Minor Counties Championship 1907

79 MATCH NUMBER 47 : GLAMORGAN V DEVON At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Friday 26, Saturday 27 July 1907 Result: Glamorgan won by seven wickets Points: Glamorgan 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: G L R Hutchings and H Willis Debutants: Glamorgan none; Devon none First day score: Devon 151; Glamorgan 105-6 wickets (G L Rattenbury 10*, J H Brain 2*) Devon R G Cruwys c Brain b Creber 0 (1) b Nash 1 C V L Hooman c Smith b Nash 14 (2) c Letcher b Creber 0 W F Sturt c Sweet-Escott b Nash 15 (3) st Brain b Creber 3 H V I Watts c Brain b Nash 5 (4) c Sweet-Escott b Nash 9 W S Gwynn c Nash b Creber 39 (5) c Letcher b Nash 0 J F Shelley c Brain b Nash 0 (6) c Letcher b Creber 0 * H F Brunskill c Riches b Nash 8 (7) b Nash 19 Light, W F c Hirst b Nash 4 (8) b Nash 23 + Davies, T b Creber 0 (9) c Brain b Creber 14 Hawksworth, G M c Letcher b Preedy 40 (10) not out 13 Aston, H R not out 20 (11) b Creber 3 Extras b 4, lb 2 6 b 2, lb 1 3 Total 151 88 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 28 29 42 42 62 74 74 95 151 Second innings 1 4 13 13 13 13 54 68 72 88 Creber 23 3 70 3 - - (1) 13.3 2 34 5 - - Nash 20 4 58 6 - - (2) 18 9 41 5 - - Preedy 2.2 0 17 1 - - (3) 7 2 10 0 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 45.2 7 151 10 0 0 38.3 13 88 10 0 0 Glamorgan N V H Riches b Aston 5 (1) not out 56 Smith, D J c Davies b Hawksworth 21 (2) c Cruwys b Light 9 Bancroft, W J c Davies b Aston 16 (3) c Cruwys b Hooman 18 Hirst, J O st Davies b Hawksworth 16 (4) c Hawksworth b Hooman 6 E R Sweet-Escott b Hawksworth 33 (5) not out 1 H B Letcher c Davies b Light 0 G L Rattenbury st Davies b Hawksworth 14 * + J H Brain c Hooman b Light 5 Preedy, E A not out 27 Creber, H run out 0 Nash, A b Light 0 Extras b 3, nb 1 4 b 9 9 Total 141 (3 wickets) 99 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 8 40 42 91 92 92 110 126 141 141 Second innings 35 78 96 - - - - - - - Aston 16 1 59 2 - - (1) 5 0 23 0 - - Hawksworth 27 10 49 4 - - (2) 9 3 14 0 - - Light 13 2 29 3 - 1 (3) 5 1 19 1 - - Cruwys (4) 7 2 21 0 - - Hooman (5) 6.3 3 13 2 - - Extras - - 4 1 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 56 13 141 10 0 1 32.3 9 99 3 0 0 Notes: Glamorgan won this return match by seven wickets at 4.05 pm on the second day. Glamorgan had also won when the two teams met at Exeter earlier in the month. On the first day, there were three interruptions caused by rain and, after a downpour shortly after 5.00 pm, play was abandoned for the day. For the winners, Nash took 11 wickets in the match for 99 runs. There were 6 fours in Riches’s 56 not out. In the Devon first innings Hawksworth and Aston put on 56 runs for the last wicket. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Glamorgan Scorebook; Cardiff Evening Express 26,27 July; South Wales Argus 26,27 July; South Wales Daily News 27,29 July; South Wales Daily Post 26,27 July; Exeter Express and Echo 26,27 July; Western Daily Mercury 27,29 July; Western Mail 27,29 July; Western Morning News 27,29 July; The Sportsman 27,29 July.