This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project Norfolk won this return match by 45 runs just a minute or two before time amid reported scenes of considerable excitement. The match at Norwich had also been won by Norfolk. Features of the game were two late wicket partnerships. Raikes and Shore put on 59 runs for the tenth wicket in the Norfolk second innings, a total larger than the margin of victory. In the Cambridgeshire second innings, Gray and Bryan added 75 runs for the ninth wicket. Hayward's 51 for Cambridgeshire was scored in two hours. On the first day a thunderstorm ended play early at around 6 pm. In the Cambridgeshire second innings, Fryer kept wicket for Norfolk when Blake bowled. The Cambridgeshire second innings total of 211 was the highest fourth innings total of the season. [Missing: Part fall of wickets; in Cambridgeshire 2nd inns boundaries in Hayward's 51.] Sources: Cambridge Daily News 11,12 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 13 August; Ely Weekly Guardian 13 August; Norfolk Cricket Annual 1898, p 34-36; Eastern Daily Press 12,13 August; Norfolk Chronicle 4 August; Norwich Mercury 4 August; East Anglian Daily Times 12,13 August; The Sportsman 12,13 August.
