The Minor Counties Championship 1901

53 MATCH NUMBER 30 : GLAMORGAN V DEVON At The Swansea Cricket Club Ground, St Helen’s, Swansea on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 July 1901 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 73 runs Points: Glamorgan +1, Devon -1 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: C Powell and A Stockwin Debutants: Glamorgan 1 (T A L Whittington); Devon 11 (Whole team) First day score: Glamorgan 239-7 wickets (R Lowe 16*, G E Cording 1*) Glamorgan Dr A W C Cameron b Roles 32 T A L Whittington st Clieve b Roles 18 A J Osborne c Higginbotham b Aston 17 Russell, W run out 69 * J H Brain c Martin b Roles 26 Bancroft, W J c and b Minto 50 + W H Brain b Minto 4 Lowe, R not out 43 G E Cording lbw b Roles 18 Creber, H c and b Minto 0 Lowe, S b Minto 0 Extras b 4, lb 2 6 Total 283 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 33 60 84 138 189 214 225 240 240 283 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Roles 33 7 113 4 - - Minto 13 4 49 4 - - Aston 12 2 30 1 - - Nichols 12 2 54 0 - - Ashford 7 1 31 0 - - Extras - - 6 1 - - Total 77 16 283 10 0 0 Devon ( Followed on) Capt C E Higginbotham b S Lowe 0 (4) c Bancroft b Russell 15 A Hingston c S Lowe b Cameron 30 (2) b S Lowe 7 Nichols, G B b Russell 24 (3) st W H Brain b Russell 17 L G Cruwys not out 28 (1) c W H Brain b Russell 9 Roles, - st W H Brain b Cameron 1 (5) b S Lowe 5 * J N Martin st W H Brain b Cameron 6 (6) b S Lowe 0 Jennings, D J c S Lowe b Cameron 0 (7) lbw b Russell 1 Minto, W J b Russell 14 (8) b S Lowe 1 Aston, H b Russell 2 (9) c Whittington b Creber 34 W Ashford c J H Brain b Russell 2 (10) run out 0 + J H Clieve c S Lowe b Cameron 2 (11) not out 5 Extras b 1, lb 2, w 1 4 b 2, lb 1 3 Total 113 97 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 49 67 71 79 79 100 104 106 113 Second innings 11 31 51 51 51 52 53 80 87 97 S Lowe 11 1 38 1 1 - (3) 11 6 17 4 - - Creber 5 1 22 0 - - (4) 3.3 1 15 1 - - Russell 18 11 14 4 - - (2) 14 6 27 4 - - Cameron 12.5 1 35 5 - - (1) 7 0 35 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 3 1 - - Total 46.5 14 113 10 1 0 35.3 13 97 10 0 0 Notes: The match marked Devon’s debut in the Championship. Glamorgan won by an innings on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. Around three hours of play were lost on the first day because of rain, including an early cessation at 4.50 pm. For Glamorgan, there were 11 fours in Russell’s 69 and 1 five and 7 fours in Bancroft’s 50. Russell also took 8 wickets in the match for 41 runs. At the start of play on the second day Cording had not arrived at the ground when play resumed, so Creber went out with R Lowe. Cording was allowed to continue his innings after the dismissal of Creber and S Lowe with the score at 240. When dismissing Cruwys in the Devon second innings, Russell reached the career milestone of one hundred wickets in championship matches. [An alternative version of this score, based on Glamorgan sources, gives in the Glamorgan innings Roles bowling 32.5 overs and 6 maidens and conceding 117 runs, and Nichols conceding 50 runs; and in the Devon second innings Russell conceding 26 runs and extras 2.] [Missing: Time completed; initials of Roles.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; South Wales Daily News 25,26 July; South Wales Echo 24,25 July; Western Mail 25,26 July; Western Daily Mercury 25,26 July; Western Morning News 25,26 July.