Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 50 : CAMBRIDGESHIRE V NORFOLK At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 August 1913 Result: Norfolk won by an innings and 161 runs Points: Norfolk 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire 3 (H Christmas, R P Gregory, W A G Pratt); Norfolk 1 (G T Carter) First day score: Cambridgeshire 195; Norfolk 312-2 wickets (R W Thurgar 123*, M Falcon 47*) Cambridgeshire R P Gregory b Falcon 0 (1) c Thurgar b Watson 1 Carpenter, H A c Falconer b Falcon 1 (2) b Falcon 1 Watts, G H c Trafford b Watson 12 (6) c Thurgar b Watson 8 * H C Tebbutt b Fulcher 48 (4) b Watson 44 E H Hickman c Gibson b Watson 13 (5) c Thurgar b Falcon 6 W C Hunt not out 80 (3) c Fulcher b Falcon 2 W A G Pratt c Thurgar b Fulcher 10 (7) b Watson 18 + Rev F W Worsley b Watson 10 (8) c Thurgar b Falcon 4 T W Sadler run out 7 (9) not out 5 Coulson, H b Falconer 0 (10) b Falcon 1 H Christmas b Falconer 9 (11) b Watson 8 Extras nb 2 5 8 Total (all out) 195 (all out) 106 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 1 27 61 94 106 158 176 195 Second innings 106 Falcon 14 4 58 2 - - (1) 14 2 51 5 - - Watson 20 5 51 3 - - (2) 12.5 4 43 5 - - Falconer 12.4 2 43 2 - 1 Gibson 4 0 19 0 - - Fulcher 9 3 19 2 - 1 (3) 1 0 4 0 - - Extras - - 5 1 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 59.4 14 195 10 0 2 27.5 6 106 10 - - Norfolk + R W Thurgar c Pratt b Christmas 155 R F Popham c Coulson b Carpenter 112 G A Stevens c and b Christmas 17 * M Falcon c and b Sadler 52 E J Fulcher c Worsley b Christmas 33 Capt S W J Trafford c Carpenter b Christmas 0 L F Wynne-Willson b Sadler 19 G T Carter c Sadler b Christmas 16 Falconer, R b Sadler 12 Watson, H not out 19 Gibson, E Extras 27 Total (9 wickets declared) 462 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 462 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Sadler 29 3 122 3 - - Coulson 12 2 39 0 - - Carpenter 2 0 18 1 - - Christmas 25.2 3 146 5 - - Tebbutt 4 1 19 0 - - Hunt 9 0 42 0 - - Gregory 6 0 49 0 - - Extras - - 27 0 - - Total 87.2 9 462 9 - - Notes: Norfolk won this match by an innings and 161 runs early on the second afternoon. For the winners, there was 1 five and 24 fours in Thurgar’s 155, an innings of four hours, and Popham’s 112 contained 16 fours, an innings of one hour and 40 minutes. Falcon scored 52. In the Norfolk innings for the first wicket Thurgar and Popham put on just under two hundred runs. In the Cambridgeshire second innings Falcon took 5 wickets for 51 runs and Watson 5 wickets for 43 runs. For the losers, there were 13 fours in Hunt’s 80 not out, and Christmas took 5 wickets for 146 runs in the Norfolk innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Norfolk innings boundaries in Falcon’s 52; precise time completed.] Sources: Cambridge Independent Press 8 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 8 August; Eastern Daily Press 7,8 August; Eastern Evening News 6,7 August; East Anglian Daily Times 8 August; Cricket 16 August, p 508; The Sportsman 8 August. 83