The Minor Counties Championship 1903

90 MATCH NUMBER 67 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V BERKSHIRE At the High Wycombe Cricket Club Ground, London Road, High Wycombe on Friday 21, Saturday 22 August 1903 Result: Berkshire won by nine wickets Points: Berkshire 3 Toss: Buckinghamshire Umpires: H Coulson and A Stockwin Debutants: Buckinghamshire 2 (G E Peachell, S A B Perry); Berkshire 1 (A S B Tull) First day score: Buckinghamshire 83 and 24-1 wicket (E C Hobbs 8*, H Page 1*); Berkshire 146 Buckinghamshire C R H Gresson c Relf b Hunter 2 (1) c Barrett b Bennett 10 E C Hobbs lbw b Hunter 14 (2) b Cave 22 F N Bird c Watts b Hunter 20 (5) b Cave 1 * P J de Paravicini c Relf b Hunter 0 (6) c Brown b Cave 9 Wright, M W not out 10 (4) lbw b Cave 0 R A Janes c and b Cave 5 (7) b Relf 2 S A B Perry b Hunter 0 ( ) not out 10 Boddy, E S c Hunter b Relf 10 ( ) c and b Hunter 10 C C Edmunds c Bennett b Hunter 16 ( ) b Hunter 3 Page, H b Cave 0 (3) b Cave 5 + G E Peachell c Nepean b Cave 0 ( ) c Ingram b Cave 9 Extras 6 18 Total 83 99 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 30 30 40 45 47 61 81 83 83 Second innings 28 99 Cave 18 6 35 3 - - (1) 29 16 28 6 - - Hunter 19 11 25 6 - - (2) 14 6 23 2 - - Brown 5 1 11 0 - - Relf 3 1 6 1 - - (3) 11 3 25 1 - - Bennett (4) 3 1 5 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 18 0 - - Total 45 19 83 10 - - 57 26 99 10 - - Berkshire G G M Bennett c Wright b Page 23 ( ) c Perry b Wright 15 F M Ingram c de Paravicini b Page 0 ( ) not out 8 + Watts, E b Perry 74 ( ) not out 16 A S B Tull st Peachell b Page 17 Barrett, H b Perry 0 Cave, W hit wicket b Wright 13 * Sir C E M Y Nepean b Page 1 Brown, C E b Page 0 J C Hunter b Page 11 Relf, R R b Wright 0 Croom, A B not out 0 Extras 7 0 Total 146 (1 wicket) 39 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 41 108 109 125 146 146 146 Second innings - - - - - - - - - Wright 22 8 41 2 - - (1) 8 2 18 1 - - Page 21 10 44 6 - - (2) 7.3 1 21 0 - - Boddy 7 1 20 0 - - Perry 8 2 32 2 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 58 21 144x 10 - - 15.3 3 39 1 0 0 146 Notes: Berkshire won his low-scoring return match by nine wickets before lunch on the second day. The game between the two teams at Reading the previous week had been won by Buckinghamshire. For the winners, there was 1 six and 9 fours in Watts’s 74. Cave took 9 wickets in the match for 63 runs and Hunter 8 for 48. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Buckinghamshire second innings part batting order; in Berkshire first innings runs conceded by bowlers 2 short – some sources have Perry conceding 22 runs not 32; in Berkshire second innings batting order; precise time completed.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 29 August; Bucks Herald 29 August; South Bucks Free Press 28 August; South Bucks Standard 28 August; Windsor Chronicle 28 August; Berkshire Chronicle 29 August; Reading Mercury 29 August; Reading Observer 29 August; Reading Standard 29 August; The Sportsman 22,24 August.