Minor Counties Championship 1908

78 MATCH NUMBER 45 : DORSET V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE – SOUTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Poole Park, Poole on Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 July 1908 Result: Buckinghamshire won by four wickets Points: Buckinghamshire 5 Toss: Dorset Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset 2 (H C B Cummins, R Medhurst); Buckinghamshire 1 (T R Kent) First day score: Dorset 161 and 82-7 wickets (R Medhurst 2*, W Harrison 0*); Buckinghamshire 97 Dorset * P F C Williams c Boddy b Vickerstaff 2 ( ) c Page b Southall 32 Rev W H Arundell c Wright b Vickerstaff 3 ( ) c Vickerstaff b Wright 1 W H Budge hit wicket b Wright 26 ( ) run out 2 P Crimmins c Montague b Wright 16 ( ) c Montague b Southall 5 G M Gordon lbw b Wright 25 ( ) c Orton b Wright 23 H C B Cummins c Page b Vickerstaff 13 ( ) b Boddy 8 + Capt W H MacAlpine-Leny b Wright 18 ( ) c Page b Boddy 7 R Medhurst b Wright 7 ( ) not out 13 Lt H M Greenhill c Montague b Vickerstaff 8 (10) b Wright 0 W Harrison b Vickerstaff 11 ( ) b Wright 3 Stacey, F C not out 20 (11) b Boddy 14 Extras 12 2 Total 161 110 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 9 133 161 Second innings 110 Vickerstaff 30 9 87 5 - - ( ) 6 1 34 0 - - Boddy 9 2 20 0 - - ( ) 7.2 3 18 3 - - Wright 20 5 42 5 - - ( ) 20 10 36 4 - - Southall ( ) 7 0 20 2 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 2 1 - - Total 59 16 161 10 - - 40.2 14 110 10 - - Buckinghamshire * Dr E Weaver Adams c MacAlpine-Leny b Harrison 8 (1) c MacAlpine-Leny b Cummins 81 Boddy, E S c MacAlpine-Leny b Stacey 22 (6) run out 1 R W Orton b Stacey 7 (4) lbw b Gordon 29 E Southall b Stacey 12 (3) not out 50 Wright, M W b Cummins 3 (7) run out 0 H G Hogarth b Cummins 0 (2) c Cummins b Harrison 3 D L L Mackey b Stacey 6 (8) not out 8 T R Kent not out 18 (5) c Greenhill b Cummins 3 Page, H b Cummins 2 + J G Montague c MacAlpine-Leny b Cummins 0 Vickerstaff, S J A c Harrison b Stacey 18 Extras 1 2 Total 97 (6 wickets) 177 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 27 53 53 53 59 68 68 97 Second innings - - - - Stacey 17.4 1 60 5 - - ( ) 17.3 3 54 0 - - Harrison 11 4 21 1 - - ( ) 16 7 28 1 - - Cummins 6 2 15 4 - - ( ) 11 0 56 2 - - Gordon ( ) 8 0 37 1 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 2 2 - Total 34.4 7 97 10 - - 52.3 10 177 6 - - Notes: Set 175 to win, Buckinghamshire won by 4 wickets around 3.00 pm on the second day. For the winners, Weaver-Adams scored 81 and Southall 50 not out. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Dorset second innings, part batting order, in Buckinghamshire second innings, boundaries in Weaver- Adams’s 81 and Southall’s 50 not out and bowling order; precise time completed.] Sources: Dorset County Chronicle 6 August; East Dorset Herald 6 August; Poole Sun 29 July,1 August; Bucks Advertiser 1 August; Bucks Herald 1 August; Slough Observer 8 August; South Bucks Free Press 7 August; The Sportsman 30,31 July; Cricket 6 August, p 327.