Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 13 : BEDFORDSHIRE V SUFFOLK At The Bedford Grammar School Ground, Burnaby Road, Bedford on Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 July 1913 Result: Bedfordshire won by an innings and 91 runs Points: Bedfordshire 5 Toss: Suffolk Umpires: A E Hoar and A C McArthur Debutants: Suffolk 4 (W G English, R D Lake, H M Lawrence, B D Rushbrooke); Bedfordshire 4 (A F Durrant, F W H Nicholas, J Ratcliff, J G D Weir) First day score: Suffolk 213; Bedfordshire 233-6 wickets (F W H Nicholas 36*, J Ratcliff 3*) Suffolk * H Bassett c Squire b Wharmby 0 (1) c Grierson b Wharmby 3 O Mortimer hit wicket b Grierson 30 (2) c Apthorp b Wharmby 27 R D Lake lbw b Durrant 53 (3) c Weir b Grierson 14 Penfold, W c Apthorp b Grierson 11 (8) c Holdstock b King 16 B D Rushbrooke c Apthorp b Grierson 23 (5) c Apthorp b Wharmby 0 W G English c Apthorp b Wharmby 14 (6) c Wharmby b Pestell 29 V F Gaby b Wharmby 8 (7) run out 1 F L Titchmarsh not out 43 (4) b King 19 + P P Cornell b Grierson 1 (9) run out 21 Capt H M Lawrence b Pestell 8 (10) not out 5 Trudgett, F G c Grierson b Wharmby 5 (11) c Holdstock b Weir 6 Extras nb 3 17 4 Total (all out) 213 (all out) 145 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 83 89 102 145 145 213 Second innings 10 37 65 65 68 113 119 145 Wharmby 25 3 76 4 - - (1) 20 8 33 3 - - Pestell 10 0 43 1 - - (2) 12 2 34 1 - - Durrant 11 2 33 1 - - (6) 5 1 19 0 - - Grierson 20 6 44 4 - 3 (3) 6 2 20 1 - - Weir (4) 2 1 6 1 - - King (5) 8 1 29 2 - - Extras - - 17 0 - - - - 4 2 - - Total 66 11 213 10 0 3 53 15 145 10 - - Bedfordshire Holdstock, H F c Lake b Gaby 72 W E King c Lawrence b Penfold 74 Wharmby, G E b Lawrence 8 F W H Nicholas not out 170 H Squire c Bassett b Gaby 6 * + E E Apthorp lbw b Penfold 10 J G D Weir b Penfold 19 Ratcliff, J run out 29 A F Durrant not out 44 H Grierson Pestell, F E Extras 17 Total (7 wickets declared) 449 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 130 139 160 179 197 223 297 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Lawrence 16 0 79 1 - - Penfold 30 2 117 3 - - Trudgett 13 1 75 0 - - Gaby 11 1 108 2 - - Bassett 3 0 11 0 - - English 3 0 17 0 - - Titchmarsh 3 0 24 0 - - Extras - - 17 1 - - Total 79 4 448x 7 - - 449 Notes: Bedfordshire won this match before tea on the second day shortly after 4.00 pm. For the winners, the debutant Nicholas scored 170 runs, scored in around two hours, with 1 six, 1 five and 23 fours. There were 11 fours in King’s 74 and Holdstock scored 72. In the Bedfordshire innings, Holdstock and King put on 130 runs for the first wicket, Nicholas and Ratcliff 74 for the seventh wicket, and Nicholas and Durrant an undefeated 152 runs for the eighth wicket. For Suffolk, Lake scored 53 in the Suffolk first innings. On the first day rain after 6.00 pm halted play for the day and on the second day rain delayed the start for15 minutes and stopped play at 12.55 pm when lunch was taken. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Suffolk first innings boundaries in Lake’s 53, and fall of seventh, eighth and ninth wickets; in Suffolk second innings fall of eighth and ninth wickets; in Bedfordshire innings breakdown of Nicholas’s 170 not out, boundaries in Holdstock’s 72, and runs bowling one short.] Sources: Bedfordshire Standard 4 July; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 5 July; Luton News 10 July; East Anglian Daily Times 3,4 July; Eastern Daily Press 3,4 July; Cricket 12 July, p 392; The Sportsman 4 July. 46