The Minor Counties Championship 1905

55 MATCH NUMBER 29 : GLAMORGAN V BERKSHIRE At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Wednesday 19, Thursday 20 July 1905 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 1 run Points: Glamorgan 3 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: C E Brown and C Hughes Debutants: Glamorgan 1 (G L Rattenbury); Berkshire none First day score: Berkshire 193; Glamorgan 232-6 wickets (E R Sweet-Escott 52*) Berkshire G G M Bennett c W H Brain b Russell 23 (1) b Nash 7 Brown, - c Riches b Russell 7 (2) c Nash b Creber 6 S V Shea st W H Brain b Creber 15 (3) b Rattenbury 15 W M Greenfield st W H Brain b Creber 12 (4) b Creber 26 Capt H W Hutson run out 41 (5) b Rattenbury 12 + Watts, E c and b Nash 36 (6) b Rattenbury 22 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c and b Nash 14 (7) c Nash b Rattenbury 14 Rev F J Howard st W H Brain b Nash 0 (8) b Rattenbury 3 Barrett, H b Creber 29 (9) b Rattenbury 14 Barker, W b Nash 3 (10) not out 16 Croom, A B not out 6 (11) c J H Brain b Rattenbury 0 Extras b 6, w 1 7 b 16 16 Total 193 151 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 24 43 57 57 140 140 150 163 171 193 Second innings 17 17 61 78 83 107 117 118 131 151 Creber 22.5 5 62 3 - - (1) 19 4 44 2 - - Russell 22 10 34 2 - - (3) 4 1 17 0 - - Rattenbury 17 3 52 0 1 - (4) 12 4 37 7 - - Nash 16 4 38 4 - - (2) 14 4 37 1 - - Extras - - 7 1 - - - - 16 0 - - Total 77.5 22 193 10 1 0 49 13 151 10 0 0 Glamorgan N V H Riches c Bennett b Hutson 23 T A L Whittington b Howard 66 Bancroft, W J c and b Howard 44 E R Sweet-Escott not out 97 H E Morgan c Howard b Bennett 7 G L Rattenbury c Bennett b Hutson 1 Russell, W c Watts b Barker 17 + W H Brain b Bennett 22 * J H Brain c Nepean b Bennett 8 Creber, H run out 12 Nash, A b Barker 14 Extras b 25, lb 5, w 1, nb 3 34 Total 345 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 52 137 159 189 194 232 270 290 323 345 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 27.3 5 82 2 - 3 Hutson 32 11 95 2 - - Bennett 19 3 56 3 1 - Croom 9 1 41 0 - - Howard 9 2 37 2 - - Extras - - 34 1 - - Total 96.3 22 345 10 1 3 Notes: Glamorgan won by an innings and 1 run at 3.25 pm on the second day. For the winners, there was 1 five and 9 fours in Sweet- Escott’s 97 not out. When Nash came to the crease at the fall of the ninth wicket, it looked likely that Sweet -Escott would be stranded well short of his hundred. He fell just 3 runs short when Nash was bowled by Barker. The last wicket had added 22 runs. Whittington scored 66 including 6 fours. The debutant Rattenbury took 7 wickets for 37 runs in the Berkshire second innings. The 34 extras conceded in the Glamorgan innings were the the third highest in the season. When Nepean caught J H Brain in the Glamorgan innings, it was his fiftieth in championship matches. [Missing: Brown’s initials.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; South Wales Daily News 20,21 July; South Wales Echo 19,20 July; Western Mail 20,21July; Berkshire Chronicle 22 July; Reading Mercury 22 July; Reading Standard 22 July; The Sportsman 20,21 July.