Minor Counties Championship 1909

71 MATCH NUMBER 40 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORFOLK – EAST DIVISION At Town Ground, Cricket Field Road, Newmarket on Monday 19, Tuesday 20 July 1909 Result: Cambridgeshire won by 330 runs Points: Cambridgeshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: J Relf and unknown Debutants: Cambridgeshire 1 (G A Rose); Norfolk 1 (G A H Farmer) First day score: Cambridgeshire 172 and 228-6 wickets (G H Watts 21*, O W Bocock 1*); Norfolk 39 Cambridgeshire O W Bocock lbw b Gibson 2 (8) c Farmer b Gibson 23 L J Reid not out 75 (1) run out 1 A S Ling b Gibson 0 (3) st Page b Gibson 128 F W Bryan c Page b Smith 0 (7) c Page b Gibson 3 F E Collier b Allsopp 19 (5) lbw b Gibson 12 * H C Tebbutt c Dunell b Smith 30 (2) c and b Gibson 35 B W Pigg b Gibson 16 (4) b G Stevens 11 + Watts, G H c G A Stevens b Gibson 6 (6) not out 100 Coulson, H b Gibson 1 (11) not out 5 E Laurie b Gibson 0 (10) lbw b G Stevens 0 G A Rose c Dunell b Allsopp 16 (9) b G Stevens 8 Extras b 4, lb 3 7 b 18, lb 4, w 1, nb 2 25 Total 172 (9 wickets declared) 351 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 4 5 43 101 131 143 145 145 172 Second innings 10 96 113 188 204 - Gibson 25 6 44 6 - - (1) 30 1 121 5 - - Smith 13 1 39 2 - - (2) 15 3 57 0 - - Allsopp 18.2 5 66 2 - - (3) 9 1 74 0 - 2 Stevens, G 3 0 16 0 - - (4) 16 5 32 3 - - Wharton (5) 2 0 10 0 - - Dunell (6) 2 0 22 0 1 - Farmer (7) 4 1 10 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 25 1 - - Total 59.2 12 172 10 0 0 78 11 351 9 1 2 Norfolk E T Garnier c Tebbutt b Pigg 10 (1) b Rose 38 O H C Dunell b Coulson 7 (2) b Coulson 18 G S Stevens b Coulson 2 (5) b Pigg 12 G A Stevens b Pigg 4 (3) c Ling b Pigg 33 G A H Farmer b Coulson 0 (4) b Pigg 1 Allsopp, T C c Rose b Coulson 2 (6) c Ling b Rose 4 T H Wharton b Coulson 1 (9) b Coulson 2 Gibson, E b Coulson 4 (7) b Pigg 12 * + S D Page not out 4 (8) b Coulson 14 Stevens, G b Coulson 2 (10) c Collier b Pigg 4 Smith, E W b Coulson 0 (11) not out 0 Extras lb 3 3 b 13, lb 2, nb 1 16 Total 39 154 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 24 28 33 39 39 Second innings 37 102 102 109 116 133 154 Coulson 11 8 5 8 - - (1) 18.1 5 36 3 - - Pigg 10 3 31 2 - - (2) 20 2 49 5 - - Rose (3) 10 2 42 2 - 1 Tebbutt (4) 2 0 11 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 16 0 - - Total 21 11 39 10 0 0 50.1 9 154 10 0 1 Notes: Cambridgeshire won by 330 runs at 3.30 pm on the second day. For the winners, Coulson took 11 wickets in the match, including 8 for just 5 runs in the Norfolk first innings. There were 2 sixes, 15 fours, and 4 threes in Ling’s 128, an innings of 100 minutes, and 1 six, 17 fours, 2 threes and 5 twos in Watts’s 100 not out, scored in 85 minutes. In the Cambridgeshire first innings, Reid carried his bat with 75 not out, an innings of 2¼ hours containing 2 fours. Newspaper reports state that in the Cambridgeshire second innings Watts and Bocock added 99 runs in 38 minutes for the seventh wicket. For Norfolk, Gibson took 11 wickets in the match for 165 runs. Garnier top-scored with 38. Newspaper reports referred to the shortness of the boundaries at the Newmarket ground. [Missing: One umpire; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 19,20 July; Cambridge Independent Press 23 July; Eastern Daily Press 20,21 July; Eastern Evening News 19,20 July; Norwich Mercury 24 July; The Sportsman 20,21 July; Cricket 5 August, p 319.