This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project Northamptonshire won this return match by ten wickets shortly after 6.00 pm on the second day, thus repeating their success earlier in the month at Reading. For the winners, Horton's 105 was scored in little over an hour and included 14 fours, 3 threes and 10 twos. In the Northamptonshire first innings, Horton and H E Kingston put on 112 runs for the first wicket, and Driffield and Warren 54 for the ninth. For Berkshire, Ingram's two scores of 66 and 52 contained 3 fours and 4 fours respectively. Watts kept wicket for Berkshire on the first day of the Northamptonshire first innings, when 20 byes were conceded, and Croome on the second. When he had scored 22 in the Northamptonshire first innings, H E Kingston reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: In Northamptonshire 1st inns fall of 3rd and 4th wickets; in Northamptonshire 2nd inns nature of extra.] Sources: Northampton Daily Chronicle 22 August; Northampton Daily Reporter 21,22,23 August; Berkshire Chronicle 26 August; Reading Mercury 26 August; Reading Standard 25 August; The Sportsman 22,23 August.
