The Minor Counties Championship 1905

91 MATCH NUMBER 65 : OXFORDSHIRE V HERTFORDSHIRE At The Christ Church Ground, Iffley Road, Oxford on Monday 14, Tuesday 15 August 1905 Result: Match drawn - Hertfordshire won on first innings Points: Hertfordshire 2 Toss: Hertfordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Oxfordshire none; Hertfordshire 1 (R C Byass) First day score: Hertfordshire 377-7 wickets (J Goodall 15*) Hertfordshire T H K Dashwood c Arnett b A Rogers 2 Golding, A J c A Rogers b Bassett 134 White, H E b Berkeley 135 * A Butcher b Berkeley 47 C T Rudd c J F Marsh b Case 18 R C Byass b Berkeley 4 L G Hosier st J W Marsh b Case 11 + Goodall, J not out 15 Coleman, W E Harding, E R T F Dwight Extras w 1, nb 1 11 Total (7 wickets declared) 377 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 377 - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Rogers, A 36 7 99 1 - - Bassett 35 16 76 1 - 1 Arnett 12 1 65 0 - - Case 5.5 0 45 2 1 - Berkeley 15 3 53 3 - - Rogers, P 9 1 28 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - Total 112.5 28 377 7 1 1 Oxfordshire (Followed on) + Rev J W Marsh c Butcher b White 6 (1) b Byass 11 H Bassett b Coleman 47 (2) c Dashwood b White 28 R Hartley c Goodall b Coleman 17 (3) b White 53 * J F Marsh c Goodall b Byass 25 (4) c Goodall b White 28 W Smith b White 13 (5) not out 87 Rogers, P b Coleman 30 (6) b Golding 38 W S Case b Byass 25 (7) c Dashwood b Harding 29 Arnold, F c Goodall b Byass 7 (8) b Harding 16 M G Arnett b Coleman 2 G F H Berkeley b Coleman 1 Rogers, A not out 5 Extras b 13, lb 3, nb 3 19 b 17, lb 6, nb 2 25 Total 197 (7 wickets) 315 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 197 Second innings 315 - - - White 12 2 36 2 - 1 (4) 16 3 57 3 - - Coleman 21 2 70 5 - - (1) 12 0 54 0 - - Byass 13 1 52 3 - 2 (2) 11 0 74 1 - 2 Harding 7 2 20 0 - - (5) 9 1 35 2 - - Dashwood (3) 1 0 14 0 - - Rudd (6) 6 0 28 0 - - Golding (7) 4 1 28 1 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 25 0 - - Total 53 7 197 10 0 3 59 5 315 7 0 2 Notes: This match was drawn with Hertfordshire winning on first innings. For the visitors, White scored 135, in just under 5 hours, and Golding 134. In the Hertfordshire innings, they put on well over one hundred runs for the second wicket. For the home team, Smith scored 87 not out and Hartley 53. T F Dwight played for Hertfordshire in this match with the pseudonym of A N Oliver. The 44 extras conceded in the two Oxfordshire innings were the third most by a team in a match during the season. In the Oxfordshire first innings when he had scored 38, Bassett reached the career milestone of two thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Umpires; fall of wickets; in Hertfordshire innings extras breakdown, breakdown of White’s 135 and breakdown and duration of Golding’s 134; in Oxfordshire second innings boundaries in Smith’s 87 not out and Hartley’s 53.] Sources: Jackson’s Oxford Journal 19 August; Oxford Chronicle 18 August; Oxford Times 19 August; Herts Advertiser 19 August; Hertfordshire Standard 18 August; West Herts and Watford Observer 19 August; Sporting Life 15,16 August; The Sportsman 15,16 August.