Minor Counties Championship 1909

177 DURHAM 1909 Championship matches: Played 10, won 3, lost 5, drawn 2 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Fourth out of six in North Division Won: v Cheshire at Darlington, v Cheshire at Oxton and v Northumberland at Chester-le-Street Lost: v Northumberland at Jesmond, v Yorkshire 2nd XI at Harrogate, v Staffordshire at Sunderalnd, v Nottinghamshire 2nd XI at Nottingham and v Staffordshire at Stoke-on-Trent Drawn – won on first innings: v Nottinghamshire 2nd XI at Wearmouth Drawn – lost on first innings: None Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Yorkshire 2nd XI at South Shields Captain: T Coulson (9 matches) – E B Proud led the side in the match in which T Coulson did not play Wicket-keepers: I L Robinson (6 matches), G P Gore (3 matches) and R Emmerson (1 match) Debutants: 12 (T A Bradford, C Brooks, J Bucknell, M Combey, B S Cumberledge, R Emmerson, A Lowings, J A Lush, W E Maynard, A Oliver, G E Pinder and I L Robinson) Final season: 9 (R Y Brydon, J Bucknell, M Combey, B S Cumberledge, R Emmerson, A Lowings, J A Lush, A Oliver and G E Pinder) Hon Secretary: A B Horsley Secretary: T A Bulmer Professionals: 6 (R Y Brydon, A Morris, C H Parkin, T Smith, J Thackeray and G Turnbull) Home grounds 5 : Chester-le-Street Cricket Club Ground, Ropery Lane, Chester-le-Street (1 match); Darlington Cricket Club Ground, Feethams, South Terrace, Darlington (1 match); South Shields Cricket Club Ground, Wood Terrace, Westoe, South Shields (1 match); Sunderland Cricket Club Ground, Ashbrooke, Sunderland (1 match) and Wearmouth Colliery Ground, Carley Hill, Wearmouth, Sunderland (1 match) Notes: Durham did not have such a successful season as in 1908 dropping from second to fourth place in the North Division. Cheshire and Nottinghamshire 2nd XI replaced Lancashire 2nd XI and Lincolnshire on the fixture list. T A Bradford scored most runs with 288 at 28.80. Although Alf Morris took most wickets with 48 at 13.83 this was considerably less than his 84 at 12.19 in 1908. T Smith gave Morris support with 31 wickets at 14.54. Career milestones reached during the season were four hundred wickets by George Turnbull and one hundred wickets by J Thackeray. DURHAM MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1909 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 12 players who made their Championship debut for Durham during the season. Names in bold indicate that 1909 was the last or only season that these 9 players appeared for Durham in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I C Y Adamson 2 3 0 22 42 14.00 - - - - - 6 0 36 0 - - - - A P Ashley 1 2 0 18 18 9.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - J Bewick 8 14 2 44 162 13.50 - - 2 1 - 69.3 17 183 11 16.63 6-16 - 1 T A Bradford + 6 10 0 89 288 28.80 - 3 2 1 - - - - - - - - - C Brooks + 6 11 0 45 178 16.18 - - - 2 - 42.1 6 128 8 16.00 5-40 - 1 Brydon, R Y 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 - - 13.5 2 55 2 27.50 1-14 - - J Bucknell + 4 8 0 48 117 14.62 - - 2 - - 35 6 109 4 27.25 2-17 - - M Combey + 1 2 0 26 47 23.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - T Coulson 9 16 1 51 240 16.00 - 1 3 3 - 1.4 0 11 0 - - - - B S Cumberlege + 2 4 0 23 59 14.75 - - - - - 2 1 1 0 - - - - R Emmerson + 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - G P Gore 3 5 1 141* 165 41.25 1 - 1 2 3 1 0 3 0 - - - - T Kinch 3 6 0 33 99 16.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - A Lowings + 1 2 0 11 13 6.50 - - - - - 16 4 26 0 - - - - Rev J A Lush + 1 2 0 14 14 7.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - W E Maynard + 2 4 0 36 37 9.25 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - Morris, A 10 17 3 57 175 12.50 - 1 2 7 - 256.2 54 664 48 13.83 9-51 2 3 A Oliver + 2 4 0 10 30 7.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Parkin, C H 1 1 1 26* 26 - - - - - - 8 0 26 1 26.00 1-26 - - G E Pinder + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - 5 1 23 1 23.00 1-23 - - E B Proud 8 14 2 60 257 21.41 - 1 2 2 - - - - - - - - - I L Robinson + 6 10 5 21* 34 6.80 - - 4 5 - - - - - - - - - J M Russell 1 1 0 12 12 12.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - A L Scott Owen 2 4 0 34 46 11.50 - - 1 - - 2 0 16 0 - - - - Smith, T 7 12 1 25 65 5.90 - - 3 3 - 137.2 20 451 31 14.54 6-49 - 3 Thackeray, J 8 13 3 50 169 16.90 - 1 - 8 - 93.1 22 251 14 17.92 5-60 - 1 Turnbull, G 7 12 1 71 246 22.36 - 1 1 5 - 118 29 264 14 18.85 6-24 - 1 A E Walker 6 10 0 26 125 12.50 - - 1 2 - 0.3 0 - 0 - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 190 - - - - - - - - 174 1 - - - - Total 110 193 20 141* 2857 16.51 1 8 32 43 3 807.3 162 2421 135 17.93 9-51 2 10 (28 players) (6 ball overs)