The MInor Counties Championship 1900

45 MATCH NUMBER 26 : GLAMORGAN V BERKSHIRE At The Arms Park, Westgate Street,Cardiff on Monday 30, Tuesday 31 July 1900 Result: Glamorgan won by 48 runs Points: Glamorgan 1, Berkshire -1 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: D Gwynn and J Relf Debutants: Glamorgan 2 (G E Cording, D Mullens); Berkshire 4 (C E Brown, H Edwards, J C McCarthy, A S Todd) First day score: Glamorgan 179 and 25 for no wicket (G E Cording 12*, H Creber 13*); Berkshire 157 Glamorgan G E Cording b Brown 28 (1) b Brown 58 E W Jones c Watts b Williams 1 (3) lbw b Brown 8 Russell, W c McCarthy b Brown 36 (4) b Brown 22 H E Morgan st Edwards b Barker 2 (5) b Brown 0 * J H Brain c Watts b Williams 38 (6) c Edwards b Morres 14 Bancroft, W J b Brown 8 (7) b Brown 10 + W H Brain b Brown 25 (8) b Brown 0 Lowe, R lbw b Brown 25 (9) b Brown 0 R A Rooney b Elphick 6 (10) not out 30 Creber, H not out 0 (2) b Brown 13 D Mullens b Elphick 1 (11) c Gibb b Brown 6 Extras 9 13 Total 179 174 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 66 70 80 99 129 163 176 178 179 Second innings 25 41 89 91 112 129 129 129 152 174 Williams 18 4 71 2 - - (2) 6 0 42 0 - - Barker 18 6 41 1 - - (3) 6 1 16 0 - - Brown 22 6 51 5 - - (1) 29 11 50 9 - - Elphick 2.1 0 7 2 - - (5) 8 1 23 0 - - Morres (4) 8 0 30 1 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 60.1 16 179 10 - - 57 13 174 10 - - Berkshire E R Morres c Bancroft b Mullens 39 (1) b Lowe 12 R A Williams lbw b Lowe 38 (2) st W H Brain b Lowe 31 Watts, E c Bancroft b Lowe 0 (7) not out 51 Brown, C E st W H Brain b Creber 31 (4) b Creber 0 * J A Gibb c and b Lowe 16 (3) c Russell b Creber 19 James, A E st W H Brain b Creber 10 (6) c Bancroft b Lowe 6 A S Todd st W H Brain b Russell 12 (5) b Lowe 0 McCarthy, J C c Cording b Creber 0 (10) b Russell 11 Elphick, C D c Cording b Lowe 5 (8) c Morgan b Creber 10 Barker, W c Cording b Creber 1 (9) b Creber 0 + Edwards, H not out 0 (11) c Jones b Creber 7 Extras w 1 5 1 Total 157 148 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 62 62 96 120 126 144 144 149 157 157 Second innings 35 62 62 62 62 68 105 106 125 148 Creber 23 8 58 4 1 - (1) 26 5 65 5 - - Russell 8 2 27 1 - - (3) 9 3 19 1 - - Lowe 18 4 45 4 - - (2) 16 3 63 4 - - Mullens 4 0 22 1 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 53 14 157 10 1 0 51 11 148 10 - - Notes: Glamorgan won this match at 4.35 pm on the second day. For the winners, Cordingís 58 included 9 fours and Creber took 9 wickets in the match for 123 runs. The 3 stumpings in the Berkshire first innings by W H Brain equalled the highest in an innings during the season, and his 4 stumpings in the match were the most in the year. Both feats equalled Championship records, the former achieved on seven previous occasions, and the latter on five. For the visitors, Brown on his debut took 14 wickets in the match for 101 runs, including 9 for 50 in the Glamorgan second innings. His match bowling analysis was statistically the second best match bowling performance of the season, and his 9 for 50 was statistically the third best innings bowling analysis of the year. He also took the ëhat-trickí in the Glamorgan second innings, with the victims being Bancroft, W H Brain and Lowe. When Bancroft had scored 10 in the Glamorgan second innings, he reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Berkshire 2 nd inns boundaries in Wattsís 51 not out..] Sources: South Wales Daily News 31 July, 1 August; South Wales Echo 30,31 July; Western Mail 31 July, 1 August; Berkshire Chronicle 4 August; Reading Standard 4 August; The Sportsman 31 July, 1 August.