Minor Counties Championship 1909

35 MATCH NUMBER 4 : MONMOUTHSHIRE V GLAMORGAN – WEST DIVISION At The Newport Cricket Club Ground, The Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport on Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2 June 1909 Result: Match drawn - Monmouthshire won on first innings Points: Monmouthshire 3 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: G Perkins and J Stevens Debutants: Monmouthshire none; Glamorgan 2 (H Clough, J Maxwell) First day score: Monmouthshire 287; Glamorgan 160-5 wickets (H Clough 12*, J Maxwell 0*) Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c Bancroft b Nash 1 (1) b Nash 21 M Stratton c Gibson b Creber 6 (2) c Hacker b Maxwell 9 * E S Phillips b Maxwell 130 (3) b Hacker 57 T B Williams b Nash 11 (4) b Nash 0 + Diver, E J b Maxwell 19 (5) b Nash 8 M David c Bancroft b Maxwell 7 (6) b Nash 0 L H Weight b Hacker 15 (7) c Riches b Creber 39 F G Phillips c Hacker b Nash 30 (8) c Maxwell b Hacker 1 W E C Hudden b Nash 3 (9) b Nash 25 W A Williams c Nash b Maxwell 37 (10) b Hacker 15 L F Stedman not out 3 (11) not out 14 Extras b 19, lb 5, nb 1 25 b 13 13 Total 287 202 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 25 44 81 106 141 191 207 274 287 Second innings 21 43 45 65 69 130 131 152 174 202 Creber 32 7 74 1 - - (4) 5 1 23 1 - - Nash 33 9 102 4 - 1 (2) 26 7 76 5 - - Maxwell 11.1 3 28 4 - - (1) 23 5 71 1 - - Hacker 6 0 36 1 - - (3) 8.1 2 19 3 - - Clough 3 0 22 0 - - Extras - - 25 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 85.1 19 287 10 0 1 62.1 15 202 10 0 0 Glamorgan T A L Whittington c Silverlock b Stedman 23 (1) c T B Williams b Stedman 25 N V H Riches c David b F G Phillips 13 E R Sweet-Escott c F G Phillips b W A Williams 45 (2) not out 83 + Bancroft, W J c Diver b Silverlock 54 (3) c Silverlock b W A Williams 75 Clough, H c E S Phillips b Stedman 15 H G Symonds c F G Phillips b Stedman 9 (4) not out 25 Maxwell, J b F G Phillips 16 * A Gibson c Diver b F G Phillips 1 Hacker, W S c T B Williams b Stedman 2 Nash, A not out 0 Creber, H run out 0 Extras b 1, lb 1, nb 2 4 b 10, w 2 12 Total 182 (2 wickets) 220 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 37 39 138 140 159 168 175 182 182 182 Second innings 55 174 - - - - - - - - Silverlock 8 1 28 1 - - W A Williams 12 1 46 1 - 1 (3) 20 0 66 1 1 - Stedman 15 1 53 4 - - (1) 16 2 60 1 - - F G Phillips 13.3 0 43 3 - 1 (2) 21 2 82 0 1 - Hudden 4 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 4 1 - - - - 12 0 - - Total 52.3 3 182 10 0 2 57 4 220 2 2 0 Notes: Match drawn with Monmouthshire winning on first innings. For the home team, there were 15 fours in E S Phillips’s 130, an innings of 185 minutes. There were 6 fours in his second innings 57. In the Monmouthshire first innings, E S Phillips and F G Phillips put on 50 runs for the seventh wicket, and E S Phillips and W A Williams added 67 for the ninth. For Glamorgan, there were 6 and 9 fours respectively in Bancroft’s two innings of 54 and 75, while Sweet-Escott’s 83 not out included 4 fours. In their second innings, when Glamorgan had 155 minutes to score the 308 runs needed for victory, Sweet-Escott and Bancroft added 119 runs for the second wicket. The Glamorgan second innings total of 220 for two wickets was the highest fourth innings total of the season. The 178 runs conceded by Nash were the most by a bowler in a match during the season [Missing: Complete.] Sources: Glamorgan Scorebook; Monmouthshire Evening Post 1,2 June; South Wales Argus 1,2 June; South Wales Daily News 2,3 June; Western Mail 2,3 June; The Sportsman 2,3 June; Cricket 10 June, p 192.