Minor Counties Championship 1909

33 MATCH NUMBER 2 : LINCOLNSHIRE V SUFFOLK – EAST DIVISION At The Lincoln Lindum Cricket Club Ground, Wragby Road, Lincoln on Monday 31 May, Tuesday 1 June 1909 Result: Match drawn - Lincolnshire won on first innings Points: Lincolnshire 3 Toss: Suffolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Lincolnshire 3 (H H Bacon, J E Crookes, C B L Prior); Suffolk 3 (C L Alexander, Dr A J Leeming, F E Smith) First day score: Suffolk 232; Lincolnshire 152-5 wickets (L S Harrisson 38*) Suffolk * + E Pritchett c Allen b Harrisson 126 C L Alexander b Cooke 2 (2) not out 16 H Bassett b Bacon 20 Dr A J Leeming lbw b Geeson 2 W Catchpole b Bacon 6 (1) c Allen b Cooke 0 H L Wilson c Bacon b Cooke 9 D Mustard c Crookes b Cooke 5 C Catchpole c Harrisson b Cooke 0 Smith, F E not out 36 (3) not out 8 Trudgett, F G b Cooke 1 Penfold, W absent Extras 25 7 Total 232 (1 wicket) 31 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 66 75 82 105 128 128 221 232 - Second innings 2 - - - - - - - - - Geeson 23 7 47 1 - - (2) 4 0 10 0 - - Cooke 20.1 4 57 5 - - (1) 5 0 14 1 - - Bacon 20 3 59 2 - - Harrisson 6 1 23 1 - - Hibbert 7 1 17 0 - - Prior 1 0 4 0 - - Extras - - 25 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 77.1 16 232 9 - - 9 0 31 1 - - Lincolnshire Rev C G Ward b Bassett 42 Hibbert, W J b Trudgett 35 Geeson, F b Trudgett 21 R E Williams c Pritchett b Smith 12 * W E Thompson lbw b Trudgett 0 L S Harrisson c Pritchett b Trudgett 68 C B L Prior b Smith 0 E T Cooke c C Catchpole b Bassett 1 J E Crookes c Pritchett b Trudgett 88 + Allen, G J b Penfold 11 Bacon, H H not out 10 Extras 15 Total 303 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 67 96 105 105 152 152 162 206 256 303 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Trudgett 23.4 3 77 5 - - Bassett 23 3 66 2 - - Smith 12 0 67 2 - - Alexander 6 1 17 0 - - Penfold 13 1 61 1 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - Total 77.4 8 303 10 - - Notes: Match drawn with Lincolnshire winning on first innings. Rain delayed the start on the second day until shortly before 3.00 pm and the stumps were drawn at 5.15 with the light deteriorating and heavy rain threatening. For the home team, Crookes scored 88 which included 1 six and 12 fours and Harrisson 68. In the Lincolnshire innings, Crookes and Allen added 50 runs for the ninth wicket. For Suffolk, Pritchett scored 126, an innings of 3¼ hours. With Smith he put on 93 runs for the eighth wicket in the Suffolk first innings. Penfold did not take part in the match before the second day as he was a late replacement for Quaife, who withdrew at the last moment ‘for domestc reasons’. It was estimated that close to 600 spectators were present on the second day. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Suffolk first innings breakdown of Pritchett’s 126; in Lincolnshire innings boundaries in Harrisson’s 68] Sources: Grimsby News 4 June; East Anglian Daily Times 1,2 June ; The Sportsman 1,2 June; Cricket 3 June, p 175.