minc978	Cambridgeshire v Suffolk
	Minor Counties Championship 1908 (East Division)
Venue	R Cotton's Ground, Newmarket on 17th, 18th August 1908 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Suffolk won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Cambridgeshire 0; Suffolk 3
Umpires	GJ Rye, J Stevens
Close of play day 1	Cambridgeshire (1) 103/1 (Swann-Mason 35*, Roberson 37*)

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Suffolk first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
H Bassett	run out	54
W Quaife	c Watts b Tebbutt	9
FTD Wilson	c Pigg b LJ Reid	30
JF Ireland	run out	221		160	35	-
HL Wilson	c Watts b Swann-Mason	48
*FH Mustard	c Gray b Bocock	100
+AH Lang	not out	24
F Hollings	not out	4
JH Creed	did not bat
E Mortimer	did not bat
EG Neave	did not bat
Extras	(? b, 0 lb, 6 nb, 0 w)	26
Total	(6 wickets, declared, 84 overs)	516
Fall of wickets:
1-31, 2-94, 3-120, 4-268, 5-461, 6-498

Cambridgeshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Coulson	20	2	65	0	-	-
Tebbutt	21	4	121	1	-	6
Gray	14	0	81	0	-	-
LJ Reid	7	0	73	1	-	-
Bocock	10	1	60	1	-	-
Roberson	4	0	27	0	-	-
Swann-Mason	8	1	63	1	-	-

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Cambridgeshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RS Swann-Mason	st Lang b FTD Wilson	127
LJ Reid	c Mustard b Creed	18
F Roberson	c Ireland b Bassett	50
KG Reid	b Creed	23
HC Tebbutt	c FTD Wilson b Bassett	9
+GH Watts	c Mustard b FTD Wilson	2
B Gray	c Creed b FTD Wilson	19
OW Bocock	c Mustard b Bassett	16
H Hayhoe	b Bassett	15
H Coulson	c and b FTD Wilson	5
*C Pigg	not out	10
Extras	(? b, 0 lb, 0 nb, 3 w)	65
Total	(all out, 140.2 overs)	359
Fall of wickets:
1-34, 2-130, 3-221, 4-248, 5-256, 6-302, 7-303, 8-334, 9-341, 10-359 (140.2 ov)

Suffolk bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Creed	24	6	51	2	2	-
Mustard	18	2	48	0	-	-
Ireland	7	0	20	0	1	-
Bassett	41	16	69	4	-	-
FTD Wilson	45.2	12	88	4	-	-
Neave	3	0	7	0	-	-
Mortimer	2	1	11	0	-	-

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Cambridgeshire second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
F Roberson	b Mustard	0
*C Pigg	c FTD Wilson b Creed	0
+GH Watts	c Mustard b Creed	10
H Hayhoe	b FTD Wilson	52
LJ Reid	not out	50
HC Tebbutt	c Mortimer b FTD Wilson	11
KG Reid	not out	11
RS Swann-Mason	did not bat
B Gray	did not bat
OW Bocock	did not bat
H Coulson	did not bat
Extras	(? b, 0 lb, 1 nb, 0 w)	9
Total	(5 wickets, 40 overs)	143
Fall of wickets:
1-0, 2-4, 3-11, 4-106, 5-?

Suffolk bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Mustard	9	1	28	1	-	-
Creed	10	3	40	2	-	1
Ireland	10	2	34	0	-	-
Neave	4	1	10	0	-	-
FTD Wilson	7	2	22	2	-	-

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Notes
--> JH Creed made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> E Mortimer made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> EG Neave made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> H Hayhoe made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JH Creed made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> E Mortimer made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> EG Neave made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RS Swann-Mason made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> H Hayhoe made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JF Ireland (1) passed his previous highest score of 90 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JF Ireland (1) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JF Ireland (1) passed 500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 191
--> RS Swann-Mason (1) passed his previous highest score of 115 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RS Swann-Mason (1) passed 1500 runs in Minor Counties Championship matches when he reached 98
--> F Roberson (1) passed his previous highest score of 36 in Minor Counties Championship matches

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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.
Drawn return match with Suffolk winning on first innings. Cambridgeshire had followed on 157 runs behind on first innings. The match between the two sides at Bury St Edmunds earlier in the month had been won by Suffolk. For the visitors, there were 35 fours, 3 threes and 16 twos in Ireland's 221, scored in 160 minutes, and 16 fours in Mustard's 100, an innings of 80 minutes. Ireland's 221was the second highest individual score of the season. Bassett scored 54. Suffolk's 516-6 declared was the second highest score of the season. In the Suffolk innings, Ireland and H L Wilson added 148 runs for the fourth wicket and Ireland and Mustard 193 for the fifth. For the home side, Swann-Mason's 127 contained 10 fours, 6 threes and 16 twos and his innings lasted 4¾ hours. There were 7 fours in Roberson's 50, Hayhoe scored 52 and L J Reid 50 not out. The 65 extras conceded in the Cambridgeshire first innings were the highest of the season. In the home side's first innings, the 16 maidens bowled by Bassett was equal highest of the season, while the 45.2 overs bowled by F T D Wilson was the most in an innings. 619 runs were scored on the first day and 1,018 in the match, the second highest match aggregate of the season. The match was set aside for Watts's benefit. This was the first time the ground had been used as a venue for a championship match.
[Missing: Extras breakdown; in Suffolk innings, boundaries in Bassett's 54; in Cambridgeshire second innings boundaries in Hayhoe's 52 and L J Reid's 50 not out and fall of fifth wicket.]
Sources: Cambridge Daily News 17,18 August; Cambridge Express 21 August; Cambridge Independent Press 21 August; Cambridgeshire Weekly News 21 August; East Anglian Daily Times 18,19 August; Newmarket Journal 22 August; Eastern Daily Press 18,19 August; The Sportsman 18,19 August; Cricket 27 August, p 380.

 

 

 

 

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