Minor Counties Championship 1909

55 MATCH NUMBER 24 : HERTFORDSHIRE V CAMBRIDGESHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Bishop’s Stortford Cricket Club Ground, Cricket Field Lane, Bishop’s Stortford on Friday 2, Saturday 3 July 1909 Result: Hertfordshire won by 47 runs Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: A T Chamberlain and A Rudd Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Cambridgeshire 2 (Capt H H A Cooke, A S Ling) First day score: Hertfordshire 37 and 206-6 wickets (H E White 39*, R B Cowley 31*); Cambridgeshire 67 Hertfordshire Golding, A J b Coulson 1 (1) lbw b Coulson 50 White, H E b Coulson 12 (2) not out 57 C H Titchmarsh b Coulson 5 ( ) c Watts b Coulson 2 C C T Doll b Coulson 10 ( ) b Cooke 5 M H C Doll b Coulson 2 ( ) c Ling b Cooke 2 A Butcher b Cooke 1 ( ) b Cooke 36 R B Cowley b Coulson 0 (8) c and b Pigg 50 E L Wright b Coulson 0 (9) c Ling b Pigg 12 + E H Cuthbertson b Coulson 0 ( ) c Watts b Pigg 13 * H M Harford not out 0 (10) b Pigg 2 W H Marsh b Cooke 6 (11) lbw b Coulson 9 Extras 0 47 Total 37 285 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 16 26 28 30 30 30 30 31 37 Second innings 90 239 257 262 285 Coulson 8 3 13 8 - - (1) 44.4 14 75 3 - - Cooke 8 2 24 2 - - (2) 32 9 54 3 - - Tebbutt (3) 5 1 15 0 - - Thomas (4) 4 1 14 0 - - Pigg (5) 23 7 59 4 - - Bellars (6) 3 0 21 0 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 47 0 - - Total 16 5 37 10 0 0 111.4 32 285 10 - - Cambridgeshire A S Ling b White 26 (1) b Marsh 1 * T S W Thomas c C C T Doll b White 5 (7) b Golding 22 F E Collier lbw b Marsh 3 (4) c Cuthbertson b Marsh 10 F W Bryan b White 0 (3) run out 5 L J Reid b White 0 (2) c and b White 19 H C Tebbutt c Golding b Marsh 4 (5) b Marsh 5 B W Pigg b White 1 (6) b White 25 + Watts, G H c C C T Doll b White 0 (8) c Titchmarsh b Marsh 88 Coulson, H lbw b Marsh 6 (9) b White 7 A E Bellars not out 14 (10) lbw b White 11 Capt H H A Cooke lbw b White 1 (11) not out 0 Extras 7 15 Total 67 208 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 13 18 22 27 37 37 45 67 Second innings 4 19 72 208 White 16.2 10 14 7 - - (1) 32.3 6 80 4 - - Marsh 16 0 46 3 - - (2) 22 7 50 4 - - Wright (3) 12 0 45 0 - - Golding (4) 8 1 18 1 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 15 1 - - Total 32.2 10 67 10 - - 74.3 14 208 10 - - Notes: Hertfordshire won by 47 runs at 4.30 pm on the second day, after Cambridgeshire had required 256 to win in their second innings. The run margin of the victory was the second closest of the season. For the winners, White took 11 wickets in the match for 94 runs, including 7 for 14 in the Cambridgeshire first innings. He also carried his bat through the Hertfordshire second innings with 57 not out. Golding and Cowley both scored 50. For the losers, Coulson took 11 wickets in the match for 88 runs, including 8 for 13 in the Hertfordshire first innings. The 44.4 overs he bowled in the Hertfordshire second innings were the third highest during the season. Watts’s 88 contained 1 six and 9 fours. Extras amounted to 47 in the Hertfordshire second innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire second innings boundaries in White’s 57 not out, Golding’s50 and Cowley’s 50, and part batting order.] Sources: Hertfordshire and Essex Observer 10 July; Watford Observer 10 July; Cambridge Daily News 2,3 July; Cambridge Independent Press 9 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 9 July; East Anglian Daily Times 3,5 July; The Sportsman 3,5 July; Cricket 29 July, p 30.