The Minor Counties Championship 1905

90 MATCH NUMBER 64 : CORNWALL V MONMOUTHSHIRE At Liskeard Cricket Club, Lux Park, Coldstyle Road, Liskeard on Monday 14, Tuesday 15 August 1905 Result: Monmouthshire won by 187 runs Points: Monmouthshire 3 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall 2 (C G Humphreys, W J Letcher); Monmouthshire none First day score: Monmouthshire 210 and 23-2 wickets (A J Silverlock 6*); Cornwall 153 Monmouthshire * P C Phillips c and b Barnes 32 (5) c Letcher b Hawken 50 Silverlock, A J run out 23 (3) run out 22 + Diver, E J b Humphreys 27 (6) c Barnes b Trevarthen 5 Dr A L Tatham b Humphreys 35 (4) c and b Humphreys 72 E S Phillips c Donaldson b Humphreys 32 (1) b Tresawna 12 G L Robathan c J C Bickford-Smith b Humphreys 0 (7) b Tresawna 23 J H Stratton b Humphreys 20 (8) c Humphreys b Tresawna 13 R B Griffiths b Humphreys 11 (2) lbw b Letcher 5 F G Phillips b Trevarthen 3 (9) b Humphreys 9 W A Williams c Coad b Humphreys 1 (10) run out 1 Steeples, R not out 1 (11) not out 3 Extras nb 3 25 nb 3 11 Total 210 226 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 65 69 95 163 163 172 193 200 205 210 Second innings 6 23 67 161 166 179 208 212 223 226 Barnes 13 2 43 1 - - (5) 7 2 17 0 - - Letcher 8 1 31 0 - - (2) 6 0 33 1 - - Trevarthen 21 8 37 1 - - (4) 14 3 48 1 - - Humphreys 22 3 68 7 - 3 (1) 23.5 6 55 2 - 2 Tresawna 6 3 6 0 - - (3) 9 0 33 3 - - Hawken (6) 5 0 18 1 - - Donaldson (7) 1 0 9 0 - 1 Extras - - 25 1 - - - - 11 2 - - Total 70 17 210 10 0 3 65.5 11 224x 10 0 3 226 Cornwall J G Donaldson c Williams b Steeples 5 (1) b Steeples 23 W H Coad b F G Phillips 0 (2) b F G Phillips 4 R Rogers b F G Phillips 3 (6) b Steeples 0 W N Bickford-Smith b F G Phillips 17 (4) c Tatham b Steeples 11 + J C Bickford-Smith c Tatham b F G Phillips 25 (5) b Silverlock 15 * H Tresawna b Silverlock 17 (3) b Steeples 10 Trevarthen, C b Silverlock 27 (7) b Steeples 1 E Hawken not out 33 (8) b Steeples 4 C G Humphreys b Steeples 1 (9) not out 7 F C Barnes b Silverlock 5 (10) c Williams b Steeples 9 W J Letcher run out 1 (11) b Steeples 0 Extras nb 1 19 w 1, nb 1 12 Total 153 96 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 6 8 56 57 107 123 127 134 153 Second innings 9 32 48 74 74 74 78 81 96 96 Steeples 13 2 52 2 - - (1) 12.3 4 37 8 - - F G Phillips 11 3 30 4 - - (2) 7 0 26 1 - - Williams 7 0 29 0 - - (3) 5 2 4 0 1 - Silverlock 6 0 23 3 - 1 (4) 7 2 17 1 - 1 Extras - - 19 1 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 37 5 153 10 0 1 31.3 8 96 10 1 1 Notes: Monmouthshire won this return match by 187 runs at 4.15 pm on the second day. Cornwall required in their second innings 284 runs to win in a little over three hours. The match between the two teams at Newport in July had also been won by Monmouthshire. For the winners, Steeples took 10 wickets in the match for 89 runs, including 8 for 37 in the Cornwall second innings. There were 11 fours in Tatham’s 72 and 8 fours in P C Phillips’s 50. For Cornwall, Humphreys who was making his debut took 9 wickets in the match for 123 runs, including 7 for 68 in the Monmouthshire first innings. In the Cornwall second innings, when Tresawna was bowled by Steeples one of the bails ended up “30 paces behind the wicket”. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; in Monmouthshire second innings runs bowling two short.] Sources: Cornish Leader 18 August; Cornish Times 18 August; Western Daily Mercury 15,16 August; Western Morning News 15,16 August; County Observer and Monmouthshire Advertiser 19 August; South Wales Argus 14,15,16 August; South Wales Daily News 15,16 August; South Wales Echo 14,15 August; Western Mail 15,16 August; Sporting Life 15,16 August; The Sportsman 15,16 August.