Notes
--> TA Brown completed a hat-trick in the Berkshire first innings (victims were MJ Dauglish, FE Chapman, W Barker)
This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project This match was drawn after the visitors followed on 151 runs behind. For Berkshire, Watts's 104 not out was a match-saving innings. In the visitors' second innings, he and Chapman put on 65 runs for the eighth wicket, and with Barker 84 for the ninth. There were 5 fives and 5 fours in Collins's undefeated 61. In the Berkshire first innings, Collins and Dauglish put on 58 runs for the seventh wicket. For Northamptonshire, W H Kingston's 149 included 25 fours, 6 threes and 6 twos, and was scored in 225 minutes. It was the second highest individual innings of the season. Thompson's 58 contained 7 fours. In the home side's innings, Kingston and Brown added 75 runs for the seventh wicket. Brown took the hat-trick in the Berkshire first innings, his victims being Dauglish, Chapman and Barker. L Law fielded as substitute in the latter part of Berkshire's second innings for Colson who became unwell. It was estimated that there were between 1600 and 1800 spectators present on the first day. [Missing: One umpire; in Berkshire 2nd inns breakdown and duration of Watts's 104, and extras breakdown.] Sources: Northampton Daily Chronicle 3,4 August; Northampton Daily Reporter 3,4 August; Northampton Herald 6 August; Northampton Mercury 5 August; Reading Mercury 6,13 August; Reading Standard 5 August; The Sportsman 4,5 August.
