Minor Counties Championship 1909

127 MATCH NUMBER 96 : DORSET V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE – SOUTH DIVISION At The County Ground, Poole Park, Poole on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 August 1909 Result: Match drawn – Dorset won on first innings Points: Dorset 3 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Buckinghamshire none; Dorset none First day score: Dorset 369; Buckinghamshire 78-4 wickets (-, G H Boddy -*) Dorset Rev W H Arundell c Ayres b West 17 N R Udal c West b Wright 47 R M Manser c Hogarth b West 0 F A S Sewell c Lowndes b Wright 44 C J B Webb b Vickerstaff 14 * P F C Williams b Wright 13 G M Gordon c and b Boddy 74 C P Goodden c Ayres b Wright 45 H C B Cummins c Leat b Wright 84 H V Browne c and b Wright 13 + Rev R S K Blucke not out 4 Extras 14 Total 369 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 369 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - West 18 2 62 2 - - Boddy 11 1 55 1 - - Wright 41.3 12 114 6 - - Vickerstaff 17 0 51 1 - - Keen 14 1 60 0 - - Weaver-Adams 2 0 13 0 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - Total 103.3 16 369 10 - - Buckinghamshire (Followed on) Dr E Weaver-Adams b Sewell 2 (1) not out 9 H G Hogarth lbw b Sewell 5 Orton, R W c Manser b Udal 29 * W F L F Lowndes b Sewell 26 Wright, M W c Browne b Udal 18 G H Boddy c Arundell b Udal 8 E J Leat b Udal 11 A W Keen b Webb 39 (2) not out 6 E West b Cummins 15 Vickerstaff, S J A c Manser b Cummins 8 + Ayres, A R not out 1 Extras 16 0 Total 178 (no wicket) 15 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 178 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Udal 24 5 78 4 - - ( ) 1 0 9 0 - - Sewell 25 6 55 3 - - Cummins 7 1 17 2 - - Webb 5.4 3 12 1 - - ( ) 1 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 16 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 61.4 15 178 10 - - 2 0 15 0 0 0 Notes: This return match was drawn, with rain finishing play early on the second day. Dorset had won when the two teams had met at Marlow the week before. For Dorset, Cummins scored 84 and Gordon 74. For Buckinghamshire, Keen was the top scorer with 39. [The Dorset bowling analysis for the Buckinghamshire second innings has been derived from the Dorset averages in Wisden and the Dorset County Chronicle.] [Missing: Toss; umpires; batsmen first day close of play score; extras breakdown; fall of wickets; in Dorset innings boundaries in Cummins’s 84 and Gordon’s 74; precise time when match was abandoned as a draw.] Sources: Dorset County Chronicle 19 August; Pulman’s Weekly News 24 August; Bucks Herald 21 August; South Bucks Free Press 20 August; Sporting Life 17,18 August; The Sportsman 19 August; Cricket 2 September, p 382.