Minor Counties Championship 1909

48 MATCH NUMBER 17 : BUCKINGHAMSHIRE V SURREY 2 ND XI – SOUTH DIVISION At The Wolverton Cricket Club Ground, Osborne Street, Wolverton on Friday 25 [no play], Saturday 26 June 1909 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by an innings and 9 runs Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: Not known Debutants: Buckinghamshire 3 (Rev C E Briggs, P L Frith, B F O’Dowda); Surrey 2 nd XI 2 (G A Abel, W Mason) First day score: Rain prevented any play on first day Surrey 2 nd XI Spring, W A c Frith b Vickerstaff 10 Abel, W J c Boddy b Faulkner 32 Platt, G J W c Orton b Faulkner 0 T C Stafford c O’Dowda b Vickerstaff 17 Blacklidge, H G c Mackey b Page 54 Mason, W c Frith b Vickerstaff 11 + Vigar, H E c Faulkner b Page 1 Abel, G A b Vickerstaff 2 * A W F Rutty b Page 1 Jackson, M T c Briggs b Page 7 Edwards, F not out 1 Extras b 4, lb 2, nb 1 7 Total 143 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 143 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Vickerstaff 17 3 73 4 - 1 Faulkner 8 0 27 2 - - Frith 4 0 13 0 - - Page 9.2 4 23 4 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - Total 38.2 7 143 10 0 1 Buckinghamshire (Followed on) D L L Mackey c Vigar b Jackson 1 ( ) c Spring b Blacklidge 1 Orton, R W b Platt 2 ( ) c and b Platt 1 Page, H not out 11 ( ) c Platt b Blacklidge 5 Rev C E Briggs b Platt 3 ( ) b Platt 2 * W F L F Lowndes b Platt 7 ( ) b Platt 4 G M Faulkner b Blacklidge 8 ( ) c Edwards b Blacklidge 5 P L Frith st Vigar b Platt 0 ( ) c Jackson b Blacklidge 8 Boddy, E S b Platt 0 ( ) c Jackson b Platt 52 B F O’Dowda c Rutty b Blacklidge 1 ( ) b Platt 6 + J G Montague b Blacklidge 0 ( ) not out 12 Vickerstaff, S J A c Spring b Blacklidge 0 ( ) c G A Abel b Blacklidge 0 Extras b 1 1 b 4 4 Total 34 100 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 34 Second innings 100 Platt 15 7 18 5 - - (1) 16 4 45 5 - - Jackson 9 1 11 1 - - (3) 3 0 13 0 - - Edwards 3 0 4 0 - - Blacklidge 2.2 2 0 4 - - (2) 15.2 5 36 5 - - W J Abel (4) 1 0 2 0 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 29.2 10 34 10 0 0 35.2 9 100 10 0 0 Notes: This low-scoring match, completed in a day, was won by Surrey 2 nd XI by an innings and 9 runs on the Saturday. Rain prevented any cricket on the first day. For the winners Platt took 10 wickets in the match for 63 runs and Blacklidge 9 for 36, including 4 wickets for no runs in the Buckinghamshire first innings. Blacklidge also top-scored with 54. For Buckinghamshire Boddy scored 52. Press reports indicate Surrey had much the better of a rain-affected wicket. [Missing: Umpires; fall of wickets; in Surrey innings boundaries in Blacklidge’s 54; in Buckinghamshire second innings batting order and boundaries in Boddy’s 52; precise time completed.] Sources: Bucks Advertiser 3 July; Bucks Herald 3 July; South Bucks Free Press 2 July; South Bucks Standard 2 July; Wolverton Express 2 July; Surrey Year Book 1909, p 112; Sporting Life 28 June; The Sportsman 30 June.