minc337	Northumberland v Staffordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1901
Venue	Osborne Avenue, Jesmond on 31st July, 1st August 1901 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Northumberland won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Northumberland 0; Staffordshire 0
Umpires	W Copeland, J Rogers
Close of play day 1	Staffordshire (1) 94/2 (Brown 21*, Stratton 32*)

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Northumberland first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*FGH Clayton	lbw b Clapham	16
RGE Mortimer	c McHarg b Grimshaw	7
J Hansell	run out	45
S Brutton	b Grimshaw	1
V Thompson	b Stratton	118
JH Marshall	b Grimshaw	0
FW Gillespie	b Grimshaw	8
+C Page	b Cummins	84
G Elsey	not out	13
E Tomlin	b Cummins	0
A Lowings	b Cummins	0
Extras	(5 b, 9 lb)	14
Total	(all out, 87.4 overs)	306
Fall of wickets:
1-24, 2-24, 3-25, 4-137, 5-141, 6-149, 7-238, 8-302, 9-302, 10-306 (87.4 ov)

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Grimshaw	33	8	84	4	-	-
Brown	1	0	1	0	-	-
Clapham	23	2	72	1	-	-
Cummins	12.4	0	56	3	-	-
Crane	7	0	28	0	-	-
Stratton	7	0	39	1	-	-
Hollowood	4	2	12	0	-	-

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Staffordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FH Wynne	b Tomlin	21
A Hollowood	b Tomlin	15
W Brown	lbw b Tomlin	79
*HD Stratton	b Lowings	76
T Hedges	c Hansell b Marshall	39
GW Crane	c Mortimer b Marshall	38
HCB Cummins	c Thompson b Marshall	2
FH Hassall	not out	28
T Grimshaw	b Clayton	3
JR Clapham	c Hansell b Clayton	3
+G McHarg	b Clayton	8
Extras	(1 b, 4 lb, 1 nb)	6
Total	(all out, 90.1 overs)	318
Fall of wickets:
1-25, 2-39, 3-187, 4-209, 5-265, 6-274, 7-283, 8-294, 9-302, 10-318 (90.1 ov)

Northumberland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tomlin	23	5	85	3	-	-
Elsey	11	3	25	0	-	1
Marshall	19	4	65	3	-	-
Clayton	16.1	4	55	3	-	-
Mortimer	3	1	5	0	-	-
Lowings	9	2	43	1	-	-
Hansell	9	1	34	0	-	-

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Northumberland second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*FGH Clayton	b Grimshaw	10
S Brutton	not out	106
J Hansell	c Hedges b Crane	58
V Thompson	not out	24
RGE Mortimer	did not bat
JH Marshall	did not bat
FW Gillespie	did not bat
+C Page	did not bat
G Elsey	did not bat
E Tomlin	did not bat
A Lowings	did not bat
Extras	(2 b, 5 lb, 1 nb)	8
Total	(2 wickets, declared, 50 overs)	206
Fall of wickets:
1-12, 2-113

Staffordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Grimshaw	20	2	66	1	-	-
Cummins	13	3	43	0	-	-
Clapham	7	0	26	0	-	1
Hassall	2	0	15	0	-	-
Crane	4	0	21	1	-	-
Stratton	1	0	11	0	-	-
Hollowood	3	0	16	0	-	-

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Staffordshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FH Hassall	not out	61
A Hollowood	c Marshall b Tomlin	17
*HD Stratton	not out	46
FH Wynne	did not bat
W Brown	did not bat
T Hedges	did not bat
GW Crane	did not bat
HCB Cummins	did not bat
T Grimshaw	did not bat
JR Clapham	did not bat
+G McHarg	did not bat
Extras	(1 b, 1 lb, 1 nb)	3
Total	(1 wicket, 24 overs)	127
Fall of wickets:
1-31 (Hollowood)

Northumberland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Clayton	6	1	32	0	-	-
Tomlin	6	1	26	1	-	-
Lowings	4	1	17	0	-	-
Marshall	3	0	12	0	-	-
Elsey	3	0	16	0	-	1
Hansell	2	0	21	0	-	-

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Notes
--> V Thompson (1) passed his previous highest score of 112 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> C Page (1) passed his previous highest score of 60 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> FH Wynne (1) passed his previous highest score of 15 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HD Stratton (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 39
--> T Hedges (1) passed his previous highest score of 32 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> S Brutton (2) passed his previous highest score of 38 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> S Brutton (2) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> FH Hassall (2) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 16
--> T Grimshaw reached 50 wickets in Minor Counties Championship matches for the season when taking his 1st wicket in the Northumberland second innings

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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.
In this drawn match, the Northumberland declaration set Staffordshire a victory target of 195 runs in 65 minutes.
The match aggregate of 957 runs was the second highest of the season.
There were two individual centuries and three century-partnerships.
For the home team, there were 1 seven, 11 fours, 3 threes and 11 twos in Thompson's 118, scored in 175 minutes, and 1 seven, 1 six, 13 fours, 1 three and 2 twos in Brutton's 106 not out, an innings of 145 minutes.
Page's 84 contained 12 fours and Hansell's 58 included 8 fours.
In the home team's first innings, Hansell and Thompson put on 112 runs for the fourth wicket, Thompson and Page 89 runs for the seventh, and Page and Elsey 64 for the eighth wicket.
In the second innings Brutton and Hansell 101 for the second wicket.
In the Staffordshire first innings Brown and Stratton added 148 for the third wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season.
For the visitors, Brown's 79 included 9 fours Stratton's 76 contained 1 five and 7 fours.
15 players bowled in the match.
There were a number of differences in the runs conceded by bowlers between the newspaper sources of both counties and the Staffordshire scorebook.
Preference has been given to versions supported by the published averages of both counties.
In the newspaper sources for the Northumberland first innings, the runs conceded by Grimshaw, Clapham, Cummins and Crane are given as 88,73,52 and 27 respectively, and the overs bowled by Cummins 14.3.
In the Northumberland second innings, the runs conceded by Grimshaw, Cummins,Crane and Hollowood are 62,44,22 and 18 respectively, and the overs bowled by Clapham 7.
In the Staffordshire first innings the Staffordshire scorebook gives overs bowled by Clayton as 15.1 and maidens bowled by Tomlin 6.
In the Staffordshire second innings, the Staffordshire scorebook gives the runs conceded by Elsey and Marshall as 17 and 11, and overs bowled by Clayton 7.
[Note to be deleted -- these figures need to be checked.]
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Sources: Staffordshire Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Journal 1,2 August; Staffordshire Advertiser 3 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 31 July, 1,3 August; Yorkshire Post 1,2 August; The Sportsman 1,2 August.