minc185	Northamptonshire v Northumberland
	Minor Counties Championship 1899
Venue	County Ground, Northampton on 21st, 22nd June 1899 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Northamptonshire 0; Northumberland 0
Close of play day 1	Northamptonshire (1) 366 all out

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Northamptonshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
HE Kingston	c Allen b Clayton	66
CJT Pool	c and b Elsey	0
GJ Thompson	c Elsey b Hartley	41
WH Kingston	c Hansell b Hartley	7
AG Henfrey	c Clayton b Tomlin	24
GH Colson	lbw b Tomlin	20
W East	c Allen b Hartley	79
*T Horton	c Elsey b Tomlin	97
FO Warren	b Hartley	11
TA Brown	not out	8
+BC Smith	c Greenwood b Tomlin	0
Extras	(8 b, 2 lb, 3 w)	13
Total	(all out, 158 overs)	366
Fall of wickets:
1-1, 2-106, 3-115, 4-130, 5-162, 6-171, 7-328, 8-?, 9-366, 10-366 (158 ov)

Northumberland bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Elsey	40	14	71	1	-	-
Hartley	37	12	73	4	1	-
Tomlin	26	9	51	4	-	-
Clayton	22	5	43	1	-	-
Mortimer	7	1	38	0	2	-
Chambers	7	1	26	0	-	-
Hansell	5	0	13	0	-	-
Allen	14	4	38	0	-	-

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Northumberland first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RGE Mortimer	not out	61
*FGH Clayton	c HE Kingston b East	2
M Chambers	not out	27
FS Allen	did not bat
SP Bell	did not bat
G Elsey	did not bat
+L Greenwood	did not bat
J Hansell	did not bat
RH Hartley	did not bat
JS Nesbit	did not bat
E Tomlin	did not bat
Extras	(5 b, 1 lb)	6
Total	(1 wicket, 26 overs)	96
Fall of wickets:
1-16 (Clayton)

Northamptonshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Thompson	9	2	21	0	-	-
East	6	1	19	1	-	-
Brown	7	0	28	0	-	-
HE Kingston	4	1	22	0	-	-

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Notes
--> FO Warren made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GH Colson (1) passed 1000 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 2
--> W East (1) passed his previous highest score of 41 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Horton (1) passed his previous highest score of 47 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> T Horton (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 92

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
This match was drawn. Rain prevented play after lunch on the second day, and the game was abandoned at 3.45 pm. For Northamptonshire, there was 1 five and 14 fours in Horton's 97, 2 fives and 6 fours in East's 79, and 10 fours in H E Kingston's 66. There were two century partnerships in the Northamptonshire innings with H E Kingston and Thompson adding 105 runs for the second wicket, and East and Horton 157 for the seventh. For Northumberland, Mortimer top-scored with 61 not out. When scoring his second run in the Northamptonshire innings, Colson reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in the Championship.
[Missing: Umpires; in Northamptonshire inns fall of 8th wicket; in Northumberland inns boundaries in Mortimer's 61*.]
Sources: Northampton Daily Chronicle 21,22 June; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 22,23 June; Newcastle Daily Leader 22,23 June; The Sportsman 22,23 June.

 

 

 

 

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