Minor Counties Championship 1908

110 MATCH NUMBER 77 : BERKSHIRE V DORSET – SOUTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on Wednesday 12, Thursday 13 August 1908 Result: Match drawn - Dorset won on first innings Points: Dorset 3 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Berkshire 3 (F W L Gull, F W Metcalfe, G V Tate); Dorset none First day score: Berkshire 427; Dorset 56-2 wickets (N R Udal 24*, W H Budge 11*) Berkshire E Garnett c Hodges b Arundell 202 A P Strange b Udal 25 Shoosmith, H W c Goodden b Stacey 30 Watts, E A c and b Hodges 88 + Capt E F Rowe c Greenhill b Arundell 11 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Sewell b Hodges 28 T M C Hunt lbw b Arundell 4 F W Metcalfe c MacAlpine-Leny b Hodges 5 (1) not out 5 F W L Gull b Hodges 0 G V Tate st MacAlpine-Leny b Arundell 22 (2) not out 3 Barker, W not out 3 Extras w 1, nb 2 9 0 Total 427 (no wicket) 8 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 427 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Stacey 27 4 110 1 1 - Udal 9 1 28 1 - 1 Greenhill 12 1 51 0 - - Sewell 14 2 70 0 - - Gordon 8 0 48 0 - 1 Arundell 12 0 74 4 - - Hodges 12 1 37 4 - - Williams ( ) 1 1 0 0 - - Goodden ( ) 1 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 94 9 427 10 1 2 2 1 8 0 0 0 Dorset * P F C Williams c Shoosmith b Barker 13 N R Udal st Rowe b Garnett 39 Rev W H Arundell c Shoosmith b Barker 0 W H Budge c Rowe b Hunt 36 F A S Sewell b Hunt 7 C P Goodden c Strange b Metcalfe 165 G M Gordon c Shoosmith b Hunt 129 + Capt W H MacAlpine-Leny c Nepean b Garnett 11 H F Hodges c and b Metcalfe 18 Stacey, F C c Shoosmith b Metcalfe 0 H M Greenhill not out 3 Extras w 2, nb 20 38 Total 459 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 113 381 459 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 25 4 116 2 - 19 Hunt 32 2 123 3 2 - Shoosmith 20 5 70 0 - - Tate 8 1 28 0 - 1 Garnett 21 3 45 2 - - Nepean 3 0 18 0 - - Gull 2 0 11 0 - - Metcalfe 2 0 10 3 - - Extras - - 38 0 - - Total 113 15 459 10 2 20 Notes: Match drawn with Dorset winning on first innings. For Berkshire, Garnett scored 202. It followed his record-breaking 282 in the previous week at Reading against Wiltshire. Watts scored 88. For the visitors, Goodden scored 165 and Gordon 129. These two batsmen put on 268 runs for the sixth wicket, a new record for the 6th wicket in championship matches beating the 245 added by F C Holland and A C E von Ernsthausen for Surrey 2nd XI v Norfolk at The Oval in 1901. [Missing: Toss; umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; large partnerships; in Berkshire first innings breakdown and duration of Garnett’s 202, boundaries in Watts’s 88, in Dorset innings breakdown and duration of Goodden’s 165 and Gordon’s 129.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 15 August; Reading Observer 15 August; Dorset County Chronicle 20 August; East Dorset Herald 20 August; Poole Sun 12,15 August; Sporting Life 13,14 August; The Sportsman 13,14 August; Cricket 20 August, p 370.