The Minor Counties Championship 1903

30 MATCH NUMBER 7 : GLAMORGAN V MONMOUTHSHIRE At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 [no play] June 1903 Result: Match drawn – Glamorgan won on first innings Points: Glamorgan 1 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: C Hughes and B W Mason Debutants: Glamorgan 1 (W L Lewis); Monmouthshire 3 (F W Barnes, J R Williams, O Williams) First day score: As match – rain prevented play on second day Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c J H Brain b Nash 6 F W Barnes c W H Brain b Creber 11 F Rees c W H Brain b Creber 41 P C Phillips c Jones b Nash 4 M Stratton b Nash 8 S H Williams c Gibson b Russell 5 * L F Stedman st W H Brain b Creber 0 J R Williams b Russell 1 O Williams run out 0 + Mayes, T c Russell b Creber 0 Steeples, R not out 0 Extras 1 Total 77 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 23 36 55 72 76 77 77 77 77 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Creber 20 7 31 4 - - Nash 25 12 30 3 - - Russell 10.1 5 15 2 - - Extras - - 1 1 - - Total 55.1 24 77 10 - - Glamorgan H E Morgan b Silverlock 12 N V H Riches c Rees b Steeples 20 E W Jones b Silverlock 65 * J H Brain not out 78 Bancroft, W J not out 4 + W H Brain Creber, H A Gibson W L Lewis Nash, A Russell, W Extras 4 Total (3 wickets) 183 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 27 36 169 - - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Silverlock 25 10 75 2 - - Steeples 12.4 3 35 1 - - Stedman 7 1 27 0 - - S H Williams 3 0 20 0 - - Phillips 2 0 22 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - Total 49.4 14 183 3 - - Notes: Rain delayed the start for two hours on the opening day and washed out play completely on the second, with the game being abandoned at 1.00 pm. For Glamorgan, J H Brain top scored with 78 not out. There were 9 fours in Jones’s 65. In the Glamorgan innings, they put on 133 runs for the third wicket, which was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. For Monmouthshire, Rees made the highest score with 41, containing 4 fours. No details of the Monmouthshire bowling analysis have been found in the sources listed. The analysis has been derived from the Monmouthshire Averages in Wisden, which include the friendly match against the MCC. In the case of Silverlock, the number of overs have had to be adjusted downwards from 41.3 to 25 to equate with the total number of overs bowled in the innings. [Missing: Extras breakdown; in Glamorgan innings boundaries in J H Brain’s 78* and the full bowling analysis which has not been found in any of the sources listed.] Sources: South Wales Daily News 11,12 June; Western Mail 11,12 June; Newport and Monmouthshire Evening Telegraph 10,11 June; South Wales Argus 10 June; The Sportsman 11 June.