MInor Counties Championship 1912

SUFFOLK 1912 Championship matches: Played 7, won none, lost 3, drawn 4 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 3, no decision on first innings none) Position: Nineteenth out of twenty Won: None Lost: v Surrey 2nd XI at The Oval, v Norfolk at Bury St Edmunds and v Norfolk at Norwich Drawn - won on first innings: v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge Drawn - lost on first innings: v Hertfordshire at Bushey, v Cambridgeshire at Ipswich and v Hertfordshire at Felixstowe Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captain: H L Wilson (4 matches) - A K Watson (2 matches) and H Bassett (1 match) led the side in the matches in which H L Wilson did not play Wicket-keepers: P P Cornell (4 matches), C H B Blount (2 matches) and E Godley (1 match) Debutants: 8 (C K Bridgnell, Dr E V Gostling, E L D Lake, E H Leek, E S Lock, O Mortimer, R S J Rands and Dr H P Sleigh) Final Season: 14 (C H B Blount, C K Bridgnell, Col R H Dewing, Dr E V Gostling, E L D Lake, R Lee, E H Leek, D Mustard, W Randall, Dr H P Sleigh, A K Watson, H L Wilson, T W E Wilson and S H Wrinch) Hon Secretary: P P Cornell Professionals: 3 (W Penfold, F G Trudgett and F Waters) Home Grounds 3: Bury and West Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Cemetery Road, Bury St Edmunds (1 match); The Town Ground, Dellwood Avenue, Felixstowe (1 match) and Ipswich and East Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Portman Road, Ipswich (1 match) Notes: Suffolk had another very poor season when they did not win a match. Surrey 2nd XI were added to the fixture list in place of Bedfordshire. The match against Surrey 2nd XI at Felixstowe was abandoned without a ball bowled. The only batting of note was that of Herbert Wilson with 346 runs at 57.66. The bowling relied heavily on the two professionals, Tots Trudgett and William Penfold, with 33 wickets at 18.36 and 29 at 19.17 respectively. SUFFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1912 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 8 players who made their Championship debut for Suffolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1912 was the last or only season that these 14 players appeared for Suffolk 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 Bassett 2 3 0 16 37 12.33 - - - 1 - 24 0 127 6 21.16 6-117 - 1 C H B Blount 2 3 0 15 32 10.66 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - C K Bridgnell + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - - W Catchpole 2 3 0 42 51 17.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - P P Cornell 4 7 2 35* 74 14.80 - - 1 2 2 - - - - - - - - Col R H Dewing 1 2 0 14 15 7.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - V F Gaby 3 5 0 15 50 10.00 - - - 1 - 44 7 198 3 66.00 2-69 - - E Godley 1 1 0 20 20 20.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr E V Gostling + 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 1 - 5 0 30 1 30.00 1-30 - - E L D Lake + 1 2 1 53 75 75.00 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - R Lee 1 2 0 10 11 5.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - E H Leek + 4 4 1 27 40 13.33 - - - 3 - 9 2 33 0 - - - - E S Lock + 1 2 0 11 11 5.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - O Mortimer + 2 2 0 8 9 4.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - D Mustard 5 8 0 32 89 11.12 - - 2 - - 2 0 7 0 - - - - Penfold, W 7 11 1 31 157 15.70 - - - 8 - 222.2 73 556 29 19.17 6-23 1 3 C M Phillips 1 2 0 47 67 33.50 - - - - - 3 1 11 0 - - - - W Randall 4 6 0 31 45 7.50 - - 3 - - - - - - - - - - R S J Rands + 1 1 0 8 8 8.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Dr H P Sleigh + 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - F L Titchmarsh 6 9 0 38 72 8.00 - - 1 5 - 9 0 70 1 70.00 1-69 - - Trudgett, F G 7 9 3 7* 27 4.50 - - 2 1 - 217.2 64 606 33 18.36 8-107 - 3 Waters, F 1 2 2 4* 6 - - - - - - 9 3 24 0 - - - - A K Watson 4 7 0 43 61 8.71 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - A D Whatman 1 2 0 8 8 4.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - H L Wilson 4 6 0 131 346 57.66 2 1 - 3 - 28 0 141 5 28.20 3-71 - - T W E Wilson 2 2 1 2 2 2.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - F P Wood 5 8 1 38 89 12.71 - - 1 3 - 15.3 4 69 2 34.50 2-53 - - S H Wrinch 2 2 0 76 96 48.00 - 1 - 5 - 1 0 9 0 - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 102 - - - - - - - - 116 2 - - - - Total 77 117 12 131 1603 15.26 2 3 17 40 2 589.1 154 1997 82 24.35 8-107 1 7 (29 players) (6 ball overs) 159