The Minor Counties Championship 1905

151 GLAMORGAN 1905 Championship matches: Played 14, won 2, lost 5, drawn 7 (won on first innings 4, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 2) Position: Ninth out of nineteen Won: v Berkshire at Cardiff, and v Berkshire at Reading Lost: v Monmouthshire at Cardiff, v Wiltshire at Chippenham, v Durham at West Hartlepool, v Devon at Cardiff, and v Devon at Exeter Drawn – won on first innings: v Northumberland at Jesmond, v Wiltshire at Cardiff, v Durham at Cardiff, and v Surrey 2 nd XI at The Oval Drawn – lost on first innings: v Monmouthshire at Newport Drawn – no decision on first innings: v Northumberland at Swansea, and v Surrey 2 nd XI at Swansea. Captain: J H Brain (9 matches) – W H Brain (1match), A Gibson (1 match), E W Jones (1 match) and H B Letcher (2 matches) captained the side in four of the five matches in which J H Brain did not play. Wicket-keepers: J H Brain (1 match), W H Brain (3 matches), J J Horspool (5 matches) and N V H Riches (5 matches). Debutants: 5 (V T Hill, J J Horspool, G L Rattenbury, Hon R G Seymour and W Spiller) Final season: 3 (V T Hill, H E Morgan and Hon R G Seymour) Hon Secretaries: J H Brain and H B Letcher Professionals: 5 (W J Bancroft, H Creber, A Nash, W Russell and D J Smith) Home grounds 2: The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff (5 matches); and The Swansea Cricket Club, St Helen’s, Swansea (2 ma tches). Notes: Glamorgan had been one of the leading teams in the Championship in 1904, but they started the season badly losing three of their first four matches and drawing the other one. They ended up mid-table in ninth place. The number of matches played was increased from ten to fourteen with the additional opponents being Durham and Northumberland. Harry Creber stood out as the leading bowler taking 89 wickets for 15.67, being well supported by Jack Nash with 46 wickets at 20.71. The leading batsmen, all scoring over three hundred runs were Joseph Brain, who returned to form after a disappointing performance in 1904, Billy Bancroft, Norman Riches and Bill Russell. Career milestones reached during the season were four hundred wickets by Harry Creber, two thousand runs by Bill Russell, and one thousand runs by Norman Riches. GLAMORGAN MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1905 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 5 players who made their Championship debut for Glamorgan during the season. Name in bold denote that 1905 was the last or only season that these 3 players appeared for Glamorgan in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Bancroft, W J 14 24 1 105 614 26.69 1 2 1 16 - - - - - - - - - J H Brain 9 14 4 64* 313 31.30 - 3 3 3 - - - - - - - - - W H Brain 3 4 0 22 29 7.25 - - 1 1 9 - - - - - - - - Dr A W C Cameron 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 - - - - - 10 1 25 2 12.50 2-25 - - Creber, H 14 20 6 31* 124 8.85 - - 5 2 - 497.4 118 1395 89 15.67 8-35 3 10 R A Gibbs 2 4 1 35 61 20.33 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - A Gibson 7 11 1 58 221 22.10 - 1 1 1 - 13 6 43 2 21.50 1-6 - - V T Hill + 3 5 0 10 22 4.40 - - 1 2 - 18 4 43 0 - - - - J J Horspool + 5 6 2 11* 36 9.00 - - - 4 3 - - - - - - - - R H Johnson 3 5 1 21* 34 8.50 - - 2 - - 3 0 18 0 - - - - E W Jones 2 3 0 19 27 9.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - H B Letcher 6 11 1 23 105 10.50 - - 4 1 - 11 2 60 0 - - - - H G Moore-Gwyn 1 2 0 16 17 8.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - H E Morgan 8 13 0 62 171 13.15 - 1 2 8 - - - - - - - - - Nash, A 14 18 4 14 72 5.14 - - 5 17 - 323.3 80 953 46 20.71 6-23 - 3 A J Osborne 4 6 0 41 61 10.16 - - - - - 50 12 192 5 38.40 4-66 - - G L Rattenbury + 5 6 0 12 33 5.50 - - - - - 178.3 31 532 27 19.70 7-37 - 3 N V H Riches 14 24 3 109 568 27.04 1 3 2 9 10 5.5 1 20 1 20.00 1-4 - - Russell, W 14 22 2 78 456 22.80 - 2 2 8 - 233 85 546 21 26.00 4-53 - - Hon R G Seymour + 2 4 0 8 14 3.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Smith, D J 2 4 1 5 7 2.33 - - 2 - - 25 8 78 4 19.50 2-15 - - W Spiller + 2 3 1 24* 39 19.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - E R Sweet-Escott 7 12 1 97* 260 23.63 - 2 - 6 - 7 0 28 1 28.00 1-28 - - A G Thackeray 3 5 0 53 57 11.40 - 1 3 1 - 7 1 27 0 - - - - T A L Whittington 9 15 0 66 178 11.86 - 1 2 2 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 247 - - - - - - - - 238 8 - - - - Total 154 242 29 109 3776 17.72 2 16 36 85 22 1382.3 349 4198 206 20.37 8-35 3 16 (25 players) (6 ball overs) FINAL SEASON FOR COUNTY – CHAMPIONSHIP CAREER AVERAGES These 3 players made their last appearance for Glamorgan in the Championship in 1905. Player Debut M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Balls Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I V T Hill 1905 3 5 0 10 22 4.40 - - 1 2 - 108 43 0 - - - - H E Morgan 1897 54 84 2 254 1707 20.81 3 6 17 47 - 36 16 1 16.00 1-16 - - Hon R G Seymour 1905 2 4 0 8 14 3.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - (3 players)