The Minor Counties Championship 1903

38 MATCH NUMBER 15 : WILTSHIRE V DORSET At The Great Western Railway Cricket Club Ground, GWR Park, Swindon on Friday 26, Saturday 27 June 1903 Result: Wiltshire won by an innings and 140 runs Points: Wiltshire 3 Toss: Dorset Umpires: C Marshall and S Wrigley Debutants: Wiltshire 1 (R Brooks-King); Dorset 1 (J F A Barnard) First day score: Dorset 130; Wiltshire 173-6 wickets (W R R Smith 57*, T Smart 0*) Dorset R E Smart b Smith 8 ( ) lbw b T Smart 15 Hunt, H c Ellison b Smith 0 ( ) run out 2 P Crimmins not out 73 ( ) b Smith 8 F A S Sewell b Overton 25 ( ) b Smith 0 Battrick, G c Whitaker b Overton 0 ( ) b Smith 7 A K Gibson lbw b Smith 3 ( ) b Smith 0 H M Greenhill b Overton 4 ( ) c T Smart b Smith 11 J F A Barnard b T Smart 5 ( ) c Warrilow b Smith 0 R C James c Warrilow b T Smart 4 ( ) b T Smart 1 E B T Lee b T Smart 0 ( ) b T Smart 13 * + W H Manfield b T Smart 2 (11) not out 7 Extras 6 16 Total 130 80 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 26 93 93 110 119 130 Second innings 3 36 36 56 56 57 61 80 Smith 23 4 56 3 - - (1) 15 4 26 6 - - Overton 22 11 25 3 - - (3) 10 3 23 0 - - Smart, T 8.5 2 28 4 - - (2) 4.4 1 15 3 - - Miller 5 1 15 0 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 16 1 - - Total 58.5 18 130 10 - - 29.4 8 80 10 - - Wiltshire J E Stevens b Crimmins 21 Rev H R N Ellison b Hunt 31 E S Warrilow c Manfield b Crimmins 27 C G Bond run out 3 Smith, W R R c Lee b Greenhill 115 Newman, A W b Hunt 9 * A M Miller b Lee 1 Smart, T c and b Lee 70 E S Whitaker not out 16 Overton, W b Hunt 8 + R Brooks-King not out 5 Extras w 1 44 Total (9 wickets declared) 350 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 60 113 332 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Greenhill 29 7 69 1 1 - Sewell 12 1 57 0 - - Crimmins 16 4 49 2 - - Lee 24 6 43 2 - - Hunt 18 1 60 3 - - Battrick 11 3 20 0 - - James 2 0 8 0 - - Gibson 1 1 0 0 - - Extras - - 44 1 - - Total 113 23 350 9 1 0 Notes: Wiltshire won by an innings and 140 runs at 3.50 pm on the second day. The margin of victory was the third largest of the season. Dorset were dismissed in their second innings for 80 runs in just over an hour and a half. For the winners, Smith’s 115 included 7 fours, 5 threes and 21 twos and T Smart scored 70. Smith also took 9 wickets in the match for 82 runs and T Smart 7 for 43. The North Wilts Herald report indicates that in the Wiltshire innings Smith and Smart put on 130 runs for the seventh wicket. This was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season. For Dorset, Crimmins’s 73 not out contained 7 fours. Of those batsmen who scored a hundred runs, Smith’s all-round performance was the best of the season in terms of the number of wickets taken. The 44 extras conceded in the Wiltshire innings were the most during the season. When he had scored his first run in the Wiltshire innings, Smith reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Dorset second innings batting order; in Wiltshire innings duration of Smith’s 115, and boundaries in T Smart’s 70.] Sources: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 2 July; Evening North Wilts Herald 29 June; North Wilts Herald 3 July; Swindon Advertiser 26 June,3 July; Wiltshire Chronicle 4 July; Wiltshire Telegraph 4 July; Wiltshire Times 4 July; Bournemouth Daily Echo 29 June ; Dorset County Chronicle 2 July; The Sportsman 27,29 June.