Minor Counties Championship 1908

104 MATCH NUMBER 71 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V DORSET – SOUTH DIVISION At The Slough Cricket Club Ground, Chalvey Road, Slough on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 August 1908 Result: Dorset won by 74 runs Points: Dorset 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Buckinghamshire 1 (J H Edwards); Dorset none First day score: Dorset 258; Buckinghamshire 84-7 wickets (M WWright 33*, J H Edwards 1*) Dorset Rev W H Arundell c Shaw b Vickerstaff 16 (1) c Shaw b Wilson 55 * P F C Williams c Vickerstaff b Wilson 163 (2) c Weaver Adams b Wilson 1 W H Budge b Wilson 9 (3) b Wilson 3 F A S Sewell b Wilson 9 (4) b Vickerstaff 36 N R Udal b Wilson 9 (5) lbw b Wilson 32 H F Hodges b Wilson 0 (6) b Wright 5 C P Goodden b Wilson 15 (7) b Wilson 7 G M Gordon run out 3 (8) lbw b Wilson 12 Stacey, F C b Wilson 0 (9) b Wilson 20 H M Greenhill b Wilson 0 (10) not out 1 H C B Cummins not out 16 (11) run out 4 Extras b 10, lb 4, w 1, nb 3 18 b 13, lb 3 16 Total 258 192 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 258 Second innings 192 Wilson 29.3 2 109 8 - - (1) 24 4 82 7 - - Wright 23 10 36 0 - - (2) 18.3 8 32 1 - - Vickerstaff 15 2 76 1 - 3 (3) 7 0 32 1 - - Faulkner 7 1 19 0 - - (4) 5 0 22 0 - - Leat (5) 2 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 18 1 - - - - 16 1 - - Total 74.3 15 258 10 1 3 56.3 12 192 10 0 0 Buckinghamshire Dr E Weaver Adams c Greenhill b Stacey 0 (6) c Arundell b Cummins 59 E J Leat b Udal 3 (8) c Budge b Gordon 57 R W Orton b Stacey 5 (4) c Udal b Stacey 30 + E A Shaw b Stacey 1 (3) b Stacey 7 * W F L F Lowndes b Udal 29 (5) c Udal b Stacey 4 Wright, M W lbw b Cummins 56 (2) run out 3 G M Faulkner b Stacey 1 (9) b Cummins 0 Wilson, G A c Arundell b Stacey 2 (7) c Gordon b Cummins 13 Edwards, J H not out 28 (1) run out 0 T R Kent b Udal 3 (10) not out 37 Vickerstaff, S J A c Sewell b Cummins 7 (11) b Gordon 0 Extras b 3, lb 1, nb 8 12 b 12, lb 1, w 1, nb 5 19 Total 147 229 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 147 Second innings 0 10 144 229 229 Stacey 18 1 66 5 - - (1) 13 3 40 3 - - Udal 18 5 63 3 - 6 (2) 18 2 79 0 - 2 Cummins 4.2 0 6 2 - - (4) 9 1 33 3 - 1 Greenhill (3) 4 0 18 0 1 - Gordon (5) 5.5 0 11 2 - 2 Sewell (6) 5 0 29 0 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 19 2 - - Total 40.2 6 147 10 0 8 54.5 6 229 10 1 5 Notes: Dorset won this return match by 74 runs with 15 minutes to spare at 6.15 pm on the second day. The match between the two sides at Poole in July had been won by Buckinghamshire. For the winners there were 22 fours in Williams’s 163, an innings of just over 3 hours and Arundell scored 55. For the losers, Wilson took 15 wickets in the match for 191 runs, including 8 for 109 in the first innings, and 7 for 82 in the second. Weaver Adams scored 59, Leat 57 and Wright 56. In the Buckinghamshire second innings Leat and Kent added 85 for the ninth wicket. [Missing: Toss; umpires; Dorset wicket-keeper; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Dorset first innings breakdown of William’s 163 and who bowled wide; in Dorset second innings, boundaries in Arundell’s 55; in Buckinghamshire first innings, boundaries in Wright’s 56 and who bowled 2 no -balls; in Buckinghamshire se cond innings boundaries in Weaver Adams’s 59 and Leat’s 57.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 15 August; Bucks Herald 15 August; Slough Observer 15 August; South Bucks Free Press 14 August; Dorset County Chronicle 13 August; East Dorset Herald 13 August; Poole Sun 12 August; The Sportsman 11,12 August; Cricket 20 August, p 367.