Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 4: CHESHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At Gorse Hall Road, Dukinfield on Wednesday 17, Thursday 18 June 1914 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 34 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: W H Harden and B Brown Debutants: Cheshire 5 (D H Coomber, E Gammond, C Hewitt, P Lancaster, L Wyatt); Staffordshire 1 (J Ankers) First day score: Staffordshire 221; Cheshire 80 and 97-7 wickets (C Hewitt 1*, J A Harrison 13*) Staffordshire J S Heath c Eaton b Chambers 0 H E Bourne c Wyatt b Hope 29 Barnes, S F b Hope 67 L F Taylor c substitute b Hope 4 Nichols, J E c Wyatt b Hope 43 J Ankers b Hope 40 * B Meakin c Barker b Hope 9 J B Russell c Coomber b Hope 6 + H Dearing not out 8 Sedgwick, H A b Harrison 0 Morgan, B F c Lancaster b Hope 0 Extras b 10, lb 1, nb 4 15 Total (all out) 221 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 68 80 116 194 197 205 219 220 221 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 15 1 54 0 - - Chambers 15 0 55 1 - - Hope 17 3 48 8 - - Coomber 3 0 19 0 - - Harrison 9 1 30 1 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - Total 59 5 221 10 0 4 Cheshire (Followed on) L Wyatt b Sedgwick 4 (6) b Morgan 8 F C Wild b Barnes 8 (1) b Heath 3 C Hewitt c Heath b Barnes 5 (7) not out 5 D H Coomber b Barnes 14 (4) b Morgan 30 F L Eaton c Morgan b Sedgwick 0 (2) b Morgan 0 * V Hope c Bourne b Sedgwick 19 (5) c Dearing b Morgan 0 P Lancaster b Barnes 0 (8) b Morgan 0 Chambers, W T b Sedgwick 6 (3) b Morgan 26 J A Harrison c Taylor b Barnes 9 (9) b Sedgwick 13 + E Gammond not out 6 (10) b Sedgwick 1 F Barker b Barnes 1 (11) b Sedgwick 1 Extras b 4, lb 2, nb 2 8 b 20 20 Total (all out) 80 (all out) 107 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 21 24 30 56 56 60 69 73 80 Second innings 1 19 47 47 59 80 80 97 101 107 Barnes 11.1 4 25 6 - - Sedgwick 11 1 47 4 - - (3) 2.3 1 3 3 - - Morgan (1) 14 2 44 6 - - Heath (2) 11 3 40 1 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 20 0 - - Total 22.1 5 80 10 0 2 27.3 6 107 10 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won their opening match of the 1914 season by an innings and 34 runs at 11.40 am on the second day. In the Staffordshire innings Barnes scored 67 which included 1 six and 8 fours. He took 6 wickets for 25 runs in the Cheshire first innings but did not bowl in the second. Morgan took 6 wickets for 44 runs in the Cheshire second innings. For Cheshire, the debutant Coomber top-scored with 30 and Hope took eight wickets for 48 runs in the Staffordshire innings. The Cheshire first innings lasted an hour and a quarter after which they followed on. In the forty minutes remaining for play on the first day they lost 7 wickets for 97 runs. On the second morning they were all out after ten minutes play during which 10 runs were scored as Sedgwick took the final three wickets. This was the first Championship match played on this ground. [Missing: In Staffordshire innings who bowled the no-balls; in Cheshire first innings who bowled the no-balls.] Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Ashton Herald 20 June; Cheshire Daily Echo 17,18 June; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Advertiser 20 June; Staffordshire Sentinel 17,18 June; World of Cricket 27 June, p 285. 46