The Minor Counties Championship 1903

79 MATCH NUMBER 56 : BERKSHIRE V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE At The County Ground, Elm Park, Kensington Road, Reading on Wednesday 12, Thursday 13 August 1903 Result: Buckinghamshire won by 50 runs Points: Buckinghamshire 3 Toss: Buckinghamshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Berkshire none; Buckinghamshire none First day score: Buckinghamshire 132; Berkshire 134-9 wickets (W Cave 1*) Buckinghamshire C R H Gresson c Williams b Cave 13 (1) c Relf b Cave 26 E C Hobbs c Watts b Williams 42 (2) b Williams 20 F N Bird c Nepean b Cave 1 (3) c Watts b Williams 13 Wright, M W c Nepean b Bennett 9 (4) lbw b Williams 30 G R Greaves c Crook b Hutson 17 (5) b Williams 0 Dr E Weaver-Adams lbw b Williams 8 (6) c and b Cave 49 * H E Bull b Cave 0 (7) b Cave 0 C C Edmunds c Nepean b Williams 0 (8) c Bennett b Williams 20 R H Vaughan b Relf 11 (9) c and b Cave 0 + P C F de Paravicini c Henderson b Williams 11 (10) b Cave 4 Page, H not out 0 (11) not out 2 Extras w 1, nb 3 20 w 2, nb 3 27 Total 132 191 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 15 17 56 85 103 104 105 108 132 132 Second innings 42 60 67 67 156 156 178 179 185 191 Williams 25 12 29 4 - 3 (2) 21 3 60 5 - 3 Cave 37 16 40 3 - - (1) 33.5 11 57 5 - - Relf 20.5 13 18 1 1 - (3) 6 1 22 0 - - Hutson 9 3 14 1 - - (4) 9 5 8 0 - - Bennett 3 1 11 1 - - (5) 5 1 10 0 2 - Rowe (6) 6 3 10 0 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - - - 27 0 - - Total 94.5 45 132 10 1 3 80.5 24 194x 10 2 3 191 Berkshire G G M Bennett c Hobbs b Vaughan 7 (1) c Hobbs b Wright 8 R A Williams run out 4 (2) c and b Wright 24 Watts, E c Weaver-Adams b Page 46 (3) c de Paravicini b Wright 18 Capt H W Hutson c Hobbs b Vaughan 0 (4) c Weaver-Adams b Wright 0 F E Rowe c Bull b Page 28 (5) run out 45 F M Ingram c Hobbs b Page 0 (6) b Wright 14 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Vaughan b Wright 33 (7) b Page 1 + A Henderson lbw b Page 0 (8) c Weaver-Adams b Wright 12 H S Crook c Bird b Wright 8 (9) b Page 0 Cave, W not out 11 (10) not out 0 Relf, R R c and b Wright 1 (11) c Edmunds b Page 1 Extras 7 5 Total 145 128 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 16 16 89 89 94 116 128 134 145 Second innings 21 24 44 54 56 113 115 115 119 128 Wright 23.1 8 43 3 - - (1) 28 14 27 6 - - Vaughan 8 1 41 2 - - (3) 3 0 25 0 - - Greaves 4 0 23 0 - - Page 19 10 31 4 - - (2) 24 4 71 3 - - Extras - - 7 1 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 54.1 19 145 10 - - 55 18 128 10 - - Notes: Buckinghamshire won by 50 runs at 6.10 pm on the second day, after setting Berkshire 179 runs to win in 160 minutes. For the winners, Wright took 9 wickets in the match for 70 runs. Weaver-Adams made the highest score with 49. For the losers, Williams took 9 wickets in the match for 89 runs. Henderson started keeping wicket for Berkshire, but was relieved by Watts during the course of the first Buckinghamshire innings. The 70.5 overs bowled by Cave in the match were the most during the season. During the match two Berkshire batsmen reached the career milestone of one thousand runs. They were Nepean, when he had scored 33 runs in the Berkshire first innings, and Ingram, when he had scored 13 in the Berkshire second innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Buckinghamshire second innings runs conceded bowling 3 in excess.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 15 August; Reading Mercury 15 August; Reading Observer 15 August; Reading Standard 15 August; Bucks Advertiser 15 August; Bucks Herald 15 August; Slough Observer 22 August; South Bucks Free Press 14 August; South Bucks Standard 14 August; Windsor Chronicle 14 August; The Sportsman 13,14 August.