Minor Counties Championship 1908

49 MATCH NUMBER 16 : CORNWALL V MONMOUTHSHIRE – WEST DIVISION At The Penzance Cricket Club Ground, St Clare, Penzance on Wednesday 1, Thursday 2 July 1908 Result: Monmouthshire won by ten wickets Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: A F Bannister and S Wrigley Debutants: Cornwall 3 (W S Boase, J Davies, T Romer); Monmouthshire none First day score: Cornwall 67 and 71-6 wickets (C Trevarthen 11*); Monmouthshire 206 Cornwall Dr J W Nunn b Steeples 0 (3) b F G Phillips 7 * W N Bickford-Smith c J R Williams b F G Phillips 7 (1) lbw b Silverlock 25 Trevarthen, C b Steeples 6 (5) c Silverlock b W A Williams 39 + J C Bickford-Smith c F G Phillips b Steeples 5 (4) c Silverlock b F G Phillips 0 Hosking, S c J R Williams b Steeples 8 (6) c Silverlock b F G Phillips 0 W H Coad lbw b W A Williams 10 (2) b Silverlock 18 E Hawken c Tatham b F G Phillips 9 (7) b Silverlock 2 J Davies run out 2 (10) not out 10 W S Boase b Steeples 9 (9) run out 10 T Romer not out 9 (8) c N C Phillips b Silverlock 12 Whiting, F c W A Williams b Silverlock 0 (11) b F G Phillips 4 Extras 2 12 Total 67 139 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 6 18 26 34 42 50 52 66 67 Second innings 40 53 53 60 60 71 95 125 128 139 Steeples 12 0 21 5 - - (1) 8 3 19 0 - - Silverlock 6.4 1 12 1 - - (2) 13 4 23 4 - - W A Williams 11 2 18 1 - - (3) 8 0 34 1 - - F G Phillips 10 6 14 2 - - (4) 13.5 2 51 4 - - Extras - - 2 1 - - - - 12 1 - - Total 39.4 9 67 10 - - 42.5 9 139 10 - - Monmouthshire * E S Phillips b Hawken 52 Silverlock, A J b Hosking 4 M David c Whiting b Hosking 4 Dr A L Tatham c W N Bickford-Smith b Whiting 31 N C Phillips b Whiting 37 L H Weight b Whiting 0 E H Francis c and b Whiting 17 F G Phillips b Hosking 12 + J R Williams c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 15 (1) not out 1 W A Williams not out 29 (2) not out 0 Steeples, R b Whiting 4 Extras 1 0 Total 206 (no wicket) 1 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 14 88 116 133 135 158 160 192 206 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hosking 21 5 65 3 - - Whiting 21.4 5 95 6 - - Trevarthen 7 2 21 0 - - Hawken 4 0 24 1 - - J C Bickford-Smith (1) 0.2 0 1 0 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 53.4 12 206 10 - - 0.2 0 1 0 0 0 Notes: Monmouthshire won by 10 wickets before lunch on the second day. Bad light and rain caused play to be abandoned for the day at 6.10 pm on the Wednesday. For the winners, there were 8 fours in E S Phillips’s 52. [Missing: Extras breakdown; precise time completed.] Sources: Cornish Post 9 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 2 July; Cardiff Evening Express 1,2 July; Western Daily Mercury 2,3 July; Western Morning News 2,3 July; South Wales Argus 1,2 July; South Wales Daily News 2,3 July; South Wales Echo 1,2 July; Western Mail 2,3 July; The Sportsman 2,3 July; Cricket 9 July, p 261.