Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 51 : CHESHIRE V LINCOLNSHIRE At Winnington Park Cricket Club Ground, Park Road, Northwich on Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 August 1913 Result: Lincolnshire won by five wickets Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Cheshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cheshire 2 (B Horner, A C Williamson); Lincolnshire 2 (H Eaitch, H N Newsum) First day score: Cheshire 120 and 84; Lincolnshire 89 and 18-3 wickets (R Warner 6*) Cheshire L N Jones b Riley 25 (1) c Worman b Riley 0 Barrell, B c Warner b Day 0 (2) lbw b Broughton 39 A C Williamson b Riley 64 (3) c Rose b Riley 6 Holland, J b Broughton 0 (4) run out 10 * F Fairbank b Bowman 14 (5) b Riley 1 Chambers, W T b Bowman 0 (6) b Riley 0 G Molyneux lbw b Bowman 0 (7) c Thompson b Riley 4 Rev J M Swift c Rose b Riley 7 (8) c Broughton b Riley 14 B Horner not out 7 (9) lbw b Broughton 2 Smoker, H G c Thompson b Bowman 0 (10) c Bowman b Riley 4 + J D Tipping, sen b Bowman 0 (11) not out 0 Extras 3 4 Total (all out) 120 (all out) 84 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 42 49 83 85 85 104 117 120 120 Second innings 10 24 50 51 51 53 54 74 84 84 Broughton 10 1 19 1 - - (1) 13 0 31 2 - - Riley 21 4 43 3 - - (2) 13 3 49 7 - - Day 7 2 23 1 - - Worman 4 1 7 0 - - Bowman 9 0 25 5 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 51 8 120 10 - - 26 3 84 10 - - Lincolnshire * W E Thompson c Molyneux b Fairbank 2 (1) b Smoker 0 R Warner b Fairbank 1 (2) b Smoker 8 Day, J W c Jones b Fairbank 8 (6) not out 55 Broughton, J J c Fairbank b Smoker 4 + W R Rose b Smoker 16 (5) c Jones b Barrell 19 T H Bowman b Smoker 22 Riley, E E c Jones b Smoker 21 (7) not out 17 C J Williamson b Fairbank 9 J N Worman b Smoker 0 (4) b Smoker 7 H N Newsum c Molyneux b Fairbank 0 H Eaitch not out 4 (3) lbw b Fairbank 5 Extras 2 7 Total (all out) 89 (5 wickets) 118 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 4 23 37 68 70 77 77 79 89 Second innings 0 12 18 25 77 - - - - - Fairbank 13 3 39 5 - - (1) 13 0 41 1 - - Smoker 13 0 48 5 - - (2) 15 2 58 3 - - Barrell (3) 5 0 12 1 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 26 3 89 10 - - 33 2 118 5 - - Notes: This match was won by Lincolnshire by five wickets shortly before 1.00 pm on the second day. For the winners Day scored 55 not out. Riley took 10 wickets in the match for 92 runs including 7 wickets for 49 runs in the Cheshire second innings. Bowman took 5 wickets for 25 runs in the first Cheshire innings. For Cheshire the debutant A C Williamson scored 64. In the Lincolnshire first innings Fairbank and Smoker bowled unchanged taking 5 wickets for 39 runs and 5 wickets for 48 runs respectively. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Cheshire first innings boundaries in Williamson’s 64; in Lincolnshire second innings boundaries in Day’s 55 not out.] Sources: Chester Chronicle 9 August; Grantham Journal 9 August; Grimsby News 8 August; Nottingham Evening Post 7 August; Yorkshire Post 7 August; Cricket 16 August, p 516-517; The Sportsman 11 August. 84