Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 77: CAMBRIDGESHIRE V LINCOLNSHIRE At Parker’s Piece, Parkside, Cambridge on Monday 17, [Tuesday 18] August 1914 Result: Lincolnshire won by an innings and 48 runs Points: Lincolnshire 5 Toss: Cambridgeshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cambridgeshire 1 (E P King); Lincolnshire 2 (F C R Beechey, J B Meunier) First day score: As scorecard – match completed on the first day Cambridgeshire E B Darby c Beechey b Riley 7 (7) c C J Nevile b Day 16 Loveday, F A c C J Nevile b Riley 0 (5) c Meunier b Day 1 K G Reid c C J Nevile b Day 1 (1) c Beechey b Day 16 * W A Gray c Beechey b Day 35 (3) b Day 0 L J Reid b Day 0 (2) c C J Nevile b Day 0 + Watts, G H c Beechey b Day 0 (6) b Day 4 C H Pigg b Day 5 (4) c Day b Riley 7 E P King not out 13 (8) c C J Nevile b Day 0 O J Stibbon c C J Nevile b Day 1 (9) c Curtis b Day 21 Sadler, T W c Day b Meunier 0 (11) not out 7 Coulson, H c and b Day 0 (10) c Beechey b Riley 1 Extras nb 1 6 nb 2 6 Total (all out) 68 (all out) 79 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 7 11 68 Second innings 0 0 79 Day 12.2 6 13 7 - - (1) 10.3 1 34 8 - - Riley 9 3 33 2 - 1 (2) 10 1 39 2 - 2 Meunier 3 0 16 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 24.2 9 68 10 0 1 20.3 2 79 10 0 2 Lincolnshire B P Nevile c Sadler b Gray 11 Broughton, J J b Sadler 46 S W Falding b Coulson 6 Day, J W c and b Sadler 50 * C J Nevile b Coulson 0 G E Hemingway c K G Reid b Coulson 29 Riley, E E run out 17 H G Nevile c King b Coulson 17 Meunier, J B b Sadler 4 S W Curtis b Coulson 0 + F C R Beechey not out 1 Extras 14 Total (all out) 195 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 40 195 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coulson 20.4 3 85 5 - - Sadler 13 2 64 3 - - Gray 7 2 32 1 - - Extras - - 14 1 - - Total 40.4 7 195 10 - - Notes: This match was won by Lincolnshire by an innings and 48 runs at 5.30 pm on the first day. For the winners Day scored 50 with 11 fours and took 15 wickets in the match for 47 runs including 7 for 13 in the Cambridgeshire first innings and 8 for 34 in the second. For Cambridgeshire Gray top-scored with 35 in the first innings. Coulson took 5 wickets for 85 runs in the Lincolnshire innings. The Cambridgeshire first innings was over in 1 hour and 10 minutes. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Cambridge Chronicle 21 August; Cambridge Independent Press 21 August; Grimsby News 21 August; Lincoln Leader 22 August; World of Cricket September, p 448. 105