Minor Counties Championship 1909

53 MATCH NUMBER 22 : BEDFORDSHIRE V SUFFOLK – EAST DIVISION At The Modern School Ground , Clarendon Road, Bedford on Wednesday 30 June, Thursday 1 July 1909 Result: Match drawn - Bedfordshire won on first innings Points: Bedfordshire 3 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Suffolk 1 (S G Bennett); Bedfordshire none First day score: Bedfordshire 254; Suffolk 113-6 wickets (W Quaife 8*, P W Cobbold 26*) Bedfordshire Holdstock, H F run out 4 (1) b Cobbold 0 W E King b Cobbold 0 (2) c Bennett b Trudgett 22 Wharmby, G E b Cobbold 29 (3) b Trudgett 20 H Willett run out 3 (4) c Walters b Cobbold 61 Keenan, N c C L Alexander b Cobbold 6 (5) b Cobbold 5 * H R Orr b Trudgett 136 (6) c C W Alexander b Wilson 49 + E E Apthorp c Walters b Wilson 47 (7) b Trudgett 27 P A Foy b Trudgett 11 (8) c and b Cobbold 2 L Clark lbw b Cobbold 6 (9) b Cobbold 3 R O Wever not out 6 (10) b Trudgett 2 H Grierson c C W Alexander b Trudgett 0 (11) not out 8 Extras 6 4 Total 254 203 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 19 32 37 46 183 215 236 254 254 Second innings 0 34 47 52 121 181 203 Cobbold 44 14 84 4 - - (1) 30 11 77 5 - - Trudgett 28 5 86 3 - - (2) 24.1 5 82 4 - - Waters 10 4 15 0 - - (4) 3 0 4 0 - - C L Alexander 3 0 14 0 - - Wilson 11 0 49 1 - - (3) 8 0 36 1 - - Extras - - 6 2 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 96 23 254 10 - - 65.1 16 203 10 - - Suffolk O H A Walters c Clark b Wharmby 23 (1) b Foy 21 Hon S H Hill-Wood b Wharmby 9 (2) c Clark b Wharmby 2 Quaife, W not out 58 (3) b Wharmby 14 C L Alexander b Grierson 0 (4) b Foy 4 Capt F T D Wilson b Foy 7 (5) b Holdstock 15 C W Alexander b Grierson 14 (6) not out 18 Capt J T C Murray c Apthorp b Wharmby 5 (7) not out 5 * P W Cobbold b Grierson 53 S G Bennett lbw b Clark 10 Trudgett, F G b Wharmby 11 Waters, F c Apthorp b Wharmby 3 Extras 24 11 Total 217 (5 wickets) 90 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 36 36 64 77 151 186 205 217 Second innings - - - - - Wharmby 36.4 12 66 5 - - (1) 17 5 30 2 - - Grierson 19 4 49 3 - - (2) 6 2 10 0 - - Clark 19 3 43 1 - - (4) 5 1 18 0 - - Foy 6 2 6 1 - - (3) 8 2 12 2 - - Wever 2 0 8 0 - - Orr 2 0 21 0 - - Holdstock (5) 2 0 9 1 - - Extras - - 24 0 - - - - 11 0 - - Total 84.4 21 217 10 - - 38 10 90 5 - - Notes: Match drawn with Bedfordshire winning on first innings. Suffolk required 241 runs to win with just over an hour and a half left to play. For the home team, Orr’s 136 contained 13 fours, 2 threes and 21 twos. Willett scored 61. In the Bedfordshire first innings, Orr and Apthorp put on 137 runs for the sixth wicket. For Suffolk, Quaife scored 58 not out, and Cobbold 53. In the Suffolk first innings Quaife and Cobbold added 74 runs for the seventh wicket. The 74 overs bowled by Cobbold in the match were the most during the season, and the 25 maidens in the match the equal highest. [Missing: Umpires; Suffolk wicket-keeper; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Bedfordshire first innings duration of O rr’s 136; in Bedfordshire second innings boundaries in Willett’s 61; in Suffolk first innings boundaries in Quaife’s 58 not out and in Cobbold’s 53.] Sources: Bedfordshire Mercury 2 July; Bedfordshire Standard 2 July; East Anglian Daily Times 1,2 July; The Sportsman 1,2 July; Cricket 29 July, p 301.