minc590	Hertfordshire v Bedfordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1904
Venue	Balls Park, Hertford on 10th, 11th August 1904 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Hertfordshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Hertfordshire 0; Bedfordshire 1
Close of play day 1	Bedfordshire (1) 377/4 (Rice 122*, Wharmby 8*)

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Hertfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AJ Golding	c Brown b Wharmby	8
HE White	b Wharmby	4
CCT Doll	retired hurt	0
A Butcher	b Wharmby	0
WE Coleman	c Peel b Wharmby	32
GG Dumbelton	c and b Morcom	32
JR Turner	lbw b Morcom	0
RC Grellet	b Morcom	3
*HM Harford	b Morcom	0
JS Harford	b Morcom	0
+CD Fastnedge	not out	6
Extras		10
Total	(all out, 31 overs)	95
Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-16, 3-17, 4-60, 5-62, 6-70, 7-70, 8-70, 9-95 (31 ov)

Bedfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Brown	9	2	27	0	-	-
Wharmby	15	5	45	4	-	-
Morcom	7	1	13	5	-	-

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Bedfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
HJJ Hodgkins	c Fastnedge b JS Harford	152			16	-
TA Brown	c Coleman b JS Harford	74
G Pollitt	c Golding b JS Harford	2
RW Rice	not out	122
*HR Orr	b Coleman	8
GE Wharmby	not out	8
+HM Cantrell	did not bat
AF Morcom	did not bat
RH Moss	did not bat
HW Oclee	did not bat
CLK Peel	did not bat
Extras		11
Total	(4 wickets, 91 overs)	377
Fall of wickets:
1-148, 2-150, 3-313, 4-336

Hertfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Coleman	27	3	100	1	-	-
JS Harford	18	2	95	3	-	-
White	19	4	52	0	-	-
Grellet	8	2	33	0	-	-
Golding	15	1	66	0	-	-
Dumbelton	4	0	20	0	-	-

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Notes
--> There was no play on the final day.
--> JR Turner made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HJJ Hodgkins (1) passed his previous highest score of 130 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HJJ Hodgkins (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 39
--> RW Rice (1) passed his previous highest score of 25 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RW Rice (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AF Morcom achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Hertfordshire first innings (previous best was 3-45)
--> AF Morcom achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Hertfordshire first 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.
This return match was drawn, with rain preventing any play on the second day, the game being abandoned at 2.30 pm.
The match between the two sides at the start of the month at Bedford School had been won by Bedfordshire.
For Bedfordshire, there were 16 fours, 3 threes and 14 twos in Hodgkins's 152, scored in 225 minutes, and there was 1 five, 20 fours, 2 threes and 10 twos in Rice's 122 not out, an innings of 135 minutes.
Brown's 74 contained 11 fours.
In the Bedfordshire innings, Hodgkins and Brown put 148 runs for the first wicket, and Hodgkins and Rice 163 runs for the third wicket.
In the Hertfordshire innings, Doll damaged his hand from a rap on a bad thumb from the second ball he received.
The score then was 10-1 wicket, and he did not bat later on in the innings or field when Bedfordshire batted.
[Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown.]
Sources: Hertfordshire Mercury 13 August; Watford Observer 20 August; Bedfordshire Standard 12 August; Leighton Buzzard Reporter 13 August.