MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 73: CHESHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At Stockport Cricket Club Ground, Cale Green, Stockport on Monday 19, Tuesday 20 [no play] August 1912 Result: Match drawn - no decision on first innings Points: None awarded Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cheshire 2 (J H Ellerton, A Williams); Staffordshire 1 (F W Twigg) First day score: As scorecard – rain prevented any play on the second day Staffordshire Nichols, J E c Brown b Fairbank 52 L F Taylor c Brearley b Brown 80 Vost, E b Brown 12 * W H Twigg c Brown b Brearley 19 F W Twigg not out 14 Bucknell, A Lane, A F Wilson, G A H E Bourne + J Poole Deyes, G Extras b 4, lb 1, nb 5 10 Total (4 wickets) 187 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 115 143 153 187 - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Brearley 7 3 24 1 - 2 Williams 10 0 56 0 - 1 Fairbank 10 0 51 1 - 2 Smoker 3 0 19 0 - - Brown 7 1 27 2 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - Total 37 4 187 4 0 5 Cheshire * F Fairbank F S Church F B Schofield J C Fallows W Brearley J H Ellerton Brown, S, jun Holland, J Williams, A Smoker, H G + J D Tipping, sen Notes: This return match was abandoned with no decision achieved. The match between the two sides at Stoke-on-Trent earlier in the month had been drawn. The weather was atrocious with the rainfall naturally making the ground very soft. Play began 10 minutes after the advertised time, and with one cessation of ten minutes before lunch, play continued up to the interval. However ten minutes after the resumption a drenching storm came on, and the pitch was so saturated that further play was out of the question. On the second day more torrential rain caused the abandonment of the match shortly after 12 noon. For Staffordshire there were 2 sixes and 7 fours in Taylor’s 80 and 1 six and 5 fours in Nichols’s 52. These two had an opening partnership of 115 runs. For J H Ellerton this was his only Minor County Championship appearance for Cheshire and he did not bat or bowl. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Macclesfield Advertiser 23 August; Staffordshire Advertiser 24 August; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire scorebook; Cricket 7 September, p 492. 104