Minor Counties Championship 1913

CHESHIRE 1913 Championship matches: Played 8, won 2, lost 5, drawn 1 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Fifteenth out of twenty Won: v Monmouthshire at Chester and v Monmouthshire at Newport Lost: v Durham at Stockport, v Northumberland at Jesmond, v Northumberland at Bollington, v Lincolnshire at Northwich and v Lincolnshire at Grantham Drawn - won on first innings: None Drawn - lost on first innings: None Drawn - no decision on first innings: v Durham at Consett Captain: F Fairbank (8 matches) Wicket-keepers: J D Tipping, sen (6 matches) and W A Cragg (2 matches) Debutants: 11 (B Barrell, W Crabtree, W A Cragg, H C Edge, H J Harrison, B Horner, G Molyneux, H R Parry, D Prescott, F S Vaughan and A C Williamson) Final Season: 18 (B Barrell, W A V Churton, W Crabtree, W A Cragg, H C Edge, F Fairbank, J C Fallows, L Hales, H J Harrison, J Holland, B Horner, G Molyneux, D Prescott, John M Swift, A S Turner, F S Vaughan, A C Williamson and Roy Wilson) Hon Secretary: J J Pendlebury Professionals: 4 (B Barrell, W T Chambers, J Holland and H G Smoker) Home Grounds 4: Bollington Cricket Club Ground, The Recreation Ground, Adlington Road, Bollington (1 match); Boughton Hall Cricket Club, Filkins Lane, Chester (1 match); Winnington Park Cricket Club Ground, Park Road, Northwich (1 match) and Stockport Cricket Club Ground, Cale Green, Stockport (1 match) Notes: Winning two matches lifted Cheshire off the bottom of the Table. Monmouthshire replaced Staffordshire on the fixture list. No batsman scored 200 runs in the season. Henry Smoker was the mainstay of the bowling with 48 wickets at 13.08 each, and he also scored the most runs – 180. During the season Henry Smoker reached the career milestone of 100 wickets. CHESHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH AVERAGES 1913 In the averages below, + after the name denotes the 11 players who made their Championship debut for Cheshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1913 was the last or only season that these 18 players appeared for Cheshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Barrell, B + 6 9 0 42 125 13.88 - - 3 6 - 64.4 11 189 14 13.50 4-3 - - Chambers, W T 6 10 0 73 124 12.40 - 1 4 3 - 43.5 5 168 7 24.00 3-70 - - W A V Churton 1 1 0 64 64 64.00 - 1 - - - 2 1 1 0 - - - - W Crabtree + 1 1 0 46 46 46.00 - - - 1 - 6 2 11 0 - - - - W A Cragg + 3 5 0 23 44 8.80 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - H C Edge + 4 6 0 57 123 20.50 - 1 - 3 - - - - - - - - - F Fairbank 8 13 2 19 77 7.00 - - 2 3 - 166.3 23 589 19 31.00 5-39 - 1 J C Fallows 5 8 0 60 179 22.37 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - L Hales 2 4 1 51 58 19.33 - 1 1 2 - - - - - - - - - H J Harrison + 1 2 0 38 44 22.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - J A Harrison 1 2 0 17 17 8.50 - - 1 - - 21.3 5 88 12 7.33 7-70 1 2 Holland, J 7 12 1 64 154 14.00 - 1 1 4 - 1.1 0 8 1 8.00 1-8 - - B Horner + 1 2 1 7* 9 9.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - L N Jones 7 11 0 25 107 9.72 - - 3 10 - 12 0 71 3 23.66 2-52 - - W E Jones 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - G Molyneux + 5 9 3 36* 85 14.16 - - 2 4 - - - - - - - - - H R Parry + 1 2 1 41* 41 41.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - D Prescott + 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 1 - 24 1 86 4 21.50 3-46 - - Smoker, H G 7 11 1 86 180 18.00 - 1 1 3 - 196.4 31 628 48 13.08 8-18 2 4 Rev J M Swift 2 4 0 15 36 9.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - J D Tipping, sen 6 10 4 8* 25 4.16 - - 3 14 2 - - - - - - - - A S Turner 1 2 1 17* 24 24.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - F S Vaughan + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - - F C Wild 5 8 0 11 46 5.75 - - 2 4 - - - - - - - - - A Williams 1 2 0 19 22 11.00 - - - 3 - 33.2 6 94 7 13.42 5-27 - 1 A C Williamson + 1 2 0 64 70 35.00 - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - R R Wilson 3 4 0 11 21 5.25 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 220 - - - - - - - - 89 2 - - - - Total 88 145 15 86 1943 14.94 0 8 30 66 2 571.4 85 2022 117 17.28 8-18 3 8 (27 players) (6 ball overs) 154