minc171	Berkshire v Northamptonshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1898
Venue	County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on 17th, 18th August 1898 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Berkshire 0; Northamptonshire 0
Umpires	J Relf, A Stockwin
Close of play day 1	Berkshire (1) 20/0 (Dauglish 11*, Ingram 9*)

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Northamptonshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*T Horton	c and b Barker	3
CJT Pool	c Croome b Barker	2
GJ Thompson	c Dauglish b LGA Collins	125
GH Colson	c Dauglish b Barker	21
HE Kingston	b Barker	36
LT Driffield	st Dauglish b Williams	15
TA Brown	b Croome	55
+BC Smith	b Barker	27
W East	b Barker	24
OS Hickson	b Barker	5
L Law	not out	9
Extras	(11 b, 1 nb, 1 w)	13
Total	(all out, 125 overs)	335
Fall of wickets:
1-2, 2-13, 3-55, 4-97, 5-124, 6-224, 7-272, 8-307, 9-317, 10-335 (125 ov)

Berkshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barker	44	14	102	7	-	-
Barrett	24	8	61	0	-	-
Croome	9	2	21	1	-	-
Williams	30	8	79	1	-	1
Hill	7	1	29	0	-	-
LGA Collins	11	3	30	1	1	-

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Berkshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+MJ Dauglish	lbw b Law	19
FM Ingram	c Brown b Thompson	9
LGA Collins	c and b Driffield	75
LP Collins	b Thompson	11
EF Hill	lbw b Colson	20
RA Williams	c Brown b Thompson	27
CEMY Nepean	b Thompson	8
*ACM Croome	lbw b Driffield	2
FE Chapman	b Driffield	86
H Barrett	c Thompson b Driffield	40
W Barker	not out	4
Extras	(? b, ? lb, ? nb, 3 w)	15
Total	(all out, 117.3 overs)	316
Fall of wickets:
1-20, 2-30, 3-62, 4-124, 5-166, 6-179, 7-182, 8-184, 9-309, 10-316 (117.3 ov)

Northamptonshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Brown	25	7	60	0	-	-
Law	19	5	40	1	-	-
Thompson	30	7	78	4	1	-
Kingston	14	3	41	0	-	-
Colson	11	3	32	1	2	-
Driffield	11.3	4	24	4	-	-
Horton	7	1	26	0	-	-

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Northamptonshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*T Horton	b Croome	15
CJT Pool	b Hill	26
GJ Thompson	c Dauglish b Hill	27
GH Colson	not out	25
HE Kingston	not out	5
LT Driffield	did not bat
TA Brown	did not bat
+BC Smith	did not bat
W East	did not bat
OS Hickson	did not bat
L Law	did not bat
Extras	(6 b, 1 nb)	7
Total	(3 wickets, 38 overs)	105
Fall of wickets:
1-28, 2-46, 3-94

Berkshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Hill	14	3	43	2	-	-
Croome	11	2	20	1	-	-
Dauglish	5	1	17	0	-	1
Barrett	8	3	18	0	-	-

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Notes
--> OS Hickson made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> OS Hickson made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> L Law made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GJ Thompson (1) passed 1000 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 69
--> RA Williams (1) passed his previous highest score of 17 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> FE Chapman (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 23
--> LT Driffield achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Berkshire first innings

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
This return match was drawn, as had been the encounter between the two sides at Northampton at the beginning of the month.
For the visitors, Thompson's 125 took ten minutes short of five hours and contained 18 fours, 2 threes and 7 twos. One newspaper report suggests he gave seven
chances. By contrast, Brown's innings of 55 was made in 75 minutes with 8 fours.
Together, they put on 100 for the sixth wicket in the Northamptonshire first innings. On the first day when on 69 in the Northamptonshire first innings, Thompson scored his one thousand runs in championship matches. He joined H E White of Hertfordshire in being the second player to achieve the feat of scoring a thousand runs and taking a hundred wickets in the Championship, the former having done so on 2 August. For Berkshire, there were 13 fours in Chapman's 86, scored in 90 minutes, and 9 fours in L G A Collins's 75 which took 140 minutes. In the Berkshire innings, Chapman and Barrett put on 125 runs for the ninth wicket, which was the second largest partnership for that wicket during the season. It is believed that Chapman kept wicket when Dauglish bowled his lobs in the Northamptonshire second innings.
[Missing: In Berkshire inns extras breakdown.]
Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 20 August; Reading Mercury 20 August; Northampton Daily Chronicle 17,18 August; Northampton Daily Reporter 18 August; Northampton Herald 20 August; Northampton Mercury 19 August; The Sportsman 18,19 August.