f16075 cc7802	Kent v Essex
	County Championship 1938
Venue	Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend on 7th, 9th, 10th May 1938 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Essex won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Kent won by 6 wickets
Points	Kent 12; Essex 0
Umpires	GM Lee, JA Newman
Close of play day 1	Kent (1) 4/0 (Spencer 2*, Fagg 2*)
Close of play day 2	Essex (2) 66/3 (O'Connor 14*, Nichols 11*)

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Essex first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*DR Wilcox	c Todd b Harding	10
LC Eastman	lbw b Todd	13
AV Avery	c Ames b Wright	16
J O'Connor	b Wright	20
MS Nichols	c Chalk b Wright	163		288	17	2
RM Taylor	c and b Todd	7
AB Lavers	c Cole b Harding	39
AB Quick	b Todd	17
TPB Smith	lbw b Todd	103		113	17	2
+TH Wade	b Harding	37
R Smith	not out	7
Extras	(6 b, 4 lb, 6 nb, 2 w)	18
Total	(all out, 111.4 overs)	450
Fall of wickets:
1-26, 2-26, 3-57, 4-64, 5-71, 6-140, 7-170, 8-354, 9-437, 10-450 (111.4 ov)

Kent bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Harding	24	1	126	3	-	-
Cole	15	1	61	0	-	-
Todd	30	3	116	4	-	-
Wright	32.4	6	92	3	-	-
Lewis	10	3	37	0	-	-

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Kent first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
TW Spencer	c Wade b Nichols	2
AE Fagg	c Wade b Nichols	19
FE Woolley	c Taylor b TPB Smith	38
*FGH Chalk	c TPB Smith b Eastman	46
+LEG Ames	c Taylor b TPB Smith	170		135	24	3
BH Valentine	c Eastman b Nichols	151		140	22	2
LJ Todd	b Nichols	29
DVP Wright	not out	51
NW Harding	b Nichols	4
CG Cole	run out	3
C Lewis	b TPB Smith	19
Extras	(3 b, 13 lb)	16
Total	(all out, 113.5 overs)	548
Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-46, 3-64, 4-166, 5-368, 6-459, 7-468, 8-482, 9-485, 10-548 (113.5 ov)

Essex bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Nichols	33	5	146	5	-	-
TPB Smith	36.5	5	152	3	-	-
Eastman	30	1	135	1	-	-
R Smith	8	0	66	0	-	-
Lavers	4	0	14	0	-	-
O'Connor	2	0	19	0	-	-

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Essex second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*DR Wilcox	b Todd	0
LC Eastman	c Valentine b Wright	24
AV Avery	b Todd	16
J O'Connor	c Todd b Wright	113		149	20	-
MS Nichols	lbw b Wright	26
RM Taylor	c Woolley b Valentine	35
AB Lavers	b Valentine	22
AB Quick	b Wright	8
TPB Smith	lbw b Todd	10
+TH Wade	b Wright	0
R Smith	not out	0
Extras	(4 b, 2 lb)	6
Total	(all out, 67.1 overs)	260
Fall of wickets:
1-0, 2-41, 3-41, 4-111, 5-186, 6-225, 7-249, 8-260, 9-260, 10-260 (67.1 ov)

Kent bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Harding	11	1	59	0	-	-
Cole	3	0	11	0	-	-
Todd	25.1	4	80	3	-	-
Wright	23	7	78	5	-	-
Valentine	5	1	26	2	-	-

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Kent second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AE Fagg	lbw b Eastman	27
FE Woolley	c R Smith b Eastman	53
*FGH Chalk	c Quick b Nichols	20
+LEG Ames	not out	41
BH Valentine	st Wade b Eastman	7
LJ Todd	not out	13
TW Spencer	did not bat
DVP Wright	did not bat
NW Harding	did not bat
CG Cole	did not bat
C Lewis	did not bat
Extras	(3 lb)	3
Total	(4 wickets, 26.4 overs)	164
Fall of wickets:
1-63, 2-100, 3-104, 4-137

Essex bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Nichols	11	0	71	1	-	-
TPB Smith	2	0	3	0	-	-
Eastman	9	0	50	3	-	-
R Smith	4	0	28	0	-	-
Taylor	0.4	0	9	0	-	-

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Notes
--> MS Nichols (1) passed 15000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 16
--> AB Lavers (1) passed his previous highest score of 31 in First-Class matches
--> AB Lavers (1) passed his previous highest score of 31 in County Championship matches
--> LEG Ames (2) passed 24000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 20
--> LJ Todd reached 300 wickets in County Championship matches when taking his 2nd wicket in the Essex first innings
--> DVP Wright reached 250 wickets in County Championship matches when taking his 1st wicket in the Essex second innings

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The match aggregate of 1,422 runs was only 58 runs short of the highest in a county championship match in England (1475 - Northamptonshire v Surrey, 1920).
Woolley scored 36 of his 1st innings 38 in boundaries (nine 4's) in 17 minutes.

 

 

 

 

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