minc397	Bedfordshire v Staffordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1902
Venue	Dunstable Grammar School Ground, Dunstable on 10th, 11th July 1902 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Bedfordshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Bedfordshire 0; Staffordshire 1
Umpires	T Hanson, A Stockwin
Close of play day 1	Staffordshire (1) 20/1 (Hassall 10*, Bourne 0*)

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Bedfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FG Brooks	c Page b Brown	101
G Pollitt	b Bourne	8
*HR Orr	run out	1
LCR Thring	b Page	44
TA Brown	c Clapham b Bourne	0
GE Wharmby	c Crane b Brown	22
FB Brooks	c Clapham b Brown	7
L Parbury	b Bourne	25
GUA Read	b Brown	11
+EE Apthorp	b Brown	2
HW Oclee	not out	46
Extras	(10 b, 3 lb)	13
Total	(all out, 81.3 overs)	280
Fall of wickets:
1-17, 2-27, 3-117, 4-118, 5-164, 6-179, 7-194, 8-208, 9-214, 10-280 (81.3 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Brown	30	6	67	5	-	-
Bourne	20.3	0	76	3	-	-
Clapham	9	1	32	0	-	-
Crane	5	0	35	0	-	-
Stratton	5	0	24	0	-	-
Page	8	1	24	1	-	-
Eagland	4	1	9	0	-	-

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
GW Crane	c Orr b Brown	10
FH Hassall	c FB Brooks b Parbury	12
JA Bourne	b Brown	20
*HD Stratton	c Wharmby b Thring	38
W Brown	b Wharmby	81
H Eagland	c Oclee b Parbury	0
A Hollowood	b Wharmby	43
RC Page	c Brown b Thring	24
JN Burns	b Thring	31
+J Poole	b Wharmby	2
JR Clapham	not out	20
Extras	(9 b)	9
Total	(all out, 91.2 overs)	290
Fall of wickets:
1-20, 2-24, 3-55, 4-134, 5-135, 6-196, 7-227, 8-262, 9-267, 10-290 (91.2 ov)

Bedfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Brown	27	6	75	2	-	-
Parbury	16	1	70	2	-	-
Wharmby	29.2	11	73	3	-	-
Thring	18	2	59	3	-	-
Oclee	1	0	4	0	-	-

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Bedfordshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*HR Orr	c Brown b Bourne	0
HW Oclee	b Eagland	14
LCR Thring	not out	50
FB Brooks	c Eagland b Page	16
TA Brown	not out	5
FG Brooks	did not bat
G Pollitt	did not bat
GE Wharmby	did not bat
L Parbury	did not bat
GUA Read	did not bat
+EE Apthorp	did not bat
Extras	(2 b, 1 lb, 1 nb)	4
Total	(3 wickets, 22 overs)	89
Fall of wickets:
1-0, 2-34, 3-75

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Bourne	7	1	28	1	-	-
Eagland	8	2	29	1	-	-
Clapham	4	1	20	0	-	1
Page	3	1	8	1	-	-

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Notes
--> JN Burns made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JA Bourne achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Bedfordshire first innings (previous best was 2-29)

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project - research is continuing on this scorecard which can be expected to change.
This match was drawn, with Staffordshire leading on first innings. Their ninth wicket fell at 267, still 13 runs behind, but a last-wicket partnership of 23 between Poole and Clapham gave them the lead on first innings. On the first day, a heavy storm prevented play between the lunch interval and 4.30 pm. For Bedfordshire, there were 9 fours, 4 threes and 9 twos in F G Brooks's 101and 7 fours in Thring's 50 not out. In the home team's first innings, Parbury and Oclee added 66 runs for the tenth wicket. For the visitors, W Brown's 81, scored in 2 hours, contained 11 fours. Stumps were drawn early on the second day at 5.15 pm to allow the Staffordshire team to catch an earlier and more convenient train home. [An alternative version of this score based on the Bedfordshire sources gives in the Bedfordshire first innings the runs conceded by Clapham as being 31 not 32 and Crane 36 not 35.]
[Missing: Complete.]
Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Bedfordshire Advertiser 18 July; Bedford Record 15 July; Bedfordshire Standard 18 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 10,11,12 July; The Sportsman 11,12 July.

 

 

 

 

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