Minor Counties Championship 1909

133 MATCH NUMBER 102 : WILTSHIRE V LINCOLNSHIRE – SEMI-FINAL At The County Ground, Timbrell Street, Trowbridge on Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 August 1909 Result: Wiltshire won by 128 runs Toss: Wiltshire Umpires: T H Holton and G Perkins Debutants: Wiltshire none; Lincolnshire 1 (WWWinn) First day score: Wiltshire 90 and 6-0 wicket (A M Miller 1*, W R R Smith 4*); Lincolnshire 60 Wiltshire C S Awdry c and b Cooke 4 (3) b Broughton 5 J E Stevens c Hatt b Cooke 1 (6) c Broughton b Riley 27 Newman, A W b Cooke 0 (9) b Worman 0 S J H Taunton b Geeson 15 (8) b Riley 0 R W Awdry b Geeson 11 (4) c Hatt b Geeson 39 T T N Perkins b Geeson 13 (7) c Geeson b Riley 0 * A M Miller b Geeson 5 (1) b Cooke 13 + G C Davenport b Geeson 13 ( ) b Riley 0 S R Nicholson not out 19 (5) not out 61 Smith, W R R c Hatt b Geeson 3 (2) b Riley 19 Mitchell, H c Thompson b Broughton 3 ( ) b Riley 4 Extras w 1 3 nb 1 5 Total 90 173 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 4 5 30 31 49 50 69 90 Second innings 31 50 113 173 Cooke 16 5 38 3 1 - (1) 10 3 28 1 - - Geeson 22 10 31 6 - - (2) 16 5 38 1 - - Broughton 6.2 2 18 1 - - (3) 13 3 24 1 - - Riley (4) 10.4 4 27 6 - 1 Worman (5) 10 1 22 1 - - Brooke (6) 6 0 29 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 44.2 17 90 10 1 0 65.4 16 173 10 0 1 Lincolnshire A S Hatt c Davenport b Newman 2 (1) st Davenport b Mitchell 2 W WWinn b Newman 3 ( ) c Taunton b Mitchell 6 Broughton, J J c Perkins b Mitchell 11 ( ) b Mitchell 10 * W E Thompson b Newman 5 (3) c R W Awdry b Newman 0 Riley, E E b Mitchell 3 ( ) c Newman b Mitchell 11 Day, J W b Mitchell 4 ( ) b Mitchell 14 E T Cooke b Newman 10 ( ) b Mitchell 4 J A Brooke c Taunton b Newman 3 ( ) b Newman 9 J N Worman c and b Mitchell 1 ( ) not out 13 Geeson, F not out 13 ( ) b Newman 0 + Allen, G J b Newman 3 ( ) b Newman 0 Extras nb 1 2 6 Total 60 75 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 13 19 25 29 29 60 Second innings 8 31 75 Mitchell 19 11 29 4 - - (1) 16 6 25 6 - - Newman 18.1 7 28 6 - - (2) 16 2 44 4 - - Smith 1 0 1 0 - 1 Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 38.1 18 60 10 0 1 32 8 75 10 - - Notes: Wiltshire won this semi-final match with a day to spare by 128 runs at 4.20 pm on the second day. Rain had fallen for several days before the match and because of the wet wicket the start on the first day was delayed until after 2.00 pm. Bad light subsequently stopped play early shortly after 6.00 pm. Lincolnshire required 204 runs to win in their second innings with over 3 hours of play remaining, but the ‘pitch was cut up a great deal’ and their innings lasted just 90 minutes. For the winners, Mitchell and Newman both took 10 wickets in the match for 54 and 72 runs respectively, and Nicholson scored 61 not out. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Wiltshire second innings boundaries in Nicholson’s 61 not out, and part batting order; in Lincolnshire second innings batting order.] Sources : Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 26 August, 2 September; North Wilts Guardian 27 August; Swindon Advertiser 27 August; Wiltshire Times 28 August; Lincolnshire Free Press 31 August ; Nottingham Guardian 26,27 August ; Sporting Life 26,27 August; The Sportsman 26,27 August; Cricket 2 September, p 370.