Minor Counties Championship 1914

MCC v MINOR COUNTIES - REPRESENTATIVE MATCH At Lord’s Cricket Ground, St John’s Wood, London on Thursday 21, Friday 22 May 1914 Result: MCC won by an innings and 108 runs Toss: MCC Umpires: T Attewell and H R Butt Debutants for Minor Counties Representative Team 5 (R Falconer, W B Franklin, Dr A F Morcom, F W H Nicholas, C H Titchmarsh) First day score: MCC 538-6 wickets declared; Minor Counties 146 MCC Tarrant, F A c Franklin b Falconer 77 Hearne, J W b Morcom 228 + C D McIver b Creber 58 Hendren, E H c Stevens b Morcom 63 Capt W G M Sarel c Stevens b Creber 13 * N E Haig b Morcom 31 M H C Doll not out 32 A V Drummond S J Pegler Morton, A King, J H Extras b 24, lb 12 36 Total (6 wickets declared) 538 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 237 377 453 463 538 - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Morcom 23.1 0 130 3 - - Morris 20 0 120 0 - - Creber 18 1 107 2 - - Falconer 22 0 117 1 - - Riches 3 0 11 0 - - Meakin 4 0 17 0 - - Extras - - 36 0 - - Total 90.1 1 538 6 0 0 Minor Counties C H Titchmarsh Herts c Haig b Pegler 1 (1) run out (Hendren) 61 N V R Riches Glam b Pegler 2 (2) b Tarrant 74 G A Stephens Norfolk b Pegler 0 (3) lbw b Morton 16 B Meakin Staffs b Pegler 27 (4) lbw b Pegler 16 F W H Nicholas Beds b Pegler 2 (5) lbw b Tarrant 9 * T A L Whittington Glam c King b Hearne 36 (6) lbw b Tarrant 0 + W B Franklin Bucks not out 48 (7) b Tarrant 12 Dr A F Morcom Beds b Hearne 0 (8) b Hearne 36 Falconer, R Norfolk b King 0 (9) b Morton 5 Morris, A Durham b Pegler 20 (10) not out 17 Creber, H Glam lbw b Tarrant 1 (11) lbw b Hearne 13 Extras b 8, lb 1 9 b 17, lb 6, nb 2 25 Total (all out) 146 (all out) 284 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 11 48 146 Second innings 107 189 220 234 266 284 Tarrant 10 2 22 1 - - (2) 23 4 72 4 - - Pegler 18 2 60 6 - - (1) 17 1 50 1 - - Morton 6 1 17 0 - - (3) 15 4 47 2 - 1 Hearne 5 0 16 2 - - (4) 15.5 2 46 2 - - King 5 0 16 1 - - (5) 7 0 24 0 - 1 Haig 3 1 6 0 - - (6) 4 0 10 0 - - Sarel (7) 1 0 10 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 25 1 - - Total 47 6 146 10 0 0 82.5 11 284 10 0 2 Notes: The MCC won this match by an innings and 108 runs just after half past three on the second day. The Minor Counties were weakened by the absence of Sidney Barnes through injury and the unavailability of Michael Falcon. In the MCC innings Hearne scored a brilliant 228 in only 170 minutes with 3 sixes and 26 fours. He added 237 for the first wicket with Tarrant who scored 77 and 140 for the second wicket with McIver who made 58. Hendren then scored 63 in just 35 minutes with 3 sixes, 1 five, and 6 fours, adding 76 with McIver. The MCC declared their innings at 538 for 6 wickets, compiled in only 4¼ hours. Pegler took 6 for 60 in the Minor Counties first innings. For the Minor Counties Titchmarsh and Riches put on 107 in 80 minutes for the first wicket in their second innings before Titchmarsh was run out for 61 which contained 8 fours. Riches batted just under 3 hours for his 74 which included 6 fours. [Missing: Part fall of wickets; in the MCC innings boundaries in Tarrant’s 77 and McIver’s 58.] Sources: The Times 22,23 May; The Sportsman 22,23 May; Wisden 1915 Part II, p 294; World of Cricket 30 May, p 199. 173