Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 27 : SURREY 2 ND XI V STAFFORDSHIRE At The Oval, Kennington, London on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 July 1913 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by four wickets Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: T Attewell and J P Whiteside Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI 1 (J H Naumann); Staffordshire none First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 284; Staffordshire 50-5 wickets (C H Campbell 21*, J S Heath 2*) Surrey 2 nd XI F S Gillespie c J S Heath b Morgan 7 (1) c Scott b Deyes 16 Myers, E B c and b J S Heath 8 (2) b Deyes 1 Abel, W J run out 109 (3) b Deyes 23 Peach, H A not out 87 (4) b J S Heath 13 Blacklidge, H G c Campbell b Morgan 0 (5) lbw b J S Heath 0 Narraway, W E b Morgan 0 (6) b J S Heath 0 Abel, T E c Scott b Morgan 16 (7) not out 28 J H Naumann c Scott b Nichols 0 (8) not out 14 * A W F Rutty c and b Morgan 13 + Sullivan, D lbw b Morgan 15 Freeman, A J lbw b Morgan 0 Extras b 20, lb 5, nb 4 29 b 10, lb 1, nb 4 15 Total (all out) 284 (6 wickets) 110 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 27 27 185 186 186 227 230 257 284 284 Second innings 6 39 66 66 66 68 - - - - Morgan 28.3 4 94 7 - - (2) 8 1 31 0 - - J S Heath 16 3 64 1 - - (3) 7 2 39 3 - - Deyes 2 0 16 0 - 1 (1) 11.2 0 25 3 - 4 Nichols 10 0 42 1 - - Eardley 9 3 38 0 - 3 Meakin 1 0 1 0 - - Extras - - 29 1 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 66.3 10 284 10 0 4 26.2 3 110 6 0 4 Staffordshire (Followed on) P Briggs b Naumann 6 (1) c Narraway b Freeman 3 Nichols, J E c Narraway b Freeman 8 (2) c W J Abel b Naumann 7 F R Heath b Naumann 1 (3) run out 2 * B Meakin b Freeman 0 (4) c W J Abel b Blacklidge 137 R A Heath c W J Abel b Freeman 3 (5) c Narraway b Freeman 39 C H Campbell b Naumann 41 (6) c Freeman b Myers 9 J S Heath c W J Abel b Naumann 2 (7) lbw b W J Abel 4 + J S Scott c T E Abel b Freeman 1 (8) b Naumann 2 Morgan, B F c Peach b Freeman 21 (9) c Blacklidge b W J Abel 9 Deyes, G run out 38 (10) c and b W J Abel 3 H Eardley not out 11 (11) not out 10 Extras b 5, lb 2, w 1, nb 5 13 b 21, nb 2 23 Total (all out) 145 (all out) 248 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 15 19 20 23 50 51 84 99 145 Second innings 3 5 15 112 146 181 191 220 225 248 Freeman 16 6 37 5 - 1 (1) 9 2 18 2 - - Naumann 16 5 58 4 1 4 (2) 19 3 76 2 - 2 T E Abel 5 0 21 0 - - (6) 3 0 5 0 - - Blacklidge 1 0 3 0 - - (3) 12.2 1 37 1 - - Peach 3 0 13 0 - - W J Abel 0.5 0 0 0 - - (4) 13 0 77 3 - - Myers (5) 6 2 12 1 - - Extras - - 13 1 - - - - 23 1 - - Total 41.5 11 145 10 1 5 62.2 8 248 10 0 2 Notes: Surrey 2 nd XI inflicted Staffordshire’s first defeat in over two years, winning by 4 wickets with 12 minutes to spare on the second day. For the winners in their first innings William Abel hit 16 fours in his 109 and Peach scored 87 not out including 7 fours, the pair forming a partnership of 158 for the third wicket in 75 minutes. Freeman took 5 for 37 in the Staffordshire first innings. Staffordshire had to follow on in arrears of 139 but their captain Meakin made a valuable innings of 137 with 2 fives and 13 fours. R A Heath helped him add 97 for the fourth wicket, but after that no one could stay with him and he was last man out. With Surrey at 68 for 6 wickets an improbable Staffordshire victory seemed possible, but Naumann and T E Abel scored the runs required. In Staffordshire’s second innings Meakin scored 2 fives, R A Heath one and Morgan one, giving the unusual total of 4 fives scored in the innings. [Missing: In Surrey first innings duration of W S Abel's 109; in Staffordshire second innings duration of Meakin's 137.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Annual Report; Surrey Yearbook 1913; Staffordshire Advertiser 19 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 16,17,18 July; The Sportsman 17,18 July; Cricket 26 July, p 441 60