The Minor Counties Championship 1905

62 MATCH NUMBER 36 : WILTSHIRE V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE At The Chippenham Cricket Club Ground, Hardenhuish Park, Chippenham on Monday 31 July, Tuesday 1 August 1905 Result: Wiltshire won by two wickets Points: Wiltshire 3 Toss: Buckinghamshire Umpires: C Hughes and B W Mason Debutants: Wiltshire none; Buckinghamshire 2 (H Baker, D Finlay) First day score: Buckinghamshire 130 and 133; Wiltshire 114 Buckinghamshire Dr E Weaver-Adams c Smart b Miller 47 (1) c Awdry b Overton 19 * C R H Gresson b Overton 3 (2) c Luce b Miller 8 Wright, M W c Luce b Miller 34 (3) b Newman 32 + Rev F Symes-Thompson c Overton b Miller 3 (4) c and b Miller 5 D Gregory c Overton b Miller 4 (5) not out 47 Page, H c Miller b Warrilow 9 (6) b Miller 0 H Baker lbw b Smith 19 (8) b Miller 2 G E W Bowyer b Miller 0 (9) c and b Newman 4 Finlay, D b Miller 1 (10) b Newman 0 Vickerstaff, S J A b Miller 0 (11) b Newman 4 A S Ward not out 0 (7) c Awdry b Miller 0 Extras 10 12 Total 130 133 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 28 81 90 106 130 Second innings 14 32 107 129 129 133 Overton 9 3 21 1 - - (3) 7 3 15 1 - - Smith 7.4 2 29 1 - - (1) 11 3 21 0 - - Smart 2 0 20 0 - - (4) 5 1 13 0 - - Warrilow 7 0 24 1 - - Miller 8 1 26 7 - - (2) 16 2 57 5 - - Newman (5) 7.4 4 15 4 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 33.4 6 130 10 - - 46.4 13 133 10 - - Wiltshire Smith, W R R c Page b Wright 0 (6) b Page 1 C S Awdry c Gresson b Vickerstaff 41 (2) c Weaver-Adams b Vickerstaff 15 Newman, A W b Wright 1 (3) c Bowyer b Wright 8 H M Butterworth b Vickerstaff 2 (4) c Weaver-Adams b Wright 26 E S Warrilow b Vickerstaff 14 (1) c Baker b Page 41 H S Snell b Wright 1 (5) not out 7 + T S Luce c Ward b Wright 0 (7) b Wright 1 * A M Miller c Baker b Vickerstaff 12 (8) c and b Page 14 J K Mathews not out 25 (9) b Page 8 Overton, W b Vickerstaff 9 (10) not out 25 Smart, T b Vickerstaff 4 Extras 5 4 Total 114 (8 wickets) 150 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 8 50 65 78 103 114 Second innings 25 36 92 92 95 116 119 - - Wright 16 5 34 4 - - (1) 28 12 48 3 - - Vickerstaff 15.5 1 75 6 - - (2) 13 3 62 1 - - Page (3) 14 4 36 4 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 31.5 6 114 10 - - 55 19 150 8 - - Notes: Wiltshire won this close match by two wickets at 1.00 pm on the second day, after needing in their second innings 150 runs to win in a full day. For the winners, Miller took 12 wickets in the match for 83 runs, including 7 for 26 in the Buckinghamshire first innings. No batsman scored 50. Awdry and Warrilow were joint top-scorers with 41. For Buckinghamshire, Weaver- Adams and Gregory played the highest innings with 47 and 47 not out respectively. Ward arrived at the ground late on the first day and was the last man to bat in the Buckinghamshire first innings. During the match, Wright passed two major career milestones. When he had scored 28 in the Buckinghamshire second innings, he reached three thousand runs in championship matches, and when he dismissed Newman in the Wiltshire first innings, he reached five hundred wickets in championship matches. In terms of wickets taken, the margin of victory was the second smallest of the season. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 3 August; Swindon Advertiser 4 August; Wiltshire Advertiser 3 August; Wiltshire Times 5 August; Western Daily Press 1,2 August; Bucks Advertiser 5 August; Bucks Herald 5 August; South Bucks Free Press 4 August; Sporting Life 2 August; The Sportsman 1,2 August.