Minor Counties Championship 1913

SUFFOLK 1913 Championship matches: Played 8, won none, lost 7, drawn 1 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings none) Position: Last out of twenty Won: None Lost: v Bedfordshire at Bedford ES, v Hertfordshire at St Albans, v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge, v Lincolnshire at Skegness, v Cambridgeshire at Ipswich, v Hertfordshire at Felixstowe and v Bedfordshire at Bury St Edmunds Drawn - won on first innings: None Drawn - lost on first innings: v Lincolnshire at Ipswich Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captains: H Bassett (5 matches). P P Cornell, Capt H M Lawrence and C M Phillips led the side in the matches in which H Bassett did not play. Wicket-keepers: P P Cornell (5 matches), J H Fosdick (2 matches) and C M Phillips (1 match) Debutants: 13 (T E M Battersby, R G F Beale, H A Busher, J S Cobbald, F R C Cobbold, P S Driver, W G English, J H Fosdick, R M W Gross, R D Lake, H M Lawrence, J N Richardson and B D Rushbrooke) Final Season: 17 (T E M Battersby, R G F Beale, C Catchpole, W Catchpole, J S Cobbald, F R C Cobbold, J H Fosdick, V F Gaby, R M W Gross, R D Lake, H M Lawrence, C M Phillips, J N Richardson, B D Rushbrooke, F G Trudgett, F Waters and A D Whatman) 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 The Ipswich and East Suffolk Cricket Club Ground, Portman Road, Ipswich (2 matches) Notes: Suffolk had a very poor season when they lost seven matches outright and the eighth on first innings. They finished in last place in the Table. No batsman scored 200 runs. The bowling relied totally upon William Penfold who took 58 wickets at 15.37 runs each. During the season William Penfold reached the career milestones of 1000 runs, 300 wickets, and 50 catches. SUFFOLK MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1913 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 13 players who made their Championship debut for Suffolk during the season. Names in bold denote that 1913 was the last or only season that these 17 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 5 10 1 53 134 14.88 - 1 1 1 - 32.1 5 96 3 32.00 1-16 - - T E M Battersby + 1 2 0 11 16 8.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - R G F Beale + 1 2 1 10* 10 10.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - H A Busher + 4 8 1 57* 103 14.71 - 1 1 3 - 11 0 59 3 19.66 3-29 - - C Catchpole 2 4 0 41 72 18.00 - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - W Catchpole 1 2 0 10 18 9.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - J S Cobbald + 3 6 1 30* 60 12.00 - - 1 3 - - - - - - - - - F R C Cobbold + 3 6 0 49 68 11.33 - - 1 6 - 63 7 246 7 35.14 4-75 - - P P Cornell 5 10 2 21 74 9.25 - - 1 5 6 - - - - - - - - P S Driver + 2 4 0 61 73 18.25 - 1 1 - - 23 4 87 1 87.00 1-65 - - W G English + 3 6 0 43 134 22.33 - - - - - 7 0 41 0 - - - - J Forrest 1 2 0 12 23 11.50 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - J H Fosdick + 2 4 0 21 49 12.25 - - - 3 1 - - - - - - - - V F Gaby 3 6 0 36 59 9.83 - - 1 2 - 21.1 2 146 4 36.50 2-29 - - R M W Gross + 1 2 1 43* 78 78.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - R D Lake + 4 8 0 53 122 15.25 - 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - Capt H M Lawrence + 5 10 3 62* 106 15.14 - 1 4 3 - 119.1 14 423 16 26.43 5-111 - 1 O Mortimer 8 16 0 49 199 12.43 - - 4 6 - 12 1 68 1 68.00 1-11 - - Penfold, W 8 16 0 30 155 9.68 - - - 6 - 326.1 94 892 58 15.37 7-73 1 6 C M Phillips 2 4 1 23* 36 12.00 - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - J N Richardson + 3 6 0 30 60 10.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - B D Rushbrooke + 3 6 0 23 32 5.33 - - 3 - - - - - - - - - - F L Titchmarsh 7 14 1 43* 188 14.46 - - 2 2 - 16 3 86 4 21.50 2-28 - - Trudgett, F G 4 8 1 6 21 3.00 - - 3 2 - 80 10 300 6 50.00 4-60 - - Waters, F 4 8 4 11* 33 8.25 - - - 2 - 109.1 28 285 13 21.92 4-41 - - A D Whatman 2 4 0 41 95 23.75 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - F P Wood 1 2 0 30 41 20.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 180 - - - - - - - - 145 3 - - - - Total 88 176 17 62* 2239 14.08 0 5 26 55 7 819.5 168 2874 119 24.15 7-73 1 7 (27 players) (6 ball overs) Note: In match 13 the runs conceded by the Suffolk bowlers are 1 run short. 171