minc152	Northamptonshire v Staffordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1898
Venue	County Ground, Northampton on 1st, 2nd August 1898 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Northamptonshire won by an innings and 95 runs
Points	Northamptonshire 1; Staffordshire -1
Close of play day 1	Staffordshire (1) 39/1 (Brunt 16*, Gardner 0*)

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Northamptonshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
GH Colson	c Hollowood b Grimshaw	28
*T Horton	b Brown	4
GJ Thompson	b Turner	134
WH Kingston	b Grimshaw	3
HE Kingston	b Grimshaw	0
TA Brown	c Grimshaw b Mainwaring	77
W East	run out	10
+BC Smith	run out	15
E Scriven	b Turner	0
CC Eales	c Grimshaw b Turner	12
JA Berwick	not out	4
Extras	(7 b, 5 lb, 1 nb)	13
Total	(all out, 116.1 overs)	300
Fall of wickets:
1-8, 2-62, 3-68, 4-68, 5-208, 6-267, 7-270, 8-270, 9-295, 10-300 (116.1 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Turner	29.1	11	68	3	-	-
Brown	21	3	70	1	-	-
Grimshaw	29	7	40	3	-	1
Price	23	8	61	0	-	-
Cummins	7	2	14	0	-	-
Mainwaring	4	1	20	1	-	-
Wright	3	0	14	0	-	-

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
HR Brunt	c HE Kingston b Thompson	17
HCB Cummins	run out	23
HC Gardner	c Smith b Berwick	0
W Brown	c Brown b Thompson	4
T Grimshaw	b Berwick	28
A Hollowood	c Eales b Thompson	16
H Wright	c Horton b Thompson	0
GB Price	b Berwick	4
*PE Mainwaring	not out	8
WH Turner	b Berwick	0
+G McHarg	b Berwick	0
Extras	(1 nb)	1
Total	(all out, 41.2 overs)	101
Fall of wickets:
1-39, 2-40, 3-40, 4-57, 5-78, 6-78, 7-93, 8-97, 9-97, 10-101 (41.2 ov)

Northamptonshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Thompson	20	4	59	4	-	-
Berwick	20.2	7	36	5	-	1
East	1	0	5	0	-	-

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Staffordshire second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*PE Mainwaring	c Brown b Thompson	11
HC Gardner	c Scriven b Brown	44
HCB Cummins	b Berwick	8
W Brown	c WH Kingston b Brown	14
T Grimshaw	c Smith b Brown	1
A Hollowood	lbw b HE Kingston	13
H Wright	st Smith b HE Kingston	9
HR Brunt	b HE Kingston	2
GB Price	lbw b HE Kingston	0
WH Turner	c Smith b HE Kingston	0
+G McHarg	not out	1
Extras	(1 b)	1
Total	(all out, 46.4 overs)	104
Fall of wickets:
1-20, 2-30, 3-69, 4-71, 5-90, 6-96, 7-98, 8-103, 9-103, 10-104 (46.4 ov)

Northamptonshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Berwick	16	9	27	1	-	-
Thompson	6	1	16	1	-	-
Brown	17	1	40	3	-	-
HE Kingston	7.4	0	20	5	-	-

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Notes
--> HCB Cummins made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> H Wright made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GB Price made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HR Brunt made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HC Gardner made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> H Wright made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GJ Thompson (1) passed his previous highest score of 89 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GJ Thompson (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> TA Brown (1) passed his previous highest score of 74 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HC Gardner (2) passed his previous highest score of 18 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Grimshaw achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Northamptonshire first innings (previous best was 3-54)
--> JA Berwick achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Staffordshire first innings (previous best was 1-25)
--> JA Berwick achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Staffordshire first innings

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
Northamptonshire won this return match at 4.10 pm on the second day after Staffordshire followed on 199 runs behind on first innings. The match at Stoke-on-Trent in June had been drawn. For the winners, there were 17 fours, 8 threes and 8 twos in Thompson's 134, an innings which lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes. T A Brown's 77 was scored in 90 minutes and included 1 five and 10 fours. In the Northamptonshire innings, Thompson and Brown put on 140 runs for the fifth wicket, which was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. For the losers, Gardner top-scored with 44.
[Missing: Umpires.]
Sources: Northampton Daily Chronicle 2 August; Northampton Daily Reporter 2 August; Northampton Herald 6 August; Northampton Mercury 5 August; Staffordshire Advertiser 6 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 2 August; The Sportsman 2,3 August.

 

 

 

 

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