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| Venue | FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge on 12th, 13th August 1908 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Bedfordshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Cambridgeshire 3; Bedfordshire 0 |
| Umpires | GJ Rye, J Stevens |
| Close of play day 1 | Cambridgeshire (1) 145/3 (LJ Reid 63*, Tebbutt 60*) |
| Bedfordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BL Peel | b Tebbutt | 4 | |||||
| HF Holdstock | b Coulson | 45 | |||||
| GE Wharmby | c and b KG Reid | 23 | |||||
| LCR Thring | run out | 17 | |||||
| N Keenan | c Watts b Coulson | 36 | |||||
| *HR Orr | c sub b Tebbutt | 22 | |||||
| HO Sutherland | b Tebbutt | 2 | |||||
| RH Moss | lbw b KG Reid | 37 | |||||
| W Brown | b Tebbutt | 6 | |||||
| AF Morcom | c KG Reid b Bocock | 7 | |||||
| +EE Apthorp | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (? b, 0 lb, 2 nb, 0 w) | 25 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 57 overs) | 230 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21, 2-75, 3-85, 4-98, 5-139, 6-165, 7-176, 8-187, 9-224, 10-230 (57 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridgeshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Coulson | 25 | 4 | 59 | 2 | - | - | |
| Swann-Mason | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Tebbutt | 16 | 1 | 84 | 4 | - | 2 | |
| KG Reid | 11 | 1 | 49 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bocock | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cambridgeshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LJ Reid | b Peel | 78 | |||||
| FW Bryan | c Apthorp b Morcom | 5 | |||||
| RS Swann-Mason | c Wharmby b Morcom | 13 | |||||
| F Roberson | b Morcom | 0 | |||||
| HC Tebbutt | c and b Morcom | 64 | |||||
| +GH Watts | not out | 47 | |||||
| KG Reid | c and b Peel | 4 | |||||
| AH Bristowe | c Apthorp b Peel | 8 | |||||
| OW Bocock | lbw b Peel | 0 | |||||
| H Coulson | c Holdstock b Peel | 5 | |||||
| *C Pigg | c Apthorp b Morcom | 5 | |||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 95.4 overs) | 237 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9, 2-51, 3-51, 4-151, 5-186, 6-200, 7-220, 8-220, 9-226, 10-237 (95.4 ov) | |||||||
| Bedfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morcom | 37.4 | 5 | 92 | 5 | - | - | |
| Wharmby | 29 | 6 | 59 | 0 | - | - | |
| Peel | 21 | 5 | 55 | 5 | - | - | |
| Orr | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Moss | 5 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bedfordshire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| LCR Thring | c Watts b Tebbutt | 0 | |||||
| *HR Orr | c and b Tebbutt | 15 | |||||
| RH Moss | b KG Reid | 45 | |||||
| BL Peel | c Watts b Tebbutt | 17 | |||||
| GE Wharmby | not out | 83 | |||||
| HO Sutherland | b Coulson | 29 | |||||
| +EE Apthorp | not out | 8 | |||||
| HF Holdstock | did not bat | ||||||
| N Keenan | did not bat | ||||||
| W Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| AF Morcom | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (? b, 0 lb, 0 nb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 43 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-23, 3-59, 4-137, 5-196 | |||||||
| Cambridgeshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Coulson | 15 | 0 | 68 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tebbutt | 14 | 0 | 55 | 3 | 1 | - | |
| KG Reid | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | |
| Swann-Mason | 7 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cambridgeshire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RS Swann-Mason | c Apthorp b Morcom | 0 | |||||
| LJ Reid | c Keenan b Peel | 8 | |||||
| F Roberson | c Apthorp b Morcom | 11 | |||||
| HC Tebbutt | c Moss b Peel | 1 | |||||
| +GH Watts | b Morcom | 8 | |||||
| FW Bryan | c Peel b Wharmby | 1 | |||||
| KG Reid | c Apthorp b Morcom | 4 | |||||
| OW Bocock | not out | 25 | |||||
| H Coulson | b Wharmby | 5 | |||||
| AH Bristowe | not out | 5 | |||||
| *C Pigg | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets, 47.3 overs) | 76 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-18, 3-19, 4-20, 5-29, 6-33, 7-33, 8-46 | |||||||
| Bedfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morcom | 23.3 | 11 | 39 | 4 | - | - | |
| Peel | 11 | 5 | 14 | 2 | - | - | |
| Orr | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wharmby | 12 | 8 | 15 | 2 | - | - | |
Notes
--> N Keenan (1) passed his previous highest score of 28 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> LJ Reid (1) passed his previous highest score of 74 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> LJ Reid (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 44
--> HR Orr (2) passed 3000 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 10
This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project - research is continuing on this scorecard which can be expected to change.
Drawn return match with Cambridgeshire winning on first innings. The match between the two teams at Luton at the beginning of the month had been won by Bedfordshire. For the home side, there were 4 fours in L J Reid's 78 and 5 fours in Tebbutt's 64.
For the visitors, Wharmby's 83 not out contained 4 fours. These two batsmen added 100 runs for the fourth wicket in the first innings.
[Missing: Extras breakdown; in the Bedfordshire first innings who held substitute catch.]
Sources: Cambridge Daily News 12,13,14 August; Cambridge Independent Press 14 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 14 August; Bedfordshire Mercury 14,21 August; Bedfordshire Standard 14 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 15 August; Luton News 20 August; Sporting Life 14 August; The Sportsman 13,14 August; Cricket 20 August, p 367.
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