The Minor Counties Championship 1905

65 MATCH NUMBER 39 : BERKSHIRE V DEVON At The County Ground, Elm Park, Kensington Road, Reading on Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 [no play] August 1905 Result: Match drawn – no decision on first innings Points: Berkshire 1; Devon 1 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Berkshire none; Devon none First day score: As match – rain prevented play on second day Devon R G Cruwys b Sansum 45 E A Fulcher c Nepean b Cave 0 Lt G C Harrison c Nepean b Bennett 63 R T Arundell c Bennett b Sansum 11 * H F Brunskill b Bennett 17 H A Francis b Cave 15 + Davies, T c Nepean b Sansum 8 Light, W F b Cave 38 D C Boles b Barker 31 Aston, W H not out 0 R J Bamberger c Watts b Cave 0 Extras b 11, lb 5 16 Total 244 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 73 93 143 152 160 176 244 244 244 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 10 2 29 1 - - Cave 24.3 4 63 4 - - Peake 14 2 59 0 - - Sansum 18 0 65 3 - - Bennett 4 0 12 2 - - Extras - - 16 0 - - Total 70.3 8 244 10 0 0 Berkshire G G M Bennett c Aston b Boles 38 F E Rowe b Aston 6 S V Shea b Boles 35 + Watts, E b Light 56 W M Greenfield c Boles b Light 45 Cdr C J Collins c Light b Boles 4 * Sir C E M Y Nepean b Boles 7 Barker, W not out 6 Rev E Peake not out 25 Cave, W Sansum, A Extras b 4, lb 1, w 1, nb 1 7 Total (7 wickets) 229 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 66 87 170 181 193 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Aston 13 0 52 1 - - Light 21 1 69 2 - - Boles 15 0 81 4 - - Francis 3 0 10 0 - - Bamberger 3 0 10 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - Total 55 1 229 7 1 1 Notes: This return match was drawn with no decision on first innings, with rain preventing any play on the second day and the match being abandoned at 2.30 pm. The match between the two teams at Exeter in July had been won by Devon. For Berkshire, there were 8 fours in Watts’s 56. For Devon, Harrison’s 63 included 6 fours, an innings o f 80 minutes. In the Devon innings, Light and Boles added 66 runs for the eighth wicket. When he had scored 4 in the Berkshire innings, Bennett reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. [An alternative version of this score based on the Devon Scorebook has Light conceding 70 runs, Boles 74, Francis 14 and Bamberger 13 adding incorrectly to 230.] [Missing: Umpires; in Berkshire innings who bowled wide and no ball which is not in Devon scorebook.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Berkshire Chronicle 5 August; Reading Mercury 5 August; Reading Observer 5 August; Western Daily Mercury 3,4 August; Western Morning News 3,4 August; Sporting Life 3,4 August; The Sportsman 3,4 August.