The Minor Counties Championship 1905

107 MATCH NUMBER 81 : DORSET V CORNWALL At The County Ground, Poole Park, Poole on Monday 28, Tuesday 29 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Cornwall won on first innings Points: Cornwall 2 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset none; Cornwall 1 (W G Blackwell) First day score: Cornwall 176; Dorset 53-2 wickets (W H Budge 13*, P Crimmins 33*) Cornwall * H Tresawna c Huyshe b Hunt 21 (1) b Sewell 31 J G Donaldson c J N Williams b Crimmins 26 (5) c Hunt b Gibson 12 W S Tresawna st Huyshe b Gibson 13 (2) not out 25 W N Bickford-Smith b Gibson 44 (3) b Sewell 26 + J C Bickford-Smith c Crimmins b Gibson 30 (4) c Crimmins b J N Williams 41 R Rogers b Gibson 4 E Hawken lbw b Gibson 14 Trevarthen, C st Huyshe b Sewell 3 R Maunsell b Gibson 6 W G Blackwell not out 5 F C Barnes c Hunt b Gibson 0 Extras 10 2 Total 176 (4 wickets) 137 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 49 51 117 176 Second innings 137 - - - - - - Harrison 8 3 16 0 - - Crimmins 17 6 50 1 - - Hunt 19 2 49 1 - - ( ) 29 0 - - Andrew 3 0 15 0 - - ( ) 17 0 - - Gibson 13.5 2 29 7 - - ( ) 37 1 - - Sewell 7 3 7 1 - - ( ) 29 2 - - P F C Williams ( ) 20 0 - - J N Williams ( ) 0.3 0 1 1 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 67.5 16 176 10 - - 135x 4 - - 137 Dorset * P F C Williams b Barnes 4 W Andrew b Barnes 2 W H Budge c Donaldson b W N Bickford-Smith 41 P Crimmins run out 38 F A S Sewell c Rogers b Barnes 7 J N Williams c Trevarthen b W N Bickford-Smith 3 A L Gibson c Barnes b W N Bickford-Smith 32 Rev W R H Arundell b W N Bickford-Smith 4 + O F Huyshe run out 2 W Harrison not out 2 Hunt, H c Trevarthen b W N Bickford-Smith 0 Extras 6 Total 141 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 141 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Trevarthen 35 14 47 0 - - Barnes 28 10 36 3 - - H Tresawna 12 5 22 0 - - Blackwell 6 0 16 0 - - W N Bickford-Smith 8.4 3 14 5 - - Extras - - 6 2 - - Total 89.4 32 141 10 - - Notes: This rain-interrupted return match was drawn with Cornwall winning on first innings. Rain stopped play for an hour shortly after the start of play on the first day and prevented play for two hours after lunch on the second. Dorset had won the match between the two teams at Newquay earlier in the month. For Dorset, Gibson took 7 wickets for 29 runs in the Cornwall first innings. For Cornwall, W N Bickford- Smith’s 44 was the highest score. [The bowling analysis for the Cornwall second innings has not been found in any of the sources listed, and the runs conceded have been derived from the averages in Wisden which leave the total 2 short.] [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; in Cornwall second innings bowling analysis.] Sources: Dorset County Chronicle 31 August; Poole Herald 31 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 31August; Western Daily Mercury 29,30 August; Western Morning News 29,30 August; The Sportsman 29,30 August.