The Minor Counties Championship 1903

56 MATCH NUMBER 33 : MONMOUTHSHIRE V DEVON At The Newport Cricket Club Ground, The Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport on Friday 24, Saturday 25 July 1903 Result: Monmouthshire won by an innings and 42 runs Points: Monmouthshire 3 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: A G Eldridge and [not known] Debutants: Monmouthshire 2 (J E Armstrong, F G Phillips); Devon none First day score: Monmouthshire 231; Devon 53 and 121-6 wickets (W H Aston 25*, R B Rickman 1*) Monmouthshire E S Phillips c Davies b Harris 18 Silverlock, A J b Rickman 80 F Rees c and b Light 17 J E Armstrong b Harris 1 N C Phillips b Light 2 F G Phillips b Aston 45 A J R Butler b Rickman 2 W A Williams b Rickman 41 * L F Stedman c Cruwys b Rickman 13 Steeples, R not out 6 + Mayes, T c and b Rickman 0 Extras b 5, w 1 6 Total 231 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 40 83 92 113 132 144 197 220 230 231 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Aston 17 1 44 1 - - Light 21 2 96 2 1 - Harris 12 2 63 2 - - Rickman 6.3 0 22 5 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - Total 56.3 5 231 10 1 0 Devon (Followed on) * H F Brunskill b Silverlock 4 (1) b Williams 35 J N Martin c Mayes b Steeples 2 (3) b Steeples 0 Griffiths, W b Steeples 12 (4) lbw b Williams 3 Light, W F b Steeples 1 (5) c Mayes b F G Phillips 7 L G Cruwys b Steeples 0 (6) b F G Phillips 7 A Hingston lbw b Steeples 23 (2) c F G Phillips b Steeples 12 Aston, W H c Mayes b Steeples 0 (7) c substitute (G Boots) b Silverlock 25 R B Rickman b Stedman 5 (8) b Steeples 4 J R P Sandford b Steeples 3 (9) not out 7 + Davies, T not out 1 (10) run out 0 Harris, H lbw b Stedman 0 (11) c Steeples b Silverlock 4 Extras b 1, nb 1 2 b 29, lb 2, nb 1 32 Total 53 136 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 6 9 9 30 30 39 52 53 53 Second innings 21 22 59 80 87 90 124 126 130 136 Steeples 11 4 27 7 - 1 (1) 14 4 33 3 - 1 Silverlock 5 1 13 1 - - (5) 3.4 1 9 2 - - Stedman 5.1 1 11 2 - - (2) 7 1 23 0 - - Williams (3) 10 3 21 2 - - F G Phillips (4) 6 1 18 2 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 32 1 - - Total 21.1 6 53 10 0 1 40.4 10 136 10 0 1 Notes: Monmouthshire won by an innings at 11.45am on the second day, after Devon had followed on 178 runs in arrears. For the winners, Steeples took 10 wickets in the match for 60 runs. In the Monmouthshire innings, F G Phillips and Williams put on 53 runs for the seventh wicket. There were 9 fours in Silverlock’s 80. Some sources have P C Phillips representing Monmouthshire in this match, but it was N C Phillips who played. Shortly after the last wicket fell, heavy rain fell which was reported as likely to have prevented any further play. [In the Devon second innings, all Monmouthshire sources have Silverlock bowling 4.4 overs, Williams 9 overs, and Steeples 3 maidens.] [Missing: Second umpire.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; County Observer and Monmouthshire Advertiser 1 August; South Wales Argus 24,25 July; South Wales Daily News 25,27 July; Western Mail 25,27 July; Western Daily Mercury 25,27 July; Western Morning News 25,27 July; The Sportsman 25,27 July.