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| Venue | Park Avenue, Watford on 29th, 30th August 1904 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Cambridgeshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Hertfordshire 1; Cambridgeshire 0 |
| Close of play day 1 | Hertfordshire (1) 170/5 (Coleman 27*, Harding 3*) |
| Cambridgeshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RS Swann-Mason | c White b JS Harford | 67 | |||||
| HA Hancock | c JS Harford b White | 5 | |||||
| JB Hobbs | b Coleman | 2 | |||||
| LA Gilbert | b White | 2 | |||||
| DM Hayward | c Dumbelton b Coleman | 7 | |||||
| PA French | c White b Coleman | 9 | |||||
| +GH Watts | c Harding b Coleman | 44 | |||||
| GPM Robins | b Coleman | 26 | |||||
| OW Bocock | not out | 17 | |||||
| *H Gray | c Golding b Coleman | 1 | |||||
| AE Bellars | b Coleman | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (? b, 0 lb, 0 nb, 1 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 82.4 overs) | 189 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-42, 6-108, 7-153, 8-?, 9-?, 10-189 (82.4 ov) | |||||||
| Hertfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Coleman | 27.4 | 6 | 58 | 7 | - | - | |
| White | 23 | 5 | 63 | 2 | - | - | |
| Harding | 15 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| JS Harford | 17 | 7 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hertfordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| A Butcher | run out | 53 | |||||
| AJ Golding | lbw b Hayward | 2 | |||||
| GG Dumbelton | b Bellars | 30 | |||||
| CT Rudd | lbw b Hobbs | 32 | |||||
| HE White | b Hayward | 20 | |||||
| WE Coleman | b Bellars | 69 | |||||
| ER Harding | b Gray | 8 | |||||
| RC Grellet | c Watts b Swann-Mason | 56 | |||||
| *HM Harford | c French b Gray | 30 | |||||
| JS Harford | b Swann-Mason | 15 | |||||
| +CD Fastnedge | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 87.1 overs) | 325 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3, 2-64, 3-112, 4-125, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-325 (87.1 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridgeshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gray | 25.1 | 2 | 107 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hayward | 31 | 4 | 88 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bellars | 12 | 1 | 50 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hobbs | 13 | 0 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Swann-Mason | 6 | 1 | 24 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cambridgeshire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RS Swann-Mason | c HM Harford b Coleman | 1 | |||||
| OW Bocock | b White | 8 | |||||
| JB Hobbs | b White | 129 | |||||
| PA French | c Dumbelton b Harding | 41 | |||||
| +GH Watts | c Butcher b Harding | 21 | |||||
| LA Gilbert | b Coleman | 0 | |||||
| DM Hayward | c Dumbelton b White | 31 | |||||
| GPM Robins | not out | 25 | |||||
| *H Gray | not out | 29 | |||||
| HA Hancock | did not bat | ||||||
| AE Bellars | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 11 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 92.5 overs) | 296 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-16, 3-142, 4-187, 5-187, 6-?, 7-? | |||||||
| Hertfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Coleman | 29.5 | 5 | 91 | 2 | - | - | |
| White | 25 | 5 | 69 | 3 | - | - | |
| JS Harford | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rudd | 6 | 1 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Harding | 25 | 7 | 55 | 2 | - | - | |
Notes
--> HA Hancock made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JB Hobbs made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> OW Bocock (1) passed his previous highest score of 12 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> PA French (2) passed his previous highest score of 21 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GH Watts (2) passed 2500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 14
--> HE White reached 50 wickets in Minor Counties Championship matches for the season when taking his 2nd wicket in the Cambridgeshire second innings
This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project - research is continuing on this scorecard which can be expected to change.
This return match was drawn.
The game between the two sides at Cambridge earlier in the month had also been drawn.
For Hertfordshire, Coleman scored 69, Grellet 56, and Butcher 53 with 5 fours.
Coleman also took 9 wickets in the match for 149 runs, including 7 for 58 in the Cambridgeshire first innings.
For Cambridgeshire, Hobbs's 129 included 1 five and 16 fours.
Swann-Mason scored 67.
In the Cambridgeshire second innings Hobbs and French put on 126 runs for the third wicket.
[Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cambridgeshire first innings boundaries in Swan-Mason's 67; in Cambridgeshire second innings twos and threes and duration of Hobbs's 129; in Hertfordshire inning boundaries in Coleman's 69 and Grellet's 56.]
Sources: Watford Leader 30 August; Watford Observer 3 September; Cambridge Daily News 29,30 August; Cambridge Independent Press 2 September; East Anglian Daily Times 30,31 August; The Sportsman 31 August.
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