Minor Counties Championship 1907

68 MATCH NUMBER 36 : WORCESTERSHIRE 2 ND XI V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE At The Kidderminster Cricket Club Ground, Chester Road, Kidderminster on Monday 15, Tuesday 16 July 1907 Result: Match drawn – Worcestershire 2 nd XI won on first innings Points: Worcestershire 2 nd XI 3 Toss: Not known Umpires: C E Brown and B W Mason Debutants: Worcestershire 2 nd XI 4 (- Bidmead, S J Gethin, H J Powys-Keck, W L Price); Buckinghamshire 3 (H W Priestley, E Southall, G A Wilson) First day score: Worcestershire 2 nd XI 289; Buckinghamshire 93-3 wickets (E Southall 38*, M WWright 33*) Worcestershire 2 nd XI Hunt, F b Wright 0 (1) b Vickerstaff 6 Days, J E c Southall b Wright 42 (2) c Wright b Vickerstaff 0 Wheldon, G F c E C Hobbs b Wilson 36 (3) lbw b Vickerstaff 12 S J Gethin c Priestley b Wilson 69 (4) c and b Wilson 21 Smith, W C c Priestley b Vickerstaff 54 (5) c and b Wilson 11 W L Price b Wilson 31 (6) c Wilson b Vickerstaff 6 W E Hatfield b Vickerstaff 5 (7) lbw b Priestley 11 Solly, E W b Wilson 0 (9) b Priestley 0 + Straw, T b Vickerstaff 7 (8) b Priestley 0 H J Powys-Keck not out 1 (10) b Priestley 0 Bidmead, - b Vickerstaff 6 (11) not out 2 Extras nb 1 38 10 Total 289 79 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 85 93 200 289 Second innings 19 79 Wright 36 18 45 2 - - Wilson 19 5 93 4 - - (1) 15.1 6 24 2 - - Vickerstaff 23 5 77 4 - 1 (2) 11 2 43 4 - - Wheeler 10 3 36 0 - - Priestley (3) 4 3 2 4 - - Extras - - 38 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 88 31 289 10 - 1 30.1 11 79 10 - - Buckinghamshire E C Hobbs st Straw b Powys-Keck 0 Dr A R Hobbs c Powys-Keck b Days 5 * F N Bird c Powys-Keck b Days 4 (3) not out 38 E Southall b Gethin 90 Wright, M W lbw b Solly 41 + Rev F Symes-Thompson c Solly b Bidmead 22 Wilson, G A b Days 7 (1) c Smith b Bidmead 19 H W Priestley b Powys-Keck 11 (2) c and b Solly 27 W Wheeler b Gethin 3 Gibbs, T c Hatfield b Powys-Keck 3 Vickerstaff, S J A not out 0 Extras w 1, nb 1 20 nb 1 2 Total 206 (2 wickets) 86 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 206 Second innings 86 - - - - - - - - Days 16 6 23 3 - 1 (4) 3 1 8 0 - - Powys-Keck 18.2 5 46 3 - - (2) 5 1 15 0 - - Hatfield 4 1 11 0 - - (5) 1 0 7 0 - - Hunt 7 2 7 0 - - Solly 14 4 26 1 - - (6) 2.5 0 16 1 - - Bidmead 11 3 32 1 1 - (3) 4 0 16 1 - 1 Price 13 1 28 0 - - Gethin 7 2 13 2 - - (1) 3 0 22 0 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 90.2 24 206 10 1 1 18.5 2 86 2 - 1 Notes: Match drawn with Worcestershire 2 nd XI winning on first innings. Buckinghamshire in their second innings required 163 runs to win in a little over an hour. For Buckinghamshire, Southall’s 90 contained 9 fours. He batted with an injured hand for nea rly four hours. The 18 maidens bowled by Wright in the Worcestershire 2 nd XI first innings were the most in an innings during the season. In the Worcestershire first innings Gethin and Smith added 107 for the fourth wicket with Gethin scoring 69 and Smith 54. [Missing: Toss; Worcestershire Captain; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Worcestershire 2 nd XI first innings boundaries in Gethin’s 69 and Smith’s 54; initials of Bidmead.] Sources: Kidderminster Times 20 July; Worcester Daily Times 15,16,17 July; Birmingham Daily Post 16,17 July; Bucks Advertiser 20 July; Bucks Herald 20 July; South Bucks Free Press 19 July; South Bucks Standard 19 July; The Sportsman 15,16,17 July.