Minor Counties Championship 1907

116 MATCH NUMBER 84 : DORSET V DEVON At The Recreation Ground, Park Road, Blandford Forum on Friday 16, Saturday 17 August 1907 Result: Devon won by 237 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset none; Devon none First day score: Devon 177 and 143-3 wickets (W F Sturt 28*, H F Brunskill 25*) Devon R G Cruwys c and b Stacey 17 (1) c and b Greenhill 31 Lt G C Harrison b Stacey 0 (2) b Greenhill 43 C V L Hooman b Udal 0 (3) run out 8 W F Sturt c Sewell b Greenhill 38 (4) b Stacey 28 * H F Brunskill c Udal b Farquharson 25 (5) c Budge b Farquharson 25 J F Shelley c Battrick b Browne 27 (6) b Udal 15 Light, W F b Stacey 25 (7) c and b Browne 71 R J Bamberger b Udal 10 (8) b Udal 2 Hawksworth, G M b Stacey 16 (9) c Stacey b Crimmins 41 Aston, H R b Stacey 0 (10) not out 21 + Davies, T not out 4 Extras b 12, lb 3 15 b 19, w 1 20 Total 177 (9 wickets declared) 305 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 5 37 83 94 141 142 165 165 177 Second innings 73 88 94 146 146 193 213 268 305 - Stacey 14 4 41 5 - - (4) 20 2 69 1 - - Udal 11.3 2 36 2 - - (5) 13 1 73 2 - - Greenhill 10 1 33 1 - - (6) 10 0 67 2 - - Farquharson 5 1 22 1 - - (2) 8 2 24 1 - - Crimmins 2 0 16 0 - - (7) 1.1 0 5 1 - - Browne 3 0 14 1 - - (1) 6 0 30 1 - - Sewell (3) 2 0 17 0 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - - - 20 1 - - Total 45.3 8 177 10 0 0 60.1 5 305 9 1 0 Dorset Rev W H Arundell b Aston 12 (1) lbw b Aston 2 W H Budge b Aston 0 (2) c Davies b Hawksworth 20 P Crimmins st Davies b Hawksworth 4 (3) st Davies b Hawksworth 18 H V Browne b Aston 1 (4) c and b Aston 15 F A S Sewell c and b Hawksworth 6 (5) c and b Aston 31 G H Farquharson c Brunskill b Hawksworth 0 (6) c Brunskill b Hawksworth 9 * Lt H M Greenhill b Hawksworth 8 (7) b Aston 18 + O F Huyshe b Aston 12 (8) c Light b Hawksworth 5 Battrick, G not out 18 (9) b Bamberger 35 Capt A U Udal b Hawksworth 4 (10) c Shelley b Hawksworth 3 Stacey, F C c and b Aston 3 (11) not out 12 Extras b 1, lb 1 2 b 3, lb 4 7 Total 70 175 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 15 17 18 21 28 35 54 61 70 Second innings 5 29 52 62 124 130 149 159 163 175 Aston 14.2 2 40 5 - - (1) 25 7 73 4 - - Hawksworth 14 6 28 5 - - (2) 26.1 8 68 5 - - Light (3) 4 1 18 0 - - Bamberger (4) 2 0 9 1 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 28.2 8 70 10 0 0 57.1 16 175 10 0 0 Notes: Devon won this return match by 237 runs at 3.55 pm on the second day. The Devon declaration set Dorset a victory target of 413 runs in around four hours. The match between the two sides at Devonport the previous week had been drawn. For the winners, Hawksworth took 10 wickets in the mat ch for 96 runs, and Aston 9 for 113. There was 1 six and 9 fours in Light’s 71. In the second innings Light and Hawksworth added 55 for the eighth wicket. Newspaper reports indicate overnight rain caused the wicket to play slowly on the first day and that Dorset in their second innings had to bat on ‘a broken wicket’. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Dorset County Chronicle 22 August; Poole Herald 22 August; Western Daily Mercury 17.19 August; Western Evening Herald 16,17 August; Western Morning News 17.19 August; Cricketer and Hockey Player 22 August; The Sportsman 17,19 August.