Minor Counties Championship 1908

121 MATCH NUMBER 88 : DORSET V BERKSHIRE – SOUTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Poole Park, Poole on Monday 17, Tuesday 18 August 1908 Result: Dorset won by an innings and 12 runs Points: Dorset 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset 1 (W T Knight); Berkshire none First day score: Dorset 324; Berkshire 127-3 wickets (A P Strange 5*, F W Metcalfe 0*) Dorset H M Greenhill b Cave 14 W T Knight b Cave 0 Rev W H Arundell c Morres b Willcocks 32 W H Budge c Strange b Barrett 55 * P F C Williams c F E Rowe b Willcocks 70 F A S Sewell b Cave 29 G M Gordon b Cave 8 + Capt W H MacAlpine-Leny c E F Rowe b Barker 41 H C B Cummins c F E Rowe b Barker 15 Stacey, F C b Barker 24 W Harrison not out 8 Extras b 27, nb 1 28 Total 324 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 324 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Barker 23.3 2 84 3 - - Cave 23 5 84 4 - - Morres 9 2 33 0 - - Willcocks 11 1 48 2 - - F E Rowe 8 0 40 0 - - Barrett 4 2 7 1 - - Extras - - 28 0 - - Total 78.3 12 324 10 0 1 Berkshire (Followed on) F E Rowe c MacAlpine-Leny b Gordon 39 ( ) run out 0 H F M Morres c Knight b Stacey 6 ( ) b Sewell 0 Watts, E A b Sewell 68 ( ) c and b Gordon 48 A P Strange c and b Stacey 5 ( ) b Gordon 16 F W Metcalfe c Williams b Sewell 23 ( ) c Williams b Gordon 4 Barker, W st MacAlpine-Leny b Sewell 20 ( ) c Harrison b Gordon 0 Barrett, H b Stacey 11 ( ) c Knight b Gordon 4 + Capt E F Rowe c Knight b Sewell 8 ( ) lbw b Sewell 26 * Sir C E M Y Nepean st MacAlpine-Leny b Sewell 1 ( ) c Gordon b Sewell 0 Cave, W c MacAlpine-Leny b Cummins 4 ( ) not out 6 H F Willcocks not out 0 ( ) b Sewell 0 Extras 18 5 Total 203 109 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 203 Second innings 109 Stacey 27 9 66 3 - - (3) 6 2 25 0 - - Cummins 12 2 38 1 - - (1) 9 2 34 0 - - Harrison 5 0 23 0 - - Gordon 7 1 29 1 - - (4) 8 2 17 5 - - Sewell 25.1 11 29 5 - - (2) 10 2 28 4 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - - - 5 1 - - Total 76.1 23 203 10 - - 33 8 109 10 - - Notes: Dorset won this return match by an innings and 12 runs on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. The match between the two sides at Reading the previous week had been drawn. For the winners, Williams scored 70 and Budge 55. For Berkshire, Watts scored 68. [Missing: Toss; umpires; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; in Dorset innings boundaries in Budge’s 55 and Williams’s 70, and who bowled no ball; in Berkshire first innings boundaries in Watts’s 68; in Berkshire second innings, batting order; precise time completed.] Sources: Dorset County Chronicle 20 August; East Dorset Herald 20 August; Poole Sun 19 August; The Sportsman 18,19 August; Cricket 27 August, p 375.