The Minor Counties Championship 1901

31 MATCH NUMBER 8 : SURREY 2 ND XI V GLAMORGAN At The Oval, Kennington, London on Wednesday 12, Thursday 13 June 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: Not known Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI 1 (H S Bush); Glamorgan 1 (A J Osborne) First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 268-5 wickets (K E M Barker 6*) Surrey 2 nd XI Baker, A c Morgan b S Lowe 67 ( ) c and b S Lowe 0 Goatly, E G b Russell 34 ( ) not out 13 Holland, F C st W H Brain b Creber 62 (3) c and b S Lowe 15 H S Bush b S Lowe 77 (2) lbw b S Lowe 59 Penfold, R F c Bancroft b Cameron 10 ( ) c W H Brain b Osborne 11 * K E M Barker not out 6 ( ) not out 25 Kersley, T (1) c W H Brain b S Lowe 2 Montgomery, W (4) b S Lowe 0 Smith, W C (5) b S Lowe 0 Nice, E H L + Strudwick, H Extras b 10, lb 1, nb 1 12 b 2, lb 2 4 Total (5 wickets declared) 268 (7 wickets declared) 129 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 74 145 230 251 268 - - - - - Second innings 3 41 41 41 - - - Cameron 12 0 46 1 - - (3) 6 0 20 0 - - S Lowe 23 8 79 2 - - (1) 20 4 50 6 - - Creber 35 12 72 1 - 1 (2) 12 2 33 0 - - Russell 20 10 49 1 - - (5) 2 0 8 0 - - Morgan 3 1 10 0 - - Osborne (4) 4 0 14 1 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - 4 0 - - Total 93 31 268 5 0 1 44 6 129 7 0 0 Glamorgan Dr A W C Cameron b Smith 0 (3) c Baker b Smith 12 A J Osborne b Smith 4 (1) b Kersley 4 Russell, W b Smith 0 (2) lbw b Kersley 0 * J H Brain c Bush b Smith 58 (4) b Smith 10 W Morgan c Holland b Kersley 13 Bancroft, W J c Montgomery b Nice 55 + W H Brain c Smith b Kersley 24 (5) not out 22 Lowe, R b Smith 7 G E Cording run out 16 (6) not out 26 Creber, H c Strudwick b Kersley 0 Lowe, S not out 1 Extras b 3, w 1 4 lb 7, w 1 8 Total 182 (4 wickets) 82 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 0 11 30 130 148 160 182 Second innings 0 - - - - - - Smith 21.3 5 67 5 - - (1) 11 3 32 2 - - Kersley 19 7 40 3 - - (2) 11 2 25 2 - - Montgomery 7 1 23 0 1 - Nice 9 0 48 1 - - (3) 3 0 9 0 1 - Holland (4) 2 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 4 1 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 56.3 13 182 10 1 0 27 5 82 4 1 0 Notes: This match was drawn, after the Surrey 2 nd XI declaration set Glamorgan a victory target of 216 runs in under an hour and a half. There were three interruptions from rain on the first day, with 2½ hours of play lost. For Surrey 2 nd XI, Bush played two innings of 77 and 59. Baker’s 67 included 2 fives and 7 fours, and Holland’s 62 contained 11 fours. For Glamorgan, J H Brain’s 58 included 6 fours and Bancroft’s 55 contained 10 fours. In the Glamorgan first innings they put on 100 runs for the fifth wicket. S Lowe performed the ‘hat-trick’ in the Surrey second innings, his victims being Holland, Montgomery and Smith. During the match, two batsmen passed the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches – Baker in the Surrey first innings when he had scored 16, and R Lowe when he scored his first run in the Glamorgan first innings. Baker was the first Surrey batsman to achieve this feat, while Lowe was the third to do so for Glamorgan after W J Bancroft and J H Brain. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; in Surrey 1 st inns boundaries in Bush’s 77; in Surrey 2 nd inns boundaries in Bush’s 59, and part batting order.] Sources: Surrey Year Book 1901, p 120; South Wales Daily News 13,14 June; Western Mail 13,14 June; Sporting Life 13,14 June; The Sportsman 13,14 June.