The Minor Counties Championship 1905

97 MATCH NUMBER 71 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V BERKSHIRE At The Slough Cricket Club Ground, Chalvey Road, Slough on Friday 18, Saturday 19 August 1905 Result: Match drawn – Buckinghamshire won on first innings Points: Buckinghamshire 2 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Buckinghamshire none; Berkshire 2 (P H Martineau, Capt W E M Tyndall) First day score: Berkshire 259; Buckinghamshire 70-0 wicket (C R H Gresson 22*, E Weaver-Adams 47*) Berkshire * Sir C E Y M Nepean b Stacey 53 (4) c Vickerstaff b Stacey 16 G G M Bennett c de Paravicini b Wright 30 (3) c Bird b Wright 35 + Watts, E c and b Stacey 43 (5) c and b Page 20 Capt W E M Tyndall b Stacey 8 (1) b Stacey 0 W M Greenfield b Vickerstaff 14 (6) not out 22 A C M Croome b Gregory 72 (7) not out 16 Barker, W c Symes-Thompson b Wright 20 P H Martineau c Perry b Wright 1 C W Turner b Gregory 0 Rev F J Howard not out 3 (2) c Weaver-Adams b Wright 6 Cave, W b Gregory 0 Extras b 8, lb 7 15 b 4, lb 3 7 Total 259 (5 wickets) 122 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 44 125 133 156 182 250 259 Second innings 0 36 43 66 89 - - - - - Page 2 0 21 0 - - (4) 3 0 9 1 - - Gregory 12.1 4 19 3 - - Stacey 24 6 72 3 - - (1) 15 5 50 2 - - Vickerstaff 25 3 65 1 - - (3) 3 0 14 0 - - Wright 26 7 67 3 - - (2) 13 3 30 2 - - de Paravicini (5) 1 0 4 0 - - Bird (6) 1 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 89.1 20 259 10 0 0 36 8 122 5 0 0 Buckinghamshire C R H Gresson c Croome b Barker 82 Dr E Weaver-Adams b Croome 72 F N Bird c Howard b Cave 133 Wright, M W c and b Cave 28 D Gregory b Howard 4 T Stacey not out 54 + Rev F Symes-Thompson b Cave 1 Perry, S A B not out 23 * P J de Paravicini Page, H Vickerstaff, S J A Extras b 16, lb 2, w 7 25 Total (6 wickets declared) 422 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 116 256 331 344 344 348 - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 42 10 129 1 - - Cave 21 5 60 3 - - Bennett 15 4 49 0 3 - Croome 21 6 50 1 2 - Howard 17 3 58 1 1 - Martineau 5 0 36 0 - - Turner 3 0 14 0 - - Extras - - 25 0 - - Total 124 28 421x 6 6x 0 422 7 Notes: This return match was drawn with Buckinghamshire winning on first innings. The match between the two sides played at Reading the previous week had also been drawn. For the home team, Bird’s 133 included 14 fours and 10 threes, an innings of 165 minutes. There were 8 fours in both Gresson’s 82 and Stacey’s 54 no t out. Weaver- Adams scored 72. In the home team’s innings, Gresson and Weaver-Adams put on 116 runs for the first wicket, Gresson and Bird added 140 for the second wicket, and Stacey and Perry added 74 runs undefeated for the seventh wicket. For Berkshire , Croome’s 72 contained 9 fours and Nepean’s 53 included 2 fours. In the Berkshire first innings when he had scored 13, Croome reached the career milestone of two thousand runs in championship matches. [Missing: Umpires; in Berkshire first innings fall of seventh to ninth wickets; in Buckinghamshire innings twos in Bird’s 133, boundaries in Weaver- Adams’s 72, runs bowling one short, and who bowled seventh wide.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 26 August; Bucks Herald 26 August; Slough Observer 26 August; Windsor Express 26 August; Berkshire Chronicle 26 August; Reading Mercury 26 August; Reading Standard 26 August; The Sportsman 19,21 August.