Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 53 : SUFFOLK V HERTFORDSHIRE At The Town Ground, Dellwood Avenue, Felixstowe on Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 August 1913 Result: Hertfordshire won by five wickets Points: Hertfordshire 5 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Suffolk 1 (F R C Cobbold); Hertfordshire none First day score: Hertfordshire 214; Suffolk 102 Hertfordshire S G Etheridge st Cornell b Penfold 62 (1) b Waters 27 Golding, A J c Penfold b Cobbold 4 (2) c Whatman b Penfold 32 + C H Titchmarsh c Cornell b Cobbold 7 (3) c Mortimer b Penfold 41 E S Household b Penfold 55 (4) run out 0 * Rev C G Ward c Whatman b Penfold 0 (5) b Penfold 36 W H Marsh c Titchmarsh b Penfold 6 (6) not out 5 C H Tait c Cornell b Cobbold 38 (7) not out 3 A S Thorpe c Cobbold b Lawrence 17 N J Cox c Mortimer b Lawrence 8 Burton, F A st Cornell b Cobbold 6 Shelford, W not out 1 Extras 10 19 Total (all out) 214 (5 wickets) 163 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 25 128 135 146 178 192 211 214 Second innings 53 79 145 153 - - - - - Penfold 26 13 48 4 - - (1) 18 6 38 3 - - Cobbold 27 5 75 4 - - (2) 10 1 48 0 - - Waters 14 3 39 0 - - (3) 8 0 28 1 - - Lawrence 9 0 42 2 - - (4) 4 0 17 0 - - Bassett (5) 4.1 2 13 0 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 19 1 - - Total 76 21 214 10 - - 44.1 9 163 5 - - Suffolk (Followed on) * H Bassett c Titchmarsh b Marsh 15 (1) b Burton 53 A D Whatman b Burton 16 (3) c Thorpe b Cox 19 Penfold, W c Shelford b Burton 2 (2) c Ward b Marsh 13 H A Busher c Thorpe b Burton 5 (4) c Marsh b Burton 17 F L Titchmarsh c Ward b Marsh 33 (5) b Cox 21 J N Richardson b Burton 0 (6) b Cox 1 F R C Cobbold st Titchmarsh b Marsh 4 (7) st Titchmarsh b Household 49 O Mortimer b Burton 10 (8) c Etheridge b Cox 0 + P P Cornell c Burton b Marsh 0 (9) b Cox 2 Capt H M Lawrence c Thorpe b Marsh 0 (10) not out 62 Waters, F not out 0 (11) c Ward b Marsh 3 Extras 17 33 Total (all out) 102 (all out) 273 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 28 30 48 58 71 88 102 Second innings 18 52 78 125 125 157 273 Cox 5 0 27 0 - - (3) 16 0 44 5 - - Burton 13 3 33 5 - - (1) 32 5 109 2 - - Marsh 8.1 1 25 5 - - (2) 16.5 4 57 2 - - Shelford (4) 10 0 15 0 - - Household (5) 2 0 15 1 - - Extras - - 17 0 - - - - 33 0 - - Total 26.1 4 102 10 - - 76.5 9 273 10 - - Notes: Hertfordshire won this return match by five wickets on the second day having been set a victory target of 162 runs in two and a half hours. Hertfordshire had also won the encounter between the two sides in July. When Suffolk had followed on 112 runs behind on first innings and had lost six wickets for 157 an early defeat looked probable. However in the Suffolk second innings Cobbold and Lawrence added 99 runs for the ninth wicket. For the winners, Etheridge scored 62 and Household 55. This pair put on 103 runs for the third wicket in the Hertfordshire first innings. In the Suffolk first innings Burton took 5 wickets for 33 runs and Marsh 5 wickets for 25 runs, and in the second innings Cox took 5 wickets for 44 runs. For the losers Lawrence scored 62 not out and Bassett 53 in the Suffolk second innings. On the first day play was interrupted on several occasions by rain. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire first innings boundaries in Etheridge’s 62 and Household’s 55; in Suffolk second innings boundaries in Lawrence’s 62 not out and Bassett’s 53; precise time completed.] Sources: East Anglian Daily Times 7,8 August; Herts Advertiser 9 August; Watford Observer 16 August; Eastern Daily Press 7,8 August; Cricket 16 August, p 509; The Sportsman 8 August. 86