E Thompson c Wilson b Smith 10 (5) not out 9 E T Cooke b Smith 7 Riley, E E c Allsopp b Smith 12 R E Williams b Smith 26 (6) not out 9 J E Crookes st Fowler b Gibson 3 Geeson, F lbw b Smith 6 + Allen, G J not out 3 Extras 24 nb 1 3 Total 134 (4 wickets) 80 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 12 29 59 64 69 100 123 134 Second innings 47 60 60 60 - - - - - - Gibson 33 17 31 1 - - (1) 16 4 38 2 - - Smith 40.3 12 63 9 - - (2) 12.2 1 31 2 - 1 Stevens, G 4 0 8 0 - - (3) 3 0 8 0 - - Allsopp 4 1 8 0 - - Extras - - 24 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 81.3 30 134 10 - - 31.2 5 80 4 0 1 Notes: Lincolnshire won by six wickets at 3.20 pm on the second day. For the winners Cooke took 7 wickets for 16 runs in the Norfolk second innings. For the losers, Smith took 11 wickets in the match for 94 runs, including 9 for 63 in the Lincolnshire first innings. There were 3 fours in Fowler’s 53. In the Norfolk first innings Fowler and G Stevens put on 70 runs for the eighth wicket. There were 3 run outs in the Norfolk first innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Norfolk first innings fall of third, fourth and ninth wickets; in Lincolnshire first innings fall of eighth wicket.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 5,6 August; Eastern Evening News 4,5 August; Norfolk Chronicle 7 August; Norwich Mercury 7 August; Grantham Journal 7 August; Lincolnshire Free Press 10 August; East Anglian Daily Times 5,6 August; Yorkshire Post 5,6 August; The Sportsman 5,6 August; Cricket 26 August, p 368.