Minor Counties Championship 1909

168 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 1909 Championship matches: Played 8, won 2, lost 5, drawn 1 (won on first innings none, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings none) Position: Fourth out of five in South Division Won: v Berkshire at Aylesbury and v Berkshire at Reading Lost: v Surrey 2nd XI at Wolverton OS, v Surrey 2nd XI at Horley, v Wiltshire at Swindon CG, v Dorset at Marlow and v Wiltshire at Bletchley Drawn – won on first innings: None Drawn – lost on first innings: v Dorset at Poole Drawn – no decision on first innings: None Captain: W F L F Lowndes (8 matches) Wicket-keepers: E A Shaw (3 matches), A R Ayres (2 matches), J G Montague (2 matches) and J M Bagley (1 match) Debutants: 4 (A R Ayres, C E Briggs, P L Frith and B F O’Dowda) Final season: 10 (A R Ayres, J M Bagley, C E Briggs, R H de Montmorency, H G Hogarth, J G Montague, B F O’Dowda, E D Shaw, H L Slocock and E Southall) Hon Secretaries: Dr B Abrahams and J C W Ellis Professionals: 8 (A R Ayres, J M Bagley, E S Boddy, R W Orton, H Page, S J A Vickerstaff, WWheeler and M W Wright) Home grounds 4: The County Ground, Wendover Road, Aylesbury (1 match); The Cricket Ground, Bletchley Park, Bletchley (1 match); The Marlow Cricket Club Ground, Pound Lane, Marlow – new ground (1 match); and Wolverton Cricket Club Ground, Osborne Street, Wolverton (1 match) Notes: For the third year running Buckinghamshire finished fourth in the South Division. There was no change in their opponents. Of the batsmen only Edmund Weaver-Adams and R W Orton scored more than 200 runs. The bowling was not strong. Archie Vickerstaff took 28 wickets at 18.42 each. The bowling of Matt Wright was not as successful as it had been in 1908 when he obtained 52 wickets at 12.67 whereas in this season he took 25 wickets at 20.68. During the season Matt Wright reached the career milestone of seven hundred wickets. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1909 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 4 players who made their Championship debut for Buckinghamshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1909 was the last or only season that these 10 players appeared for Buckinghamshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Ayres, A R + 2 3 1 6 9 4.50 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - Bagley, J M 1 1 0 5 5 5.00 - - - - 2 - - - - - - - - Boddy, E S 5 10 0 52 128 12.80 - 1 2 1 - - - - - - - - - G H Boddy 4 6 0 15 39 6.50 - - 1 3 - 55.3 6 254 15 16.93 6-35 - 1 Rev C E Brigg s + 1 2 0 3 5 2.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - R H de Montmorency 1 2 0 90 125 62.50 - 1 - - - 12 1 54 0 - - - - G M Faulkner 5 10 1 20 56 6.22 - - 1 1 - 35.2 1 135 7 19.28 3-13 - - P L Frith + 3 6 0 19 36 6.00 - - 2 3 - 14 0 73 0 - - - - W F L F Lowndes 8 15 2 31 171 13.15 - - 4 6 - - - - - - - - - H G Hogarth 2 3 0 5 13 4.33 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - A W Keen 3 5 1 79 140 35.00 - 1 - 1 - 47.4 9 159 3 53.00 2-44 - - T R Kent 2 4 0 13 26 6.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - E J Leat 5 9 0 47 131 14.55 - - 2 2 - - - - - - - - - D L L Mackey 1 2 0 1 2 1.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - J G Montague 2 4 1 12* 18 6.00 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - B F O'Dowda + 1 2 0 6 7 3.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Orton, R W 8 15 1 50 278 19.85 - 1 1 3 - - - - - - - - - Page, H 4 8 1 11* 30 4.28 - - 2 - - 24.2 7 62 5 12.40 4-23 - - E A Shaw 3 5 0 76 101 20.20 - 1 - 2 2 - - - - - - - - Rev E D Shaw 1 2 0 11 11 5.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - H L Slocock 1 2 1 1* 1 1.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - E Southall 2 4 0 28 45 11.25 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Vickerstaff, S J A 8 13 8 12* 44 8.80 - - 2 8 - 142.2 16 516 28 18.42 8-54 - 2 Dr E Weaver-Adams 3 5 1 162 206 51.50 1 - 1 2 - 9 0 51 3 17.00 2-35 - - E West 5 8 0 32 118 14.75 - - 1 5 - 80 11 312 11 28.36 6-80 - 1 Wheeler, W 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - 3 0 16 1 16.00 1-16 - - Wright, M W 6 10 1 39* 178 19.77 - - 1 2 - 212.5 55 517 25 20.68 6-114 - 2 Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 140 - - - - - - - - 137 3 - - - - Total 88 158 19 162 2063 14.84 1 5 26 47 4 636 106 2286 101 22.63 8-54 0 6 (27 players) (6 ball overs)