The Minor Counties Championship 1903

43 MATCH NUMBER 20 : MONMOUTHSHIRE V BERKSHIRE At The Newport Cricket Club Ground, The Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport on Friday 10, Saturday 11 July 1903 Result: Monmouthshire won by ten wickets Points: Monmouthshire 3 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: C Hughes and C Marshall Debutants: Monmouthshire 1 (W A Williams); Berkshire none First day score: Berkshire 154; Monmouthshire 187 Berkshire Croom, A B c E S Phillips b Steeples 7 (2) c Steeples b Silverlock 16 A P Strange c Rees b Steeples 4 (1) c Mayes b Steeples 0 Barrett, H b Steeples 3 (3) b Steeples 0 * Capt H W Hutson b Stedman 12 (4) b Steeples 0 + Watts, E b Stedman 47 (5) c and b Steeples 27 Cave, W c Williams b Steeples 1 (6) st Mayes b Silverlock 3 Relf, R R lbw b Williams 40 (7) b Steeples 0 Brown, C E b Steeples 0 (8) lbw b Stedman 23 G F Strange not out 16 (9) c Silverlock b Steeples 0 G J Wheble b Williams 0 (10) c E S Phillips b Silverlock 0 Barker, W c Williams b Steeples 5 (11) not out 15 Extras 19 6 Total 154 90 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 18 19 57 68 84 154 Second innings 1 1 1 33 34 39 55 55 56 90 Steeples 29.4 10 61 6 - - (1) 13 3 40 6 - - Silverlock 15 1 30 0 - - (2) 13 2 35 3 - - Stedman 11 2 32 2 - - (3) 2.3 1 6 1 - - Williams 4 2 12 2 - - (4) 3 1 3 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 59.4 15 154 10 - - 31.3 7 90 10 - - Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c Watts b Cave 10 (2) not out 36 E S Phillips st Watts b Hutson 23 (1) not out 19 F Rees c Watts b Barker 82 J R Rowlands b Hutson 5 A J Gould c and b Hutson 12 M Stratton c Relf b Barker 8 P C Phillips b Barker 14 * L F Stedman c and b Cave 6 W A Williams b Cave 8 Steeples, R not out 5 + Mayes, T b Cave 0 Extras nb 1 14 nb 1 4 Total 187 (no wicket) 59 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 187 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Cave 21.4 5 69 4 - - (2) 5 0 20 0 - - Barker 21 6 59 3 - 1 (1) 5 0 29 0 - 1 Relf 5 1 12 0 - - Hutson 9 0 33 3 - - (3) 4 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 56.4 12 187 10 0 1 14 0 59 0 0 1 Notes: Monmouthshire won by 10 wickets at 2.35 pm on the second day. For Monmouthshire, Steeples took 12 wickets in the match for 101 runs, including taking 3 wickets in 5 balls in his second over in the Berkshire second innings. His victims were A P Strange, Barratt and Hutson. Rees’s 82 was the only score over fifty. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Monmouthshire first innings boundaries in Rees’s 82.] Sources: County Observer and Monmouthshire Advertiser 18 July; South Wales Argus 10,11 July; South Wales Daily News 11,13 July; Star of Gwent 17 July; Western Mail 11,13 July; Reading Observer 18 July; Reading Standard 17 July; The Sportsman 11,13 July.