Minor Counties Championship 1909

184 NORFOLK 1909 Championship matches: Played 10, won 2, lost 4, drawn 4 (won on first innings 2, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Fourth out of six in East Division Won: v Suffolk at Norwich and v Cambridgeshire at King’s Lynn Lost: v Hertfordshire at St Albans, v Cambridgeshire at Newmarket, v Lincolnshire at Norwich and v Lincolnshire at Lincoln Drawn – won on first innings: v Suffolk at Woodbridge and v Bedfordshire at Norwich Drawn – lost on first innings: v Hertfordshire at Norwich Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Bedfordshire at Bedford GS Captain: B K Wilson (7 matches) – Rev G B Raikes (1 match), B Cozens-Hardy (1 match) and S D Page (1 match) led the side in the matches in which B K Wilson did not play Wicket-keepers: S D Page (6 matches), R H Fowler (3 matches) and R W Thurgar (1 match) Debutants: 11 (T C Allsopp, C E Durrant, G A H Farmer, T H S Horsfall, E Lord, F M Meyrick-Jones, L G Mitchell, C B Smith, G S Stevens, R F Taylor and R W Thurgar) Final season: 17 (O H C Dunell, C E Durrant, G A H Farmer, R H Fowler, T H S Horsfall, E Lord, J G McCormick, F M Meyrick-Jones, L G Mitchell, S D Page, E B Raikes, E W Smith, G S Stevens, R F Taylor, A K Watson, T H Wharton and B K Wilson) Hon Secretaries: E G Buxton and A M Jee Assistant Secretary: C F Taylor Professionals: 4 (T C Allsopp, E Gibson, E W Smith and G Stevens) Home Ground 2: King Edward VII Grammar School Ground, King’s Lynn (1 match) and The County Ground, Lakenham, Norwich (4 matches) Notes: Norfolk again finished fourth in the East Division with two matches won. The fixture list was increased with Lincolnshire now being met. Although Geoffrey Stevens scored 466 runs at 29.12 this was much less than the previous season when he scored 696 at 63.27. Ted Gibson bowled well taking 58 wickets at 14.15. Billy Smith obtained 29 wickets at 20.00 and was released at the end of the season. Career milestones reached during the season were one thousand runs by Arthur Watson and two hundred wickets by Billy Smith. NORFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1909 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 11 players who made their Championship debut for Norfolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1909 was the last or only season that these 17 players appeared for Norfolk in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Allsopp, T C + 9 15 2 56 229 17.61 - 1 2 8 - 128.2 23 431 12 35.91 4-31 - - R A A Beresford 2 3 0 63 81 27.00 - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - B Cozens-Hardy 4 7 0 36 55 7.85 - - - 6 - 2 0 8 0 - - - - O H C Dunell 4 8 0 29 110 13.75 - - 1 3 - 17.1 5 66 5 13.20 5-27 - 1 C E Durrant + 2 3 0 26 32 10.66 - - 1 2 - 2 0 11 0 - - - - G A H Farmer + 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 1 - 4 1 10 0 - - - - R H Fowler 3 6 0 53 86 14.33 - 1 1 - 3 - - - - - - - - E T Garnier 3 6 0 38 84 14.00 - - 2 - - 6 1 18 0 - - - - Gibson, E 10 14 4 12 73 7.30 - - 1 7 - 355 103 821 58 14.15 7-36 2 7 T H S Horsfall + 1 2 0 6 12 6.00 - - - - - 8 2 23 1 23.00 1-23 - - E Lord + 1 1 1 3* 3 - - - - - - 5 1 15 1 15.00 1-8 - - Rev J G McCormick 4 7 0 27 100 14.28 - - - 7 - - - - - - - - - Rev F M Meyrick-Jones + 1 2 1 46* 78 78.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - L G Mitchell + 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - S D Page 6 9 2 19* 56 8.00 - - 3 7 4 - - - - - - - - R G Pilch 2 4 1 5* 15 5.00 - - - 2 - 4 1 7 0 - - - - E B Raikes 1 2 1 4 7 7.00 - - - - - 10 0 52 2 26.00 2-36 - - Rev G B Raikes 2 3 0 27 71 23.66 - - - 3 - 64.5 5 260 14 18.57 7-63 1 1 C B Smith + 2 2 0 6 8 4.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Smith, E W 9 12 5 26 60 8.57 - - 3 2 - 220 52 580 29 20.00 9-63 1 1 Stevens, G 6 9 0 21 63 7.00 - - 1 1 - 93 19 256 18 14.22 6-56 - 1 G A Stevens 10 17 1 104 466 29.12 1 2 2 4 - 2 0 3 0 - - - - G S Stevens + 2 4 0 18 32 8.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - N W Stevens 5 10 0 33 103 10.30 - - 2 4 - 3 0 14 0 - - - - R F Taylor + 3 4 1 8 21 7.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - R W Thurgar + 3 3 0 5 5 1.66 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - A K Watson 2 3 0 66 95 31.66 - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - - - T H Wharton 4 6 0 3 13 2.16 - - - - - 3 0 19 0 - - - - B K Wilson 7 10 2 26 107 13.37 - - 3 3 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 170 - - - - - - - - 183 4 - - - - Total 110 174 21 104 2236 14.61 1 6 28 63 7 927.2 213 2777 144 19.28 9-63 4 11 (29 players) (6 ball overs)