Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 5 : STAFFORDSHIRE V DURHAM At County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 June 1913 Result: Staffordshire won by 166 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W H Caldow and S Doughty Debutants: Staffordshire 4 (F R Heath, R E Hawkins, C H Campbell, B F Morgan); Durham 2 (A F Maynard, A L Ford) First day score: Staffordshire 129 and 96-6 wickets (S F Barnes 4*, C H Campbell 3*); Durham 67 Staffordshire + H Dearing b Morris 1 (1) c Common b Harrison 24 Nichols, J E b Morris 3 (2) b Harrison 13 Barnes, S F b Hendren 54 (7) not out 55 F R Heath b Parkin 9 (3) c Harry b Harrison 10 F W Watson c Thackeray b Parkin 1 (4) c Parkin b Harrison 5 R E Hawkins b Thackeray 9 (5) lbw b Morris 5 * B Meakin c Common b Parkin 20 (6) c Common b Morris 21 C H Campbell b Parkin 20 (8) c Hendren b Thackeray 45 Morgan, B F c Kinch b Parkin 5 Deyes, G not out 2 (9) run out 6 H Eardley b Parkin 1 Extras b 4 4 b 9, lb 1, nb 1 11 Total (all out) 129 (8 wickets declared) 195 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 7 34 38 61 88 120 125 128 129 Second innings 46 48 60 63 75 92 188 195 - - Morris 18 5 32 2 - - (2) 26 4 53 2 - - Parkin 14.1 2 39 6 - - (1) 12 1 39 0 - - Thackeray 7 0 21 1 - - (4) 6 0 21 1 - - Harry 5 0 13 0 - - Hendren 5 0 20 1 - - (5) 4.1 0 29 0 - - Harrison (3) 16 2 42 4 - 1 Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 11 1 - - Total 49.1 7 129 10 0 0 64.1 7 195 8 0 1 Durham E L Squance c Meakin b Barnes 26 (1) c Morgan b Deyes 14 Hendren, D b Eardley 7 (2) lbw b Nichols 18 * T Kinch c Barnes b Eardley 10 (3) lbw b Deyes 8 Harrison, R b Eardley 6 (4) c Meakin b Deyes 3 A F Maynard lbw b Barnes 0 (5) c Morgan b Deyes 23 Harry, F run out 0 (6) c Heath b Barnes 1 A L Ford b Barnes 0 (7) c Campbell b Barnes 7 Parkin, C H b Barnes 5 (8) run out 4 + J J Common c Nichols b Barnes 6 (9) st Dearing b Barnes 1 Thackeray, J not out 0 (10) st Dearing b Barnes 0 Morris, A b Barnes 0 (11) not out 1 Extras b 5, lb 1, nb 1 7 b 4, lb 2, w 1, nb 4 11 Total (all out) 67 (all out) 91 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 13 37 46 55 55 55 61 62 67 67 Second innings 15 28 35 70 75 84 88 90 90 91 Barnes 13 4 31 6 - 1 (4) 11.3 5 11 4 - 2 Eardley 12 3 29 3 - - (3) 5 2 4 0 - - Deyes (1) 15 1 37 4 1 2 Morgan (2) 9 3 14 0 - - Nichols (5) 7 1 14 1 - - Extras - - 7 1 - - - - 11 1 - - Total 25 7 67 10 0 1 47.3 12 91 10 1 4 Notes: Staffordshire won this match by 166 runs with 25 minutes to spare on the second day after rain had prevented a start until 2 pm. A match dominated by Barnes again in which he scored 109 runs for once out, 54 in the first innings with 4 fours, 55 in the second with 2 fours and then claimed 10 wickets in the match for 42 runs. Barnes added 96 with Campbell for the seventh wicket in the second innings. Barnes produced two spells of irresistible bowling: in Durham’s first innings, after bowling 9 overs without a wicket, in the next 4.1 overs he took 5 wickets for 6 runs. In the second innings he wrapped up the match by taking 4 wickets for 5 runs in 4.4 overs. For the visitors Parkin took 6 for 39 in Staffordshire’s first innings. Staffordshire started this season with a policy of limiting the number of playing professionals to four. The match was watched by an estimated 2,000 people. Durham’s second innings had commenced with Deyes bowling and Barnes having a rest, and the first over to Squance was an extraordinary one. The first ball was hit past cover to the boundary, the second went clean through the batman’s defence and over the bails, the third was a wide on the off, the fourth a no ball which gave a catch to Nicholls in the slips but who allowed the ball to go to the boundary. The fifth was cut square to the boundary, the sixth was cut for two, the seventh gave a chance to Dearing standing back and the eighth was placed into the hands of Morgan in the gulley. Thus there were eight deliveries, which included 3 fours and a two, a no ball and a wide, two missed chances and a wicket. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 21 June; Staffordshire Sentinel 16,17 June; Cricket 21 June, p 324. 38