Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 24 : BEDFORDSHIRE V NORFOLK At Elstow School Ground, Ampthill Road, Elstow, Bedford on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 July 1913 Result: Norfolk won by six wickets Points: Norfolk 5 Toss: Bedfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Bedfordshire none; Norfolk 2 (Capt S M J Trafford, R A Wingfield) First day score: Bedfordshire 61 and 58-3 wickets (F W H Nicholas 12*, S V Graham 16*); Norfolk 177 Bedfordshire Holdstock, H F run out 0 (1) c Stevens b Watson 7 W E King c Stevens b Falconer 2 (2) c Popham b Watson 18 Wharmby, G E b Falconer 5 (6) b Watson 4 F W H Nicholas c Watson b Gibson 8 (5) c Popham b Gibson 69 F C W Newman b Falconer 2 (7) run out 20 Ratcliff, J c Stevens b Gibson 1 (9) not out 15 W Brown c and b Falconer 2 (10) c Gibson b Watson 9 * + E E Apthorp c Fulcher b Gibson 21 (3) b Falconer 0 S V Graham b Falconer 8 (4) c Thurgar b Watson 37 A F Durrant b Falconer 1 (8) c Thurgar b Watson 10 H Grierson not out 6 (11) c Falconer b Watson 7 Extras 5 w 2 9 Total (all out) 61 (all out) 205 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 2 13 17 18 21 26 54 54 61 Second innings 15 26 26 142 147 156 205 Falconer 14.2 8 28 6 - - (1) 35 17 55 1 - - Gibson 14 4 28 3 - - (2) 21 6 48 1 - - Watson (3) 37.2 13 62 7 2 - Fulcher (4) 7 3 16 0 - - Wynne-Willson (5) 3 1 15 0 - - Extras - - 5 1 - - - - 9 1 - - Total 28.2 12 61 10 - - 103.2 40 205 10 2 0 Norfolk + R W Thurgar b Grierson 8 (1) lbw b Wharmby 10 E J Fulcher run out 17 (2) c Holdstock b Wharmby 6 * G A Stevens b Wharmby 16 (3) b Graham 27 R F Popham b Grierson 3 (4) c Apthorp b King 2 C J H Treglown b Graham 34 (5) not out 19 Capt S M J Trafford lbw b Wharmby 5 (6) not out 10 L F Wynne-Willson b King 24 R A Wingfield b Graham 7 Falconer, R not out 13 Gibson, E c Grierson b Brown 6 Watson, H c Ratcliff b Wharmby 32 Extras nb 2 12 16 Total (all out) 177 (4 wickets) 90 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 22 47 47 56 99 113 140 177 Second innings 14 35 44 64 - - - - - - Wharmby 24 8 53 3 - - (1) 9 0 29 2 - - Grierson 15 4 40 2 - 2 (2) 4 2 13 0 - - Brown 14 3 42 1 - - Graham 9 1 22 2 - - (4) 4 1 17 1 - - King 3 0 8 1 - - (3) 9 4 15 1 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - - - 16 0 - - Total 65 16 177 10 0 2 26 7 90 4 - - Notes: Norfolk won this match by six wickets shortly before 4.00 pm on the second day. For the winners, Watson took 7 wickets for 62 runs in the Bedfordshire second innings, and Falconer 6 for 28 in the Bedfordshire first innings. Treglown top-scored with 34. For the losers, there were 1 five, 8 fours, 5 threes and 4 twos in Nicholas’s 69. In the Bedfordshire second innings Nicholas and Graham added 116 runs for the fourth wicket in 2 hours and 10 minutes. Reports say the pitch was wet on the first day and early on it aided the bowlers. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Bedfordshire second innings fall of seventh, eighth and ninth wickets; in Norfolk first innings fall of second and eighth wickets.] Sources: Bedfordshire Standard 18 July; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 19 July; Luton News 24 July; Eastern Daily Press 17,18 July; Eastern Evening News 16,17 July; Norfolk Chronicle 18 July; Norwich Mercury 19 July; Cricket 26 July, p 441. 57