Minor Counties Championship 1908

127 MATCH NUMBER 94 : STAFFORDSHIRE V GLAMORGAN – FINAL At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 7, Tuesday 8 September 1908 Result: Staffordshire won by nine wickets Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: W Pate and G Perkins Debutants: Staffordshire none; Glamorgan none First day score: Glamorgan 60 and 9-1 wickets (H Creber 1*); Staffordshire 134 Second day score: As match – match completed on second day Glamorgan + N V H Riches c Johnson b Nichols 23 (3) c Barnes b Bucknell 6 T A L Whittington run out 5 (4) b Bucknell 1 Bancroft, W J c Briggs b Nichols 6 (5) b Barnes 13 E R Sweet-Escott b Barnes 2 (6) b Barnes 7 W P Morris c Vost b Barnes 1 (7) b Barnes 8 W Spiller b Barnes 3 (8) b Barnes 0 * A Gibson c Stratton b Barnes 0 (9) c Brown b Barnes 2 Nash, A c Bucknell b Barnes 6 (10) b Barnes 9 Hacker, W S lbw b Barnes 3 (11) not out 1 Creber, H not out 6 (1) lbw b Barnes 9 Preedy, E A c Brown b Barnes 2 (2) lbw b Barnes 2 Extras lb 3 3 b 12, lb 7, nb 2 21 Total 60 79 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 28 31 36 39 40 40 45 48 54 60 Second innings 9 27 32 47 50 65 65 69 74 79 Barnes 18.3 8 19 7 - - (1) 22.2 8 35 8 - 2 Bucknell 8 2 20 0 - - (2) 17 14 11 2 - - Nichols 11 3 16 2 - - (3) 5 1 12 0 - - Brown 1 0 2 0 - - Extras - - 3 1 - - - - 21 0 - - Total 38.3 13 60 10 0 0 44.2 23 79 10 0 2 Staffordshire P Briggs c Bancroft b Creber 5 Brown, W b Nash 5 Fereday, J B lbw b Nash 5 Barnes, S F b Preedy 31 * H D Stratton b Creber 0 Vost, E c Preedy b Hacker 28 (3) not out 3 + C L Winser b Nash 22 (1) not out 2 Bucknell, A b Nash 3 J W Johnson not out 22 (2) c Whittington b Creber 0 Nichols, J E lbw b Creber 0 H Eardley c Bancroft b Creber 2 Extras b 9, lb 1, w 1 11 lb 1 1 Total 134 (1 wicket) 6 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 11 30 33 78 88 97 116 121 134 Second innings 1 - - - - - - - - - Creber 28.2 8 62 4 1 - (1) 2 0 3 1 - - Nash 28 15 47 4 - - (2) 1.4 1 2 0 - - Preedy 5 2 7 1 - - Hacker 5 1 7 1 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 66.2 26 134 10 1 0 3.4 1 6 1 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this low-scoring match by 9 wickets at 1 pm on the second day, and secured the Minor Counties Championship title for the second time. For the winners, Barnes took 15 wickets in the match for 54 runs, including 7 for 19 in the first innings and 8 for 35 in the second. It was statistically the second best match bowling performance of the season. Barnes also top-scored in the match with 31. Three days had been set aside for the match, but newspaper reports indicate the pitch had been adversely affected by the heavy rain of the previous week. The match run aggregate of 279 was the second lowest of the season for a completed match. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 12 September; Staffordshire Sentinel 7,8,9 September; Cardiff Evening Express 7,8 September; The Sportsman 7,8,9 September; Cricket 10 September, p 416.