minc577	Bedfordshire v Staffordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1904
Venue	Bedford School Ground, Bedford on 3rd, 4th August 1904 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Staffordshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Bedfordshire 1; Staffordshire 0
Umpires	J Clifton, TH Holton
Close of play day 1	Bedfordshire (1) 138/4 (Orr 50*, Brown 3*)

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
W Brown	c Cantrell b Thring	33
A Hollowood	b Wharmby	24
SF Barnes	c Brown b Peel	30
JB Fereday	st Cantrell b Morcom	21
J Manton	b Peel	4
*HD Stratton	c Wharmby b Brown	55
WJ Beddows	lbw b Wharmby	12
EH Bourne	run out	22
WH Twigg	c and b Thring	10
+H Dearing	b Thring	0
CJ Goodall	not out	6
Extras	(14 b, 3 lb, 1 w)	18
Total	(all out, 80.3 overs)	235
Fall of wickets:
1-43, 2-45, 3-107, 4-115, 5-134, 6-166, 7-218, 8-229, 9-229, 10-235 (80.3 ov)

Bedfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Brown	11	5	20	1	-	-
Morcom	12	2	38	1	1	-
Orr	17	3	38	0	-	-
Wharmby	15	6	34	2	-	-
Moss	6	2	18	0	-	-
Peel	14	3	49	2	-	-
Thring	5.3	1	20	3	-	-

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Bedfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
HJJ Hodgkins	b Bourne	63
RW Rice	b Manton	1
BL Peel	b Goodall	4
LCR Thring	run out	9
*HR Orr	b Bourne	126
TA Brown	c Dearing b Manton	48
G Pollitt	not out	41
RH Moss	b Manton	23
GE Wharmby	run out	46
+HM Cantrell	not out	21
AF Morcom	did not bat
Extras	(8 b, 8 lb, 2 nb, 3 w)	21
Total	(8 wickets, declared, 97 overs)	403
Fall of wickets:
1-18, 2-29, 3-50, 4-117, 5-230, 6-270, 7-315, 8-377

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Goodall	26	2	100	1	-	-
Manton	25	4	99	3	1	-
Barnes	3	1	10	0	-	-
Twigg	9	1	46	0	2	2
Hollowood	9	3	30	0	-	-
Brown	5	0	23	0	-	-
Bourne	16	4	68	2	-	-
Fereday	4	1	6	0	-	-

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Staffordshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*HD Stratton	b Hodgkins	53
W Brown	c Cantrell b Moss	37
SF Barnes	not out	9
WJ Beddows	not out	1
A Hollowood	did not bat
JB Fereday	did not bat
J Manton	did not bat
EH Bourne	did not bat
WH Twigg	did not bat
+H Dearing	did not bat
CJ Goodall	did not bat
Extras	(7 b, 3 lb)	10
Total	(2 wickets, 44 overs)	110
Fall of wickets:
1-91, 2-105

Bedfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wharmby	8	3	20	0	-	-
Morcom	5	1	7	0	-	-
Orr	6	1	19	0	-	-
Brown	4	0	10	0	-	-
Thring	5	1	17	0	-	-
Peel	3	1	6	0	-	-
Moss	6	2	10	1	-	-
Hodgkins	6	2	9	1	-	-
Pollitt	1	0	2	0	-	-

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Notes
--> HR Orr (1) passed his previous highest score of 81 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HR Orr (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HM Cantrell (1) passed his previous highest score of 20 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> J Manton achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Bedfordshire first innings (previous best was 2-10)

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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 second match of the Bedford Cricket Week was drawn, with Bedfordshire winning on first innings.
For the home team, there were 17 fours, 7 threes and 14 twos in Orr's 126, an innings of two hours and 15 minutes.
Hodgkins's 63 included 7 fours.
In the Bedfordshire innings, Orr and T A Brown added 113 runs for the fifth wicket, and Moss and Wharmby added 62 for the eighth wicket.
For the visitors, Stratton's two innings of 55 and 53 contained 3 fours and 4 fours respectively.
Nine of the Bedfordshire team bowled in the second Staffordshire innings.
A strain limited Barnes to bowling just 3 overs in the Bedfordshire innings. [The Staffordshire Scorebook has in the Staffordshire second innings Morcom bowling 5 overs, 1 maiden and conceding 10 runs, and Moss bowling 6 overs, 2 maidens and conceding 7 runs.
The version given is supported by the Bedfordshire averages in Wisden and the Bedfordshire Annual Report.]
[Missing: Complete.]
Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Bedfordshire Standard 5 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 6 August; Staffordshire Advertiser 6 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 3,4,6 August; Birmingham Daily Press 4,5 August; The Sportsman 4,5 August.

 

 

 

 

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