Minor Counties Championship 1909

56 MATCH NUMBER 25 : STAFFORDSHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND – NORTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 5, Tuesday 6 July 1909 Result: Staffordshire won by four wickets Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: S Atkinson and H Walmsley Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (A F Lane); Northumberland 1 (Lt H Cooper) First day score: Northumberland 80 and 121; Staffordshire 118 Northumberland Lt H Cooper c Lane b Barnes 10 (1) b Barnes 21 Marshall, J c Briggs b Bucknell 36 (2) b Barnes 2 Carr, J T b Barnes 0 (3) b Bucknell 2 N R E Wilkinson c Lane b Barnes 0 (4) b Barnes 2 Milne, G T c Hollowood b Barnes 0 (5) b Barnes 0 R Foster c Bucknell b Barnes 0 (7) b Mee 25 Richardson, O b Lane 0 (6) b Barnes 8 W G Brown c Fereday b Barnes 10 (8) b Barnes 38 * C M Skinner c and b Barnes 1 (9) c Johnson b Barnes 5 + T Ullathorne c Bucknell b Barnes 6 (10) c Fereday b Barnes 9 Elsey, G not out 9 (11) not out 1 Extras nb 2 8 nb 2 8 Total 80 121 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 21 21 21 21 21 36 45 51 80 Second innings 5 16 20 20 47 77 94 104 119 121 Barnes 14 4 38 8 - - (3) 12.5 1 55 8 - 1 Lane 6 2 24 1 - - (5) 2 0 8 0 - - Mee 6 2 9 0 - 2 (4) 7 2 16 1 - 1 Bucknell 1.3 0 1 1 - - (2) 8 0 31 1 - - Stratton (1) 1 0 3 0 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 27.3 8 80 10 0 2 30.5 3 121 10 0 2 Staffordshire P Briggs st Ullathorne b Milne 6 (1) c Carr b Milne 20 Hollowood, A c Foster b Skinner 5 (2) st Ullathorne b Milne 4 * H D Stratton st Ullathorne b Milne 29 (3) c Foster b Carr 16 Fereday, J B lbw b Milne 0 (4) c and b Elsey 23 Nichols, J E b Elsey 19 (5) c Cooper b Milne 1 Barnes, S F b Milne 14 (6) not out 11 J W Johnson c Brown b Marshall 13 (7) c Ullathorne b Milne 4 Lane, A F c Skinner b Marshall 4 Bucknell, A c Brown b Marshall 20 (8) not out 5 + H Dearing b Marshall 2 Mee, R J not out 0 Extras 6 w 1 1 Total 118 (6 wickets) 85 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 11 12 57 65 92 93 109 118 118 Second innings 6 30 48 55 68 80 - - - - Skinner 8 0 29 1 - - (2) 3 0 19 0 - - Milne 25 8 43 4 - - (1) 20 6 22 4 1 - Elsey 7 2 21 1 - - (5) 7.2 3 17 1 - - Marshall 11 4 19 4 - - (3) 4 0 13 0 - - Carr (4) 5 1 13 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 51 14 118 10 0 0 39.2 10 85 6 1 0 Notes: Staffordshire won by four wickets before lunch on the second day. They had required in their second innings 84 runs to win with the whole of the second day to score them. Showers delayed the start of play on the second day by half an hour. In the first Northumberland innings the first six wickets fell at the same total of 21 which as far as is known has never happened before or since in a Championship match. There were no hat-tricks. For the winners, Barnes took 16 wickets in the match for 93 runs, a new record for the competition, taking 8 wickets for 38 runs in the first innings and 8 for 55 in the second., which was statistically the second best match bowling performance of the season. A crowd of 2000 was estimated to be present on the first day. [Missing: Extras breakdown; precise time completed.] Sources: Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 10 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 5,6 August; Newcastle Daily Journal 6,7 August; The Sportsman 7 July; Cricket 22 July, p 279.