minc135	Hertfordshire v Staffordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1898
Venue	Park Avenue, Watford on 4th, 5th July 1898 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Staffordshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Staffordshire won by an innings and 64 runs
Points	Hertfordshire -1; Staffordshire 1
Close of play day 1	Staffordshire (1) 407/7 (Grimshaw 163*)

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AH Heath	c Bigge b Nicholls	32
HC Gardner	c Reynolds b White	18
W Brown	b Wells	12
T Grimshaw	not out	163
A Hollowood	b Wells	38
WE Harrison	c and b White	60
SE Thomas	lbw b Reynolds	18
FH Hassall	c Pigg b Bigge	40
*PE Mainwaring	did not bat
+J Poole	did not bat
WH Turner	did not bat
Extras	(17 b, 9 lb)	26
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 143 overs)	407
Fall of wickets:
1-26, 2-55, 3-73, 4-168, 5-300, 6-337, 7-407 (143 ov)

Hertfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
White	37	11	84	2	-	-
Coleman	20	8	43	0	-	-
Pritchett	11	2	38	0	-	-
Nicholls	24	8	49	1	-	-
Wells	25	4	60	2	-	-
Knight	7	1	20	0	-	-
Bigge	6	0	34	1	-	-
Reynolds	9	1	33	1	-	-
Pigg	4	0	20	0	-	-

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Hertfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
HE White	b Turner	25
F Wells	c and b Brown	43
AH Reynolds	b Turner	4
WE Coleman	b Thomas	19
CL Budd	lbw b Turner	4
JH Hickin	b Turner	30
*C Pigg	not out	26
GEB Pritchett	b Grimshaw	1
WH Nicholls	c Thomas b Grimshaw	8
GO Bigge	absent
JC Knight	absent
Extras	(12 b, 4 lb, 2 w)	18
Total	(all out, 67.2 overs)	178
Fall of wickets:
1-67, 2-77, 3-80, 4-94, 5-109, 6-162, 7-167, 8-178 (67.2 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Turner	30	12	49	4	-	-
Grimshaw	16.2	2	37	2	-	-
Gardner	3	0	18	0	-	-
Brown	8	2	18	1	-	-
Thomas	5	1	23	1	-	-
Hassall	5	1	15	0	2	-

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Hertfordshire second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*C Pigg	b Grimshaw	3
HE White	b Turner	2
F Wells	b Brown	43
WH Nicholls	b Grimshaw	0
JH Hickin	b Brown	24
WE Coleman	not out	51
AH Reynolds	c Hollowood b Turner	14
GEB Pritchett	c Turner b Grimshaw	0
CL Budd	c Hollowood b Turner	25
GO Bigge	absent
JC Knight	absent
Extras	(2 b, 1 lb)	3
Total	(all out, 58.2 overs)	165
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-165 (58.2 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Turner	22.2	7	46	3	-	-
Grimshaw	18	4	54	3	-	-
Brown	12	2	40	2	-	-
Thomas	3	0	10	0	-	-
Hassall	3	0	12	0	-	-

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Notes
--> HC Gardner made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> F Wells made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CL Budd made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JH Hickin made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GO Bigge made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AH Heath made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> SE Thomas made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CL Budd made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JC Knight made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AH Heath (1) passed his previous highest score of 22 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Grimshaw (1) passed his previous highest score of 20 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Grimshaw (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AH Reynolds (2) passed his previous highest score of 13 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WE Coleman (2) passed his previous highest score of 41 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Grimshaw achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Hertfordshire second innings (previous best was 2-15)

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
Staffordshire won by an innings on the second day, after making Hertfordshire follow on and dismissing them twice in a single day. For the winners, Grimshaw's 163 not out included 1 five, 16 fours, 6 threes, and 12 twos, and was the highest individual innings of the season. There were 6 fours in Harrison's 60. In the Staffordshire innings, Grimshaw and Harrison put on 132 runs for the fifth wicket, the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. Grimshaw and Hassall added 70 runs for the seventh wicket. The visitors' total of 407-7 declared was the second highest of the year. Coleman's 51 not out for the losers contained 5 fours. Bigge and Knight were both reported as being absent on the second day
"owing to the illness of relatives". The Hertfordshire scorebook does not contain fall of wicket details for the second Hertfordshire innings.
[Missing: Umpires; who kept wicket for Hertfordshire; in Staffordshire inns duration of Grimshaw's 163; in Hertfordshire 2nd inns fall of wickets; time completed.]
Sources: Hertfordshire Scorebook; Watford Observer 9 July; Staffordshire Advertiser 9 July; The Sportsman 5,6 July; The Sportsman 5,6 July.

 

 

 

 

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