The Minor Counties Championship 1902

70 MATCH NUMBER 47 : DORSET V DEVON At The Sherborne School Ground, Horsecastles Lane, Sherborne on Tuesday 5, Wednesday 6 August 1902 Result: Devon won by an innings and 354 runs. Points: Devon 3 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset 2 (H E Forrester, Rev C Kindersley); Devon none First day score: Devon 533-7 wickets (H Aston 116*, H F Brunskill 8*) Devon A Hingston c - Sewell b Kindersley 178 * T C G Sandford c Blucke b Bowley 28 Light, W F lbw b Bowley 54 Rev E B Brutton b Bowley 0 J F Orchard b Kindersley 99 J H H Copleston b Kindersley 7 Aston, H not out 116 + Davies, T b F A S Sewell 21 H F Brunskill not out 8 Jennings, D J W Linnell Extras b 11, lb 6, w 4, nb 1 22 Total (7 wickets declared) 533 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 36 132 132 358 371 411 506 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - F A S Sewell 11 0 71 1 - - Bowley 34 1 138 3 - - Forrester 19 0 80 0 - - Battrick 23 2 100 0 - - Kindersley 18 1 81 3 - - Castleman 5 0 17 0 - - Budge 3 0 24 0 - - Extras - - 22 0 - - Total 113 4 533 7 4 1 Dorset (Followed on) C A S Sewell b Light 10 (1) b Light 2 W H Budge c Davies b Jennings 6 (2) b Linnell 14 J A Lush c Light b Jennings 0 (3) not out 30 Rev C Kindersley b Jennings 2 (4) b Light 28 F A S Sewell c and b Light 17 (5) c Jennings b Light 2 E W F Castleman c Davies b Light 0 (8) c and b Brunskill 0 H E Forrester b Light 12 (6) b Light 33 + Rev R S K Blucke b Light 0 (9) run out 0 Battrick, G b Jennings 7 (10) c Davies b Copleston 5 * W H Manfield b Light 0 (11) c Aston b Copleston 0 Bowley, T not out 0 (7) c Hingston b Brunskill 0 Extras b 4 4 b 3, lb 4 7 Total 58 121 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 10 12 18 18 47 47 55 55 58 Second innings 2 25 34 53 98 99 103 103 121 Light 20 13 21 6 - - (2) 33 23 28 4 - - Aston 3 1 6 0 - - (4) 7 3 8 0 - - Jennings 18 6 27 4 - - (1) 5 1 26 0 - - Linnell (3) 9 4 21 1 - - Brutton (5) 7 2 17 0 - - Sandford (6) 8 6 6 0 - - Brunskill (7) 8 4 8 2 - - Copleston (8) 4 4 0 2 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 7 1 - - Total 41 20 58 10 0 0 81 47 121 10 0 0 Notes: Devon won by an innings and 354 runs on the second day. It was their first win in the Championship. The margin was a new Championship record, exceeding the innings and 260 runs by which Northamptonshire beat Hertfordshire at Northampton in 1901. The Devon total of 533 for 7 wickets declared was the highest of the season and just 5 runs short of the existing record. For Devon, Hingston’s 178 was the highest individual innings of the season and included 8 fours, 15 threes and 27 twos. Aston scored 116 not out containing 12 fours, 5 threes and 17 twos, Orchard 99 with 5 fours, and Light 54 with 6 fours. Hingston and Orchard put on 226 for the Devon fourth wicket, which was the highest for the season and a new Championship record, exceeding the 205 added by M WWright and F H Mitchell for Buckinghamshire against Wiltshire at Trowbridge in 1899. Other large partnerships were 96 between Hingston and Light for the second wicket, which was the second highest of the season, and 95 for the seventh wicket between Aston and Davies, which was the highest for that wicket during the season. Light took 10 wickets in the match for 49 runs. The 23 maidens bowled by Light in the Dorset second innings were the second highest during the season, and the 36 maidens he bowled in the match were also the second highest. The 138 runs conceded by Bowley in the Devon innings were the second most during the season. Three Dorset players failed to score in either innings. [Missing: Umpires; in Devon inns which Sewell caught Hingston, duration of Hingston’s 178 and Aston’s 116 not out and who bowled 4 wides and 1 no ball; in Dorset 2 nd inns fall of ninth wicket; time completed.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Bridport News 8 August; Dorset County Chronicle 7 August; Dorchester Telegram 12 August; Dorset and Somerset Standard 7 August; Pulman’s Weekly News 12 August; Southern Times 9 August; Western Advertiser 7 August; Western Gazette 8 August; Weymouth Telegram 8 August; Western Daily Mercury 6,7 August; Western Morning News 6,7 August.