Minor Counties Championship 1909

132 MATCH NUMBER 101 : GLAMORGAN V NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 2 ND XI – SEMI-FINAL At Cardiff Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on [Monday 23 – no play], Tuesday 24, Wednesday 25 August 1909 Result: Match drawn - Glamorgan won on first innings Toss: Glamorgan Umpires: G L R Hutchings and H Walmsley Debutants: Glamorgan none; Nottinghamshire 2 nd XI none First day score: No play due to rain; Second day score: Glamorgan 72-0 wicket (E R Sweet-Escott 24*, N V H Riches 48*) Glamorgan E R Sweet-Escott run out 27 (1) c Lee b Riley 12 + N V H Riches c Iremonger b Barnes 53 (2) st Stapleton b Riley 3 Bancroft, W J b Riley 3 (3) c and b Barnes 7 Preece, T c Stapleton b Riley 8 (4) not out 13 Hon A Windsor-Clive c and b Riley 4 (5) c Carr b Barnes 0 H G Symonds run out 5 (9) b Barnes 13 Hacker, W S c Lee b Riley 0 (7) c Stapleton b Barnes 2 * A Gibson b Riley 2 (8) b Barnes 3 Maxwell, J c Iremonger b Barnes 9 (10) c Lee b Riley 1 Nash, A c Stapleton b Riley 14 (11) b Barnes 3 Creber, H not out 7 (6) b Barnes 0 Extras b 4 4 b 14, lb 4 18 Total 136 75 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 80 83 83 97 98 101 103 115 115 136 Second innings 7 26 34 35 35 45 55 73 74 75 Riley 27.2 10 57 6 - - (1) 22 13 27 3 - - Barnes 23 7 42 2 - 1 (2) 22 7 30 7 - - Clifton 5 0 15 0 - - Lee 7 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 4 2 - - - - 18 0 - - Total 62.2 17 136 10 0 1 44 20 75 10 0 0 Nottinghamshire 2 nd XI James, C C c Bancroft b Nash 0 (5) not out 0 A W Carr b Nash 8 (3) b Maxwell 4 Iremonger, A run out 9 (1) c Maxwell b Nash 18 R H T Turner lbw b Nash 22 (2) lbw b Maxwell 5 Lee, G M c and b Nash 19 + Stapleton, J c Symonds b Creber 0 Whysall, W W b Nash 20 (4) not out 0 * Rev H Staunton lbw b Maxwell 6 Clifton, C C c Gibson b Nash 3 Barnes, J W b Maxwell 0 Riley, W not out 0 Extras b 1, lb 4 5 nb 1 1 Total 92 (3 wickets) 28 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 9 22 52 53 73 82 85 92 92 Second innings 6 24 28 - - - - - - - Nash 16.5 9 30 6 - - (1) 5 2 16 1 - 1 Creber 11 1 44 1 - - Maxwell 5 1 13 2 - - (2) 4 1 11 2 - - Extras - - 5 1 - - - - 1 0 - - Total 32.5 11 92 10 0 0 9 3 28 1 0 1 Notes: Rain-spoilt drawn semi-final match that saw Glamorgan proceed to the final on the basis of leading on first innings. No play was possible on the first day due to rain, and on the second day, after a new pitch had been prepared, the weather again limited play to about an hour before rain again set in at 12.25 pm and the play was abandoned for the day at 3.00 pm. On the third day conditions again delayed a start until 11.30 pm, half-an-hour after it was scheduled. For Glamorgan, there were 1 six and 3 fours in Riches’s 53. For Nottinghamshire, Barnes took 7 wickets in the Glamorgan second innings for 30 runs. Staunton, the Nottinghamshire captain, subsequently wrote to the Secretaries of the MCC and the MCCA pointing out that some of the Nottinghamshire players had seen the Cardiff groundsman sweeping and tampering with the wicket at 8.00 am on the third day in contravention of the rules of the competition. [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; South Wales Daily News 24,25,26 August; Western Mail 23,25,26 August; Nottingham Guardian 25,26 August; The Sportsman 24,25,26 August; Cricket 2 September, p 370.