The Minor Counties Championship 1905

61 MATCH NUMBER 35 : GLAMORGAN V DURHAM At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Monday 31 July, Tuesday 1 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Glamorgan won on first innings Points: Glamorgan 2 Toss: Durham Umpires: C E Brown and R Humphrey Debutants: Glamorgan none; Durham none First day score: Durham 242; Glamorgan 208-7 wickets (W J Bancroft 65*, J H Brain 16*) Durham R Bousfield c Nash b Creber 24 (1) c Gibbs b Rattenbury 23 W S Dobson b Creber 30 (4) c Bancroft b Rattenbury 10 * E W Elliot not out 99 (3) lbw b Nash 55 A B Horsley run out 16 (2) b Rattenbury 37 T Coulson c Morgan b Russell 22 (5) c Morgan b Rattenbury 9 R H Mallett b Russell 5 (6) not out 14 Turnbull, G lbw b Russell 0 (7) c Morgan b Rattenbury 14 + J Kirtley c Nash b Russell 20 (8) c and b Nash 7 R Y Brydon b Creber 0 (9) c Bancroft b Rattenbury 4 J Thackeray run out 5 (10) not out 5 Smith, T c Brain b Nash 1 Extras b 13, lb 5, w 2 20 lb 3, w 1, nb 1 5 Total 242 (8 wickets declared) 183 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 52 65 101 144 154 154 196 196 236 242 Second innings 49 68 112 137 137 153 162 173 - - Creber 32 5 85 3 1 - (1) 6 1 21 0 1 - Rattenbury 18 1 63 0 1 - (4) 22 3 56 6 - - Nash 8.2 2 21 1 - - (2) 18 3 56 2 - 1 Russell 23 7 53 4 - - (3) 10 2 45 0 - - Extras - - 20 2 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 81.2 15 242 10 2 0 56 9 183 8 1 1 Glamorgan + N V H Riches c and b Brydon 52 (1) not out 21 E R Sweet-Escott c Kirtley b Thackeray 17 (2) c Thackeray b Smith 25 Bancroft, W J b Turnbull 92 (3) b Turnbull 5 R A Gibbs b Smith 11 (4) not out 9 H E Morgan run out 10 Russell, W c Turnbull b Smith 0 A Gibson c and b Turnbull 11 G L Rattenbury c Bousfield b Turnbull 12 * J H Brain not out 64 Creber, H b Turnbull 3 Nash, A c Horsley b Turnbull 3 Extras b 10, lb 7 17 b 7 7 Total 292 (2 wickets) 67 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 46 100 113 130 131 160 176 264 282 292 Second innings 40 45 - - - - - - - - Turnbull 43.1 10 116 5 - - (1) 14 7 19 1 - - Thackeray 23 3 69 1 - - (4) 2 1 5 0 - - Smith 20 4 55 2 - - (3) 8 0 30 1 - - Brydon 14 5 35 1 - - (2) 3 1 6 0 - - Extras - - 17 1 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 100.1 22 292 10 0 0 27 9 67 2 0 0 Notes: This return match was drawn with Glamorgan winning on first innings. Durham had won the game between the two sides in June at West Hartlepool. The Durham declaration had left Glamorgan to score 134 runs to win in 95 minutes. On the second day, rain halted play in the morning session and an early lunch was taken and 35 minutes of play was lost. For the home team, there were 7 fours in Bancroft’s 92, 11 fours in Brain’s 64 not out, and 1 five and 5 fours in Riches’s 52. In the Glamorgan first innings, Bancroft and Brain put on 88 runs for the eighth wicket. For Durham, there were 11 fours and 8 fours respectively in Elliot’s two innings of 99 not out and 55. The 43.1 overs bowled by Turnbull in the Glamorgan first innings were the third mo st in an innings during the season. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; Durham Scorebook; South Wales Daily News 1,2 August; Western Mail 1,2 August; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 2 August; Newcastle Daily Journal 1,2 August; The Sportsman 1,2 August.