The Minor Counties Championship 1905

57 MATCH NUMBER 31 : DEVON V BERKSHIRE At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Road, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Friday 21, Saturday 22 July 1905 Result: Devon won by four wickets Points: Devon 3 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Berkshire none First day score: Berkshire 185 and 32-2 wickets (G G M Bennett 23*); Devon 215 Berkshire G G M Bennett c Light b Scott 50 (1) c Davies b Sturt 116 Brown, - b Aston 9 (2) c Cruwys b Aston 4 S V Shea lbw b Aston 62 (3) b Aston 5 Capt H W Hutson c Leggett b Light 0 (4) b Aston 0 W M Greenfield c Scott b Aston 7 (5) b Light 19 + Watts, E b Light 2 (6) b Aston 25 Cdr C J Collins c Brunskill b Light 15 (7) b Aston 2 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Leggett b Light 20 (8) c Davies b Bamberger 41 Barker, W not out 8 (9) not out 17 Rev F J Howard b Aston 5 (10) c Davies b Aston 6 Croom, A B run out 6 (11) lbw b Aston 0 Extras b 1 1 b 3 3 Total 185 238 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 34 67 72 84 88 142 154 169 174 185 Second innings 5 32 32 69 144 152 190 227 234 238 Light 25 5 71 4 - - (2) 25 6 74 1 - - Aston 24.3 2 68 4 - - (1) 28 6 98 7 - - Scott 6 0 34 1 - - (3) 5 0 25 0 - - Sturt 5 1 11 0 - - (4) 7 2 23 1 - - Bamberger (5) 6 0 12 1 - - Brunskill (6) 1 0 3 0 - - Extras - - 1 1 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 60.3 8 185 10 0 0 72 14 238 10 0 0 Devon R G Cruwys c Nepean b Hutson 0 (1) b Hutson 10 Lt O E Leggett b Barker 5 (2) run out 36 Lt G C Harrison c and b Hutson 22 (3) c Nepean b Barker 9 * H F Brunskill c and b Hutson 8 (6) b Bennett 4 R T Arundell b Hutson 23 (4) c Watts b Hutson 71 Light, W F b Hutson 0 (8) not out 1 W F Sturt c Nepean b Hutson 41 (5) c Croom b Hutson 51 Aston, W H c and b Barker 23 + Davies, T lbw b Howard 19 (7) not out 12 R J Bamberger not out 36 Hon D Scott st Shea b Collins 24 Extras b 14 14 b 12, lb 1, w 1, nb 1 15 Total 215 (6 wickets) 209 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 10 23 61 66 66 99 130 176 215 Second innings 19 28 127 160 186 204 - - - - Hutson 26 6 102 6 - - (1) 24.4 8 73 3 - - Barker 20 4 56 2 - - (2) 17 4 46 1 - 1 Bennett 5 0 19 0 - - (3) 7 1 40 1 1 - Howard 3 0 14 1 - - Collins 3.2 0 10 1 - - (4) 5 1 18 0 - - Croom (5) 3 0 11 0 - - Nepean (6) 2 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 15 1 - - Total 57.2 10 215 10 0 0 58.4 14 209 6 1 1 Notes: Devon won by four wickets at 5.15 pm on the second day, after requiring 209 runs in their second innings for victory in 4 hours. For the winners, Aston took 11 wickets in the match for 166 runs, including 7 for 98 in the visitors’ second innings. In the Devon second innings, Arundell scored 71, containing 11 fours, and Sturt scored 51 with 9 fours. For the losers, Bennett’s 116 contained 17 fours, 2 threes and 5 twos, an innings of two hours. In the first innings he scored 50 with 9 fours and Shea 62 with 8 fours. Watts and Shea both kept wicket for Berkshire. [Missing: Umpires; Brown’s initials.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette 22,24 July; Western Daily Mercury 22,24 July; Western Morning News 22,24 July; Berkshire Chronicle 29 July; Reading Mercury 29 July; Reading Standard 29 July; Sporting Life 24 July; The Sportsman 22,24 July.