This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project Norfolk won this return match by an innings and 116 runs at 2.35 pm on the second day. Hertfordshire had won the game between the two sides played at Bishop's Stortford in July. For Norfolk, Shore took 10 wickets in the match for 56 runs. There were 5 fours in Skrimshire's 82 and 1 six and 2 fours in Raikes's 65. In the Hertfordshire second innings, Poland carried his bat for 53 runs, which included just 1 four, and was scored in 2 hours and 10 minutes. In the Norfolk innings, Poland kept wicket for the visitors when Pritchett bowled. [Missing: In Hertfordshire 2nd inns fall of 5th and 9th wickets; in Norfolk inns who held substitute catch, and fall of 6th to 8th wickets.] Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Norfolk Cricket Annual 1896, p 36-38; Eastern Daily Press 17,19 August; Eastern Evening News 16,17,19 August; Herts Advertiser 24 August; Hertfordshire Mercury 24 August; Watford Observer 24 August; West Herts Post 23 August; Sporting Life 17,19 August; The Sportsman 17,19 August.
