Minor Counties Championship 1908

98 MATCH NUMBER 65 : BERKSHIRE V WILTSHIRE – SOUTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on Friday 7, Saturday 8 August 1908 Result: Match drawn – Berkshire won on first innings Points: Berkshire 3 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Berkshire none; Wiltshire none First day score: Berkshire 489; Wiltshire 166-3 wickets (H Taunton 11*, R W Awdry 9*) Berkshire F E Rowe b Smart 25 ( ) c Snell b Smith 35 E Garnett c R W Awdry b Newman 282 ( ) b Taunton 59 Shoosmith, H W c Taunton b Smith 15 ( ) c R W Awdry b Smith 15 Watts, E A c Perkins b Smith 44 ( ) b Perkins 36 + Capt E F Rowe c and b Smith 5 ( ) c Smith b Perkins 29 * Sir C E M Y Nepean st Luce b Smith 24 ( ) st R W Awdry b Smart 6 T M C Hunt b Smith 16 ( ) c R W Awdry b Smith 0 Barrett, H c Snell b Smith 35 ( ) not out 36 Cave, W b Miller 20 ( ) not out 23 Barker, W not out 2 H T Willcocks b Newman 2 Extras w 1, nb 1 19 nb 1 12 Total 489 (7 wickets) 251 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 489 Second innings - - - Miller 19 4 116 1 - - Smart 15 2 92 1 - - (2) 7 1 43 1 - - Perkins 7 0 33 0 - - (5) 7 2 24 2 - - Smith 35 2 150 6 1 1 (1) 18 6 63 3 - 1 Newman 9.5 1 36 2 - - (3) 4 0 42 0 - - R W Awdry 2 0 25 0 - - (7) 5 0 21 0 - - Taunton 3 1 18 0 - - (4) 4 0 21 1 - - Whitehead (6) 3 1 9 0 - - Luce (8) 2 0 16 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 12 - - Total 90.5 10 489 10 1 1 50 10 251 7 0 1 Wiltshire T T N Perkins b Barker 12 C S Awdry c Garnett b Shoosmith 87 Newman, A W c E F Rowe b Barker 37 S J H Taunton b Hunt 32 R W Awdry b Barker 122 H S Snell b Barker 34 A Whitehead c Shoosmith b Willcocks 13 * A M Miller b Willcocks 21 + T S Luce not out 38 Smith, W b Hunt 9 Smart, T lbw b Hunt 0 Extras nb 7 19 Total 424 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 424 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hunt 21.5 2 94 3 - - Barker 29 3 119 4 - 7 Cave 9 0 55 0 - - Willcocks 15 0 84 2 - - Shoosmith 19 3 48 1 - - Garnett 5 3 5 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - Total 98.5 11 424 10 0 7 Notes: Drawn return match with Berkshire winning on first innings. The feature of this match was the 282 runs scored by Garnett in the Berkshire first innings that broke the record for the highest individual score held by H E Morgan of Glamorgan of 254 scored against Monmouthshire at Cardiff in 1901. The record has not been beaten since. Garnett scored 59 in the second innings. His run aggregate for the match of 341 was the highest during the season. For Wiltshire, R W Awdry scored 122 and C S Awdry 87. The 213 runs conceded by Smith were the highest for a match in the season. The match aggregate of 1,163 was the highest of the season and also a new record for the Championship. R W Awdry kept wicket for Wiltshire in the Berkshire second innings. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Berkshire first innings breakdown and duration of Garn ett’s 282; in Berkshire second innings boundaries in Garnett’s 59, batting order, in Wiltshire innings breakdown and duration of R W Awdry’s 122, and boundaries in C S Awdry’s 87.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 15 August; Reading Mercury 14 August; Reading Observer 15 August; North Wilts Herald 14 August; The Sportsman 8,10 August; Cricket 20 August, p 354.