The Minor Counties Championship 1901

84 MATCH NUMBER 61 : OXFORDSHIRE V BERKSHIRE At The New College Ground, St Cross Road, Oxford on Friday 16, Saturday 17 August 1901 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Oxfordshire Umpires: H Coulson and R Humphrey Debutants: Oxfordshire 1 (F Smart); Berkshire 2 (Rev L G Brown, D Mercer) First day score: Oxfordshire 187; Berkshire 85-1 wicket (R A Williams 48*, W E C Hutchings 6*) Oxfordshire G Holloway c Barrett b C E Brown 5 (2) b Collins 49 + J WMarsh c Collins b C E Brown 23 (1) lbw b Williams 13 W Smith c Frith b C E Brown 19 (3) c C E Brown b L G Brown 98 J F Marsh c Gibb b Mercer 2 (4) not out 7 Rogers, P b Mercer 2 C E Ponsonby b Williams 16 T H K Moulder b Williams 31 Rogers, A b Williams 38 * C C Bradford c Gibb b Mercer 3 E K Twiss c Collins b Williams 29 Smart, F not out 13 Extras b 4, lb 1, w 1 6 w 1, nb 1 10 Total 187 (3 wickets) 177 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 48 51 51 59 98 103 121 187 Second innings 17 143 177 - - - - - - - Brown, C E 24 10 37 3 - - (2) 8 2 18 0 - - Barrett 5 2 8 0 - - (7) 4 0 29 0 - - Williams 18 2 59 4 1 - (1) 11 1 43 1 - 1 Mercer 22 5 70 3 - - (4) 2 0 10 0 - - Relf 4 0 7 0 - - (6) 5 1 11 0 - - Collins (3) 6 0 28 1 - - L G Brown (5) 7.2 1 28 1 1 - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 73 19 187 10 1 0 43.2 5 177 3 1 1 Berkshire L G A Collins b P Rogers 27 R A Williams b A Rogers 53 W E C Hutchings b P Rogers 11 * J A Gibb c J F Marsh b A Rogers 33 F M Ingram b A Rogers 3 Rev L G Brown b Smart 29 D Mercer b A Rogers 38 Barrett, H c P Rogers b Smart 1 Brown, C E b A Rogers 6 + C H Frith not out 25 Relf, R R b A Rogers 8 Extras b 28, lb 1 29 Total 263 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 64 102 146 208 216 216 255 263 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Rogers, P 37 10 71 2 - - Rogers, A 44.3 10 82 6 - - Twiss 11 3 30 0 - - Smart 15 7 24 2 - - Moulder 4 1 9 0 - - J F Marsh 3 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 29 0 - - Total 114.3 31 263 10 0 0 Notes: This return match was drawn, as had been the game between the two teams at Reading the previous week. It was played on what newspaper reports described as a slow wicket. For Berkshire, there were 3 fours in Williams’s 53. For Oxfordshire, Smith scored 98. in an innings of one hour and 45 minutes. He was out in the final over of the game, going for his century. In the Oxfordshire second innings Holloway and Smith put on 126 runs for the second wicket, which was the second highest partnership for this wicket during the season. [An alternative version of this score based on Berkshire sources for the Oxfordshire second innings has Smith c and b L G Brown.] [Missing: In Oxfordshire 1 st inns fall of ninth wicket; in Oxfordshire 2 nd inns boundaries in Smith’s 98, and extras breakdown; in Berkshire inns fall of third and fourth wickets.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 24 August; Reading Mercury 24 August; Reading Observer 24 August; Reading Standard 24 August; Jackson’s Oxford Journal 24 August; Oxford Chronicle 23 August; Oxford Times 24 August; The Sportsman 17,19 August.