MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 25: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V BEDFORDSHIRE At The Cricket Ground, Bletchley Park, Bletchley on Monday 22, Tuesday 23 July 1912 Result: Match drawn - Buckinghamshire won on first innings Points: Buckinghamshire 3, Bedfordshire 1 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Buckinghamshire none; Bedfordshire none First day score: Bedfordshire 77; Buckinghamshire 224 Bedfordshire Holdstock, H F c Lowndes b Sewell 6 (1) st Franklin b Sewell 47 F C W Newman c Franklin b Sewell 9 (3) lbw b Wright 6 * H R Orr lbw b Sewell 0 (2) st Franklin b Sewell 21 W A G Southwell st Franklin b Stacey 35 (4) c Franklin b Lowndes 67 L C R Thring b Wright 2 (5) lbw b Sewell 4 + Capt H C Potter c Field b Wright 16 (6) st Franklin b Sewell 38 S V Graham b Wright 1 (7) not out 9 H Churchill c Lowndes b Stacey 6 (8) not out 5 T W Saunders b Stacey 0 Pestell, F E st Franklin b Stacey 0 F W Barnwell not out 0 Extras 2 5 Total (all out) 77 (6 wickets) 202 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 77 77 77 77 Second innings - - - - Le Gros 3 1 8 0 - - Sewell 16 0 43 3 - - (1) 20 4 67 4 - - Wright 16 6 24 3 - - (2) 25 10 36 1 - - Stacey 2.1 2 0 4 - - (3) 18 2 49 0 - - Field (4) 5 1 13 0 - - de Rothschild (5) 2 0 23 0 - - Lowndes (6) 6 1 9 1 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 37.1 9 77 10 - - 76 18 202 6 - - Buckinghamshire E H D Sewell b Graham 42 D H Field b Barnwell 0 B H G Shaw c substitute b Graham 53 P W Le Gros b Orr 2 E A Shaw b Orr 2 A G de Rothschild c Potter b Orr 0 + W B Franklin c Newman b Graham 22 T Stacey b Orr 6 * W F L F Lowndes not out 44 P L Frith c Holdstock b Graham 46 Wright, M W run out 1 Extras 6 Total (all out) 224 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 111 139 218 224 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Pestell 6 0 45 0 - - Thring 7 1 46 0 - - Graham 13 0 54 4 - - Orr 13.3 1 40 4 - - Barnwell 8 1 33 1 - - Extras - - 6 1 - - Total 47.3 3 224 10 - - Notes: This return match was drawn after rain prevented play between lunch and tea on the first day and after lunch on the second due to a heavy thunderstorm which enveloped the ground. The match between the two teams at the Bedford Grammar School the previous week had been won by Buckinghamshire. For the home side, B H G Shaw scored 53. In the Buckinghamshire innings Lowndes and Frith added 79 runs for the ninth wicket. In the Bedfordshire first innings Stacey took the last four wickets without conceding a run. For the visitors Southwell scored 67 in the Bedfordshire second innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Bedfordshire second innings boundaries in Southwell’s 67; in Buckinghamshire innings who held substitute catch and boundaries in B H G Shaw’s 53.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 27 July; Bucks Herald 27 July, North Bucks Times 27 July; South Bucks Free Press 26 July; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 27 July; Cricket 27 July, p 374. 56