Minor Counties Championship 1909

103 MATCH NUMBER 72 : STAFFORDSHIRE V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI – NORTH DIVISION At County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 4, Thursday 5 August 1909 Result: Match drawn – Yorkshire 2 nd XI won on first innings Points: Yorkshire 2 nd XI 3 Toss: Yorkshire 2 nd XI Umpires: W Copeland and J Gregory Debutants: Staffordshire none; Yorkshire 2 nd XI none First day score: Staffordshire 190; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 92-1 wicket (C H Grimshaw 50*, A Turner 27*) Staffordshire P Briggs c Booth b Drake 65 (1) c Harrison b Brown 2 E H Bourne c Watson b Brown 16 (2) b Oldroyd 40 Barnes, S F c Booth b Brown 0 (9) not out 4 R C Page b Brown 3 (4) run out 0 Nichols, J E b Brown 1 (6) b Drake 2 * H D Stratton c Oldroyd b Brown 27 (5) b Brown 0 Hollowood, A b Drake 24 (8) c Booth b Oldroyd 7 Vost, E b Brown 16 (7) c and b Booth 8 J W Johnson not out 19 (3) b Brown 1 + H Dearing b Brown 0 Eardley, H b Drake 12 (10) not out 6 Extras b 7 7 b 2, lb 3 5 Total 190 (8 wickets) 75 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 45 45 65 67 105 137 153 161 163 190 Second innings 2 6 8 10 21 47 60 63 - - Brown 25 7 67 7 - - (1) 17 8 25 3 - - Drake 24.3 4 67 3 - - (2) 12 8 7 1 - - Booth 11 1 18 0 - - (3) 8 1 18 1 - - Harrison 11 1 31 0 - - (5) 4 3 3 0 - - Richardson (4) 3 1 7 0 - - Oldroyd (6) 4 0 10 2 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 71.3 13 190 10 0 0 48 21 75 8 0 0 Yorkshire 2 nd XI Grimshaw, C H c Vost b Bourne 89 Rudston, H b Eardley 13 Turner, A b Bourne 48 Booth, M W b Barnes 48 Drake, A b Page 1 Oldroyd, E b Vost 6 Richardson, A L b Barnes 4 * G Tattersall b Barnes 1 + Watson, H lbw b Nichols 7 Harrison, H b Barnes 7 Brown, W not out 8 Extras b 9, lb 3 12 Total 244 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 24 140 183 190 208 215 221 222 234 244 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barnes 45.4 20 66 4 - - Eardley 22 6 48 1 - - Vost 8 2 20 1 - - Nichols 26 8 49 1 - - Page 10 3 23 1 - - Bourne 11 2 26 2 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - Total 122.4 41 244 10 0 0 Notes: Drawn return match that at one stage looked as if it would be won by the visitors after the Yorkshire captain Tattersall on winning the toss had put Staffordshire in to bat. However, the Yorkshire batting was described in press reports as being ‘slow and tedious’ and they had insufficient time - 170 minutes - to bowl Staffordshire out in their second innings. For Yorkshire 2 nd XI Brown took 10 wickets in the match for 92 runs, including 7 for 67 in the Staffordshire first innings. Grimshaw took 4 hours and 40 minutes in scoring his 89, an innings that contained 8 fours. In the Yorkshire innings Grimshaw and Turner added 116 runs for the second wicket For the home side, Briggs’s 65 included 4 fours and Bourne a match-saving 40, an innings of 2 hours and 10 minutes. The 45.4 overs bowled by Barnes in the Yorkshire innings was the second highest number for the season, while the 20 maidens were the most in an innings during the season. The match between the two sides at Wakefield in July had been won by Yorkshire 2 nd XI. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 7 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 4,5 August; Yorkshire Year Book 1910, p 113; Yorkshire Post 5,6 August; The Sportsman 5,6 August; Cricket 12 August, p 334.