minc949	Staffordshire v Lincolnshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1908 (North Division)
Venue	County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent on 3rd, 4th August 1908 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Lincolnshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Staffordshire won by an innings and 73 runs
Points	Staffordshire 5; Lincolnshire 0
Umpires	J Gregory, S Wrigley
Close of play day 1	Staffordshire (1) 235/3 (Fereday 69*, Barnes 36*)

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Lincolnshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WJ Hibbert	b Eardley	15
T Hedworth	c Dearing b Eardley	0
*WE Thompson	c Dearing b Barnes	57
F Geeson	b Barnes	0
GF Turner	c Briggs b Barnes	4
RE Williams	b Mee	11
EE Riley	c Dearing b Barnes	22
W Peach	b Mee	17
G Charlton-Jones	lbw b Mee	0
FS Cannell	not out	7
+JW Allen	b Eardley	2
Extras	(4 lb, 1 w)	5
Total	(all out, 61.1 overs)	140
Fall of wickets:
1-1, 2-28, 3-29, 4-33, 5-64, 6-106, 7-127, 8-127, 9-131, 10-140 (61.1 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barnes	25	7	51	4	-	-
Eardley	16.1	5	36	3	1	-
Bucknell	3	1	5	0	-	-
Mee	16	2	43	3	-	-
Vost	1	1	0	0	-	-

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
P Briggs	b Riley	35
W Brown	run out	2
*HD Stratton	c Allen b Riley	90
JB Fereday	c Geeson b Riley	103
SF Barnes	b Riley	41
EH Bourne	c Geeson b Riley	1
E Vost	c Allen b Peach	52
A Bucknell	not out	10
+H Dearing	b Peach	0
RJ Mee	st Allen b Riley	12
H Eardley	did not bat
Extras	(3 b, 2 lb, 1 w)	6
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 106 overs)	352
Fall of wickets:
1-9, 2-68, 3-184, 4-264, 5-272, 6-283, 7-333, 8-335, 9-352 (106 ov)

Lincolnshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Geeson	43	8	104	0	-	-
Peach	18	2	73	2	-	-
Riley	32	7	108	6	-	-
Williams	5	0	26	0	-	-
Thompson	5	0	16	0	-	-
Hibbert	3	0	19	0	1	-

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Lincolnshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WJ Hibbert	run out	8
FS Cannell	c Barnes b Eardley	13
G Charlton-Jones	b Eardley	0
GF Turner	lbw b Eardley	3
RE Williams	c Barnes b Eardley	8
*WE Thompson	b Eardley	11
EE Riley	c Dearing b Eardley	34
T Hedworth	b Bucknell	19
F Geeson	c Bucknell b Vost	11
W Peach	b Bourne	28
+JW Allen	not out	0
Extras	(4 b)	4
Total	(all out, 48.4 overs)	139
Fall of wickets:
1-20, 2-20, 3-21, 4-34, 5-35, 6-75, 7-82, 8-101, 9-135 (48.4 ov), 10-139 (48.4 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barnes	10	1	33	0	-	-
Eardley	20	8	49	6	-	-
Vost	13	2	35	1	-	-
Bucknell	4	1	12	1	-	-
Bourne	1.4	0	6	1	-	-

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Notes
--> W Peach made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> G Charlton-Jones made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> G Charlton-Jones made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JB Fereday (1) passed his previous highest score of 95 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JB Fereday (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> E Vost (1) passed his previous highest score of 22 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Hedworth (2) equalled his previous highest score of 19 in Minor Counties Championship matches

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project - research is continuing on this scorecard which can be expected to change.
Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 73 runs at 4.10 pm on the second day. When the two teams had met at Grantham in July the match had been drawn. For the winners, there were 10 fours, 3 threes and 10 twos in Fereday's 103, an innings of 2¼ hours. Stratton scored 90 and Vost's 52 included 6 fours. In the Staffordshire innings, Stratton and Fereday added 116 runs for the third wicket, and Vost and Bucknell 50 for the seventh. For the losers, Thompson scored 57. Four thousand spectators were present on the first day.
[Missing: In Lincolnshire first innings boundaries in Thompson's 57; in Staffordshire innings boundaries in Stratton's 90.]
Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 8 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 4 August; Grimsby News 7 August; Yorkshire Post 4,5 August; The Sportsman 4,5 August; Cricket 13 August, p 342.

 

 

 

 

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