The Minor Counties Championship 1901

85 MATCH NUMBER 62 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V BERKSHIRE At The County Ground, Wendover Road, Aylesbury on Monday 19, Tuesday 20 August 1901 Result: Buckinghamshire won by an innings and 9 runs Points: Buckinghamshire +1, Berkshire -1 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: W Brown and F Gladwin Debutants: Buckinghamshire none; Berkshire 1 (G V Goodliffe) First day score: Berkshire 142; Buckinghamshire 186-5 wickets (M WWright 49*, H J Bird 9*) Berkshire L G A Collins b Keen 17 (2) c Page b Wright 15 R A Williams b Page 14 (1) c Cobb b Wright 0 + A Henderson hit wicket b Wright 11 (3) b Page 7 * J A Gibb b Wright 24 (4) b Wright 20 F M Ingram b Wright 19 (5) b Keen 9 D Mercer run out 6 (6) c Shaw b Wright 39 Brown, C E run out 6 (7) c and b Wright 3 Watts, E c Cobb b Wright 0 (8) c Page b Wright 0 C H Frith c and b Wright 23 (9) lbw b Keen 11 Croom, A B not out 6 (10) c Langley b Wright 6 G V Goodliffe b Wright 4 (11) not out 5 Extras b 12 12 b 4 4 Total 142 119 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 35 46 58 83 102 103 105 113 138 142 Second innings 0 21 39 48 64 71 71 94 114 119 Wright 38.4 16 47 6 - - (1) 25.2 9 39 7 - - Page 19 7 38 1 - - (2) 11 3 37 1 - - Keen 13 2 36 1 - - (3) 14 4 39 2 - - Kentish 6 3 9 0 - - Extras - - 12 2 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 76.4 28 142 10 0 0 50.2 16 119 10 0 0 Buckinghamshire Rev E D Shaw c Williams b Goodliffe 38 * + C E Cobb c Collins b Williams 44 F N Bird c Mercer b Collins 4 Wright, M W not out 102 Langley, F c Gibb b Mercer 20 Boddy, E S c Brown b Goodliffe 6 H J Bird b Collins 27 T Stacey c Ingram b Collins 4 Kentish, G b Collins 6 Page, H b Collins 1 A W Keen run out 0 Extras b 8, lb 5, w 5 18 Total 270 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 63 81 87 130 147 235 239 260 264 270 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Williams 15 3 59 1 4 - Brown 18 1 61 0 - - Goodliffe 13 3 36 2 - - Collins 18 6 41 5 - - Mercer 9 3 29 1 - - Croom 2 0 3 0 - - Gibb 2 0 10 0 - - Ingram 2 1 13 0 1 - Extras - - 18 1 - - Total 79 17 270 10 5 0 Notes: Buckinghamshire won by an innings and 9 runs at 3.35 pm on the second day. For the winners, Wright batted 210 minutes in scoring 102 not out, including 1 five, 9 fours, and 6 threes, and took 13 wickets in the match for 86 runs. Wright’s all-round performance, on the basis used in the statistical survey, was the third best of the season. [Missing: In Buckinghamshire inns twos in Wright’s 102*] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 24 August; Bucks Herald 24 August; South Bucks Free Press 23 August; Berkshire Chronicle 24 August; Reading Mercury 24 August; Reading Observer 24 August; Reading Standard 24 August; The Sportsman 20,21 August.