The Minor Counties Championship 1902

46 MATCH NUMBER 23 : GLAMORGAN V BERKSHIRE At The Cardiff Cricket Club Ground, The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 July 1902 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 10 runs Points: Glamorgan 3 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: A Luff and T Hanson Debutants: Glamorgan none; Berkshire 1 (E J Wickens) First day score: Glamorgan 352; Berkshire 84-5 wickets (J A Gibb 52*, H Barrett 0*) Glamorgan A J Osborne c Gibb b Barker 7 N V H Riches c Barrett b Barker 0 T A L Whittington b Barker 16 * J H Brain c Brown b Relf 107 + W H Brain b Barker 10 Bancroft, W J c Wickens b Cave 53 Russell, W b Barker 82 P F Bush b Cave 1 Nash, A b Barker 18 Creber, H c Henderson b Relf 6 Lowe, S not out 35 Extras b 9, lb 8 17 Total 352 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 11 42 58 169 207 220 253 282 352 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Cave 29 7 87 2 - - Barker 34.2 5 142 6 - - Relf 15 0 57 2 - - Brown 9 0 29 0 - - Barrett 4 0 20 0 - - Extras - - 17 0 - - Total 91.2 12 352 10 0 0 Berkshire (Followed on) C E M Y Nepean b Lowe 9 (2) b Russell 5 Brown, C E c J H Brain b Nash 13 (6) b Nash 14 * J A Gibb c W H Brain b Lowe 85 (3) b Russell 59 + A Henderson c Riches b Lowe 9 (4) b Lowe 16 Watts, E c Bancroft b Lowe 1 (5) c Nash b Creber 29 E J Wickens b Lowe 0 (9) b Russell 8 Barrett, H lbw b Nash 21 (1) b Creber 35 Relf, R R c Riches b Lowe 0 (8) b Nash 5 Cave, W c Russell b Nash 6 (7) b Lowe 1 Barker, W b Russell 1 (10) not out 4 Croom, A B not out 0 (11) st W H Brain b Riches 7 Extras 0 w 1 14 Total 145 197 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 13 48 72 82 82 122 122 143 144 145 Second innings 12 95 110 148 152 157 180 197 Lowe 24 4 68 6 - - (5) 15 7 32 2 - - Creber 11 1 31 0 - - (4) 19 10 22 2 1 - Nash 14.1 2 44 3 - - (2) 16 5 39 2 - - Russell 3 2 2 1 - - (1) 29 8 71 3 - - Osborne (3) 7 3 18 0 - - Riches (6) 1 0 1 1 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 52.1 9 145 10 0 0 87 33 197 10 1 0 Notes: Glamorgan won by an innings at 4.50 pm on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. For the winners, J H Brain scored 107, which contained 14 fours, 4 threes and 10 twos, Russell 82 and Bancroft 53. In the Glamorgan innings, J H Brain and Bancroft added 111 for the fifth wicket and Russell and Lowe 70 for the tenth wicket, which was the joint highest partnership for that wicket during the season. The 142 runs conceded by Barker were the most during the season in an individual innings. For Berkshire, Gibb’s two innings of 85 and 59 contained 11 fours and 9 fours respectively. [An alternative version has for the first day score Berkshire scoring 82 for 5 wickets with Barrett not batting, and in the Glamorgan innings Barker conceding 133 runs and Barrett 29 runs.] [Missing: In Glamorgan inns duration of J H Brain’s 107, boundaries in Russell’s 82 and Bancroft’s 53; in Berkshire second inns extras breakdown, and fall of seventh and ninth wickets.] Sources: South Wales Daily News 17,18 July; South Wales Echo 16,17 July; Western Mail 17,18 July; Reading Mercury 19 July; Reading Standard 19 July; The Sportsman 17,18 July.