Minor Counties Championship 1908

97 MATCH NUMBER 64 : WILTSHIRE V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE – SOUTH DIVISION Played at The County Ground, County Road, Swindon on Wednesday 5, Thursday 6 August 1908 Result: Wiltshire won by 301 runs Points: Wiltshire 5 Toss: Wiltshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Wiltshire none; Buckinghamshire 2 (E J Leat, E A Shaw) First day score: Wiltshire 205 and 142-1 wicket (T T N Perkins 58*, C S Awdry 54*); Buckinghamshire 91 Wiltshire T T N Perkins b Wilson 18 ( ) c Shaw b Wilson 62 Newman, A W b Wilson 0 ( ) c Shaw b Wright 30 C S Awdry b Wilson 64 ( ) not out 160 E Grant c Faulkner b Wright 50 ( ) retired hurt 15 S J H Taunton b Wilson 8 ( ) b Wright 44 R W Awdry b Wilson 0 ( ) b Wright 8 Smith, W run out 7 ( ) b Wright 4 A Whitehead c Vickerstaff b Wright 0 ( ) not out 14 * A M Miller c Lowndes b Wright 2 + T S Luce b Wilson 38 Smart, T not out 12 Extras 6 b 1 1 Total 205 (5 wickets declared) 338 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 70 205 Second innings - - - - - Wilson 20.5 1 96 6 - - (1) 22 2 131 1 - - Faulkner 5 0 32 0 - - Wright 18 2 56 3 - - (2) 20 0 77 4 - - Johnson 3 0 15 0 - - (4) 8 0 76 0 - - Vickerstaff (3) 8 0 53 0 - - Extras - - 6 1 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 46.5 3 205 10 - - 58 2 338 5 0 0 Buckinghamshire * Dr E Weaver Adams c Smart b Smith 1 ( ) c Whitehead b Smith 22 Wilson, G A lbw b Grant 0 ( ) b Newman 12 E J Leat b Grant 0 ( ) not out 49 R W Orton c Luce b Smith 13 ( ) lbw b Smith 4 + E A Shaw c R W Awdry b Smith 17 ( ) b Smith 0 G M Faulkner c Taunton b Perkins 28 ( ) b Smart 5 W F L F Lowndes c Grant b Smith 9 ( ) b Smart 26 Wright, M W b Grant 17 ( ) c R W Awdry b Smith 9 T R Kent b Smith 1 ( ) b Perkins 19 A W Johnson b Smith 0 ( ) c Whitehead b Smart 4 Vickerstaff, S J A not out 5 (11) b Perkins 0 Extras 0 b 1 1 Total 91 151 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 91 Second innings 27 151 Grant 8.5 1 29 3 - - Smith 18 8 30 6 - - (1) 22 4 76 4 - - Smart 4 1 18 0 - - (4) 6 0 34 3 - - Perkins 5 0 14 1 - - (5) 2 0 7 2 - - Miller (2) 3 1 12 0 - - Newman (3) 10 3 21 1 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 35.5 10 91 10 - - 43 8 151 10 0 0 Notes: Wiltshire won this return match, which was Smith’s benefit match, by 301 runs shortly before 4.00 pm on the second day. The match between the two sides at Bletchley in July had also been won by Wiltshire. For the winners, there were 24 fours in C S Awdry’s 160, an innings of just under two hours. He scored 64 in the second innings, and his match run aggregate of 224 was the second highest of the season. Perkins scored 62 and Grant 50. Smith took 10 wickets in the match for 106 runs. In the Wiltshire second innings, the run rate was 135 runs per hour. For the losers, Leat top-scored with 49. The 227 runs conceded in the match by Wilson was the second highest of the season. Perkins ended the match by taking two wickets with consecutive balls. Grant retired hurt in the Wiltshire second innings with an injured knee. [Missing: Umpires; fall of wickets; large pa rtnerships; in Wiltshire first innings boundaries in C S Awdry’s 64 and Grant’s 50, extras breakdown, in Wiltshire second innings, breakdown of C S Awdry’s 160, boundaries in Perkins’s 62, batting order; in Buckinghsmahire second innings batting order.] Sources: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 13 August; North Wilts Herald 7 August; Bucks Advertiser 8 August; Bucks Herald 8 August; South Bucks Free Press 14 August; The Sportsman 6,7 August; Cricke 20 August, p 354.