Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 11 : NORTHUMBERLAND V CHESHIRE At The County Ground, Osborne Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 June 1913 Result: Northumberland won by an innings and 126 runs Points: Northumberland 5 Toss: Northumberland Umpires: Not known Debutants: Northumberland none; Cheshire none First day score: Northumberland 397-7 wickets declared; Cheshire 91-8 wickets (G Molyneux 6*, W A Cragg 3*) Northumberland W W Meldon b Smoker 13 Norbury, D V b Barrell 65 + J S F Morrison c Fairbank b Smoker 37 G L Hunting c Molyneux b Jones 122 J S Nesbit c Wild b Chambers 31 Wingham, G C c Holland b Smoker 32 S W Anderson c Jones b Smoker 49 C G Arkwright not out 22 Milne, G T not out 10 * S P Bell C M Skinner Extras 16 Total (7 wickets declared) 397 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 88 146 268 297 347 376 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Fairbank 19 2 86 0 - - Smoker 27 1 118 4 - - Barrell 25 2 115 1 - - Chambers 10 2 44 1 - - Jones 2 0 18 1 - - Extras - - 16 0 - - Total 83 7 397 7 - - Cheshire (Followed on) J C Fallows b Milne 4 (1) c Norbury b Skinner 3 Holland, J b Norbury 1 (7) c Milne b Norbury 64 Barrell, B c Anderson b Norbury 17 (3) b Milne 6 L N Jones c Meldon b Skinner 20 (4) b Milne 4 F C Wild b Norbury 9 (5) b Wingham 8 Chambers, W T c Morrison b Norbury 0 (6) c Skinner b Norbury 19 H C Edge c Wingham b Skinner 21 (8) c Norbury b Skinner 15 Smoker, H G b Norbury 3 (10) b Milne 10 G Molyneux not out 10 (9) not out 19 + W A Cragg b Milne 3 (11) b Skinner 2 * F Fairbank b Milne 0 (2) b Skinner 1 Extras nb 1 7 25 Total (all out) 95 (all out) 176 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 8 29 43 43 95 Second innings 12 19 19 37 76 136 176 Milne 16.2 7 24 3 - - (1) 14 5 33 3 - - Norbury 18 5 35 5 - 1 (3) 11 1 30 2 - - Skinner 9 2 29 2 - - (2) 17 7 47 4 - - Wingham (4) 7 0 32 1 - - Arkwright (5) 1 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 25 0 - - Total 43.2 14 95 10 0 1 50 13 176 10 - - Notes: Northumberland won by an innings and 126 runs 15 minutes after lunch on the second day. They had declared their first innings at 4.30 pm on the first day after batting for 4¼ hours. Driving powerfully and hitting well on the leg side, Hunting scored 122 with 4 sixes and 15 fours, an innings of 110 minutes. He added 122 in 70 minutes for the fourth wicket with Nesbit. Earlier Norbury had scored 65 and he followed this up by taking 5 for 35 in the Cheshire first innings. The visitors were asked to follow on and in their second innings Holland scored 64 in 50 minutes with 4 sixes and 5 fours. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Northumberland innings boundaries in Norbury’s 65.] Sources: Newcastle Journal 26,27 June; Yorkshire Post 26 June; Chester Chronicle 28 June; Cheshire Observer 28 June; Stockport Advertiser 27 June; Sporting Man 26,27 June; Cricket 5 July, p 366. 44