Minor Counties Championship 1909

123 MATCH NUMBER 92 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE – EAST DIVISION At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Friday 13, Saturday 14 August 1909 Result: Cambridgeshire won by an innings and 135 runs Points: Cambridgeshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire 1 (C Sheldrick); Hertfordshire 1 (G C Hartley) First day score: Cambridgeshire 424; Hertfordshire 106-3 wickets (A J Golding 30*, C T Rudd 27*) Cambridgeshire L J Reid b Shelford 221 Coulson, H c Wright b White 8 F E Collier b Coleman 0 A S Ling b White 4 + Watts, G H b Coleman 4 C H Pigg c Golding b Marsh 76 B W Pigg b White 18 O W Bocock b Shelford 27 * C Pigg c White b Shelford 28 G A Rose not out 14 C Sheldrick c sub b Shelford 5 Extras w 1 19 Total 424 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 12 31 183 401 424 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coleman 12 2 36 2 1 - Rudd 3 0 19 0 - - White 34 3 154 3 - - Shelford 9.1 0 50 4 - - Wright 4 0 27 0 - - Marsh 19 2 80 1 - - Golding 4 1 16 0 - - Vasey 3 0 23 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - Total 88.1 8 424 10 1 0 Hertfordshire (Followed on) Golding, A J c Watts b Sheldrick 35 (2) b Rose 0 G H Vasey b Rose 27 ( ) c Ling b Reid 10 C H Titchmarsh c Reid b Rose 0 (1) b Rose 10 E L Wright c Coulson b Sheldrick 10 ( ) not out 29 C T Rudd lbw b Reid 28 ( ) st Watts b Reid 9 White, H E c Rose b Coulson 30 ( ) c and b Rose 18 W H Marsh st Watts b Reid 0 ( ) c Ling b Rose 5 * H M Harford c Watts b Sheldrick 24 ( ) st Watts b Reid 0 G C Hartley not out 19 ( ) b Rose 3 Shelford, W c Watts b Rose 0 ( ) c Rose b Reid 13 Coleman, W E absent ill absent ill Extras 18 1 Total 191 98 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 117 148 188 191 - Second innings 5 40 61 61 98 - Coulson 8 2 10 1 - - B W Pigg 6 1 15 0 - - Rose 7.4 1 34 3 - - (1) 11 2 41 5 - - Reid 9 0 29 2 - - (2) 10.2 0 56 4 - - Sheldrick 16 2 78 3 - - C H Pigg 3 1 7 0 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 49.4 7 191 9 - - 21.2 2 98 9 - - Notes: Cambridgeshire won by an innings and 135 runs shortly before 2.00 pm on the second day, after Hertfordshire followed on 233 runs behind. The match between the two sides at Bishop’s Stortford in July had been won by Hertfordshire. For the winners, Reid’s 221 was the second highest score of the season and were also the second highest number of runs scored by a batsman in a match. His innings lasted four hours and 5 minutes and contained 5 fives, 28 fours and 12 threes. C H Pigg’s 76 included 7 fours. In the Cambridgeshire innings Reid and C H Pigg added 152 runs for the fifth wicket. The 154 runs conceded by White were the most in an innings during the season. Hertfordshire were considerably handicapped by Coleman suffering an acute attack of lumbago which limited him to bowling just 12 overs at the start of the Cambridgeshire innings and prevented him batting in either innings. [Missing: Umpires; Hertfordshire wicket-keeper; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cambridgeshire innings twos in L J Reid’s innings of 221 and who held substitute catch; in Hertfordshire second innings batting order.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 20 August; Cambridge Daily News 13,14 August; Cambridge Independent Press 20 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 20 August; Hertfordshire Express 21 August; Hertfordshire Leader 17 August; North Herts Mail 19 August; Watford Observer 21 August; The Sportsman 14,16 August; Cricket 2 September, p 384.