Minor Counties Championship 1909

75 MATCH NUMBER 44 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V LINCOLNSHIRE – EAST DIVISION At The Paradise Recreation Ground, Newnham Street, Ely on Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 July 1909 Result: Lincolnshire won by an innings and 81 runs Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Lincolnshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Lincolnshire 2 (J W Day, E B Waite) First day score: Lincolnshire 276; Cambridgeshire 118 Lincolnshire Rev C G Ward b Pigg 56 Day, J W c Watts b Coulson 3 Broughton, J J st Watts b Tebbutt 24 Geeson, F b Tebbutt 7 Riley, E E c Gray b Reid 29 J Redwood c Pigg b Roberson 31 * W E Thompson c and b Reid 11 J E Crookes b Pigg 23 E B Waite c Reid b Coulson 55 J A Brooke b Coulson 11 + Allen, G J not out 8 Extras nb 2 18 Total 276 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 67 90 105 160 230 251 276 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 30 13 48 3 - - Pigg 19 4 71 2 - - Gray 2 0 19 0 - - Tebbutt 13 1 49 2 - 2 Reid 12 0 53 2 - - Morgan 3 0 16 0 - - Roberson 1 0 2 1 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - Total 80 18 276 10 0 2 Cambridgeshire (Followed on) * H C Tebbutt b Geeson 0 (4) lbw b Broughton 24 L J Reid b Day 31 (3) b Geeson 10 A S Ling b Day 25 (5) c Geeson b Riley 0 B W Pigg b Riley 3 (6) c and b Geeson 1 F E Collier c Allen b Day 2 (7) st Allen b Geeson 3 + Watts, G H b Brooke 18 (8) not out 20 F W Bryan b Broughton 11 (9) b Brooke 1 B Gray b Day 6 (10) b Brooke 0 F Roberson b Geeson 6 (1) b Riley 13 F E Morgan b Broughton 6 (11) b Brooke 0 Coulson, H not out 5 (2) b Geeson 1 Extras 5 nb 1 4 Total 118 77 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 55 65 66 80 93 118 Second innings 11 25 25 25 26 41 77 77 77 Geeson 9 4 21 2 - - (2) 15 6 24 4 - - Day 21 6 38 4 - - (3) 7 2 18 0 - - Riley 11 1 32 1 - - (1) 14 6 19 2 - 1 Broughton 3.3 1 11 2 - - (4) 6 2 12 1 - - Brooke 5 1 11 1 - - (5) 0.3 0 0 3 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 49.3 13 118 10 - - 42.3 16 77 10 0 1 Notes: Lincolnshire won this return match by an innings and 81 runs before lunch on the second day, after Cambridgeshire followed on 158 runs behind. It was the first Championship match played at Ely. The match between the two sides a week before at Spalding had also been won by Lincolnshire. For the winners, Ward scored 56 with 9 fours and debutant Waite 55. Brooke finished the match with a hat-trick, taking the last three Cambridgeshire wickets in the first three balls he bowled, his victims being Bryan, Gray and Morgan. On the second morning, a shower interrupted play early on for 15 minutes, but the Lincolnshire bowlers had no trouble in finishing off the Cambridgeshire second innings in the morning session in around 1½ hours. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Lincolnshire innings boundaries in Waite’s 55; precise time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 30 July; Cambridge Daily News 21,22 July; Cambridge Independent Press 23 July; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 23 July; Lincolnshire Echo 21,22 July; The Sportsman 23 July; Cricket 5 August, p 319.