Minor Counties Championship 1908

34 MATCH NUMBER 1 : CARMARTHENSHIRE V MONMOUTHSHIRE – WEST DIVISION At Stradey Park, Llanelly on Tuesday 2, Wednesday 3 June 1908 Result: Monmouthshire won by an innings and 171 runs Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Carmarthenshire 11 (Whole team); Monmouthshire 2 (J W Mackay, L H Weight) First day score: Monmouthshire 313 Monmouthshire * E S Phillips b Howell 55 Silverlock, A J b Foster 63 G Abraham st Davies b Howell 9 F G Phillips b Howell 2 + M David c Foster b Howell 89 L H Weight c Howell b Evans 31 J W Mackay b Soar 25 E H Francis b Soar 8 W A Williams b Soar 11 B Phillips not out 0 Steeples, R c Bowen b Soar 6 Extras 14 Total 313 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 119 129 132 132 313 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Light 10 0 55 0 - - Soar 23.2 3 72 4 - - Evans 12 1 29 1 - - Howell 39 15 72 4 - - Hughes-Morgan 2 0 10 0 - - Foster 13 5 32 1 - - John 4 0 17 0 - - Roderick 5 0 12 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 108.2 24 313 10 - - Carmarthenshire (Followed on) H B Roderick b Steeples 10 (1) c David b Williams 0 B P Rees b Silverlock 4 (2) b Silverlock 9 Capt - Foster c Weight b Silverlock 9 (3) b Williams 11 H Howell b Silverlock 0 (4) st David b Silverlock 6 + Davies, W c Williams b Silverlock 4 (5) b Williams 7 Soar, T b Silverlock 0 (7) not out 40 H E John b Williams 6 (6) st David b Silverlock 1 C A Bowen b Williams 0 (8) c Silverlock b Williams 7 * Capt D Hughes-Morgan b Williams 0 (9) b Williams 0 E Evans not out 0 (10) c Steeples b Silverlock 4 Light, E E b Silverlock 1 (11) b Williams 1 Extras 7 15 Total 41 101 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 18 30 33 33 41 Second innings 0 101 Steeples 9 3 13 1 - - (3) 1 0 4 0 - - Silverlock 13.2 5 19 6 - - (2) 15 1 46 4 - - Williams 5 3 2 3 - - (1) 15 4 36 6 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 27.2 11 41 10 - - 31 5 101 10 - - Notes: Monmouthshire won the opening match of the 1908 Championship by an innings and 171 runs at 3.05 pm on the second day after enforcing the follow-on. The match saw Carmarthenshire make their debut in the Championship. Rain delayed the start of the match on the first day until 1.30 pm. For the winners, Silverlock took 10 wickets in the match for 65 runs and Williams 9 for 38. Silverlock scored 63, E S Phillips 55 and David 89. In the Monmouthshire innings, Phillips and Silverlock put on 119 runs for the first wicket. The Carmarthenshire first innings total of 41 was equal second lowest of the season. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Monmouthshire innings boundaries in E S Phillips’s 55, Silverlock’s 63 an d David’s 89; Capt Foster’s initials.] Sources: South Wales Press 3 June; South Wales Argus 2,3 June; Cardiff Evening Express 2,3 June; South Wales Daily News 3,4 June; Western Mail 3,4 June; Cricket 11 June, p 197.