minc791	Staffordshire v Bedfordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1906
Venue	Oldfields Ground, Uttoxeter on 22nd, 23rd August 1906 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Staffordshire won the toss and decided to field
Result	Staffordshire won by 9 wickets
Points	Staffordshire 3; Bedfordshire 0
Umpires	O Firth, M Myers
Close of play day 1	Staffordshire (1) 138/5 (Page 42*, Meakin 4*)

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Bedfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RW Rice	c Mee b Barnes	56
G Pollitt	b Mee	0
BL Peel	b Barnes	17
F Taylor	b Barnes	0
*HR Orr	lbw b Mee	1
GE Wharmby	c Stratton b Barnes	14
TA Brown	b Eardley	15
HF Holdstock	b Barnes	2
AF Morcom	not out	30
HC Potter	c Stratton b Barnes	1
+EE Apthorp	c Brown b Mee	13
Extras	(3 b, 7 lb, 2 nb, 1 w)	13
Total	(all out, 63.2 overs)	162
Fall of wickets:
1-1, 2-37, 3-45, 4-46, 5-95, 6-95, 7-97, 8-130, 9-131, 10-162 (63.2 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barnes	31	12	64	6	-	2
Mee	20.2	3	50	3	-	-
Bucknell	3	1	9	0	-	-
Eardley	9	1	26	1	1	-

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
P Briggs	b Wharmby	42
W Brown	c Pollitt b Morcom	5
RC Page	b Wharmby	56
*HD Stratton	c Orr b Peel	6
A Hollowood	c Taylor b Orr	30
SF Barnes	b Morcom	4
B Meakin	st Apthorp b Wharmby	18
A Bucknell	b Wharmby	0
+J Poole	b Wharmby	6
RJ Mee	b Wharmby	5
H Eardley	not out	2
Extras	(4 b, 2 lb, 4 w)	10
Total	(all out, 82.3 overs)	184
Fall of wickets:
1-23, 2-58, 3-75, 4-121, 5-127, 6-160, 7-160, 8-170, 9-177, 10-184 (82.3 ov)

Bedfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wharmby	33.3	10	62	6	-	-
Morcom	25	5	49	2	2	-
Peel	10	2	35	1	-	-
Brown	5	1	11	0	-	-
Orr	9	2	17	1	2	-

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Bedfordshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RW Rice	st Poole b Eardley	39
*HR Orr	c Briggs b Barnes	4
BL Peel	c Poole b Mee	11
G Pollitt	b Barnes	4
GE Wharmby	b Barnes	0
TA Brown	lbw b Bucknell	28
AF Morcom	c Mee b Bucknell	14
+EE Apthorp	b Mee	19
HC Potter	run out	3
F Taylor	not out	0
HF Holdstock	b Mee	0
Extras	(1 b, 1 nb)	2
Total	(all out, 60 overs)	124
Fall of wickets:
1-4, 2-26, 3-34, 4-34, 5-84, 6-90, 7-106, 8-109, 9-124, 10-124 (60 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barnes	22	10	37	3	-	-
Mee	24	11	42	3	-	1
Bucknell	8	1	19	2	-	-
Eardley	6	0	24	1	-	-

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Staffordshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
P Briggs	not out	48
W Brown	b Orr	21
SF Barnes	not out	23
RC Page	did not bat
*HD Stratton	did not bat
A Hollowood	did not bat
B Meakin	did not bat
A Bucknell	did not bat
+J Poole	did not bat
RJ Mee	did not bat
H Eardley	did not bat
Extras	(11 b)	11
Total	(1 wicket, 36 overs)	103
Fall of wickets:
1-53 (Brown)

Bedfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wharmby	15	6	39	0	-	-
Morcom	7	0	20	0	-	-
Orr	6	0	19	1	-	-
Peel	4	1	9	0	-	-
Brown	4	1	5	0	-	-

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Notes
--> H Eardley made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RC Page (1) passed his previous highest score of 45 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> SF Barnes reached 100 wickets in Minor Counties Championship matches for the season when taking his 5th wicket in the Bedfordshire first innings
--> GE Wharmby reached 250 wickets in Minor Counties Championship matches when taking his 5th wicket in the Staffordshire first innings
--> RJ Mee reached 50 wickets in Minor Counties Championship matches for the season when taking his 3rd wicket in the Bedfordshire second innings

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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.
Staffordshire won this return match, between the two top teams in the Championship, by nine wickets at 5.45 pm on the second day, after putting Bedfordshire in to bat. The win ensured Staffordshire won the Championship for the first time, though this was not recognised in a number of newspaper reports. The game between the two sides at Bedford in July had been won by Bedfordshire. For the winners, there were 5 fours in Page's 56 and Barnes took 9 wickets in the match for 101 runs. For Bedfordshire, Rice's 56 contained 3 fours. When Barnes bowled Holdstock in the Bedfordshire first innings, he took his one hundredth wicket of the season for Staffordshire. The feat had previously been accomplished by G J Thompson for Northamptonshire on two occasions, in 1901 with 103 wickets and 1902 with 100 wickets. Barnes was to set a new record for the Championship with 10? wickets.
[Missing: Total championship wickets taken by Barnes in season.]
Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 25 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 22,23 August; Birmingham Daily Post 23,24 August; Bedford Record 28 August; Bedfordshire Standard 31 August;
The Sportsman 23,24 August.

 

 

 

 

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