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| Venue | Edgbaston, Birmingham on 21st, 23rd, 24th April 1956 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Players | WE Hollies' XI: 11; P Cranmer's XI: 13 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | WE Hollies' XI won by 6 wickets |
| Umpires | HE Dollery, JS Ord |
| Scorer | GC Austin |
| Close of play day 1 | WE Hollies' XI (1) 154/4 (Hitchcock 71*, Spooner 26*) |
| Close of play day 2 | P Cranmer's XI (2) 239/9 (Hawkins 54*, Barnes 4*) |
| P Cranmer's XI first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| Khalid Ibadulla | lbw b Wolton | 55 | 3 | 1 | |||
| CW Leach | c Spooner b Thompson | 1 | |||||
| BE Fletcher | run out | 3 | |||||
| NA Paul | b Weeks | 6 | 30 | - | - | ||
| CG Hawkins | b Thompson | 15 | 3 | - | |||
| PH Bromley | c Hitchcock b Weeks | 26 | 2 | - | |||
| WB Bridge | b Hollies | 20 | 1 | - | |||
| KR Dollery | lbw b Weeks | 0 | |||||
| M Youll | b Weeks | 1 | |||||
| +TP Barnes | lbw b Hollies | 1 | |||||
| RG Carter | c Horner b Weeks | 0 | |||||
| SS Griffiths | not out | 5 | 1 | - | |||
| *P Cranmer | absent | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 1 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 72.1 overs) | 135 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Leach), 2-16 (Fletcher), 3-37 (Paul), 4-72 (Hawkins), 5-83 (Khalid Ibadulla), 6-119 (Bromley), 7-119 (Dollery), 8-129 (Bridge), 9-129 (Youll), 10-129 (Carter), 11-135 (Barnes, 72.1 ov) | |||||||
| WE Hollies' XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thompson | 13 | 5 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bannister | 12 | 5 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Townsend | 5 | 2 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Weeks | 17 | 10 | 28 | 5 | - | - | |
| Hollies | 10.1 | 3 | 22 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hitchcock | 7 | 2 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wolton | 8 | 1 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |
| WE Hollies' XI first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| FC Gardner | lbw b Dollery | 14 | 1 | - | |||
| NF Horner | b Griffiths | 15 | 2 | - | |||
| AVG Wolton | b Griffiths | 18 | 2 | - | |||
| A Townsend | lbw b Dollery | 1 | - | - | |||
| RE Hitchcock | c Hawkins b Carter | 74 | 11 | 2 | |||
| +RT Spooner | c Hawkins b Griffiths | 42 | 5 | - | |||
| TW Cartwright | b Griffiths | 0 | |||||
| RT Weeks | run out | 2 | |||||
| JD Bannister | b Griffiths | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| RG Thompson | b Griffiths | 1 | |||||
| *WE Hollies | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 8 lb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50 overs) | 185 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Gardner), 2-40 (Horner), 3-55 (Townsend), 4-55 (Wolton), 5-157 (Hitchcock), 6-168 (Cartwright), 7-179 (Spooner), 8-184 (Weeks), 9-184 (Bannister), 10-185 (Thompson, 50 ov) | |||||||
| P Cranmer's XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dollery | 13 | 2 | 43 | 2 | - | - | |
| Carter | 15 | 2 | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Griffiths | 12 | 3 | 29 | 6 | - | - | |
| Bridge | 5 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | |
| Khalid Ibadulla | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Paul | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Youll | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| P Cranmer's XI second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CW Leach | b Wolton | 38 | 6 | - | |||
| Khalid Ibadulla | b Thompson | 22 | 3 | - | |||
| PH Bromley | c Spooner b Thompson | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| BE Fletcher | lbw b Hollies | 40 | 6 | - | |||
| NA Paul | b Hollies | 11 | 1 | - | |||
| *P Cranmer | b Hitchcock | 15 | 2 | - | |||
| CG Hawkins | c Gardner b Weeks | 57 | 10 | - | |||
| WB Bridge | c Horner b Weeks | 8 | 2 | - | |||
| KR Dollery | b Hollies | 33 | 4 | - | |||
| M Youll | b Townsend | 5 | 1 | - | |||
| +TP Barnes | lbw b Hollies | 8 | 1 | - | |||
| RG Carter | b Weeks | 3 | |||||
| SS Griffiths | not out | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| Extras | (5 b, 5 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 111.2 overs) | 254 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Khalid Ibadulla), 2-28 (Bromley), 3-98 (Leach), 4-115 (Paul), 5-116 (Fletcher), 6-138 (Cranmer), 7-151 (Bridge), 8-214 (Dollery), 9-227 (Youll), 10-246 (Hawkins), 11-246 (Barnes), 12-254 (Carter, 111.2 ov) | |||||||
| WE Hollies' XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thompson | 23 | 11 | 31 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bannister | 19 | 4 | 60 | 0 | - | - | |
| Townsend | 13 | 4 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hollies | 25 | 10 | 61 | 4 | - | - | |
| Weeks | 14.2 | 4 | 29 | 3 | - | - | |
| Wolton | 12 | 4 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hitchcock | 5 | 2 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| WE Hollies' XI second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| FC Gardner | c Barnes b Carter | 27 | 3 | - | |||
| NF Horner | lbw b Paul | 95 | 120 | 16 | - | ||
| AVG Wolton | lbw b Carter | 15 | 2 | 1 | |||
| A Townsend | c +Hawkins b Youll | 20 | 3 | 1 | |||
| RE Hitchcock | not out | 33 | 7 | - | |||
| +RT Spooner | not out | 11 | 1 | - | |||
| TW Cartwright | did not bat | ||||||
| RT Weeks | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Bannister | did not bat | ||||||
| RG Thompson | did not bat | ||||||
| *WE Hollies | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 2 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 37.3 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-61 (Gardner), 2-83 (Wolton), 3-138 (Townsend), 4-177 (Horner) | |||||||
| P Cranmer's XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Griffiths | 6 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dollery | 10.3 | 1 | 53 | 0 | - | - | |
| Carter | 9 | 1 | 53 | 2 | - | - | |
| Bridge | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Khalid Ibadulla | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Youll | 4 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Paul | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
Notes
--> P Cranmer's XI first innings: 100 in 165 minutes
--> WE Hollies' XI first innings: 100 in 95 minutes
--> WE Hollies' XI second innings: 100 in 75 minutes
P Cranmer's XI (1): 6th wicket stand of 36 (Bromley and Bridge)
P Cranmer's XI (2): 3rd wicket stand of 70 (Leach and Fletcher)
P Cranmer's XI (2): 8th wicket stand of 63 (Hawkins and Dollery)
P Cranmer's XI: CG Hawkins kept wicket on day 2, and after lunch on day 3 (taking the catch to dismiss Townsend); TP Barnes kept wicket before lunch on day 3 (taking the catch to dismiss Gardner). Barnes may have kept wicket on day 1 (the match scorecard shows him as the only wicket-keeper in Cranmer's Team)
P Cranmer's XI: P Cranmer was 'temporarily absent' on day 1; he assumed the captaincy of his team from day 2. The match scorecard, in an edition published early on day 1, shows PH Bromley as the captain of Cranmer's Team
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