Minor Counties Championship 1908

102 MATCH NUMBER 69 : SURREY 2 ND XI V DORSET – SOUTH DIVISION At The Guildford Cricket Club Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford on Friday 7, Saturday 8 August 1908 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by an innings and 42 runs Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: Not known Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI none; Dorset 2 (A M Harrison, J A H Rogers) First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 317; Dorset 92 and 70-3 wickets (P F C Williams 36*) Surrey 2 nd XI H S Altham c Gordon b Stacey 31 Goatly, E G b Stacey 19 Davis, W E c A M Harrison b Stacey 0 Blacklidge, H G c Crimmins b Sewell 9 J E Jewell b Stacey 14 Abel, W J b Stacey 47 Harrison, H S b Stacey 1 * A W F Rutty b W Harrison 63 + Vigar, H E run out 95 Rushby, T c Arundell b Crimmins 24 Jackson, M T not out 4 Extras b 9, nb 1 10 Total 317 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 46 46 63 317 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - W Harrison 11 2 49 1 - - Sewell 19 3 90 1 - - Stacey 23 0 95 6 - 1 Gordon 11 0 43 0 - - Crimmins 6.2 0 30 1 - - Extras - - 10 1 - - Total 70.2 5 317 10 0 1 Dorset (Followed on) Rev W H Arundell b Jackson 4 (2) b Rushby 9 * P F C Williams c Vigar b Rushby 4 (1) c Rutty b Rushby 54 P Crimmins b Rushby 39 (3) b Rushby 22 F A S Sewell c Jewell b Jackson 9 (4) b Rushby 2 G M Gordon c Vigar b Rushby 1 (5) b Rushby 6 J A H Rogers c Davis b Jackson 7 (6) c and b Davis 21 A M Harrison b Rushby 7 (7) st Vigar b Rushby 8 Stacey, F C c Jackson b Rushby 19 (8) c Rushby b Blacklidge 25 + E Chester Master b Rushby 0 (9) st Vigar b Davis 0 W Harrison b Rushby 0 (10) c Jackson b Blacklidge 11 W H Manfield not out 1 (11) not out 11 Extras lb 1 1 b 12, lb 1, nb 1 14 Total 92 183 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 92 Second innings 70 183 Rushby 14.3 4 32 7 - - (1) 23 5 72 6 - 1 Jackson 14 1 59 3 - - (2) 14 3 39 0 - - Davis (3) 8 0 30 2 - - Blacklidge (4) 9.4 1 28 2 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 28.3 5 92 10 0 0 54.4 9 183 10 0 1 Notes: Surrey 2 nd XI won this return match by an innings and 42 runs on the second day, after Dorset followed on 225 runs behind. The match between the two sides at Dorchester at the beginning of July had also been won by Surrey 2 nd XI. For the winners, Rushby took 13 wickets in the match for 104 runs, including for 7 for 32 in the Dorset first innings. There were 2 sixes and 5 fours in Vigar’s 95 and 6 fours in Rutty’s 63. These two batsmen put on 157 runs for the eighth wicket in the Surrey innings which was a new championship record for this wicket beating the 152 added by A K Watson and R G Pilch for Norfolk against Cambridgeshire at Norwich in 1905. For the losers, Williams scored 54. This was the first championship match to be played at this ground. [Missing: Umpires; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Dorset second innings boundaries in Williams’s 54; precise time completed.] Sources: Surrey Year Book 1908, p 116; Guildford Free Press 15 August; Surrey Advertiser 10 August; Surrey Times 15 August; East Dorset Herald 13 August; The Sportsman 8,10 August; Cricket 20 August, p 354.