The Minor Counties Championship 1905

52 MATCH NUMBER 26 : MONMOUTHSHIRE V BERKSHIRE At The Newport Cricket Club Ground, The Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport on Monday 17, Tuesday 18 July 1905 Result: Monmouthshire won by an innings and 22 runs Points: Monmouthshire 3 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Monmouthshire none; Berkshire none First day score: Berkshire 147; Monmouthshire 320-3 wickets (A J Silverlock 140*, P C Phillips 29*) Berkshire G G M Bennett c E S Phillips b Steeples 35 (1) b Steeples 20 Brown, - lbw b Steeples 2 (2) b Steeples 16 Capt H W Hutson c Steeples b F G Phillips 57 absent ill - + Watts, E b Steeples 0 (4) b Steeples 6 S V Shea c Diver b Steeples 3 (3) b Steeples 115 W M Greenfield c T B Williams b F G Phillips 5 (5) c Diver b Silverlock 26 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Stratton b F G Phillips 9 (7) c Silverlock b F G Phillips 33 Barrett, H b Steeples 5 (6) c Diver b Steeples 1 Rev F J Howard c - Williams b F G Phillips 5 (8) b W A Williams 6 Barker, W not out 4 (9) b F G Phillips 11 Croom, A B c Diver b Steeples 3 (10) not out 1 Extras nb 2 19 30 Total 147 265 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 95 96 103 114 126 133 147 Second innings 35 81 96 150 162 210 217 265 - Steeples 15.3 6 25 6 - - (1) 21 7 77 5 - - F G Phillips 15 1 62 4 - 2 (3) 10 0 67 2 - - W A Williams 6 0 26 0 - - (2) 12 1 53 1 - - Silverlock 3 0 14 0 - - (4) 7 2 38 1 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 30 0 - - Total 39.3 7 146x 10 - 2 50 10 265 9 - - 147 Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J not out 206 J H Stratton b Howard 12 E S Phillips b Barker 111 + Diver, E J b Croom 14 * P C Phillips c Watts b Bennett 66 R B Griffiths c Watts b Barker 2 T B Williams run out 1 L Phillips b Barker 1 F G Phillips not out 3 Steeples, R W A Williams Extras 18 Total (7 wickets declared) 434 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 40 237 256 394 404 410 411 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 36 5 145 3 - - Hutson 5 0 17 0 - - Bennett 15 2 56 1 - - Howard 20 4 88 1 - - Croom 11.1 0 64 1 - - Brown 3 0 14 0 - - Nepean 4 0 23 0 - - Barrett 3 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 18 1 - - Total 97.1 11 434 7 0 - Notes: Monmouthshire won this return match by an innings and 22 runs at 4.03 pm on the second day. Monmouthshire had also won the match between the two sides at Reading in June. Monmouthshire won the toss and asked Berkshire to bat first. For the winners, there was 1 six, 32 fours and 4 threes in Silverlock’s 206 not out, an innings of 4 hours and 40 minutes. It was the highest score of the season and the only double century. The 846 runs were the third highest match aggregate during the season. E S Phillips scored 111 which contained 1 five and 16 fours. P C Phillips’s 66 contained 9 fours. In the Monmouthshire inning s, Silverlock and E S Phillips added 197 runs for the second wicket, which was the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season, and Silverlock and P C Phillips 138 for the fourth, which was also the second highest partnership for that wicket during the season. Steeples took 11 wickets in the match for 102 runs. For the losers, Shea’s 115 included 1 five, 18 fours and 3 threes. Hutson scored 57. Hutson was absent ill on the second day and E S Phillips fielded as substitute and ran out T B Williams in the Monmouthshire innings. When he had scored 125 in the Monmouthshire innings, Silverlock reached the career milestone of three thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Berkshire first innings boundaries in Hutson’s 57, which Williams ct Howard, fall of eighth and ninth wickets and runs bowling one short; in Berkshire second innings t wos and duration of Shea’s 115, fall of eighth wicket; in Monmouthshire innings twos in Silverlock’s 206*, threes and twos and duration of E S Phillips’s 111; Brown’s initials.] Sources: The Cambrian 21 July; County Observer and Monmouthshire Advertiser 22 July; South Wales Argus 17,18 July; South Wales Daily News 18,19 July; South Wales Echo 17,18 July; Western Mail 18,19 July; Berkshire Chronicle 22 July; Reading Mercury 22 July.