Minor Counties Championship 1908

89 MATCH NUMBER 56 : GLAMORGAN V MONMOUTHSHIRE – WEST DIVISION At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Monday 3, Tuesday 4 August 1908 Result: Monmouthshire won by an innings and 127 runs Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Glamorgan 1 (A Windsor-Clive); Monmouthshire none First day score: Monmouthshire 435; Glamorgan 68-5 wickets (W J Bancroft 23*, H G Symonds 9*) Monmouthshire M Stratton b Rattenbury 23 Silverlock, A J not out 187 * E S Phillips lbw b Nash 31 G L Robathan b Nash 16 N C Phillips c and b Nash 90 E H Francis b Nash 12 T B Williams b Nash 8 F G Phillips st Riches b Creber 22 + J R Williams c Preedy b Creber 0 W A Williams c Preedy b Nash 14 Steeples, R b Nash 0 Extras b 18, lb 11, w 2, nb 1 32 Total 435 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 73 152 175 328 358 376 405 405 435 435 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Creber 33 8 122 2 2 - Nash 43 8 152 7 - 1 Preedy 15 0 78 0 - - Rattenbury 14 0 51 1 - - Extras - - 32 0 - - Total 105 16 435 10 2 1 Glamorgan (Followed on) + N V H Riches c J R Williams b F G Phillips 17 (1) c Steeples b F G Phillips 18 T A L Whittington b Steeples 6 (2) c J R Williams b Silverlock 18 Preece, T b F G Phillips 3 (3) run out 8 Bancroft, W J b Steeples 26 (4) c T B Williams b F G Phillips 18 Hon A Windsor-Clive b Steeples 5 (5) c J R Williams b F G Phillips 0 G L Rattenbury c N C Phillips b F G Phillips 5 (7) b F G Phillips 26 H G Symonds b Silverlock 35 (6) b Steeples 1 * A Gibson c J R Williams b F G Phillips 3 (8) c N C Phillips b W A Williams 45 Nash, A b Steeples 5 (9) c Stratton b Steeples 44 Preedy, E A c Robathan b W A Williams 8 (10) b Steeples 1 Creber, H not out 8 (11) not out 1 Extras 0 b 4, lb 3 7 Total 121 187 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 21 25 28 41 54 72 87 90 113 121 Second innings 31 41 62 62 79 80 116 173 174 187 Steeples 16 4 40 4 - - (1) 17.4 5 51 3 - - F G Phillips 17 0 60 4 - - (4) 11 0 53 4 - - W A Williams 3 0 12 1 - - (2) 10 0 50 1 - - Silverlock 2.2 0 9 1 - - (3) 5 0 26 1 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 7 1 - - Total 38.2 4 121 10 0 0 43.4 5 187 10 0 0 Notes: Monmouthshire won this return match by an innings and 127 runs at 3.05 pm on the second day, after Glamorgan followed on 314 runs behind. The match between the two sides at Newport in June had been won by Glamorgan. Silverlock carried his bat throughout the Monmouthshire innings, one of only three instances during the season. His 187 not out included 22 fours and 8 threes and was scored in 4½ hours. N C Phillips’s 90 contained 12 fours. In the visitors’ innings, these two batsmen put on 153 for the fourth wicket in 90 minutes. For Glamorgan, Gibson and Nash added 57 for the eighth wicket in the second innings. Nash took 7 wickets for 152 runs in the Monmouthshire innings. The 152 runs conceded by Nash was the third highest total in an innings during the season. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; Cardiff Evening Express 3,4 August; Wales Daily News 4,5 August; South Wales Argus 3,4 August; South Wales Echo 3,4 August; Western Mail 4,5 August; The Sportsman 4,5 August; Cricket 13 August, p 343.