minc550	Hertfordshire v Buckinghamshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1904
Venue	Clarence Park, St Albans on 11th, 12th July 1904 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Buckinghamshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Hertfordshire 1; Buckinghamshire 0
Close of play day 1	Hertfordshire (1) 137/3 (Butcher 62*, Wales 25*)

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Buckinghamshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
E Weaver-Adams	b Harding	106			9	-
+TP Wilmot	b Harding	17
FN Bird	b JS Harford	73			7	-
*CRH Gresson	b White	27
CC Edmunds	b White	36
MW Wright	b Harding	1
SWB Holbrooke	b Harding	0
WD Cooper	b White	0
HP Brill	c HM Harford b Harding	0
H Page	not out	0
H Jones	absent
Extras		20
Total	(all out, 81.3 overs)	280
Fall of wickets:
1-63, 2-192, 3-207, 4-261, 5-262, 6-266, 7-267, 8-280, 9-280 (81.3 ov)

Hertfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Coleman	22	4	64	0	-	-
White	23.3	2	78	3	-	-
Harding	25	3	62	5	-	-
JS Harford	10	0	50	1	-	-
Golding	1	0	6	0	-	-

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Hertfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
CCT Doll	b Page	14
AJ Golding	b Page	17
A Butcher	c Wilmot b Wright	68			6	1
HE White	lbw b Page	19
+EH Wales	c Wilmot b Wright	75			8	-
CT Rudd	b Wright	16
GG Dumbelton	c Cooper b Brill	7
WE Coleman	c Gresson b Wright	48
*HM Harford	c Bird b Wright	27
ER Harding	not out	7
JS Harford	b Wright	0
Extras		0
Total	(all out, 75.2 overs)	298
Fall of wickets:
1-30, 2-?, 3-75, 4-150, 5-184, 6-205, 7-229, 8-285, 9-298, 10-298 (75.2 ov)

Buckinghamshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wright	31.2	15	104	6	-	-
Page	25	11	128	3	-	-
Holbrooke	5	2	13	0	-	-
Brill	12	2	38	1	-	-
Cooper	2	0	15	0	-	-

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Buckinghamshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*CRH Gresson	not out	100
E Weaver-Adams	c Wales b JS Harford	16
FN Bird	b JS Harford	4
CC Edmunds	c Dumbelton b Harding	56
MW Wright	not out	9
+TP Wilmot	did not bat
SWB Holbrooke	did not bat
WD Cooper	did not bat
HP Brill	did not bat
H Page	did not bat
H Jones	did not bat
Extras		22
Total	(3 wickets, 70 overs)	207
Fall of wickets:
1-39, 2-?, 3-150

Hertfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
White	20	7	25	0	-	-
Harding	25	5	74	1	-	-
JS Harford	12	2	37	2	-	-
Rudd	3	1	11	0	-	-
Dumbelton	4	0	17	0	-	-
Golding	6	1	21	0	-	-

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Notes
--> TP Wilmot made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WD Cooper made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HP Brill made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> TP Wilmot made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WD Cooper made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> E Weaver-Adams (1) passed his previous highest score of 49 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> E Weaver-Adams (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CRH Gresson (1) passed 2000 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 8
--> CC Edmunds (1) passed his previous highest score of 20 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> EH Wales (1) passed his previous highest score of 57 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CC Edmunds (2) passed his previous highest score of 36 in Minor Counties Championship matches

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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 drawn match was for Harry White's benefit and was played in fine weather throughout.
For the visitors, Weaver-Adams scored 106 with 9 fours and Gresson's 100 not out.
Bird scored 73 which contained 7 fours and Edmunds 56..
In the Buckinghamshire first innings, Weaver Adams and Bird added 129 for the second wicket.
In the second innings, Gresson and Edmunds added over one hundred for the third wicket.
For the home side, Wales's 75 included 8 fours and Butcher's 68 contained 1 six, 1 five and 6 fours.
In the Hertfordshire innings, Coleman and H M Harford added 56 runs for the eighth wicket.
Coleman did not bowl in the Buckinghamshire second innings because of an injured toe.
M T Molloy of Henley was selected to play for Buckinghamshire but failed to appear.
Jones was allowed to replace him, but arrived too late to bat.
T Mycroft of St Albans fielded as substitute until Jones arrived at the ground.
[Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Buckinghamshire first innings which Harford caught Brill, and twos and threes and duration of Weaver-Adams's 106; in Buckinghamshire second innings breakdown and duration of Gresson's 100*, boundaries in Edmunds's 56, and fall of second wicket; in Hertfordshire innings fall of second wicket.]
Sources: Herts Advertiser 16 July; Hertfordshire Standard 15 July; Watford Leader 12 July; West Herts and Watford Observer 16 July; Bucks Advertiser 16 July; Bucks Herald 16 July; Slough Observer 16 July; South Bucks Free Press 15 July; Sporting Life 13 July; The Sportsman 12,13 July.

 

 

 

 

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