The Minor Counties Championship 1903

77 MATCH NUMBER 54 : WILTSHIRE V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE At The County Ground, Timbrell Street, Trowbridge on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 [no play] August 1903 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Wiltshire none; Buckinghamshire 1 (G M Faulkner) First day score: As match – rain prevented play on second day Wiltshire J E Stevens c Bird b Wright 22 T T N Perkins c P J de Paravicini b Page 65 Overton, W c substitute b Wright 30 C H Ransome c Bird b Page 8 R W Awdry c Weaver-Adams b Faulkner 0 E T Shorland b Wright 12 * A M Miller b Page 10 Smith, W R R not out 28 C G Bond b Page 0 Smart, T b Wright 4 + Ford, E S c P C F de Paravicini b Wright 7 Extras 2 Total 188 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 188 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Wright 35.5 7 86 5 - - Faulkner 14 1 53 1 - - Page 25 8 47 4 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - Total 74.5 16 188 10 - - Buckinghamshire C R H Gresson b Overton 18 E C Hobbs b Miller 18 F N Bird b Miller 0 Wright, M W b Miller 1 Dr E Weaver-Adams not out 9 * P J de Paravicini b Miller 10 H E Bull + P C F de Paravicini C C Edmunds G M Faulkner Page, H Extras 6 Total 5 wickets 62 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 62 - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Miller [27] 4 - - Overton 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - Total 5 - - Notes: With rain preventing play on the second day, this match ended as a draw with no decision on first innings. For Wiltshire Perkins scored 65. An analysis of Miller’s bowling in other matches, including four friendlies, indicates his four wickets in this match could have cost 27 runs. [Missing: Toss; umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; in Wiltshire innings boundaries in Perkins’s 65, and who held substitute catch; in Buckinghamshire innings bowling analysis which has not been found in any of the sources listed.] Sources: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 13 August; North Wilts Herald 14 August; Swindon Advertiser 14 August; Wiltshire Chronicle 15 August; Wiltshire Telegraph 15 August; Wiltshire Times 15 August; Bucks Advertiser 15 August; Bucks Herald 15 August; Slough Observer 15 August; South Bucks Free Press 14 August; South Bucks Standard 14 August; Windsor Chronicle 14 August; The Sportsman 11,12 August.