Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 58: CAMBRIDGESHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At Fenner’s University Cricket Ground, Mortimer Road, Cambridge on Friday 7, [Saturday 8] August 1914 Result: Match drawn - Hertfordshire won on first innings Points: Hertfordshire 3, Cambridgeshire 1 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire none; Hertfordshire 1 (J H Thorpe) First day score: As scorecard – rain prevented play on the second day Hertfordshire + S G Etheridge c Watts b Tebbutt 27 (1) not out 25 Golding, A J c Loveday b Coulson 6 (2) not out 5 E S Household not out 116 L G Hosier b Coulson 5 Coleman, W E b Coulson 12 B E Baker c Ling b Coulson 0 N J Cox c Coulson b Hunt 6 * W H Marsh lbw b Coulson 2 J H Thorpe c Collier b Tebbutt 22 Burton, F A b Coulson 1 Shelford, W b Coulson 1 Extras w 2 10 3 Total (all out) 208 (0 wicket) 33 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 24 71 208 Second Innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 33.1 14 48 7 - - (1) 5 3 14 0 - - Hunt 15 3 44 1 - - (2) 5 1 16 0 - - Rose 9 0 55 0 1 - Gray 2 0 16 0 - - Tebbutt 7 1 35 2 1 - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 66.1 18 208 10 2 0 10 4 33 0 - - Cambridgeshire A S Ling c Household b Shelford 26 Loveday, F A c Burton b Shelford 0 F E Collier st Etheridge b Shelford 8 W A Gray b Burton 8 E H Hickman b Shelford 30 * H C Tebbutt c Golding b Shelford 0 W C Hunt c Cox b Marsh 21 + Watts, G H b Burton 16 H D Chaplin c Golding b Marsh 12 Coulson, H c Coleman b Shelford 20 L Rose not out 1 Extras 12 Total (all out) 154 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 22 154 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Burton 16 6 34 2 - - Shelford 18.2 2 72 6 - - Marsh 6 0 27 2 - - Coleman 2 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - Total 42.2 8 154 10 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Hertfordshire winning on the first innings. Rain caused an early finish on the first day and prevented play on the second day. For Hertfordshire Household scored 116 not out in 2¼ hours with 1 six and 16 fours. He added 88 for the eighth wicket with Thorpe. Shelford took 6 wickets for 72 runs in the Cambridgeshire innings. For Cambridgeshire Hickman top-scored with 30. Coulson took 7 wickets for 48 runs in the Hertfordshire first innings. The Cambridgeshire bowling for the second innings has been derived from the published averages. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Cambridge Independent Press 14 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 14 August; West Herts and Watford Observer 15 August; Biggleswade Chronicle 14 August; World of Cricket 15 August, p 434. 99