Minor Counties Championship 1909

83 MATCH NUMBER 52 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V SUFFOLK – EAST DIVISION At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 July 1909 Result: Cambridgeshire won by an innings and 77 runs Points: Cambridgeshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Suffolk none First day score: Cambridgeshire 372; Suffolk 82-8 wickets (Capt J T C Murray 43*, P P Cornell 0*) Cambridgeshire Coulson, H b Bassett 11 L J Reid c and b Trudgett 22 A S Ling c Alexander b Trudgett 136 C H Pigg c and b Henley 26 H C Tebbutt lbw b Henley 0 B W Pigg c and b Trudgett 46 + Watts, G H c Wilson b Bassett 83 F E Collier c Bennett b Trudgett 24 H W Fromant lbw b Trudgett 0 G A Rose c Alexander b Trudgett 1 * C Pigg not out 9 Extras w 1, nb 1 14 Total 372 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 36 36 88 88 152 331 341 348 372 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Bassett 31 3 99 2 1 - Trudgett 34.5 3 134 6 - - Wilson 11 0 63 0 - - Henley 7 1 28 2 - - Mustard 2 0 14 0 - 1 Alexander 2 0 20 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 87.5 7 372 10 1 1 Suffolk (Followed on) Quaife, W lbw b Coulson 4 (5) lbw b B W Pigg 20 C W Alexander c Rose b B W Pigg 11 (3) c Watts b Coulson 52 Capt F T D Wilson b Coulson 18 (4) lbw b Coulson 13 Capt J T C Murray not out 55 (1) c C Pigg b B W Pigg 16 * F H Mustard st Watts b Reid 2 (6) b B W Pigg 12 V J Lewis st Watts b Reid 0 (7) b Coulson 1 H Bassett c and b Reid 0 (2) c Reid b Rose 49 S G Bennett b Reid 0 (8) b Coulson 4 H C Henley b Coulson 4 (9) c C H Pigg b B W Pigg 4 + P P Cornell c Reid b B W Pigg 1 (10) c Rose b B W Pigg 5 Trudgett, F G run out 1 (11) not out 1 Extras 0 w 5 22 Total 96 199 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 20 61 74 74 81 85 96 Second innings 30 120 139 150 199 Coulson 23 7 37 3 - - (1) 24 7 58 4 - - B W Pigg 13.3 3 37 2 - - (2) 23.3 5 64 5 1 - Reid 9 4 22 4 - - (4) 3 0 27 0 - - Rose (3) 9 1 28 1 4 - Extras - - 0 1 - - - - 22 0 - - Total 45.3 14 96 10 0 0 59.3 13 199 10 5 0 Notes: Cambridgeshire won this return match by an innings and 77 runs after lunch on the second day with Suffolk following-on 276 runs behind. The match between the two sides at Felixstowe earlier in July had been a rain-affected draw. For the winners, there were 16 fours, 5 threes and 15 twos in Ling’s 136, an innings of just over 3 hours. Watts’s 83 contained 8 fours. In the Cambridgeshire innings, Ling and Watts added 179 runs for the sixth wicket. For Suffolk, Murray scored 55 not out with 6 fours and Alexander 52. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Suffolk second innings boundaries in Alexander’s 52; time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 30 July; Cambridge Daily News 28,29 July; East Anglian Daily Times 29,30 July; The Sportsman 29,30 July; Cricket 12 August, p 335.