Minor Counties Championship 1909

66 MATCH NUMBER 35 : HERTFORDSHIRE V NORFOLK – EAST DIVISION At Clarence Park, Clarence Road, St Albans on Wednesday 14 July 1909 Result: Hertfordshire won by an innings and 29 runs Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Hertfordshire 2 (S Brown, H P L Gaussen); Norfolk none First day score: As match - completed in one day Norfolk C B Smith c and b White 2 (1) b Coleman 6 T H Wharton b White 2 (5) c R B Cowley b White 2 G A Stevens c Coleman b White 15 (3) lbw b Coleman 0 R W Thurgar b Coleman 0 (8) b White 0 R F Taylor b Coleman 7 ( ) not out 6 * B Cozens-Hardy b White 3 ( ) b White 8 Allsopp, T C c Golding b Coleman 15 (4) b White 2 + S D Page b Coleman 0 (9) b White 0 R G Pilch c Golding b White 5 (10) b Coleman 2 Gibson, E not out 1 (2) c Cuthbertson b White 1 Smith, E W b White 0 (11) c Wright b Coleman 2 Extras nb 1 3 nb 2 10 Total 53 39 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 25 27 38 52 53 Second innings 3 4 13 24 28 28 28 39 White 12.5 3 29 6 - - (1) 14 7 17 6 - - Coleman 12 2 21 4 - 1 (2) 14 6 12 4 - 2 Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 24.5 5 53 10 0 1 28 13 39 10 0 2 Hertfordshire White, H E c Stevens b E W Smith 0 J N Cowley run out 0 Golding, A J lbw b Gibson 29 + E H Cuthbertson b Gibson 0 C H Titchmarsh c Cozens-Hardy b Allsopp 33 R B Cowley b E W Smith 12 H P L Gaussen b Gibson 27 Coleman, W E b E W Smith 8 E L Wright c C B Smith b Gibson 0 Brown, S c Stevens b Gibson 0 * W H Marsh not out 0 Extras 12 Total 121 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 0 5 65 83 111 113 121 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Gibson 13 7 28 5 - - Smith, E W 21.3 7 50 3 - - Allsopp 9 1 31 1 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - Total 43.3 15 121 10 - - Notes: Hertfordshire won by an innings and 29 runs at 5.40 pm on the first day. Only four and a half hours of play was needed to complete the match on a soft pitch badly affected by heavy rainfall on the previous evening. For the winners, White and Coleman bowled unchanged through both Norfolk innings. White took 12 wickets in the match for 46 runs and Coleman 8 for 33. White did the hat-trick in the second Norfolk innings, his victims being Cozens-Hardy, Thurgar and Page. Titchmarsh top- scored in the match with 33, containing 4 fours. The match aggregate of 213 runs for a completed match was the third lowest of the season. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Norfolk second innings part batting order.] Sources: Hertfordshire Express 17 July; Watford Observer 17 July; Eastern Daily Press 15 July; Eastern Evening News 14,15 July; Norfolk Chronicle 17 July; Norwich Mercury 17 July; The Sportsman 15 July; Cricket 5 August, p 311.