MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 8: NORTHUMBERLAND V LINCOLNSHIRE At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday 24, Tuesday 25 June 1912 Result: Match drawn - Lincolnshire won on first innings Points: Lincolnshire 3, Northumberland 1 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: B Brown and S Doughty Debutants: Northumberland none; Lincolnshire 1 (L W Gwyn) First day score: Northumberland 133 and 76-2 wickets (B S Cumberlege 37*, S P Bell 1*); Lincolnshire 194 Northumberland W W Meldon c Rose b Broughton 0 (5) b Nevile 81 C F Stanger-Leathes b Riley 2 (1) b Broughton 26 J S Nesbit b Hallam 47 (3) c Gwyn b Broughton 2 + B S Cumberlege lbw b Broughton 7 (2) b Nevile 81 Richardson, O c Rose b Nevile 22 (6) c Day b Brooke 14 Wingham, G C b Nevile 4 (8) not out 33 * S P Bell c Nevile b Hallam 21 (4) b Riley 7 C M Skinner c Rose b Broughton 1 Milne, G T b Broughton 5 (9) c Hallam b Broughton 20 N R E Wilkinson c and b Riley 19 (7) c Edwards b Hallam 21 T N Sample not out 1 Extras nb 1 4 nb 2 27 Total (all out) 133 (8 wickets declared) 312 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 3 14 62 72 91 133 Second innings 65 75 84 220 225 241 282 312 - - Broughton 21 8 66 4 - - (2) 22.3 2 88 3 - - Riley 11 4 14 2 - 1 (5) 15 0 64 1 - 2 Hallam 14 3 44 2 - - (6) 11 2 48 1 - - Nevile 4 2 5 2 - - (4) 6 1 25 2 - - Brooke (1) 17 3 47 1 - - Day (3) 5 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 27 0 - - Total 50 17 133 10 0 1 76.3 8 312 8 0 2 Lincolnshire * W E Thompson b Skinner 12 (2) c Meldon b Milne 8 L W Gwyn b Milne 14 (1) c Meldon b Skinner 8 Broughton, J J c Wingham b Skinner 0 (3) not out 11 B P Nevile b Skinner 4 (4) not out 0 C L Prior b Skinner 0 Day, J W c Meldon b Sample 18 Riley, E E c Nesbit b Milne 72 + W R Rose c Milne b Skinner 14 E E Hallam b Skinner 5 T D Edwards b Richardson 13 J A Brooke not out 30 Extras w 1, nb 1 12 2 Total (all out) 194 (2 wickets) 29 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 21 35 35 35 69 120 130 153 194 Second innings 14 26 - - - - - - - - Skinner 19 3 64 6 1 1 (1) 8 1 19 1 - - Milne 15 3 53 2 - - (2) 7 3 8 1 - - Sample 4 0 23 1 - - Richardson 1.1 0 13 1 - - Wingham 7 1 19 0 - - Meldon 2 0 10 0 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 48.1 7 194 10 1 1 15 4 29 2 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Lincolnshire winning on first innings. The Northumberland declaration set Lincolnshire the task of scoring 252 runs to win the match in an hour and a quarter. Rain on the morning of the second day delayed the start until 1.00 pm and bad light stopped play after the visitors had batted for 40 minutes. A storm followed and the match was abandoned. For the home side, there were 4 sixes and 6 fours in Meldon’s 81, scored in 1¼ hours, and 6 fours in Cumberlege’s 81, an innings of 2½ hours. In the Northumberland second innings Cumberlege and Meldon put on 136 runs for the fourth wicket. Skinner took 6 wickets for 64 runs in the Lincolnshire first innings. For the visitors, there were 12 fours in Riley’s 72 scored in 55 minutes. In the Lincolnshire first innings Riley and Rose added 51 runs for the seventh wicket. D V Norbury dropped out on the morning of the match and was replaced by T N Sample whose only previous appearance for the county was in 1899. He was never to play for the county again. [Missing: Toss; extras breakdown; in Northumberland first innings fall of seventh, eighth and ninth wickets.] Sources: Newcastle Daily Journal 25,26 June; Lincoln Gazette 29 June; Sporting Life 25,26 June; The Sportsman 26 June; Cricket 29 June, p 290. 39