Minor Counties Championship 1909

68 MATCH NUMBER 37 : YORKSHIRE 2 ND XI V STAFFORDSHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At The Wakefield Cricket Club Ground, College Grove, Wakefield on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 July 1909 Result: Yorkshire 2 nd XI won by ten wickets Points: Yorkshire 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W Copeland and J Gregory Debutants: Yorkshire 2 nd XI none; Staffordshire 1 (J B Higgins) First day score: Staffordshire 118; Yorkshire 2 nd XI 173-8 wickets (H Harrison 17*) Staffordshire * P Briggs st Dolphin b Broadbent 20 (1) b Drake 7 E H Bourne b Broadbent 0 (2) c Broadbent b Drake 0 Fereday, J B st Dolphin b Broadbent 10 (3) b Broadbent 4 Vost, E b Drake 21 (4) b Broadbent 4 Hollowood, A c Broadbent b Drake 27 (5) b Broadbent 16 Nichols, J E hit wicket b Drake 11 (6) b Broadbent 3 J W Johnson b Broadbent 9 (7) b Drake 1 Bucknell, A c and b Broadbent 7 (8) c Oldroyd b Drake 1 + J Poole lbw b Broadbent 3 (9) c and b Broadbent 0 Higgins, J B c Oldroyd b Drake 1 (10) b Harrison 13 Mee, R J not out 0 (11) not out 12 Extras b 8, nb 1 9 b 8, lb 5, nb 2 15 Total 118 76 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 25 34 79 82 98 112 116 118 118 Second innings 0 11 11 25 29 30 40 41 43 76 Broadbent 28.2 8 45 6 - 1 (1) 19 4 32 5 - 2 Drake 20 9 33 4 - - (2) 18 8 27 4 - - Harrison 3 1 2 0 - - (3) 0.5 0 2 1 - - Brown 9 2 15 0 - - Booth 6 0 14 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 66.2 20 118 10 0 1 37.5 12 76 10 0 2 Yorkshire 2 nd XI Hardisty, C H b Vost 49 (1) not out 10 Turner, A b Bucknell 66 (2) not out 2 Drake, A lbw b Vost 1 Booth, M W lbw b Bucknell 0 Oldroyd, E b Bucknell 0 Richardson, A L b Vost 26 * G Tattersall b Vost 1 Broadbent, A c substitute (C H Hardisty) b Vost 1 Harrison, H c and b Vost 19 + Dolphin, A not out 4 Brown, W c Briggs b Bucknell 0 Extras b 5, lb 7 12 b 4 4 Total 179 (no wicket) 16 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 94 100 101 103 126 131 133 173 176 179 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Bucknell 27.5 13 42 4 - - (1) 3 2 1 0 - - Nichols 14 3 41 0 - - Higgins 8 1 28 0 - - Mee 10 5 16 0 - - Vost 19 5 40 6 - - (2) 2.4 0 11 0 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 78.5 27 179 10 0 0 5.4 2 16 0 0 0 Notes: Yorkshire 2 nd XI won this low-scoring match by ten wickets at 1.55 pm on the second day. The innings defeat was saved with the last wicket pair together. For the winners, Broadbent took 11 wickets in the match for 77 runs. There were 1 six and 8 fours in Turner’s 66. There had been a heavy shower early on the morning of the second day and when Staffordshire batted again on a rapidly drying pitch their batsmen were at a considerable disadvantage. During the Yorkshire first innings Nichols was badly hit by the ball while fielding and had to leave the field. Hardisty acted as substitute fielder and caught Broadbent. Original reports had Nichols bowled Drake in the Staffordshire first innings, but this was subsequently corrected to hit wicket. S F Barnes was away playing in the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord’s. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Yorkshire Scorebook; Yorkshire Year Book 1910, p 110; Yorkshire Post 15,16 July; Staffordshire Annual Report 1909; Staffordshire Advertiser 17 July 1909, Staffordshire Sentinel 14,15 July 1909; Newcastle Daily Journal 15,16 July; The Sportsman 15,16 July; Cricket 29 July, p 302.