Minor Counties Championship 1907

83 MATCH NUMBER 51 : GLAMORGAN V DORSET At The Arms Park,Westgate Street, Cardiff on Wednesday 31 July, Thursday 1 August 1907 Result: Glamorgan won by two wickets Points: Glamorgan 5 Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: G L R Hutchings and H Willis Debutants: Glamorgan none; Dorset 1 (F J Hutchings) First day score: Glamorgan 304; Dorset 119-7 wickets (A Zealley 15*, H V Browne 20*) Glamorgan N V H Riches lbw b Talbot 0 (2) b Stacey 17 Smith, D J c Zealley b Browne 69 (1) run out 0 Bancroft, W J c Stacey b Talbot 11 (3) b Stacey 1 R A Gibbs b Browne 40 (4) not out 40 Hirst, J O c Greenhill b Browne 0 (5) b Talbot 0 E R Sweet-Escott c Goodden b Stacey 69 (6) b Stacey 6 H B Letcher b Greenhill 44 (7) c and b Browne 12 * + J H Brain b Stacey 16 (8) c Hutchings b Stacey 0 Preedy, E A not out 26 (9) c and b Browne 17 Creber, H b Stacey 12 (10) not out 11 A Nash b Talbot 3 Extras b 10, lb 4 14 b 9, lb 4, nb 1 14 Total 304 (8 wickets) 118 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 12 119 120 144 235 256 277 301 304 Second innings 0 10 28 31 48 75 76 100 - - Talbot 20.1 3 59 3 - - (1) 7 0 30 1 - 1 Stacey 21 2 93 3 - - (2) 15 0 39 4 - - Greenhill 21 6 52 1 - - (3) 2 0 12 0 - - Sewell 3 0 18 0 - - Browne 14 0 46 3 - - (4) 6.4 1 23 2 - - Zealley 5 0 22 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 14 1 - - Total 84.1 11 304 10 0 0 30.4 1 118 8 0 1 Dorset (Followed on) * Lt H M Greenhill c Riches b Preedy 50 (3) b Nash 13 Rev W H Arundell b Preedy 13 (2) c Creber b Sweet-Escott 102 F J Hutchings b Preedy 1 ( ) st Brain b Creber 0 F A S Sewell c Letcher b Creber 8 (4) c Sweet-Escott b Creber 15 C P Goodden c Brain b Preedy 0 (5) b Nash 7 A Zealley hit wicket b Creber 18 ( ) c Gibbs b Creber 2 + Capt W H M Leny b Creber 0 (8) c Creber b Preedy 38 H F Hodges c Brain b Preedy 7 (9) st Brain b Creber 25 H V Browne not out 73 (1) c Riches b Nash 1 Stacey, F C c Gibbs b Letcher 26 (10) b Sweet-Escott 1 S W Talbot c Sweet-Escott b Nash 3 (11) not out 6 Extras b 4, lb 1 5 b 1, lb 4, nb 1 6 Total 204 216 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 55 57 64 64 76 76 83 131 182 204 Second innings 2 17 41 51 66 69 119 171 172 216 Creber 26 5 73 3 - - (2) 22 3 85 4 - - Nash 17 4 53 1 - - (1) 25 5 71 3 - 1 Preedy 19 4 53 5 - - (3) 7 1 21 1 - - Letcher 4 0 20 1 - - (5) 2 0 21 0 - - Sweet-Escott (4) 7 2 12 2 - - Extras - - 5 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 66 13 204 10 0 0 63 11 216 10 0 1 Notes: Glamorgan won this return match by 2 wickets on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. The match between the two teams at Blandford earlier in July had also been won by Glamorgan. Glamorgan had to score 117 runs for victory. When the eighth wicket fell, the home side still needed 17 runs to win, but Gibbs and Creber saw them home. For the winners, there were 6 fours i n Smith’s 69 and 4 fours in Sweet - Escott’s 69 and in the first innings Smith and Gibbs added 107 for the third wicket. For Dorset, Arundell’s 102 contained 9 fours and 8 threes. He opened the batting and was the last wicket to fall. Browne’s 73 not out inc luded 9 fours and Greenhill’s 50 6 fours. In the Dorset first innings, Browne and Stacey added 51 runs for the ninth wicket, and in the second innings Arundell and Leny added 50 for the seventh wicket and Arundell and Hodges 52 for the eighth. [Missing: P recise time completed; in Dorset second innings duration of Arundell’s 102 and part batting order.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; Cardiff Evening Express 31 July, 1 August; South Wales Argus 31 July,1 August; South Wales Daily News 1,2 August; Dorset County Chronicle 8 August; Western Mail 1,2 August; Cricketer and Hockey Player 8 August; Sporting Chronicle 1 August; The Sportsman 1,2 August.