The Minor Counties Championship 1905

147 DORSET 1905 Championship matches: Played 8, won 1, lost 3, drawn 4 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 3, no decision on first innings none) Position: Fourteenth equal with Northumberland and Surrey 2 nd XI out of nineteen Won: v Cornwall at Newquay Lost: v Wiltshire at Poole, v Devon at Poole, and v Wiltshire at Swindon CG Drawn – won on first innings: v Cambridgeshire at Poole Drawn – lost on first innings: v Devon at Exeter, v Cambridgeshire at Cambridge, and v Cornwall at Poole Drawn – no decision on first innings: None. Captain: P F C Williams (8 matches) Wicket-keepers: O F Huyshe (7 matches) and Rev P T P Knott (1 match) Debutants: 6 (Rev W R H Arundell, Capt H L Budge, A L Gibson, W Harrison, Capt L C Hope and N R Udal ) Final season: 10 (J F A Barnard, A J Daniell, A J Friend, A L Gibson, Capt L C Hope, H Hunt, Rev P T P Knott, H F M Morres, R S Swalwell and J N Williams) Hon Secretary: W H Manfield Professionals: 2 (G Battrick and H Hunt) Home ground 1: The County Ground, Poole Park, Poole (4 matches). Notes: Fourteenth position in 1905 was Dorset’s best since they entered the Championship in 1902. Eight matches were played compared with ten in 1904. Hertfordshire and Staffordshire were no longer played, and Cambridgeshire were the new opponents. Philip Williams succeeded Hardy Manfield as captain. The win against Cornwall at Newquay was the team’s first victory in the competition achi eved after playing 28 previous matches. William Budge was the only batsman to score over three hundred runs with 370 at 30.83. The most successful bowlers were H Hunt with 20 wickets at 21.65 apiece and Walter Andrew with 17 at 14.41. The debutant Nicholas Udal took 10 wickets at 7.50 in his only match, the win against Cornwall at Newquay. No major career milestones were reached during the season. DORSET MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1905 In the averages below, + after the name denotes the 6 players who made their Championship debut for Dorset during the season. Names in bold indicate that 1905 was the last or only season that these 10 players appeared for Dorset in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I W Andrew 6 8 0 39 148 18.50 - - 1 1 - 82.2 18 245 17 14.41 4-24 - - Rev W R H Arundell + 7 11 0 47 143 13.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - J F A Barnard 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 1 - 5 1 9 0 - - - - Battrick, G 1 1 0 7 7 7.00 - - - - - 8 1 16 1 16.00 1-16 - - Capt H L Budge + 5 8 0 27 78 9.75 - - 4 5 - - - - - - - - - W H Budge 8 12 0 63 370 30.83 - 1 1 3 - 4 0 18 1 18.00 1-8 - - P Crimmins 3 5 1 60* 155 38.75 - 1 - 5 - 44 9 133 3 44.33 1-31 - - A J Daniell 1 1 0 9 9 9.00 - - - 1 - 14 2 42 1 42.00 1-33 - - H E Forrester 2 4 0 4 7 1.75 - - 2 - - 42 6 119 4 29.75 3-64 - - A J Friend 3 5 1 16 28 7.00 - - 1 - - 36 6 108 1 108.00 1-27 - - A L Gibson + 5 7 1 39 183 30.50 - - 1 3 - 77.5 11 208 11 18.90 7-29 - 1 W H Harrison + 3 4 2 20 27 13.50 - - - - - 48.3 10 154 6 25.66 4-83 - - Capt L C Hope + 4 7 0 22 48 6.85 - - 3 - - 7 0 22 1 22.00 1-22 - - Hunt, H 7 10 2 78 146 18.25 - 1 4 5 - 141.4 29 433 20 21.65 5-17 - 1 O F Huyshe 7 11 2 30* 89 9.88 - - 2 5 3 - - - - - - - - Rev P T P Knott 1 1 0 2 2 2.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - W H Manfield 2 3 3 7* 15 - - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - H F MMorres 1 2 0 29 29 14.50 - - 1 4 - 22 3 77 2 38.50 2-22 - - F A S Sewell 6 6 0 91 187 31.16 - 1 1 3 - 62 10 237 8 29.62 2-29 - - R S Swalwell 2 3 0 17 20 6.66 - - 1 2 - 25.1 7 68 2 34.00 2-46 - - N R Udal + 1 1 0 25 25 25.00 - - - 1 - 36.2 10 75 10 7.50 6-44 1 1 G H White 1 2 0 9 11 5.50 - - - - - 10 0 52 1 52.00 1-52 - - J N Williams 1 1 0 3 3 3.00 - - - 1 - 0.3 0 1 1 1.00 1-1 - - P F C Williams 8 12 0 48 213 17.75 - - - 4 - 51.4 8 238 8 29.75 3-100 - - A Zealley 2 3 1 31 61 30.50 - - - - - 24 2 75 2 37.50 1-16 - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 158 - - - - - - - - 152 4 - - - - Total 88 130 13 91 2162 18.47 0 4 24 47 3 742 133 2482 104 23.86 7-29 1 3 [2484] [23.88] (25 players) (6 ball overs) Note – bowling analysis not known for second innings of Match 81 against Cornwall at Poole, and the runs conceded have been derived from the averages in Wisden, and are 2 short.