The Minor Counties Championship 1905

100 MATCH NUMBER 74 : HERTFORDSHIRE V WILTSHIRE At The West Herts Cricket Club Ground, Cassio Road, Watford on Friday 18, Saturday 19 August 1905 Result: Match drawn - Wiltshire won on first innings Points: Wiltshire 2 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: W Hearne and R Humphrey Debutants: Hertfordshire none; Wiltshire none First day score: Hertfordshire 326; Wiltshire 60-0 wicket (T T N Perkins -*, T S Luce -*) Hertfordshire Golding, A J c Luce b Overton 125 ( ) c Overton b Warrilow 9 * H M Harford b Smart 17 White, H E c Luce b Miller 8 ( ) b Warrilow 80 G G Dumbelton st Luce b Overton 22 ( ) c Newman b Overton 17 A Butcher b Smart 17 ( ) c Smith b Smart 2 Coleman, W E c Overton b Miller 27 C T Rudd st Luce b Overton 22 ( ) c Overton b Miller 11 Capt C P Deedes c Luce b Newman 47 ( ) c substitute b Smith 13 L G Hosier c Luce b Smith 13 ( ) b Miller 4 + Goodall, J not out 18 ( ) not out 0 Harding, E R c Overton b Taunton 0 Extras b 7, lb 3 10 b 9, lb 2, w 1, nb 1 13 Total 326 (7 wickets) 149 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 326 Second innings 149 - - - Warrilow 11 0 45 0 - - (3) 6.4 0 26 2 - - Smith 18 4 65 1 - - (1) 10 4 21 1 - 1 Taunton 3 0 13 1 - - (5) 3 1 12 0 - - Overton 16 3 54 3 - - (6) 8 3 16 1 - - Newman 1 1 0 1 - - (2) 6 2 22 0 - - Smart 14 2 58 2 - - (4) 6 3 16 1 - - Miller 15 2 81 2 - - (7) 8 1 23 2 1 - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 78 12 326 10 0 0 47.4 14 149 7 1 1 Wiltshire T T N Perkins c Dumbelton b Harding 135 + T S Luce b Coleman 67 Newman, A W c Deedes b White 28 H M Butterworth c substitute b Harding 33 H P Taunton st Goodall b Harding 5 E S Warrilow b Coleman 3 Smith, W R R c Hosier b Coleman 9 H S Snell c Rudd b Harding 50 Smart, T b Coleman 6 * A M Miller c Harding b White 32 Overton, W not out 1 Extras 13 Total 382 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 293 382 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Coleman 35 3 141 4 - - White 22.4 2 88 2 - - Harding 35 4 119 4 - - Rudd 4 0 21 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - Total 96.4 9 382 10 - - Notes: This return match was drawn with Wiltshire winning on first innings. The match between the two sides when they met at Salisbury in July had been won by Wiltshire. At 5.00 pm on the first day rain interrupted play when the Wilshire score was 14 for no wicket. This was commonly reported in the newspapers as being the close of play score. However, the West Herts and Watford Observer in its report of the second day’s play stated that Wiltshire resumed their innings on 60 for no wi cket, thus indicating that there was further play after the 5.00 pm interruption. The batsmen’s individual scores are not given. For the visitors, there was 1 five, 17 fours and 4 threes in Perkins’s 135. Luce scored 67 and Snell 50. In the Wiltshire innin gs, Perkins and Luce are reported as having put on over 150 runs for the first wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. For the home team, Golding scored 125, an innings containing 13 fours. White made 80. The four catches held by Luce and the six dismissals in the Hertfordshire first innings were the most in an innings during the season. In the Hertfordshire second innings when he had scored 73, White reached the career milestone of four thousand runs in championship matches. In the Wiltshire innings when he dismissed Smart, Coleman reached the career milestone of three hundred wickets in championship matches. [Missing: First day batsmen close of play scores; fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire first innings duration and twos and threes in Golding’s 125; in Hertfordshire second innings batting order, boundaries in White’s 80, size of opening partnership, and who held substitute catch; in Wiltshire innings extras breakdown, duration and twos in Perkins’s 135, boundaries in Luce’s 67 and Snell’s 50, and who held substitute catch.] Sources: Herts Advertiser 26 August; West Herts and Watford Observer 26 August; Hertfordshire Standard 25 August; Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 24 August; North Wilts Herald 25 August; Swindon Advertiser 25 August; Wiltshire Advertiser 24 August; Wiltshire Times 26 August; Western Daily Press 19,21 August; Sporting Life 19,21 August; The Sportsman 19,21 August.