The Minor Counties Championship 1905

70 MATCH NUMBER 44 : SURREY 2 ND XI V WILTSHIRE At The Oval, Kennington, London on Friday 4, Saturday 5 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Wiltshire won on first innings Points: Wiltshire 2 Toss: Wiltshire Umpires: R Rogers and A Stockwin Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI 2 (T Bowring, E J Cotton); Wiltshire none First day score: Wiltshire 254; Surrey 2 nd XI 131-8 wickets (J W Meads 14*, E W Bale 2*) Wiltshire T T N Perkins c Robarts b Gooder 66 E S Warrilow c and b Rushby 12 Newman, A W st Bale b Meads 101 H M Butterworth c Gooder b Rushby 22 H P Taunton b Rushby 1 C A H Ransome b Meads 35 Smith, W R R run out 4 Overton, W c Goatly b Meads 0 * A M Miller b Meads 0 E Grant not out 2 + T S Luce lbw b Meads 1 Extras b 8, lb 1, nb 1 10 Total 254 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 188 191 250 250 250 250 254 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Meads 16.5 3 31 5 - - Rushby 28 10 51 3 - - Gooder 14 2 56 1 - - Bowring 7 0 27 0 - 1 Goatly 4 1 9 0 - - Moulder 9 2 37 0 - - Graburn 3 0 15 0 - - Spring 6 1 17 0 - - Robarts 2 1 1 0 - - Extras - - 10 1 - - Total 89.5 20 254 10 0 1 Surrey 2 nd XI (Followed on) Goatly, E G b Miller 1 (1) b Grant 6 T Bowring c Smith b Miller 11 (2) c Luce b Smith 58 Moulder, J H c Luce b Miller 0 (3) b Taunton 45 F W Robarts c Ransome b Miller 3 (4) not out 18 Cotton, E J st Luce b Overton 8 Gooder, L M H c Grant b Warrilow 43 Spring, W A c Luce b Grant 37 * W T Graburn b Overton 10 Meads, J W not out 23 + Bale, E W c and b Overton 9 Rushby, T st Luce b Overton 1 Extras b 1, lb 1, nb 1 3 0 Total 149 (3 wickets) 127 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 16 149 Second innings 14 109 127 - - - - - - - Grant 19 6 36 1 - 1 (2) 11 4 30 1 - - Miller 13 2 46 4 - - (3) 4 0 25 0 - - Overton 11.1 3 33 4 - - (1) 8 1 21 0 - - Smith 4 0 11 0 - - (4) 6 3 20 1 - - Warrilow 2 0 12 1 - - (5) 2 0 18 0 - - Newman 4 2 8 0 - - Taunton (6) 3 0 13 1 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 53.1 13 149 10 0 1 34 8 127 3 0 0 Notes: This match was drawn with Wiltshire winning on first innings after enforcing the follow-on. Less than two hours of cricket were possible on the second day, play being stopped shortly after 1.00 pm when a storm broke. The match was formally abandoned at 4.20 pm. On the first day, Wiltshire built themselves a strong position with the score at 250 for the loss of five wickets. Meads was then responsible for causing a collapse with 4 wickets falling at that total and only four more runs were added by the last wicket pair. For the visitors, there were 11 fours and 7 threes in Newman’s 101. Perkins’s 66 contained 1 f ive and 7 fours. For Surrey 2 nd XI, Bowring top-scored with 58. During the match 16 players bowled, nine in the Wiltshire innings and seven in the two Surrey innings. When he had scored 38 in the Wiltshire innings, Perkins reached the career milestone of one thousand runs in championship matches. The same milestone was reached by Gooder when he had scored 25 in the Surrey first innings. [Missing: Part fall of wickets; in Wiltshire innings duration and twos in Newman’s 101; in Surrey second innings boundaries in Bowring’s 58] Sources: Surrey Year Book 1905, p 114; Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 10 August; North Wilts Herald 11 August; Swindon Advertiser 11 August; Wiltshire Advertiser 10 August; Wiltshire Times 12 August; Western Daily Press 5,7 August; The Sportsman 5,7 August.