Minor Counties Championship 1909

119 MATCH NUMBER 88 : LINCOLNSHIRE V NORFOLK – EAST DIVISION At The Lincoln Lindum Cricket Club Ground, Wragby Road, Lincoln on Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 August 1909 Result: Lincolnshire won by nine wickets Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: R Head and W Pate Debutants: Lincolnshire none; Norfolk none First day score: Norfolk 71 and 41-3 wickets (Rev G B Raikes 8*, G A Stevens 0*); Lincolnshire 181 Norfolk * Rev G B Raikes c and b Broughton 19 (2) c Day b Broughton 27 Rev J G McCormick b Geeson 23 (1) b Geeson 12 G A Stevens b Geeson 0 (5) c Geeson b Brooke 29 N W Stevens b Brooke 4 (3) lbw b Geeson 3 R A A Beresford b Brooke 0 (4) b Riley 18 C E Durrant c Allen b Brooke 0 ( ) b Day 6 Allsopp, T C b Brooke 13 ( ) c Crookes b Day 47 + S D Page lbw b Brooke 1 ( ) c Crookes b Day 12 Stevens, G b Brooke 6 ( ) st Allen b Brooke 10 Gibson, E b Brooke 1 ( ) b Day 5 Smith, E W not out 4 ( ) not out 7 Extras 0 2 Total 71 178 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 29 38 38 38 56 59 60 62 71 Second innings 15 23 178 Geeson 14 6 25 2 - - (1) 12 5 25 2 - - Riley 7 3 16 0 - - (3) 8 1 32 1 - - Brooke 11.3 4 19 7 - - (2) 16.3 0 65 2 - - Broughton 4 0 11 1 - - (5) 8 0 30 1 - - Day (4) 6 1 24 4 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 36.3 13 71 10 0 0 50.3 7 178 10 - - Lincolnshire * Rev C G Ward c Smith b Gibson 22 (1) not out 34 Hibbert, W J b Raikes 1 (2) b Raikes 9 Broughton, J J c Page b Raikes 8 (3) not out 25 Day, J W c Page b Gibson 6 Riley, E E b Gibson 70 R E Williams c Raikes b Gibson 0 E Pullein c Durrant b G Stevens 27 J E Crookes b Smith 21 Geeson, F not out 7 J A Brooke b Gibson 8 + Allen, G J b Gibson 0 Extras 11 1 Total 181 (1 wicket) 69 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 32 43 44 44 109 156 181 181 Second innings - - - - - - - - - Gibson 21.2 4 49 6 - - (1) 7 2 31 0 - - Raikes 15 1 51 2 - - (2) 6.5 0 37 1 - - Smith 7 2 22 1 - - G Stevens 6 1 22 1 - - Allsopp 3 0 15 0 - - Durrant 2 0 11 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 54.2 8 181 10 - - 13.5 2 69 1 - - Notes: Lincolnshire won this return match by nine wickets at 1.45 pm on the second day. The match between the two sides the previous week at Norwich had also been won by Lincolnshire. At the fall of the ninth wicket in the Norfolk first innings, complaining the wicket had been over-watered, Raikes the acting captain and regular captain Wilson, who was a spectator nursing a badly bruised hand, inspected the wicket. Raikes subsequently sent a cable to F E Lacey, the Secretary of the MCC and to Dr J Earl Norman, Secretary of the Minor Counties Cricket Association that read “Lincoln wicket heavily watered one- end, and admitted. We protest to you, but propose resuming play for sake of the gate. Raikes, Captain Norfolk”. Lincolnshire officials held a meeting the following day and denied the validity of the charges. Day, the Lindum groundsman, wrote to the local newspaper also denying the charge. The fallout was that the teams did not meet the next year. As far as the match was concerned, for Lincolnshire Riley scored 70 and Brooke took 7 wickets for 19 runs in the Norfolk first innings. For Norfolk Allsopp top-scored with 47, and Gibson took 6 wickets for 49 runs in the Lincolnshire first innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Norfolk second innings part batting order; in Lincolnshire first innings boundaries in Riley’s 70.] Sources: Lincolnshire Echo 11,12 August; Eastern Daily Press 12,13 August; Eastern Evening News 11,12 August; Norfolk Chronicle 14 August; Norwich Mercury 14 August; Yorkshire Post 12,13 August; The Sportsman 12,13 August; Cricket 2 September, p 375.