MInor Counties Championship 1912

CAMBRIDGESHIRE 1912 Championship matches: Played 9, won none, lost 4, drawn 5 (won on first innings 2, lost on first innings 3, no decision on first innings none) Position: Sixteenth equal with Monmouthshire out of twenty Won: None Lost: v Hertfordshire at Cambridge, v Bedfordshire at Cambridge, v Norfolk at Norwich and v Norfolk at Cambridge Drawn - won on first innings: v Suffolk at Ipswich and v Bedfordshire at Luton WP Drawn - lost on first innings: v Lincolnshire at Sleaford, v Hertfordshire at Hitchin and v Suffolk at Cambridge Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captain: H C Tebbutt (9 matches) Wicket-keeper: G H Watts (9 matches) Debutants: 2 (W E Constable and Rev F W Worsley) Final Season: 3 (W E Constable, J O’Connor and R H V Whybro) Hon Secretary: Major O Papworth Professionals: 3 (H Coulson, J O’Connor and G H Watts) Home Ground 1: Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge (4 matches) Notes: Failing to win a match Cambridgeshire were placed low in the Table. The same opponents were met as in 1911. The match against Lincolnshire at Cambridge was abandoned without a ball bowled. Herbert Tebbutt, the captain, and George Watts, the wicket-keeper, were the only ones to exceed 200 runs for the season with 297 at 19.80 and 275 at 19.64 respectively. The bowling relied heavily upon Harry Coulson who obtained 37 wickets at 16.70. During the season Herbert Tebbutt reached the career milestone of 2000 runs. CAMBRIDGESHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH AVERAGES 1912 In the averages below, + after the name denotes the 2 players who made their Championship debut for Cambridgeshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1912 was the last or only season that these 3 players appeared for Cambridgeshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I H R Barker 2 4 1 6* 18 6.00 - - - 1 - 17.1 5 38 1 38.00 1-6 - - F W Bryan 5 9 0 31 78 8.66 - - 4 - - 69 10 267 12 22.25 4-35 - - F E Collier 6 10 0 35 147 14.70 - - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - W E Constable + 3 5 0 17 31 6.20 - - 2 - - 9 0 63 1 63.00 1-54 - - Coulson, H 9 14 5 33 76 8.44 - - 1 3 - 269.2 76 618 37 16.70 6-63 - 3 E B Darby 3 5 0 10 16 3.20 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - H B Hart 6 10 1 25 109 12.11 - - 2 4 - - - - - - - - - W C Hunt 5 8 0 35 81 10.12 - - 3 2 - 83.2 20 267 12 22.25 4-58 - - A S Ling 4 6 0 48 111 18.50 - - 1 3 - 9 0 48 1 48.00 1-48 - - O'Connor, J 5 7 3 10 26 6.50 - - 2 1 - 71 16 180 7 25.71 4-51 - - F P C Pemberton 2 4 0 19 44 11.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - B W Pigg 1 2 0 7 11 5.50 - - - - - 22 6 55 4 13.75 3-48 - - C H Pigg 6 11 0 50 196 17.81 - 1 3 3 - 6 2 35 1 35.00 1-24 - - K G Reid 5 8 0 58 136 17.00 - 1 2 3 - 2 0 10 0 - - - - L J Reid 6 10 0 39 168 16.80 - - 1 6 - 2 0 21 0 - - - - G A Rose 5 7 3 34* 69 17.25 - - 1 2 - 73 13 248 9 27.55 3-18 - - H C Tebbutt 9 15 0 108 297 19.80 1 1 4 4 - 46.4 13 126 5 25.20 2-2 - - Watts, G H 9 15 1 75 275 19.64 - 1 4 5 2 - - - - - - - - R H V Whybro 3 5 1 37 65 16.25 - - 1 - - 28 4 99 4 24.75 3-27 - - F W Wilson 1 1 0 22 22 22.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Rev F W Worsley + 4 5 2 5* 9 3.00 - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 148 - - - - 1 - - - 160 2 - - - - Total 99 161 17 108 2133 14.81 1 4 36 43 2 707.3 165 2235 96 23.28 6-63 0 3 (21 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 3 players made their last appearance for Cambridgeshire in the Championship in 1912. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I W E Constable 1912 3 5 0 17 31 6.20 - - 2 - - 54 63 1 63.00 1-54 - - O'Connor, J 1895 29 45 13 15 146 4.56 - - 14 7 - 4347 2153 92 23.40 7-45 - 5 R H V Whybro 1910 9 16 1 37 180 12.00 - - 1 8 - 330 242 6 40.33 3-27 - - (3 players) 144