minc7	Lincolnshire v Norfolk
	Minor Counties Championship 1895
Venue	Black Swan Ground, Spalding on 27th, 28th June 1895 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Norfolk won the toss and decided to field
Result	Match drawn
Points	Lincolnshire 0; Norfolk 0
Umpires	F Renshaw, GJ Rye
Close of play day 1	Norfolk (1) 103 all out

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Lincolnshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AE Cheales	lbw b Shore	11
*GF Wells-Cole	b Cowles	4
FA Soames	c Raikes b Cowles	17
CB Cheales	b Shore	13
HC Melbourne	b Smith	21
HO Peacock	c and b Raikes	36
WW Broadbent	b Shore	13
RH Melbourne	c Skrimshire b Shore	1
A Woodley	c Birkbeck b Shore	2
TJ Nicholson	b Shore	5
+T Brown	not out	7
Extras		1
Total	(all out, 58.4 overs)	131
Fall of wickets:
1-10, 2-22, 3-?, 4-46, 5-73, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-131 (58.4 ov)

Norfolk bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Shore	28.4	10	66	6	-	-
Cowles	22	9	40	2	-	-
Smith	1	0	5	1	-	-
Raikes	7	0	19	1	-	-

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Norfolk first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
GB Raikes	c Brown b Broadbent	27
JF Skrimshire	b Broadbent	0
EA Massingham	b Broadbent	6
SRB Cowles	b Broadbent	13
SD Page	c and b Broadbent	5
WH Birkbeck	b Broadbent	22
*AR Buxton	b Broadbent	12
AF Darnell	b Nicholson	8
CG Smith	c Nicholson b Broadbent	0
+GF Blake	b Nicholson	0
C Shore	not out	0
Extras		10
Total	(all out, 49.1 overs)	103
Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-19, 3-45, 4-?, 5-60, 6-82, 7-103, 8-103, 9-103, 10-103 (49.1 ov)

Lincolnshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Broadbent	25	5	47	8	-	-
Nicholson	16.1	6	31	2	-	-
Woodley	8	2	15	0	-	-

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Lincolnshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*GF Wells-Cole	b Massingham	47
AE Cheales	b Smith	79
FA Soames	b Skrimshire	29
CB Cheales	c Blake b Skrimshire	0
HC Melbourne	b Cowles	15
HO Peacock	c Smith b Cowles	18
WW Broadbent	b Smith	10
RH Melbourne	lbw b Cowles	5
A Woodley	not out	14
TJ Nicholson	b Cowles	2
+T Brown	not out	3
Extras		15
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 86 overs)	237
Fall of wickets:
1-79, 2-156, 3-156, 4-166, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?

Norfolk bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Cowles	23	3	53	4	-	-
Shore	25	2	82	0	-	-
Smith	10	4	23	2	-	-
Darnell	4	0	17	0	-	-
Massingham	11	6	17	1	-	-
Skrimshire	13	6	30	2	-	-

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Norfolk second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JF Skrimshire	run out	83
EA Massingham	c Soames b Broadbent	0
SRB Cowles	c CB Cheales b Broadbent	25
SD Page	c Broadbent b Woodley	22
WH Birkbeck	b Woodley	0
*AR Buxton	b Nicholson	10
AF Darnell	not out	16
CG Smith	not out	2
+GF Blake	b Broadbent	8
GB Raikes	did not bat
C Shore	did not bat
Extras		13
Total	(7 wickets, 85 overs)	179
Fall of wickets:
1-12, 2-32, 3-72, 4-142, 5-?, 6-148, 7-?

Lincolnshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Broadbent	41	8	101	3	-	-
Nicholson	21	12	28	1	-	-
Woodley	20	10	25	2	-	-
Soames	3	0	12	0	-	-

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Notes
--> GF Wells-Cole made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> FA Soames made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HC Melbourne made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HO Peacock made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RH Melbourne made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> TJ Nicholson made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GB Raikes made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JF Skrimshire made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> EA Massingham made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> SRB Cowles made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> SD Page made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WH Birkbeck made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AR Buxton made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AF Darnell made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CG Smith made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GF Blake made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> C Shore made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HC Melbourne made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HO Peacock made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RH Melbourne made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> A Woodley made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WH Birkbeck made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CG Smith made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WW Broadbent (1) equalled his previous highest score of 13 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AE Cheales (2) passed his previous highest score of 22 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> C Shore achieved his first five wickets in an innings in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Lincolnshire first innings
--> WW Broadbent achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Minor Counties Championship matches in the Norfolk first innings (previous best was 7-41)

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
Match drawn after the Lincolnshire second innings declaration had set Norfolk a victory target of 266 in 2¾ hours.
The game marked Norfolk's debut in the Championship.
For Lincolnshire, Broadbent took 11 wickets in the match for 148 runs, including 8 for 47 in the visitors' first innings.
A E Cheales top-scored for Lincolnshire with 79, while Skrimshire made Norfolk's highest score with 83.
Norfolk's 179-7 wickets was the highest fourth innings total of the season.
Raikes was permitted by Buxton, the Norfolk Captain, to withdraw from the match after the first day in order to play for Oxford University against Kent at Maidstone.
He went on to win his Blue.
[Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Lincolnshire 2nd inns boundaries in A E Cheales's 79, and part batting order; in Norfolk 2nd inns boundaries in Skrimshire's 83, and batting order.]
Sources: Lincoln, Stamford and Rutland Mercury 5 July; Lincolnshire Echo 28,29 June; Lincolnshire Free Press 2 July; Spalding Chronicle 29 June, 6 July; Norfolk Cricket Annual 1896, p 18-22; Eastern Daily Press 28,29 June; Eastern Evening News 28,29 June; The Sportsman 28,29 June.

 

 

 

 

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