MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 75: CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORFOLK At Fenner’s University Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 August 1912 Result: Norfolk won by nine wickets Points: Norfolk 5 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Norfolk none First day score: Norfolk 171; Cambridgeshire 60 and 50-0 wicket (K G Reid 29*, L J Reid 16*) Norfolk * M Falcon b B W Pigg 45 (1) not out 32 + R W Thurgar lbw b Hunt 19 (2) c Hunt b B W Pigg 5 G A Stevens b Rose 6 (3) not out 20 G W Birkbeck c C H Pigg b Coulson 23 E J Fulcher c K G Reid b B W Pigg 6 M H Thursby c Collier b B W Pigg 11 C J H Treglown st Watts b Tebbutt 21 R F Popham b Coulson 1 Falconer, R c Rose b Coulson 9 Gibson, E b Coulson 0 Watson, H not out 4 Extras w 1, nb 1 26 6 Total (all out) 171 (1 wicket) 63 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 58 80 94 126 139 140 171 Second innings 5 - - - - - - - - - Rose 10 3 20 1 1 1 (3) 2 0 5 0 - - Coulson 26 9 41 4 - - (1) 9 1 35 0 - - Hunt 10 4 27 1 - - (4) 3 0 10 0 - - B W Pigg 18 4 48 3 - - (2) 4 2 7 1 - - Tebbutt 3.4 1 9 1 - - Extras - - 26 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 67.4 21 171 10 1 1 18 3 63 1 - - Cambridgeshire (Followed on) L J Reid c Thurgar b Gibson 10 (2) b Watson 39 K G Reid c Fulcher b Falcon 3 (1) c Thurgar b Gibson 39 F E Collier c Watson b Gibson 20 (3) c Thurgar b Gibson 0 * H C Tebbutt b Gibson 7 (4) c Thurgar b Gibson 0 + Watts, G H c Thursby b Gibson 0 (5) c Birkbeck b Gibson 47 C H Pigg b Gibson 0 (6) b Watson 0 W C Hunt c Popham b Falconer 11 (7) c Birkbeck b Watson 21 B W Pigg c Fulcher b Gibson 7 (8) lbw b Gibson 4 Rev F W Worsley b Falconer 0 (9) c Fulcher b Watson 3 G A Rose c Birkbeck b Falconer 0 (10) not out 5 Coulson, H not out 0 (11) c Birkbeck b Gibson 1 Extras 2 nb 1 14 Total (all out) 60 (all out) 173 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 20 44 57 60 60 60 Second innings 66 66 72 100 100 150 167 168 173 Falcon 9 2 21 1 - - (1) 8 3 21 0 - 1 Falconer 12 5 21 3 - - (3) 13 3 22 0 - - Gibson 8.3 3 16 6 - - (2) 38.2 15 52 6 - - Watson (4) 27 9 64 4 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 29.3 10 60 10 - - 86.2 30 173 10 0 1 Notes: Norfolk ensured that they would finish at the top of the Championship table by recording their seventh straight victory. They won by nine wickets at 4.30 pm on the second day after enforcing the follow-on for the third time in the season. The match between the two sides at Norwich the week before had also been won by Norfolk. The weather was threatening on both days and overnight rain caused the start on the second day to be delayed until after noon. For the winners, Gibson took 12 wickets in the match for 68 runs including figures of 6 for 16 in Cambridgeshire’s first innings and 6 for 52 in their second. Falcon top scored with 45 which included 4 fours. Both Thurgar and Birkbeck took 4 catches in the match. When bowling the seventh over in the Cambridgeshire second innings Falconer twisted his foot and was forced to leave the field. He returned to the field later, but in his absence Collier acted as the substitute fielder. For the losers, there were 4 fours in Watts’s 47. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Eastern Daily Press 22,23 August; Eastern Evening News 21,22 August; Norfolk Chronicle 24 August; Norwich Mercury 24 August; Cambridge Daily News 21,22 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 23 August; Sporting Life 22,23 August; The Sportsman 22,23 August; Cricket 31 August, p 474. 106