The Minor Counties Championship 1902

127 GLAMORGAN 1902 Championship matches: Played 10. won 5, lost 4, drawn 1 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings none, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Fourth out of sixteen Won: v Wiltshire at Cardiff, v Berkshire at Cardiff, v Devon at Cardiff, v Monmouthshire at Swansea, and v Devon at Exeter Lost: v Surrey 2 nd XI at The Oval, v Wiltshire at Trowbridge, v Surrey 2 nd XI at Swansea, and v Berkshire at Reading Drawn – won on first innings: none Drawn – lost on first innings: none Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Monmouthshire at Newport. Captain: J H Brain (10 matches) Wicket-keepers: W H Brain (10 matches) Debutants: 6 (R A Gibbs, A Gibson, R H Johnson, A Nash, T Preece and E R Sweet-Escott) Final season: 1 (S Lowe) Hon Secretary: J H Brain Professionals: 6 (W J Bancroft, H Creber, S Lowe, A Nash, T Preece and W Russell) Home grounds 2: The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff (3 matches); and Swansea Cricket Club, St Helen’s, Swansea (2 matches). Notes: Glamorgan rose one place in the Championship from equal fifth in 1901 to fourth. The same opponents were met as in the previous year. Career milestones passed during the season were two thousand runs by J H Brain, one thousand runs by both W Russell and H E Morgan, and two hundred wickets by S Lowe. GLAMORGAN MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1902 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 6 players who made their Championship debut for Glamorgan during the season. Name in bold denote that 1902 was the last or only season that the player appeared for Glamorgan in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Bancroft, W J 10 17 0 53 158 9.29 - 1 5 6 - 2 0 14 0 - - - - J H Brain 10 18 0 107 470 26.11 1 3 2 5 - - - - - - - - - W H Brain 10 17 1 57* 237 14.81 - 1 2 9 8 - - - - - - - - P F Bush 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr A W C Cameron 2 3 0 7 16 5.33 - - - 1 - 1 0 8 0 - - - - J G Clark 1 2 0 13 15 7.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Creber, H 10 15 7 11* 76 9.50 - - 1 3 - 340.3 96 846 47 18.00 5-45 - 4 R A Gibbs + 1 2 0 5 6 3.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - A Gibson + 4 8 1 27 75 10.71 - - - 1 - 2 0 12 0 - - - - R H Johnson + 1 2 0 10 10 5.00 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - E W Jones 3 5 0 35 74 14.80 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Lowe, S 10 15 6 35* 82 9.11 - - 4 7 - 217 75 564 42 13.42 6-68 - 1 H E Morgan 5 10 1 94 277 30.77 - 2 - 6 - - - - - - - - - Nash, A + 9 15 3 20 111 9.25 - - 3 7 - 240.1 86 531 38 13.97 6-42 - 4 A J Osborne 9 16 1 28 181 12.06 - - 1 4 - 51 16 158 11 14.36 5-21 - 1 Preece, T + 1 2 0 7 12 6.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - S H Rees 4 7 0 32 57 8.14 - - 1 4 - - - - - - - - - N V H Riches 3 5 0 54 66 13.20 - 1 2 3 - 1 0 1 1 1.00 1-1 - - Russell, W 10 18 1 82 271 15.94 - 1 1 12 - 158 57 328 19 17.26 4-33 - - E R Sweet-Escott + 1 1 1 5* 5 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - T A L Whittington 5 8 0 43 144 18.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 177 - - - - - - - - 119 4 - - - - Total 110 187 22 107 2521 15.27 1 9 25 72 8 1012.4 330 2581 162 15.93 6-42 0 10 (21 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES This player made his last appearance for Glamorgan in the Championship in 1902. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Lowe, S 1897 51 68 22 35* 450 9.78 - - 15 32 - 7698 3550 238 14.91 8-37 7 19 (1 player)