Minor Counties Championship 1909

126 MATCH NUMBER 95 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE – EAST DIVISION At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 August 1909 Result: Bedfordshire won by six wickets Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Cambridgeshire 251; Bedfordshire 138-2 wickets (B L Peel 84*, H F Holdstock 17*) Cambridgeshire L J Reid c Apthorp b Peel 22 (1) b Morcom 6 Coulson, H c Peel b Morcom 45 (11) c Sutherland b Orr 0 A S Ling c King b Foy 50 (3) st Apthorp b Orr 15 + Watts, G H c King b Morcom 21 (5) c Holdstock b Wharmby 0 B W Pigg c Holdstock b Foy 9 (6) c and b Morcom 22 F Roberson b Morcom 3 (2) c Apthorp b Wharmby 30 C H Pigg c King b Grierson 50 (4) c Sutherland b Morcom 6 F E Collier c King b Orr 13 (7) c Grierson b Orr 63 * C Pigg not out 15 (9) lbw b Orr 5 O W Bocock c Sutherland b Orr 8 (8) c Holdstock b Wharmby 10 G A Rose c Wharmby b Orr 8 (10) not out 1 Extras w 1 7 0 Total 251 158 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 50 80 143 143 155 155 191 221 251 Second innings 20 36 43 44 67 99 116 149 158 Morcom 26 5 96 3 - - (1) 16 4 46 3 - - Wharmby 14 3 38 0 - - (2) 21 3 63 3 - - Peel 5 0 23 1 - - Grierson 7 3 18 1 - - Orr 6.1 1 23 3 - - (3) 5.5 0 49 4 - - Foy 13 3 46 2 1 - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 71.1 15 251 10 1 0 42.5 7 158 10 0 0 Bedfordshire B L Peel c Reid b B W Pigg 84 (1) b Rose 16 W E King b B W Pigg 25 (2) c Reid b B W Pigg 15 Wharmby, G E c B W Pigg b C H Pigg 1 (3) b Coulson 19 Holdstock, H F b Rose 17 (4) not out 24 * H R Orr b Rose 7 H O Sutherland c B W Pigg b Coulson 29 (5) b Rose 8 + E E Apthorp st Watts b C H Pigg 37 G S Leventhorpe c Rose b C H Pigg 29 (6) not out 22 A F Morcom c and b Coulson 28 P A Foy c Reid b B W Pigg 4 H Grierson not out 18 Extras w 1, nb 1 23 6 Total 302 (4 wickets) 110 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 71 138 138 153 206 250 259 276 302 Second innings 25 65 - - - - - - Coulson 17.1 2 49 2 - 1 (3) 7.1 1 23 1 - - Rose 28 4 86 2 - - (1) 9 1 38 2 - - Reid 6 0 27 0 - - B W Pigg 26 4 62 3 1 - (2) 7 0 43 1 - - C H Pigg 11 3 55 3 - - Extras - - 23 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 88.1 13 302 10 1 1 23.1 2 110 4 - - Notes: Bedfordshire won this return match by six wickets at 5.45 pm on the second day, having required 108 runs for victory with just under 2 hours of play remaining. The match between the two sides at Luton at the beginning of the month had also been won by Bedfordshire. For the winners, there were 11 fours in Peel’s 84. For the losers, Collier scored 63 which included 9 fours and Ling 50 and C H Pigg 50. Cambridgeshire were handicapped by Coulson falling ill, which affected his bowling and led to him batting last in the Cambridgeshire second innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cambridgeshire first innings boundaries in Ling’s 50 and C H Pigg’s 50.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 20 August; Cambridge Daily News 16,17 August; Cambridge Independent Press 20 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 20 August; Bedford and County Record 17 August; Bedfordshire Standard 20 August; North Herts Mail 19 August; The Sportsman 17,18 August; Cricket 9 September, p 95.