Minor Counties Championship 1907

104 MATCH NUMBER 72 : BERKSHIRE V WORCESTERSHIRE 2 ND XI At The County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 August 1907 Result: Berkshire won by 122 runs Points: Berkshire 5 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Berkshire none; Worcestershire 2 nd XI 2 (M K Foster, - Williams) First day score: Berkshire Berkshire 185 and 94-3 wickets (L P Collins 65*, E Watts 6*); Worcestershire 2 nd XI 84 Berkshire L P Collins c Hiatt b Solly 88 (1) b Hunt 92 G G M Bennett c Straw b Solly 8 (2) b Solly 5 Shoosmith, H W c Foley b Solly 16 (3) b Solly 0 A E Fernie c Straw b Solly 8 (4) b Crowe 9 Watts, E b Days 1 (5) c Foley b Hunt 27 G V Goodliffe c Hiatt b Solly 10 (6) c Foley b Days 6 Barrett, H c Bache b Solly 6 (7) b Hunt 18 J H Bennett c Foster b Hunt 36 (8) c Days b Hunt 16 * + Capt E F Rowe c Crowe b Hunt 8 (9) b Solly 1 Cave, W c Crowe b Solly 2 (10) b Solly 4 Barker, W not out 0 (11) not out 0 Extras 2 w 1 10 Total 185 188 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 185 Second innings 188 Solly 21 4 93 7 - - (1) 14 1 84 4 - - Days 10 1 52 1 - - (4) 13 5 28 1 - - Hunt 10.3 1 38 2 - - (2) 17 3 56 4 - - Crowe (3) 3 1 10 1 1 - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 41.3 6 185 10 - - 47 10 188 10 1 - Worcestershire 2 nd XI Days, J E c Cave b Barker 13 (2) c Cave b Barker 25 Hunt, F c Barrett b Cave 22 (3) c J H Bennett b Cave 23 H G Bache c Shoosmith b Cave 11 (4) c J H Bennett b Goodliffe 63 G L Crowe b Cave 0 (1) c Goodliffe b Barker 2 M K Foster b Cave 8 (6) c Shoosmith b Barker 4 T C Hiatt c Rowe b Barker 3 (5) c Shoosmith b Barker 4 + Straw, T not out 2 (8) c Rowe b Goodliffe 5 Williams, - c J H Bennett b Barker 17 (7) run out 39 Solly, E W c Rowe b Cave 1 (9) c Shoosmith b Goodliffe 0 * P H Foley c Shoosmith b Barker 6 (10) not out 0 W L Price absent - absent - Extras 1 nb 2 2 Total 84 167 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 84 - Second innings 167 - Barker 22.1 3 44 4 - - (1) 14 0 86 4 - 2 Cave 22 10 38 5 - - (2) 14 2 44 1 - - Shoosmith 1 0 1 0 - - (3) 7 0 26 0 - - Goodliffe (4) 6.5 3 9 3 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 2 1 - - Total 45.1 13 84 9 - - 41.5 5 167 9 0 2 Notes: Berkshire won this return match by 122 runs on the second day. Worcestershire had required 290 runs to win in five hours. Berkshire had also won the match between the two teams at Worcester in June. For the winners Collins scored 88 and 92. For the losers, Solly took 11 wickets in the match for 177 runs, including 7 for 93 in the Berkshire first innings and Bache scored 63. W L Price was reported as ‘failing to turn up’. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in the Berkshire first innings boundaries in Collins’s 88; in the Berkshire second innings boundaries in Collins’s 92; in the Worcestershire 2 nd XI second innings boundaries in Bache’s 63; precise time completed; Williams’s initials.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 17 August; Reading Mercury 17 August; Reading Observer 17 August; Worcester Daily Times 13,14 August; Birmingham Daily Post 13,14 August; The Sportsman 13,14 August.