Minor Counties Championship 1909

114 MATCH NUMBER 83 : NORFOLK V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The King Edward VII Grammar School Ground, King’s Lynn on Monday 9, Tuesday 10 August 1909 Result: Norfolk won by an innings and 67 runs Points: Norfolk 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: R Head and A Rudd Debutants: Norfolk 1 (C E Durrant); Cambridgeshire none First day score: Norfolk 379; Cambridgeshire 52-6 wickets (H R Barker 3*, G H Watts 8*) Norfolk Rev J G McCormick b Coulson 12 A K Watson c Watts b Bellars 66 G A Stevens c Reid b Tebbutt 104 R A A Beresford b Tebbutt 63 Rev G B Raikes c Collier b Tebbutt 25 C E Durrant b Coulson 26 Gibson, E c C Pigg b Tebbutt 11 * B K Wilson b Tebbutt 7 Stevens, G b Coulson 0 + S D Page not out 19 Smith, E W run out 13 Extras 33 Total 379 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 145 247 257 293 329 329 329 335 379 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 34 12 80 3 - - B W Pigg 19 2 68 0 - - Reid 5 0 22 0 - - Bellars 15 1 52 1 - - Barker 10 1 53 0 - - Tebbutt 17.1 2 71 5 - - Extras - - 33 1 - - Total 100.1 18 379 10 - - Cambridgeshire (Followed on) L J Reid st Page b Raikes 8 (1) st Page b Raikes 57 F E Collier b Raikes 0 (3) b Raikes 2 F Roberson c Page b Raikes 4 (7) not out 54 A S Ling b Gibson 13 (4) b G Stevens 19 B W Pigg c McCormick b Raikes 13 (8) c Durrant b Raikes 29 H C Tebbutt c and b Raikes 0 (6) b Smith 5 H R Barker b Raikes 9 (9) c and b Raikes 15 + Watts, G H c G Stevens b Raikes 17 (5) c Smith b G Stevens 0 * C Pigg c Gibson b Smith 18 (10) b G Stevens 3 Coulson, H not out 3 (2) b Gibson 14 A E Bellars c McCormick b Smith 9 (11) b G Stevens 3 Extras 7 nb 2 10 Total 101 211 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 13 28 30 33 44 63 89 101 Second innings 23 36 81 81 101 101 147 190 197 211 Gibson 14 6 20 1 - - (1) 11 3 31 1 - - Raikes 16 2 63 7 - - (2) 27 2 109 4 - - Smith 2.4 0 11 2 - - (3) 16 4 36 1 - - Stevens, G (4) 9 1 25 4 - 2 Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 32.4 8 101 10 - - 63 10 211 10 0 2 Notes: Norfolk won this return match by an innings and 67 runs shortly before 3.45 pm on the second day. When the two sides had met at Newmarket in July Cambridgeshire had been victorious. For the winners, Raikes took 11 wickets in the match for 172 runs, including 7 for 63 in the Cambridgeshire first innings. There were 11 fours, 6 threes and 2 twos in G A Stevens’s 104, an innings of 2¼ hours. Watson’s 66 included 8 fours, and Beresford’s 63 contained 9 fours. In the Norfolk innings, Watson and G A Stevens added 116 runs for the second wicket, and Stevens and Beresford 102 for the third. For Cambridgeshire, Reid scored 57 and Roberson 54 not out. This was the first Championship match played at the ground. [Missing: Ground location; extras breakdown; in Cambridgeshire first innings fall of ninth wicket; in Cambridgeshire second innings boundaries in Reed’s 57 and Roberson’s 54 not out.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 10,11 August; Eastern Evening News 9,10 August; Norfolk Chronicle 14 August; Norwich Mercury 14 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 13 August; East Anglian Daily Times 10,11 August; The Sportsman 10,11 August; Cricket 19 August, p 350.