Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 16 : STAFFORDSHIRE V NORTHUMBERLAND At Walsall Cricket Club Ground, Gorway Road, Walsall on Monday 7, Tuesday 8 July 1913 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 79 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: C Marshall and W H Caldow Debutants: Staffordshire 1 (H G Powell), Northumberland 2 (L D Plummer, J L Towler) First day score: Staffordshire 192-3 wickets (S F Barnes 65*, J E Nichols 30*) Staffordshire P Briggs c and b Wingham 25 L F Taylor b Wingham 58 Barnes, S F run out 83 H G Powell b Wingham 0 Nichols, J E c Bell b Wingham 30 R E Hawkins b Norbury 5 * B Meakin b Wingham 17 C H Campbell c Arkwright b Wingham 34 + A T Lyons c and b Wingham 0 Morgan, B F not out 0 Deyes, G Extras b 18, nb 5 23 Total (9 wickets declared) 275 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 74 97 103 192 216 216 266 275 275 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Milne 15 3 58 0 - - Norbury 15 0 49 1 - 5 Wingham 25 4 88 7 - - Arkwright 4 0 29 0 - - Watson 2 0 25 0 - - Towler 2 0 3 0 - - Extras - - 23 1 - - Total 63 7 275 9 0 5 Northumberland (Followed on) Norbury, D V b Barnes 26 (1) c Lyons b Deyes 36 + J S F Morrison b Barnes 3 (2) b Deyes 1 G L Hunting c Meakin b Morgan 6 (3) c Powell b Morgan 54 * S P Bell b Barnes 0 (4) b Morgan 0 Wingham, G C lbw b Barnes 0 (5) b Morgan 0 C G Arkwright c Morgan b Barnes 6 (6) c Nichols b Barnes 0 Milne, G T b Morgan 8 (7) b Morgan 3 Richardson, O c Morgan b Barnes 5 (8) b Deyes 1 L D Plummer b Barnes 0 (9) c Briggs b Morgan 0 J L Towler not out 0 (10) run out (Taylor) 1 G H Watson c Hawkins b Barnes 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 31, lb 4, nb 2 37 b 9 9 Total (all out) 91 (all out) 105 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 25 25 25 49 64 80 80 91 91 Second innings 9 74 74 82 85 101 103 103 105 105 Barnes 13.2 7 19 8 - 2 (4) 8 3 14 1 - - Morgan 13 4 35 2 - - (2) 11 3 36 5 - - Deyes (1) 8 1 25 3 - - Nichols (3) 4 0 21 0 - - Extras - - 37 0 - - - - 9 1 - - Total 26.2 11 91 10 0 2 31 7 105 10 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 79 runs with just over 2 hours to spare on the second day. The match between the two teams at South Shields in June was drawn with no result on first innings. Owing to rain no start was possible until after 4:30 pm on the first day, when Briggs and Taylor added 74 for the first wicket in very quick time, the latter’s 58 included 10 fours. Later Barnes and Nichols added 89 in 55 minutes for the fourth wicket and the total was 192-3 at the close of day one. Barnes carried his score to 83 also with 10 fours, made in 105 minutes. He took 8 for 19 with the last four Northumbrian wickets in the first innings falling to him in successive balls - Richardson and Plummer with the last 2 balls of his thirteenth over and Norbury and Watson with the first 2 balls of his fourteenth. The extras total of 37 was by far the biggest contributor to the score with Lyons conceding 31 byes, mainly off Barnes. Following on Northumberland fared little better with Morgan taking 5 for 36. For Northumberland Wingham took 7 for 88 in the Staffordshire innings. In the Northumberland second innings although Hunting made 54 with 1 six and 6 fours and with Norbury made a good stand, the rest could only muster 6 runs between them. Lionel Plummer got a ‘king pair’ on his debut. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 12 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 7,8,9 July; Walsall Advertiser 12 July; Walsall Observer 12 July; Newcastle Journal 10 July; Cricket 12 July, p 401. 49