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| Venue | The Recreation Ground, Impington on 5th, 6th August 1953 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Hertfordshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Cambridgeshire 3; Hertfordshire 1 |
| Umpires | BW Bellamy, CH Welch |
| Close of play day 1 | Cambridgeshire (1) ?/4 (Gautrey ?*, Jeeps ?*) |
| Hertfordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TW Tyrwhitt-Drake | b Morris | 101 | 178 | 8 | - | ||
| IL Dunn | lbw b Godfrey | 11 | 55 | - | - | ||
| GF Webb | c Nunn b Thomas | 43 | 64 | 4 | - | ||
| G Bentley | st Nunn b Godfrey | 2 | 20 | - | - | ||
| CM Clapham | c RA Taylor b Morris | 30 | 53 | 2 | - | ||
| DJ Carnill | c Nunn b Morris | 8 | 19 | - | - | ||
| TGA Morley | not out | 56 | 64 | 6 | - | ||
| RC Hughes | c Jeeps b Morris | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | ||
| CJ Higby | c HWF Taylor b Morris | 4 | 17 | - | - | ||
| CVL Marques | lbw b Godfrey | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| +MOG Elliott | lbw b RA Taylor | 6 | 35 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (7 b, 3 lb, 2 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 91.5 overs) | 277 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47 (Dunn), 2-141 (Webb), 3-150 (Bentley), 4-190 (Tyrwhitt-Drake), 5-203 (Clapham), 6-205 (Carnill), 7-213 (Hughes), 8-229 (Higby), 9-229 (Marques), 10-277 (Elliott, 91.5 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridgeshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Godfrey | 33 | 7 | 86 | 3 | - | 2 | |
| Gambrell | 8 | 2 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| RA Taylor | 7.5 | 0 | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 13 | 2 | 42 | 1 | - | - | |
| Morris | 30 | 1 | 84 | 5 | - | - | |
| Cambridgeshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CJ Harrisson | c Elliott b Higby | 11 | 55 | - | - | ||
| HWF Taylor | b Hughes | 4 | 13 | - | - | ||
| MAH Holloway | c Higby b Carnill | 26 | 96 | 2 | - | ||
| WB Morris | run out | 38 | 42 | 4 | - | ||
| RA Gautrey | c and b Marques | 96 | 11 | - | |||
| REG Jeeps | c Hughes b Marques | 56 | 4 | - | |||
| RA Taylor | st Elliott b Morley | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| GL Thomas | not out | 26 | 96 | 2 | - | ||
| BJ Gambrell | c Bentley b Morley | 3 | 53 | - | - | ||
| JF Godfrey | st Elliott b Morley | 13 | 32 | - | - | ||
| +R Nunn | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 3 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 102 overs) | 281 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (HWF Taylor), 2-23 (Harrisson), 3-76 (Morris), 4-82 (Holloway), 5-218 (Jeeps), 6-219 (RA Taylor), 7-241 (Gautrey), 8-261 (Gambrell), 9-281 (Godfrey, 102 ov) | |||||||
| Hertfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Marques | 26 | 2 | 60 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Hughes | 30 | 7 | 68 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Higby | 11 | 0 | 48 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Morley | 29 | 5 | 75 | 3 | - | - | |
| Carnill | 5 | 1 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
| Tyrwhitt-Drake | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | - | |