The Minor Counties Championship 1903

68 MATCH NUMBER 45 : MONMOUTHSHIRE V WILTSHIRE At The Newport Cricket Club Ground, The Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 August 1903 Result: Wiltshire won by an innings and 10 runs Points: Wiltshire 3 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Monmouthshire none; Wiltshire none First day score: Monmouthshire 73 and 25-0 wicket (E S Phillips 7*, A J Silverlock 14*); Wiltshire 289 Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c Usher b Smith 18 (2) c Perkins b Overton 27 E S Phillips b Smart 6 (1) c Perkins b Smith 95 Dr A L Tatham lbw b Grant 27 (3) lbw b Grant 29 F Rees c Grant b Overton 8 (4) b Smith 1 G L Robathan b Overton 0 (5) c Newman b Smart 8 F G Phillips b Grant 0 (6) b Smart 2 N C Phillips b Grant 6 (7) b Smith 17 W A Williams not out 3 (8) b Smith 0 * L F Stedman b Grant 0 (9) run out 13 Steeples, R b Grant 0 (10) b Smart 4 + Mayes, T b Grant 1 (11) not out 0 Extras w 1, nb 1 4 10 Total 73 206 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 27 62 64 64 65 69 69 69 73 Second innings 42 118 123 153 178 178 206 206 Smith 9 2 23 1 1 1 (6) 24.2 10 68 4 - - Smart 7 0 25 1 - - (1) 19 2 51 3 - - Overton 7 2 12 2 - - (3) 10 4 17 1 - - Grant 6.2 1 9 6 - - (2) 20 6 31 1 - - Stevens (4) 2 1 2 0 - - Miller (5) 5 0 27 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 10 1 - - Total 29.2 5 73 10 1 1 80.2 23 206 10 - - Wiltshire Smart, T c Tatham b Silverlock 2 T S Usher b Stedman 8 J E Stevens c N C Phillips b Silverlock 57 T T N Perkins c N C Phillips b Silverlock 72 H P Taunton b Steeples 9 Smith, W R R c Mayes b Steeples 6 * A M Miller b Williams 31 Overton, W c E S Phillips b Silverlock 18 Newman, F b Steeples 11 E Grant not out 32 + Ford, E S c Robathan b Silverlock 14 Extras nb 6 29 Total 289 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 21 106 161 289 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Steeples 26 6 69 3 - 1 Silverlock 21.2 1 86 5 - 2 Stedman 10 2 45 1 - - Williams 10 1 31 1 - - F G Phillips 4 0 24 0 - 3 Robathan 4 1 5 0 - - Extras - - 29 0 - - Total 75.2 11 289 10 0 6 Notes: Wiltshire won by an innings at 3.05 pm on the second day. For the winners, Grant did the ‘hat-trick’ in the Monmouthshire first innings, his victims being N C Phillips, Stedman and Steeples. There was 1 six and 6 fours in Perkins’s 72. Stevens scored 57. For the losers, E S Phillips scored 95. He batted throughout the Monmouthshire second innings and was last man out. Mayes injured a finger during the match which prevented him from playing for Monmouthshire again during the season. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Monmouthshire second innings boundaries in E S Phillips’s 95; in Wiltshire innings boundaries in Stevens’s 57.] Sources: South Wales Argus 5,6 August; South Wales Daily News 6,7 August; Western Mail 6,7 August; Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 13 August; North Wilts Herald 14 August; Swindon Advertiser 14 August; Wiltshire Times 8 August; The Sportsman 6,7 August.