Minor Counties Championship 1907

72 MATCH NUMBER 40 : DORSET V GLAMORGAN At The Recreation Ground, Park Road, Blandford Forum on Friday 19, Saturday 20 July 1907 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 233 runs Points: Glamorgan 5 Toss: Dorset Umpires: A F Bannister and W Pate Debutants: Dorset 1 (G H Gibson); Glamorgan none First day score: Dorset 66; Glamorgan 460-4 wickets declared (N V H Riches 217*, E R Sweet-Escott 104*) Dorset W H Budge b Nash 3 (1) b Nash 7 G H Gibson c Brain b Creber 18 (4) b Nash 2 P Crimmins c Riches b Creber 0 (3) c Riches b Creber 9 Rev W H Arundell lbw b Nash 3 (2) hit wicket b Creber 37 * Lt H M Greenhill c Smith b Nash 6 (5) b Preedy 37 H F Hodges c Bancroft b Creber 4 (6) c Nash b Creber 10 C Burt b Nash 0 (7) b Preedy 22 A Zealley run out 0 (8) st Brain b Creber 4 + Rev R S K Blucke b Nash 1 (9) not out 2 Stacey, F C c Riches b Creber 31 (10) c Bancroft b Preedy 15 H V Browne not out 0 (11) c Hirst b Creber 3 Extras 0 b 3, lb 8, w 1, nb 1 13 Total 66 161 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 8 13 21 26 26 26 27 66 66 Second innings 6 14 24 90 101 114 117 144 144 161 Creber 9.4 2 40 4 - - (1) 25 7 60 5 - - Nash 9 4 26 5 - - (2) 13 4 39 2 - - Preedy (3) 11.4 1 49 3 - - Extras - - 0 1 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 18.4 6 66 10 0 0 49.4 12 161 10 1 1 Glamorgan N V H Riches not out 217 Smith, D J st Blucke b Zealley 48 Bancroft, W J c and b Crimmins 40 W P Morris c Crimmins b Stacey 5 Hirst, J O c Blucke b Stacey 6 E R Sweet-Escott not out 104 * + J H Brain Creber, H H B Letcher Nash, A Preedy, E A Extras b 26, lb 8, w 3, nb 3 40 Total (4 wickets declared) 460 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 96 178 189 216 - - - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Stacey 23 2 91 2 - - Greenhill 15 1 63 0 - - Zealley 19 1 99 1 - - Browne 13 1 65 0 - - Gibson 17 1 51 0 - - Crimmins 11 2 36 1 - - Burt 5 1 15 0 - - Extras - - 40 0 - - Total 103 9 460 4 3 3 Notes: Glamorgan won by an innings and 233 runs close to 1.30 pm on the second day. For the winners, there were 1 six, 17 fours, 9 threes and 9 twos in Riches 217 not out, scored in 285 minutes, and 8 fours, 8 threes and 24 twos in Sweet- Escott’s 104 not out. In the Glamorgan innings, Riches and Sweet-Escott put on an undefeated 244 for the fifth wicket. Riches 217 not out was the highest individual innings of the season. [Missing: In Dorset second innings who bowled wide and no ball; in Glamorgan innings who bowled 3 wides and 3 no balls and duration of Sweet- Escott’s 104 not out.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; Dorset County Chronicle 25 July; Poole Herald 25 July; Western Mail 20,21 July; South Wales Daily News 20,21 July; South Wales Daily Post 19,20 July; South Wales Echo 19,20 July; Cricket 1907, p 367; Cricket and Hockey Player 25 July; The Sportsman 20,22 July.