11th Wicket Progressive First-Class Partnerships for Men

Progressive 11th wicket records for English counties in 12-a-side men's first-class matches (minimum partnership of 10)

Hampshire
13	HE Harris, FGG Jellicoe	MCC	Antelope Ground, Southampton	1880	CA/Hants Advertiser 28 Aug 80
Kent
12	E Henty, R Lipscomb	v Gentlemen of MCC	Canterbury	1868	Cricket Archive
37	GG Hearne, E Henty	v Gentlemen of MCC	Canterbury	1876	Cricket Archive
Lancashire
22	J Crossland, G Nash	v Oxford University	The Prks, Oxford	1885	Cricket Archive
At home
14	AT Kemble, AW Mold	v Oxford University	Manchester	1893	Cricket Archive
Middlesex
17	? and M Flanagan	v Oxford University	Lord’s	1877	Cricket Archive
	I have been unable to identify Flanagan’s partner from the BNA, but reports confirm that he was last man in.
28	AL Stewart, J Robertson	v Oxford University	Lord’s	1880	CA/Morning Post 18 June 80
	In first innings. In second innings, CE Cottrell/FT Wenman added 23 for the 11th wicket.
Somerset
32	GW Hodgkinson, GD Barne	v Oxford University	The Parks, Oxford	1904	CA/The Sportsman 14.5.04
Surrey
25	DLA Jephson, C Marshall	v Cambridge University	Cambridge	1894	CA/Various in BNA (see note 1)
Sussex
21	HR Butt, CHG Bland	v Oxford University	Hove	1903	See note 2
Yorkshire
27	HE Rhodes, G Pinder	v MCC	Scarborough	1878	Cricket Archive

1. Several newspaper reports in the BNA confirm that Jephson was Marshall’s partner, and not Tom Richardson as the scorecard might suggest.
2. Cricket Archive does not have the FoW for the 10th wicket, but has the last two wickets adding 49; this figure is confirmed by the report in Sporting Life on 29 June 1903. The Nottingham Evening Post on 27 June states that the 10th wicket partnership was worth 28, which leaves 21 for the 11th wicket.
3. Neither of the other counties playing 12-a-side fc matches (Glos, Worcs) produced an 11th wicket partnership of as many as 10. Glos’s no. 12 dnb in their only such match (v OU at Bristol [Fry’s Ground] in 1924), while Worcs’ best was 9 by MFS Jewell & JC Barley in their only such match, against OU in The Parks in 1909.
4. The above details relate to first-class 12-a-side matches only. They therefore exclude performances in first-class odds matches (such as in the ’XIII [or more] of Kent v England’ fixture played in the Canterbury Festival between 1860 and 1881).

 

Keith Walmsley