The Minor Counties Championship 1901

92 MATCH NUMBER 69 : GLAMORGAN V BERKSHIRE At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Friday 23, Saturday 24 August 1901 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 172 runs Points: Glamorgan +1, Berkshire -1 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: W A Woof and S Wrigley Debutants: Glamorgan none; Berkshire none First day score: Glamorgan 358; Berkshire 54-7 wickets (A C M Croome 4*) Glamorgan H E Morgan c Henderson b Collins 42 A J Osborne lbw b Croome 16 E W Jones b Croom 82 * J H Brain c Henderson b Collins 1 Bancroft, W J c Henderson b Croome 1 + W H Brain c Croom b Croome 101 Dr A W C Cameron b Croome 8 Russell, W c Collins b Relf 37 Lowe, R c Goodliffe b Relf 2 Creber, H not out 17 Lowe, S c and b Croome 33 Extras w 1 18 Total 358 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 45 73 83 88 205 237 295 305 306 358 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Croome 42.2 5 169 5 1 - Relf 18 3 47 2 - - Collins 20 4 75 2 - - Brown 4 1 9 0 - - Croom 6 2 14 1 - - Mercer 2 0 8 0 - - Goodliffe 4 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - Total 96.2 15 358 10 1 - Berkshire (Followed on) * J A Gibb b S Lowe 3 (3) lbw b Russell 52 D Mercer b Creber 3 (4) b Russell 4 + A Henderson c J H Brain b Creber 3 (5) b Russell 6 L G A Collins st W H Brain b Creber 24 (2) b Russell 19 Watts, E b S Lowe 9 (6) c Morgan b Creber 4 A C M Croome c W H Brain b S Lowe 15 (1) c W H Brain b Creber 9 C H Frith b S Lowe 6 absent - Brown,C E b Cameron 0 (7) b Creber 0 G V Goodliffe b S Lowe 13 (9) c Cameron b Creber 5 Croom, A B b S Lowe 1 (8) b Russell 3 Relf, R R not out 0 (10) not out 2 Extras w 2 3 2 Total 80 106 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 8 25 40 44 51 54 72 77 80 Second innings 17 51 77 96 96 96 96 104 106 - S Lowe 22.5 10 36 6 - - (1) 9 0 39 0 - - Creber 14 3 27 3 2 - (2) 24.3 12 45 4 - - Cameron 8 3 14 1 - - Russell (3) 16 6 20 5 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 44.5 16 80 10 2 - 49.3 18 106 9 - - Notes: Glamorgan won this return match at 3.15 pm after enforcing the follow-on. The match earlier in the month at Reading had been drawn. W H Brain was dismissed with his score on 97, but an umpire error in awarding 4 leg byes was reversed in his favour. For Glamorgan W H Brain’s 101, an innings of 135 minutes, included 16 fours, 3 threes and 6 twos, and Jones’s 82 contained 6 fours. In the home team’s innings, Jones and W H Brain put on 117 runs for the fifth wicket, which was the second highest for that wicket during the season, W H Brain and Russell 58 for the seventh wicket, and Creber and S Lowe 52 for the tenth. The 169 runs conceded by Croome in the Glamorgan innings were the most by a bowler during the season. For the visitors, Gibb’s 52 contained 9 fours. The Berkshire second innings total of 106 was the lowest containing an individual fifty. When he had scored 38 in the Glamorgan innings, W H Brain reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. In the Berkshire second innings when dismissing Goodliffe, Creber reached the career milestone of two hundred wickets in championship matches. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Berkshire 2 nd inns why Frith absent?] Sources: South Wales Daily News 24,26 August; South Wales Echo 23,24 August; Western Mail 24,26 August; Berkshire Chronicle 31 August; The Sportsman 24,26 August.