Minor Counties Championship 1909

120 MATCH NUMBER 89 : STAFFORDSHIRE V DURHAM – NORTH DIVISION At County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 August 1909 Result: Staffordshire won by ten wickets Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: S Atkinson and M Myers Debutants: Staffordshire none; Durham 1 (M Combey) First day score: Staffordshire 315; Durham 53-5 wickets (C Brooks 3*, J Bucknell 6*) Staffordshire P Briggs c Morris b J Bucknell 54 E H Bourne b Morris 66 Hollowood, A st Gore b Brooks 23 Nichols, J E b Brooks 9 Vost, E b Turnbull 45 * H D Stratton b Morris 2 + C L Winser b Turnbull 65 J W Johnson st Gore b Brooks 32 (2) not out 3 Bucknell, A b Brooks 5 H Eardley not out 3 (1) not out 6 P S Bayliss b Brooks 0 Extras b 9, w 1, nb 1 11 b 3 3 Total 315 (0 wicket) 12 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 74 133 153 153 164 273 280 312 315 315 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Morris 21 3 64 2 - - Smith 23 2 81 0 - - Bewick 7 0 24 0 - - Turnbull 15 1 50 2 - - J Bucknell 12 1 45 1 1 1 Brooks 14.4 2 40 5 - - Cumberlege (1) 2 1 1 0 - - Coulson (2) 1.2 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 92.4 9 315 10 1 1 3.2 1 12 0 0 0 Durham (Followed on) B S Cumberlege c Winser b Eardley 21 (2) b Bayliss 1 J Bewick b Nichols 8 (1) c Stratton b A Bucknell 8 Turnbull, G b Eardley 6 (3) b A Bucknell 17 W E Maynard c Winser b Eardley 0 (4) lbw b Bourne 36 C Brooks c Winser b A Bucknell 5 (5) c Bayliss b A Bucknell 7 + G P Gore b Eardley 2 (6) b Eardley 21 J Bucknell b Bayliss 48 (7) b Bayliss 22 M Combey c Briggs b Nichols 26 (8) b Bayliss 21 * T Coulson c Winser b Bayliss 29 (9) c Bayliss b A Bucknell 10 Morris, A c Winser b Nichols 11 (10) not out 4 Smith, T not out 1 (11) b A Bucknell 3 Extras b 7, lb 3 10 lb 6 6 Total 167 156 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 34 38 43 45 57 120 132 161 167 Second innings 4 20 31 55 86 106 139 148 150 156 Eardley 21 4 59 4 - - (1) 6 0 21 1 - - Nichols 16 3 45 3 - - (5) 6 0 19 0 - - Bucknell, A 9 2 15 1 - - (4) 20 6 44 5 - - Bayliss 17.2 9 21 2 - - (2) 15 0 48 3 - - Bourne 1 0 2 0 - - (3) 6 1 18 1 - - Vost 7 0 15 0 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 71.2 18 167 10 0 0 53 7 156 10 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by ten wickets at 5.10 pm on the second day, after Durham followed on 148 runs behind. The encounter between the two sides at Sunderland in July had been won by Staffordshire. For the winners, there were 5 fours in Bourne’s 66, Winser’s 65 contained 7 fours, and Briggs’s 54 included 1 five and 2 fours. In the Staffordshire first innings, Vost and Winser put on 109 runs for the sixth wicket. In the Durham first innings J Bucknell and M Combey added 63 runs for the seventh wicket. J Bucknell top-scored for Durham with 48 containing 2 fours. The match was for the benefit of Albert Hollowood. The Bucknells playing for each team were brothers. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 14 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 11,12 August; Newcastle Daily Journal 12,13 August; Yorkshire Post 13 August; The Sportsman 12,13 August; Cricket 2 September, p 375.