Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 47 : NORFOLK V HERTFORDSHIRE At The County Ground, Cricket Ground Road, Lakenham, Norwich on Monday 4, Tuesday 5 August 1913 Result: Match drawn – Norfolk won on first innings Points: Norfolk 3; Hertfordshire 1 Toss: Norfolk Umpires: Not known Debutants: Norfolk 1 (A R Hudson); Hertfordshire 1 (A S Thorpe) First day score: Norfolk 341; Hertfordshire 216-3 wickets (E S Household 27*, Rev C G Ward 10*) Norfolk + R W Thurgar c Burton b Cox 2 (1) lbw b Burton 15 R F Popham c Titchmarsh b Cox 94 (2) c Titchmarsh b Cox 23 G A Stevens b Household 97 (3) c Shelford b Burton 142 * M Falcon b Burton 19 (4) c and b Shelford 40 E J Fulcher c Etheridge b Shelford 57 (5) c Household b Marsh 0 Capt S W J Trafford b Cox 1 (6) c Household b Marsh 7 L F Wynne-Willson c Etheridge b Cox 14 (7) lbw b Marsh 9 A R Hudson c Tait b Shelford 39 (8) not out 14 Falconer, R lbw b Burton 7 Watson, H lbw b Shelford 1 Gibson, E not out 4 Extras 6 5 Total (all out) 341 (7 wickets declared) 255 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 154 185 241 282 341 Second innings 26 66 159 159 173 205 255 - - - Burton 27 2 145 2 - - (2) 18.4 0 82 2 - - Cox 21 2 87 4 - - (1) 12 2 45 1 - - Shelford 11.3 2 64 3 - - (3) 11 0 66 1 - - Marsh 4 0 26 0 - - (4) 9 1 57 3 - - Household 2 0 13 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 65.3 6 341 10 - - 50.4 3 255 7 - - Hertfordshire S G Etheridge b Falconer 96 (1) c Falconer b Hudson 27 Golding, A J b Watson 4 (2) not out 50 + C H Titchmarsh c Gibson b Watson 70 (3) not out 27 E S Household c Thurgar b Watson 60 * Rev C G Ward c Trafford b Watson 27 A S Thorpe lbw b Falcon 4 C H Tait b Falconer 12 N J Cox c Stevens b Falconer 11 W H Marsh not out 11 Burton, F A c Stevens b Watson 2 Shelford, W b Watson 0 Extras 11 6 Total (all out) 308 (1 wicket) 110 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 153 195 239 244 308 Second innings 45 - - - - - - - - - Falcon 27 3 106 1 - - (1) 5 2 20 0 - - Watson 28.5 7 84 6 - - (2) 7 5 5 0 - - Falconer 24 10 67 3 - - Gibson 20 6 40 0 - - Hudson (3) 13 4 30 1 - - Fulcher (4) 3 2 3 0 - - Trafford (5) 10 2 31 0 - - Wynne-Willson (6) 3 0 15 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 99.5 26 308 10 - - 41 15 110 1 - - Notes: This return match was left drawn with Norfolk winning on the first innings. Earlier in the year Norfolk had also won on the first innings. Hertfordshire were set 289 to win in 2 hours 15 minutes but made no attempt to chase the target. The match finished just before 6.00 pm. For the home team there were 13 fours in Popham’s 94, an innings of 2 hours, 15 fours in Stevens’ 97, an innings of just 55 minutes, and 16 fours in his 142, an innings of 2 hours and 20 minutes, and Fulcher scored 57. Popham and Stevens added 147 runs for the second wicket in Norfolk’s first innings. Watson took 6 wickets for 84 runs in Hertfordshire’s first innings. For the visitors Etheridge scored 96, an innings of 2 hours and 35 minutes, Titchmarsh 70, Household 60 with 9 fours, and Golding an unbeaten 50. Etheridge and Titchmarsh put on 147 runs for the second wicket in Hertfordshire’s first innings. Titchmarsh did not concede a single bye in either of Norfolk’s innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Norfolk first innings boundaries in Fulcher’s 57; in Hertfordshire first innings boundaries in Etheridge’s 96 and Titchmarsh’s 70; in Hertfordshire second innings boundaries in Golding’s 50 not out.] Sources: East Anglian Daily Times 5,6 August; Eastern Daily Press 5,6 August; Eastern Evening News 5 August; Norwich Chronicle 8 August; Norwich Mercury 9 August; Herts Advertiser 9 August; Watford Observer 9 August; Cricket 9 Aug, p 495. 80