Minor Counties Championship 1909

32 MATCH NUMBER 1 : CHESHIRE V YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI – NORTH DIVISION At The Sale Cricket Club Ground, Rookwood, Clarendon Crescent, Sale on Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 May 1909 Result: Match drawn – no decision on first innings Points: None awarded Toss: Cheshire Umpires: S Atkinson and W Copeland Debutants: Cheshire 10 (Whole team except Rev F C L Hamilton); Yorkshire 2 nd XI none First day score: Cheshire 135-5 wickets (S Bent 14*, Rev F C L Hamilton 5*) Cheshire R Z H Voss b Broadbent 1 T T Brewer b Booth 10 H P Rigby lbw b Richardson 50 K D R Morrice c Richardson b Booth 4 F S Church b Richardson 47 Bent, S c and b Broadbent 18 * Rev F C L Hamilton b Broadbent 18 A S Turner b Broadbent 25 Buxton, N not out 11 + J L Jones not out 17 L Court Extras b 2, lb 1, w 3, nb 2 8 Total (8 wickets) 209 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 26 34 116 117 143 164 177 - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Broadbent 34 13 53 4 - - Robinson 8 0 31 0 2 2 Booth 21 4 63 2 - - Richardson 9 2 41 2 1 - Brown 4 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - Total 76 19 209 8 3 2 Yorkshire 2 nd XI Broadbent, A Booth, M W Brown, W + Dolphin, A * R W Frank Grimshaw, C H Hardisty, C H Richardson, A L Robinson, D Rudston, H Turner, A Notes: Match drawn with no decision on first innings. Rain limited play to 2½ hours on the first day, and an hour on the second. There were several interruptions on the first day and no play between lunch and 4.35 pm, and heavy rain halted play before 6.00 pm. On the second day play was stopped half an hour before lunch. After an early lunch had been taken, rain continued to fall heavily and the match was abandoned at 2.00 pm. For Cheshire there were 5 fours in Rigby’s 50. [Missing Complete.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Sale Guardian 29 May; Yorkshire Year Book 1910, p 102; Yorkshire Post 27,28 May; The Sportsman 27,28 May; Cricket 3 June, p 166.