Notes
--> The match was scheduled for two days but completed in one.
This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project - research is continuing on this scorecard which can be expected to change. The match was completed on the first day, with Northamptonshire winning by an innings and 34 runs. For the winners, Thompson took 12 wickets in the match for 38 runs. W H Kingston top-scored with 40. The match aggregate of 196 runs was the lowest of the season for a completed match, and it was also a new low for the Championship, the previous lowest aggregate being 232 runs when Worcestershire beat Norfolk at Worcester in 1896. Berkshire's second innings total of 34 was the second lowest of the season. Berkshire were dismissed twice for under fifty. The Berkshire run aggregate of 81 was also a new low for the competition; the previous low was 91 runs by Norfolk against Hertfordshire at Bishop's Stortord in 1895. The game marked R R Relf's debut for Berkshire at age 16. Interspersed with a career with Sussex, he was to play his final championship match for Berkshire in the 1946 season. [Missing: One umpire; in Northamptonshire inns fall of 9th wicket; time completed.] Sources: Northampton Daily Chronicle 8 August; Northampton Daily Reporter 8,9 August; Northampton Herald 11 August; Northampton Mercury 10 August; Berkshire Chronicle 11 August; Reading Mercury 10 August; Reading Standard 10 August.
