Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 75 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Monday 18, Tuesday 19 August 1913 Result: Match drawn – Northumberland won on first innings Points: Cambridgeshire 1; Northumberland 3 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Northumberland none First day score: Cambridgeshire 249; Northumberland 281-7 wickets (G T Milne 21*, C M Skinner 24*) Cambridgeshire A S Ling b Milne 32 (1) c Hunting b Watson 111 Carpenter, H A c Milne b Skinner 1 (2) c Gillespie b Norbury 7 L J Reid c Collins b Norbury 11 (3) b Norbury 4 * H C Tebbutt b Milne 15 (4) c Watson b Norbury 0 K G Reid b Skinner 33 (5) b Arkwright 88 F E Collier b Wingham 14 (6) c Bell b Milne 18 C A H Keenlyside c Bell b Skinner 44 (7) c Norbury b Watson 18 + Watts, G H b Norbury 26 (9) not out 20 W C Hunt b Milne 30 (8) c Arkwright b Watson 24 T W Sadler not out 2 (10) not out 7 Coulson, H run out 19 Extras b 16, lb 5, w 1 22 34 Total (all out) 249 (8 wickets declared) 331 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 74 249 Second innings 22 201 - - Skinner 19 3 65 3 - - (3) 8 0 39 0 - - Milne 30 12 71 3 1 - (2) 16 3 49 1 - - Norbury 18.3 1 64 2 - - (1) 20 2 79 3 - - Watson 1 0 4 0 - - (5) 11 0 77 3 - - Arkwright 2 0 8 0 - - (4) 5 0 27 1 - - Wingham 3 0 15 1 - - (6) 12 2 26 0 - - Extras - - 22 1 - - - - 34 0 - - Total 73.3 16 249 10 1 0 72 7 331 8 - - Northumberland Norbury, D V c L J Reid b Keenlyside 10 (1) not out 47 F W Gillespie b Sadler 35 (2) c Collier b Sadler 0 G L Hunting c Watts b Keenlyside 0 (3) b Keenlyside 29 C G Arkwright c Watts b Coulson 1 (4) not out 33 Wingham, G C c Collier b Sadler 146 Richardson, O b Keenlyside 3 * S P Bell b Coulson 26 Milne, G T b Hunt 23 C M Skinner not out 61 G H Watson b Keenlyside 18 + H E Collins b Coulson 3 Extras w 3 22 4 Total (all out) 348 (2 wickets) 113 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 89 227 348 Second innings 46 - - - - - - - - Sadler 22 3 94 2 - - (1) 11 2 39 1 - - Hunt 17 3 88 1 - - (2) 3 0 16 0 - - Coulson 17 0 77 3 - - (4) 4 1 8 0 - - Keenlyside 11 1 45 4 - - (3) 5 0 20 1 - - Tebbutt 3 0 22 0 3 - (5) 2 0 26 0 - - Extras - - 22 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 70 7 348 10 3 0 25 3 113 2 - - Notes: This return match was drawn with Northumberland winning on first innings. The Cambridgeshire declaration set Northumberland a victory target of 233 runs in an hour and 50 minutes. The encounter between the two sides at Jesmond in July had been won by Northumberland by an innings and 136 runs. For the visitors Wingham in the Northumberland first innings scored a career best 146 runs in one hour and 45 minutes which contained 1 six and 29 fours. With Bell he added 138 runs for the sixth wicket. Hunting recorded his third successive ‘duck’ after scoring 219 not out against the same opponents at Jesmond. For Cambridgeshire in their second innings Ling scored 111 runs which included 14 fours and took 2 hours and 10 minutes. K G Reid in the same innings scored 88 with 10 fours. He and Ling added 179 runs for the fourth wicket in their second innings. [Missing: Umpires; part extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Cambridge Independent Press 22 August; Cambridge Weekly News 22 August; Newcastle Daily Journal 19,20 August; Yorkshire Post 19,20 August; Cricket 30 August, p 572; The Sportsman 19,20 August. 108