Minor Counties Championship 1909

65 MATCH NUMBER 34 : CHESHIRE V DURHAM – NORTH DIVISION At Oxton Cricket Club Ground, Townfield Lane, Oxton on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 July 1909 Result: Durham won by 82 runs Points: Durham 5 Toss: Durham Umpires: S Atkinson and M Myers Debutants: Cheshire 4 (A Ashworth, W A V Churton, H B Hancock, P Mason); Durham none First day score: Durham 201 and 43-4 wickets (E B Proud 11*, C Brooks 0*); Cheshire 102 Durham A E Walker c Chambers b Ashworth 23 (1) b Churton 4 Turnbull, G run out 11 (2) b Churton 13 T A Bradford b Morrice 70 (3) c J L Jones b Mason 0 E B Proud b Churton 25 (4) c J L Jones b Churton 12 * T Coulson c Chambers b Churton 23 (5) b Churton 3 C Brooks c Chambers b Mason 7 (6) b Mason 28 J Bewick run out 9 (7) c Morrice b Mason 7 Morris, A b Churton 10 (8) c Hamilton b Mason 57 Smith, T c J L Jones b Chambers 0 (9) c Voss b Churton 23 Thackeray, J not out 8 (10) b Chambers 18 + I L Robinson run out 1 (11) not out 6 Extras b 9, lb 5 14 b 9, lb 6 15 Total 201 186 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 57 142 142 167 173 180 187 194 201 Second innings 17 18 22 30 44 52 92 127 179 186 Mason 19 5 52 1 - - (1) 27.1 10 55 4 - - Churton 16.5 0 65 3 - - (2) 19 3 55 5 - - Chambers 9 1 35 1 - - (4) 6 0 31 1 - - Ashworth 6 0 22 1 - - (3) 8 3 17 0 - - Morrice 4 1 13 1 - - (5) 3 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 14 3 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 54.5 7 201 10 0 0 63.1 16 186 10 0 0 Cheshire Mason, P b Smith 5 (5) c Robinson b Morris 14 R M Chadwick b Morris 10 (1) b Smith 0 H B Hancock c Turnbull b Thackeray 29 (3) c Walker b Morris 46 K D R Morrice b Smith 0 (4) b Morris 22 R Z H Voss run out 17 (2) lbw b Smith 7 W E Jones c Turnbull b Thackeray 4 (6) c Robinson b Smith 56 * Rev F C L Hamilton c Thackeray b Smith 14 (8) b Smith 23 A Ashworth c Morris b Smith 8 (9) not out 12 Chambers, W T not out 6 (7) b Morris 8 W A V Churton b Thackeray 0 (10) lbw b Turnbull 5 + J L Jones b Thackeray 2 (11) b Smith 1 Extras b 2, lb 5 7 b 7, lb 2 9 Total 102 203 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 23 24 61 69 76 89 96 96 102 Second innings 1 22 78 83 96 116 182 187 200 203 Morris 14 1 45 1 - - (3) 15 4 31 4 - - Smith 12 1 33 4 - - (1) 21 1 86 5 - - Thackeray 9.5 3 17 4 - - (2) 18 6 45 0 - - Brooks (4) 4 1 8 0 - - Bewick (5) 7 2 14 0 - - Turnbull (6) 6 3 10 1 - - Extras - - 7 1 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 35.5 5 102 10 0 0 71 17 203 10 0 0 Notes: Durham won by 82 runs on the second day. For the winners, there were 7 fours in Bradford’s 70 and 7 fours in Morris’s 57. Smith took 9 wickets in the match for 119 runs. In the Durham second innings Smith and Thackeray added 52 runs for the ninth wicket. For Cheshire there were 8 fours in W E Jones’s 56. In the Cheshire second innings W E Jones and Hamilton put on 66 runs for the seventh wicket. [Missing: Precise time completed.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Birkenhead News 17 July; Newcastle Daily Journal 15,16 July; Yorkshire Post 15,16 July.