Minor Counties Championship 1907

55 MATCH NUMBER 23 : DORSET V MONMOUTHSHIRE At The County Ground, Poole Park, Poole on Friday 28, Saturday 29 June 1907 Result: Monmouthshire won by 85 runs Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset 2 (C Burt, H F Hodges); Monmouthshire none First day score: Monmouthshire 101 and 61-5 wickets (E J Diver 15*, E S Phillips 1*); Dorset 85 Monmouthshire M Stratton b Greenhill 14 (1) c Browne b Crimmins 18 Silverlock, A J c Blucke b Stacey 3 (2) c Arundell b Stacey 6 + Diver, E J c Battrick b Greenhill 7 (7) b Stacey 52 F G Phillips c Hodges b Stacey 19 (3) c Browne b Stacey 16 T B Williams b Stacey 1 (8) b Greenhill 1 E S Phillips c Burt b Greenhill 3 (4) b Browne 11 * Dr A L Tatham c Arundell b Stacey 18 (5) c Crimmins b Browne 1 L F Stedman c and b Stacey 17 (9) b Browne 0 R B Griffiths c Browne b Greenhill 7 (6) b Crimmins 0 Steeples, R run out 1 (11) c Browne b Crimmins 2 W A Williams not out 2 (10) not out 10 Extras nb 3 9 18 Total 101 135 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 61 87 96 101 Second innings 47 86 94 128 135 Stacey 19 9 50 5 - - (1) 13 3 38 3 - - Greenhill 21 8 37 4 - 3 (2) 12 4 29 1 - - Zealley 2 0 5 0 - - Crimmins (3) 9.3 0 26 3 - - Browne (4) 9 2 24 3 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 18 0 - - Total 42 17 101 10 - 3 43.3 9 135 10 - - Dorset Rev W H Arundell c and b Stedman 1 (1) c Steeples b Stedman 3 W H Budge c Griffiths b Stedman 13 (2) c Stratton b Steeples 8 P Crimmins b W A Williams 10 (3) b Steeples 2 H F Hodges b Stedman 3 (7) c Tatham b Stedman 3 Battrick, G c Silverlock b W A Williams 13 (6) c Diver b Steeples 0 C Burt st Diver b Stedman 3 (4) run out 8 + Rev R S K Blucke c Tatham b Stedman 0 (5) c E S Phillips b W A Williams 0 * Lt H M Greenhill c Diver b W A Williams 24 (8) b Stedman 3 H V Browne c and b W A Williams 7 (9) not out 31 A Zealley c and b Stedman 1 (10) b W A Williams 2 Stacey, F C not out 1 (11) c E S Phillips b Steeples 2 Extras 9 4 Total 85 66 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 24 85 Second innings 6 18 66 Steeples 8 3 16 0 - - (1) 16 2 32 4 - - Stedman 17 7 33 6 - - (2) 12 6 22 3 - - W A Williams 13.2 4 27 4 - - (3) 3 1 8 2 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 38.2 14 85 10 - - 31 9 66 10 - - Notes: Monmouthshire won by 85 runs at 3.15 pm on the second day. For the winners Diver scored 52. In their second innings Dorset needed 152 runs to win in over 4 hours. Press reports were critical of the wicket that was felt not be up to county standard. On the first afternoon, the majority of the South African touring team came across from Bournemouth, where they were preparing for the Test Match beginning at Lord’s on Monday, to watch the match. With P F C Williams abroad, Greenhill was appointed Dorset Captain for the season. [Missing: Umpire s;extras breakdown; in Monmouthshire second innings boundaries in Diver’s 52.] Sources: Dorset County Chronicle 4 July; Poole Herald 4 July; Monmouthshire Beacon 5 July; South Wales Argus 28,29 June, 1 July; South Wales Daily News 29 June, 1 July; South Wales Weekly Argus 6 July; Western Mail 29 June,1 July; Cricketer and Hockey Player 4 July, p 8; The Sportsman 1 July.