Minor Counties Championship 1909

129 MATCH NUMBER 98 : WILTSHIRE V SURREY 2 ND XI – SOUTH DIVISION At The Chippenham Cricket Club Ground, Hardenhuish Park, Chippenham on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 August 1909 Result: Match drawn - Surrey 2 nd XI won on first innings Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 3 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: Not known Debutants: Wiltshire none, Surrey 2 nd XI none First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 262; Wiltshire 144 Surrey 2 nd XI H E Brooker b Newman 57 ( ) not out 0 + Vigar, H E c Nicholson b Miller 62 ( ) run out 0 C T A Wilkinson b Mitchell 11 ( ) not out 6 Harrison, H S lbw b Mitchell 1 J E Jewell c Grant b Newman 24 Spring, W A b Newman 3 I P F Campbell c Fawcett b Mitchell 18 Platt, G J W b Newman 47 (3) c Davenport b Mitchell 11 Blacklidge, H G b Newman 1 * A W F Rutty not out 19 Edwards, F b Mitchell 1 Extras b 16, lb 2 18 b 5, w 1 6 Total 262 (2 wickets) 23 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 103 142 142 190 194 252 262 Second innings 13 - - - - - - - - Mitchell 25 6 81 4 - - (2) 3 1 10 1 - - Newman 23 5 81 5 - - Smith 6 2 19 0 - - (1) 4 1 7 0 1 - Grant 8 1 41 0 - - Miller 3 0 22 1 - - Extras - - 18 0 - - - - 6 1 - - Total 65 14 262 10 0 0 7 2 23 2 1 0 Wiltshire (Followed on) C S Awdry c Platt b Harrison 5 (1) b Harrison 6 S R Nicholson c Vigar b Platt 42 (2) b Platt 15 S J H Taunton b Platt 1 (3) b Platt 3 + G C Davenport c Platt b Wilkinson 16 (4) c Blacklidge b Harrison 0 R W Awdry b Wilkinson 22 (5) c Campbell b Edwards 57 Newman, A W c Jewell b Wilkinson 4 (6) b Platt 76 * A M Miller b Platt 12 (7) c Rutty b Platt 17 E Grant c Vigar b Platt 15 (8) c Harrison b Platt 5 E Fawcett run out 6 (9) b Platt 1 Smith, W R R not out 10 (10) c Jewell b Platt 10 Mitchell, H c Platt b Blacklidge 0 (11) not out 4 Extras b 10, nb 1 11 b 10, lb 1, w 2, nb 1 14 Total 144 208 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 144 Second innings 4 20 46 128 168 179 180 208 Platt 20 3 63 4 - 1 ( ) 24 6 65 7 - - Harrison 7 2 22 1 - - ( ) 14 3 43 2 2 - Wilkinson 12 1 38 3 - - ( ) 7 0 21 0 - 1 Blacklidge 2 0 10 1 - - ( ) 5 1 19 0 - - Edwards ( ) 6 0 31 1 - - Spring ( ) 4 0 15 0 - - Extras - - 11 1 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 41 6 144 10 0 1 60 10 208 10 2 1 Notes: This return match was drawn after heavy rain on the second day halted play for the day at shortly before 3.30 pm, when Surrey were still 68 runs short of the 91 required to win. At 5.15 the Surrey captain agreed the match should be abandoned as there was no prospect of it being resumed. Wiltshire had won the match between the two sides in June at The Oval in a single day. Showers had stopped play for a number of short periods on the morning of the first day. For the visitors, Platt took 11 wickets in the match for 128 runs, including 7 for 65 in the Wiltshire second innings. There were 10 fours in Vigar’s 62, 8 fours in Brooker’s 57 and 6 fours in Platt’s 47. In the Surrey first innings, Brooker and Vigar put on 103 runs for the first wicket, and Platt and Rutty 58 runs for the ninth. For the home side, there were 10 fours in Newman’s 76 and 11 fours in R W Awdry’s 57. During the Surrey first innings with the score at 185, Jewell was given run out. He was recalled by the Wiltshire captain on the grounds that ball had not struck the stumps. On the second day during the Wiltshire second innings, Vigar was struck on the head by a rising ball and did not resume keeping wicket after lunch. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; in Surrey second innings part batting order; in Wiltshire second innings bowling order.] Sources: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 19 August; Swindon Advertiser 20 August; Wiltshire Times 21 August; Surrey Year Book 1909, p 122; The Sportsman 17,18 August; Cricket 2 September, p 379.