Minor Counties Championship 1909

96 MATCH NUMBER 65 : STAFFORDSHIRE V CHESHIRE – NORTH DIVISION At County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 2 August 1909 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 108 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W Copeland and J Gregory Debutants: Staffordshire none; Cheshire 3 (G A Buckley, H Comberbach, J W Slate) First day score: As match - completed in one day Staffordshire P Briggs run out 54 E H Bourne c Comberbach b Chambers 16 * H D Stratton b Turner 0 Barnes, S F st J L Jones b Comberbach 18 Nichols, J E lbw b Comberbach 3 Hollowood, A b Sidebotham 1 Vost, E b Buckley 7 Bucknell, A c Turner b Comberbach 12 J W Johnson not out 22 + H Dearing b Buckley 1 H Eardley b Buckley 14 Extras b 3 3 Total 151 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 27 35 65 74 75 101 110 119 121 151 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Chambers 12 2 28 1 - - Buckley 22.3 4 53 3 - - Turner 1 0 7 1 - - Comberbach 18 2 53 3 - - Sidebotham 7 2 7 1 - - Extras - - 3 1 - - Total 60.3 10 151 10 0 0 Cheshire (Followed on) R Z H Voss c Eardley b Barnes 0 (2) b Bucknell 0 W E Jones b Bucknell 2 (1) b Barnes 5 Chambers, W T c Hollowood b Barnes 0 (3) lbw b Barnes 1 H P Rigby b Barnes 7 (4) b Barnes 0 * Rev F C L Hamilton b Barnes 0 (5) c and b Bucknell 2 H Comberbach b Bucknell 14 (6) lbw b Bucknell 0 J W Slate b Barnes 0 (7) c Bucknell b Barnes 0 A S Turner b Barnes 0 (8) b Bucknell 1 G A Buckley lbw b Barnes 2 (9) not out 4 + J L Jones not out 1 (10) b Barnes 0 J Sidebotham b Barnes 0 (11) b Barnes 0 Extras b 1, nb 2 3 nb 1 1 Total 29 14 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 2 2 2 23 23 25 25 29 29 Second innings 0 1 1 9 9 9 10 10 14 14 Barnes 11.5 6 6 8 - 2 (1) 8.4 5 7 6 - 1 Bucknell 9 0 18 2 - - (2) 8 5 6 4 - - Eardley 2 0 2 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 22.5 6 29 10 0 2 16.4 10 14 10 0 1 Notes: Staffordshire won by an innings and 108 runs at 6.15 pm on the first day after Cheshire followed on 122 runs behind. Recent rain had rendered the turf very soft and Barnes was virtually unplayable, taking 14 wickets in the match for 13 runs, including 8 for 6 in the Cheshire first innings. It was the only instance of a bowler taking ten or more wickets in a match to date conceding fewer runs than wickets taken, and was statistically the third best match bowling performance of the season. Briggs was the only batsman to reach fifty, his 54 taking 2 hours and containing just 1 four. For Cheshire, Comberbach with 14 was the only batsman to reach double figures. The match aggregate of 194 runs for a completed match was the lowest of the season. The Cheshire second innings total of 14 was the lowest of the season and a new record for the competition. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 7 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 3 August; Macclesfield Advertiser 6 August; Birmingham Daily Post 3 August; The Sportsman 3 August; Cricket 12 August, p 336.