minc52	Hertfordshire v Worcestershire
	Minor Counties Championship 1896
Venue	Park Avenue, Watford on 29th, 30th July 1896 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Worcestershire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Worcestershire won by an innings and 106 runs
Points	Hertfordshire -1; Worcestershire 1
Umpires	[unknown], WT Westell
Close of play day 1	Hertfordshire (1) 81/6 (H Pigg 29*, Wright 4*)

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Worcestershire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*HK Foster	b Titchmarsh	176
EG Arnold	c Nelson b Woods	30
A Millward	b Woods	18
GF Wheldon	b Titchmarsh	81
EP Jobson	b Titchmarsh	27
EG Bromley-Martin	c Titchmarsh b Hoyer Millar	7
A Bird	c White b Hoyer Millar	1
AW Isaac	b Titchmarsh	23
RD Burrows	c Wright b Hoyer Millar	8
+T Straw	not out	0
F Hunt	absent
Extras	(6 b, 4 lb, 1 w)	11
Total	(all out, 88.2 overs)	382
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-162, 3-271, 4-327, 5-343, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-382 (88.2 ov)

Hertfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Titchmarsh	30.2	8	95	4	-	-
White	7	1	34	0	-	-
Field	17	3	77	0	-	-
Hoyer Millar	13	2	49	3	-	-
Coleman	9	0	57	0	1	-
Woods	12	3	59	2	-	-

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Hertfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
A Butcher	b Burrows	13
HE White	c Straw b Burrows	10
F Field	b Bird	6
VA Titchmarsh	run out	0
J Woods	lbw b Burrows	1
*C Pigg	lbw b Millward	11
H Pigg	b Bird	75
RG Wright	b Burrows	44
+GH Nelson	b Millward	14
WE Coleman	not out	20
CC Hoyer Millar	b Millward	4
Extras	(10 b, 2 lb, 1 nb, 3 w)	16
Total	(all out, 83 overs)	214
Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-29, 3-29, 4-29, 5-33, 6-73, 7-?, 8-186, 9-?, 10-214 (83 ov)

Worcestershire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Bird	28	16	36	2	-	-
Burrows	31	15	80	4	1	1
Arnold	8	2	24	0	2	-
Millward	8	1	26	3	-	-
Bromley-Martin	8	0	32	0	-	-

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Hertfordshire second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WE Coleman	c Wheldon b Bromley-Martin	3
HE White	c and b Bromley-Martin	5
F Field	c Straw b Bromley-Martin	19
A Butcher	c and b Burrows	12
J Woods	c Wheldon b Bromley-Martin	2
H Pigg	c Foster b Burrows	0
VA Titchmarsh	run out	12
*C Pigg	c Bird b Burrows	4
RG Wright	not out	4
+GH Nelson	b Burrows	1
CC Hoyer Millar	b Burrows	0
Extras		0
Total	(all out, 34.2 overs)	62
Fall of wickets:
1-4, 2-?, 3-33, 4-?, 5-?, 6-46, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-62 (34.2 ov)

Worcestershire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Burrows	17.2	5	36	5	-	-
Bromley-Martin	17	6	26	4	-	-

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Notes
--> GF Wheldon made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RG Wright made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GH Nelson made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GH Nelson made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HK Foster (1) passed his previous highest score of 162 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HK Foster (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 22
--> H Pigg (1) passed his previous highest score of 38 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RD Burrows achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Hertfordshire second innings (previous best was 4-15)
--> RD Burrows achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Hertfordshire second innings

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
Worcestershire won by an innings and 106 runs at 4.00 pm on the second day, after Hertfordshire followed-on 168 runs behind. The margin of victory was the second highest of the season. For the victors, there were 34 fours, 7 threes and 3 twos in Foster's 176, an innings of just 130 minutes. For the second Championship innings running, he broke the record for the highest individual innings in the Championship. He and Wheldon put on 109 for the third Worcestershire wicket. The latter's 81 included 1 six and 10 fours. For Hertfordshire, H Pigg's 75 contained 9 fours. In the Hertfordshire first innings H Pigg and Wright added over 50 runs for the seventh wicket. Hertfordshire newspaper reports suggest that Foster should have been given out caught at the wicket by the Worcestershire umpire when he had scored 3. Foster's 176 runs were also a new run aggregate record for a competition match, exceeding the 172 runs scored by Hollowood for Staffordshire v Northumberland at Heaton in July. Hunt had not arrived at the ground when the Worcestershire innings ended at 4.30 pm on the first day.
[Missing: Second umpire; part fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire 1st inns size of 7th wicket partnership between H Pigg and Wright.]
Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Hertfordshire Standard 31 July; Watford Observer 1 August; Berrow's Worcester Journal 1 August; The Sportsman 30,31 July.

 

 

 

 

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