The Minor Counties Championship 1903

42 MATCH NUMBER 19 : GLAMORGAN V BERKSHIRE At The Swansea Cricket Club Ground, St Helen’s, Swansea on Wednesday 8, Thursday 9 July 1903 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 327 runs Points: Glamorgan 3 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: Not known Debutants: Glamorgan none; Berkshire 2 (F G Strange, G J Wheble) First day score: Glamorgan 489; Berkshire 60-6 wickets (C E Brown 11*, F G Strange 4*) Glamorgan * J H Brain c Watts b Hutson 5 N V H Riches c and b Barker 0 E W Jones b Relf 152 + W H Brain c Relf b Cave 22 Bancroft, W J c Watts b Croom 207 S H Rees c Watts b Barker 41 Russell, W b Barker 7 A J Osborne c Barker b Cave 26 A Gibson not out 3 Creber, H st Watts b Croom 6 Nash, A b Croom 0 Extras 20 Total 489 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 13 49 272 377 395 489 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 30 3 120 3 - - Hutson 13 2 70 1 - - Cave 21 2 85 2 - - Relf 17 2 65 1 - - Brown 13 2 46 0 - - Barrett 4 0 22 0 - - Croom 10.4 0 61 3 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - Total 108.4 11 489 10 - - Berkshire (Followed on) Barrett, H c W H Brain b Creber 5 (3) lbw b Nash 5 Relf, R R c Russell b Creber 2 (7) st W H Brain b Creber 8 Cave, W b Nash 1 (5) b Nash 4 * Capt H W Hutson b Nash 10 (4) c Bancroft b Creber 28 A P Strange st W H Brain b Creber 22 (1) lbw b Nash 0 + Watts, E c and b Nash 0 (6) b Nash 22 Brown, C E b Nash 11 (8) b Nash 0 F G Strange not out 4 (2) c Riches b Creber 3 Croom, A B c substitute b Nash 2 (9) not out 11 G J Wheble b Nash 0 (10) b Creber 11 Barker, W b Nash 2 (11) b Creber 0 Extras 5 w 2 6 Total 64 98 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 8 8 28 28 52 60 62 62 64 Second innings 0 9 10 16 55 63 63 96 98 Creber 16 6 27 3 - - (1) 21 6 47 5 2 - Nash 15.2 4 32 7 - - (2) 20.1 7 45 5 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 31.2 10 64 10 - - 41.1 13 98 10 2 0 Notes: Glamorgan’s margin of victory by an innings and 327 runs was the largest of the season. The match ended at 1.35 pm on the second day. For the winners, their total of 489 was the highest score of the season. Similarly, Bancroft’s 207 was the highest individual innings of the season and included amongst others 1 five and 10 threes. His 207 runs was also the highest runs aggregate by a batsman in a match during the season. Jones’s 152 contained 22 fours, 3 threes and 9 twos. He reached his century in 87 minutes. In the Glamorgan innings, Jones and Bancroft put on 223 runs for the fourth wicket. It was the highest partnership for that wicket during the season and was just 4 runs short of breaking the Championship record. Bancroft and Rees added 105 for the fifth wicket. Nash and Creber bowled unchanged through both Berkshire innings. Nash took 12 wickets in the match for 77 runs, including 7 for 32 in the Berkshire first innings. The 120 runs conceded by Barker in the Glamorgan innings were the highest in an innings all season. The Glamorgan lunch score on the first day was 223 for 3 wickets with Jones 126* and Bancroft 61*. On the first day a total of 549 runs were scored, the second highest number during the season. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Glamorgan innings duration and fours and twos in Bancroft’s 207, duration of Jones’s 152, and fall of seventh, eighth and ninth wickets; in Berkshire first innings who held substitute catch; in Berkshire second innings fall of eighth wicket.] Sources: Cambria Daily Leader 8,9 July; The Cambrian 10 July; South Wales Daily News 9,10 July; South Wales Daily Post 8,9 July; South Wales Echo 8,9 July; Western Mail 9,10 July; Berkshire Chronicle 11 July; Reading Mercury 11 July; The Sportsman 9,10 July.