The Minor Counties Championship 1902

52 MATCH NUMBER 29 : GLAMORGAN V SURREY 2 ND XI At The Swansea Cricket Club Ground, St Helen’s, Swansea on Monday 21, Tuesday 22 July 1902 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by seven wickets Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 3 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: Not known Debutants: Glamorgan none; Surrey 2 nd XI none First day score: Glamorgan 95 and 72; Surrey 2 nd XI 115 Glamorgan E W Jones b Nice 0 (1) b Smith 10 A J Osborne c Strudwick b Nice 19 (2) lbw b Montgomery 8 T A L Whittington b Smith 4 (3) c Gooder b Montgomery 0 * J H Brain c Strudwick b Smith 21 (4) b Gooder 28 + W H Brain b Smith 0 (5) lbw b Smith 0 Bancroft, W J c Strudwick b Smith 0 (6) c and b Barker 6 Russell, W b Nice 1 (7) c Gooder b Smith 10 S H Rees c Strudwick b Smith 6 (8) b Smith 6 Lowe, S b Nice 12 (9) b Gooder 3 Nash, A not out 12 (10) c Goatly b Smith 0 Creber, H lbw b Smith 7 (11) not out 0 Extras b 4 13 lb 1 1 Total 95 72 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 9 52 52 53 54 60 60 74 95 Second innings 12 18 18 18 43 63 72 Nice 20 7 36 4 - - Smith 19.5 5 45 6 - - (1) 13 5 19 5 - - Barker 1 0 1 0 - - (3) 3 0 14 1 - - Montgomery (2) 9 3 21 2 - - Gooder (4) 5.3 0 17 2 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 40.5 12 95 10 0 0 30.3 8 72 10 0 0 Surrey 2 nd XI Baker, A b Nash 0 (2) b Lowe 6 E Wiltshire b Nash 12 (1) not out 15 Moulder, J H b Creber 1 (4) c Bancroft b Lowe 9 Gooder, L M H b Nash 0 (3) b Lowe 0 Davis, W E c J H Brain b Nash 0 (5) not out 20 * K E M Barker lbw b Nash 2 Goatly, E G st W H Brain b Osborne 18 Nice, E H L b Nash 56 Smith, W C c Creber b Lowe 5 Montgomery, W b Lowe 9 + Strudwick, H not out 2 Extras nb 4 10 nb 1 5 Total 115 (3 wickets) 55 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 17 17 17 17 23 83 101 113 115 Second innings 14 14 26 - - - - - - - Lowe 4.1 1 7 2 - - (2) 6.2 1 27 3 - 1 Creber 11 4 21 1 - - (3) 2 0 6 0 - - Russell 8 3 20 0 - - Nash 12 4 42 6 - 4 (1) 5 1 17 0 - - Osborne 5 1 15 1 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 40.1 13 115 10 0 4 13.2 2 55 3 0 1 Notes: Surrey 2 nd XI won this return match by 7 wickets at around 12.30 pm on the second day. Surrey had also won when the teams met at The Oval in June. For the winners, Smith took 11 wickets in the match for 64 runs. There were 8 fours in Nice’s 56. In the Surrey first innings, Goatly and Nice put on 60 runs for the seventh wicket. For Glamorgan, J H Brain top-scored with 28. The 4 catches held by Strudwick in the Glamorgan first innings were the most by a wicket-keeper during the season, and equalled the Championship record achieved on 8 previous occasions, including once by Strudwick himself. The match was completed in drizzle on the morning of the second day in order to allow the Surrey team to catch an early train to Weymouth for their next match with Dorset. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Glamorgan 2 nd inns fall of seventh to ninth wickets.] Sources: Cambria Daily Leader 21,22 July; The Cambrian 25 July; South Wales Daily News 22,23 July; South Wales Echo 21,22 July; Western Mail 22,23 July; Surrey Year Book 1902, p 125.