MInor Counties Championship 1912

NORFOLK 1912 Championship matches: Played 8, won 7, lost none, drawn 1 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings none) Position: First out of twenty. As it was not possible to arrange a challenge match against second placed Staffordshire the Championship was left in abeyance. Won: v Bedfordshire at Bedford ES, v Suffolk at Bury St Edmunds, v Hertfordshire at Norwich, v Suffolk at Norwich, v Cambridgeshire at Norwich, v Bedfordshire at Norwich and v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Lost: None Drawn - won on first innings: v Hertfordshire at St Albans Drawn - lost on first innings: None Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captain: M Falcon (7 matches) - G W Birkbeck (1 match) led the side in the match in which M Falcon did not play Wicket-keeper: R W Thurgar (8 matches) Debutants: 4 (C T Barton, R Falconer, H C Prior and L F Wynne-Willson) Final Season: 3 (T C Allsopp, C T Barton and G W Birkbeck) Hon Secretaries: C B L Prior Professionals: 4 (T C Allsopp, R Falconer, E Gibson and H Watson) Home Ground 1: The County Ground, Cricket Ground Road, Lakenham, Norwich (4 matches) Notes: After a poor season in 1911 Norfolk, under the captaincy of Michael Falcon, won seven matches outright to finish on top of the Table. With the omission of Durham and Northumberland the fixture list was reduced to 8 matches. The captain Michael Falcon led the run scoring with 410 at 41.00 and he also took 28 wickets at 15.21. Gervase Birkbeck supported him with 306 runs at 30.60. Roderick Falconer, in his first season, took 65 wickets at the low cost of 7.95 runs each. Edward Gibson obtained 28 wickets at 10.64. The wicket-keeper, Ralph Thurgar, took part in 22 dismissals and Eric Fulcher took 15 catches. During the season Geoffrey Stevens reached the career milestone of 50 catches. NORFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1912 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 4 players who made their Championship debut for Norfolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1912 was the last or only season that these 3 players appeared for Norfolk in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Allsopp, T C 1 1 1 6* 6 - - - - - - 4 1 15 0 - - - - C T Barton + 1 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - G W Birkbeck 8 11 1 118 306 30.60 1 2 3 7 - 5.3 0 27 1 27.00 1-8 - - M Falcon 7 12 2 143 410 41.00 1 2 1 2 - 154.4 32 426 28 15.21 6-46 - 2 Falconer, R + 8 11 5 52* 134 22.33 - 1 1 3 - 241.4 73 517 65 7.95 7-68 3 9 E J Fulcher 8 12 0 64 232 19.33 - 2 2 15 - 7 1 30 1 30.00 1-14 - - Gibson, E 7 9 1 27 62 7.75 - - 3 3 - 134.1 39 298 28 10.64 6-16 1 3 R G Pilch 5 7 0 22 66 9.42 - - 1 3 - 2 0 7 0 - - - - R F Popham 5 6 0 15 51 8.50 - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - H C Prior + 1 1 0 63 63 63.00 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - Rev G B Raikes 3 4 0 58 160 40.00 - 1 - - - 38.2 4 130 10 13.00 4-33 - - G A Stevens 8 13 1 50 264 22.00 - 1 1 7 - - - - - - - - - R W Thurgar 8 12 0 47 197 16.41 - - 1 15 7 - - - - - - - - M H Thursby 2 3 0 11 15 5.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - W Thursby 1 2 0 13 16 8.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - C J H Treglown 4 7 1 23 93 15.50 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - Watson, H 8 10 4 10 31 5.16 - - 3 5 - 133.3 37 292 22 13.27 4-17 - - L F Wynne-Willson + 3 4 0 33 61 15.25 - - - - - 6 0 36 2 18.00 2-36 - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 120 - - - - - - - - 126 3 - - - - Total 88 126 16 143 2289 20.80 2 10 17 70 7 726.5 187 1904 160 11.90 7-68 4 14 (18 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 3 players made their last appearance for Norfolk 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 Allsopp, T C 1909 27 40 5 69* 512 14.62 - 2 4 21 - 3074 1458 71 20.53 6-43 - 4 C T Barton 1912 1 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - G W Birkbeck 1906 38 61 8 118 1567 29.56 3 6 6 15 - 428 308 9 34.22 2-11 - - (3 players) 156