Minor Counties Championship 1909

59 MATCH NUMBER 28 : CORNWALL V MONMOUTHSHIRE – WEST DIVISION At The Truro Cricket Club Ground, Tremorvah, Truro on Friday 9, Saturday 10 July 1909 Result: Monmouthshire won by eight wickets Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: C Hughes and W Pate Debutants: Cornwall 1 (R Richards); Monmouthshire none First day score: Cornwall 41 and 60-2 wickets (C Trevarthen 17*, A E Meyrick 8*); Monmouthshire 187 Cornwall * H Tresawna b F G Phillips 10 (1) b F G Phillips 8 W N Bickford-Smith c E S Phillips b Silverlock 1 (2) b Silverlock 19 Trevarthen, C c E S Phillips b F G Phillips 4 (3) b Silverlock 33 A E Meyrick b F G Phillips 12 (4) c and b Silverlock 9 A B Lubbock b F G Phillips 8 (5) c F G Phillips b W A Williams 47 R Richards c T B Williams b Silverlock 5 (6) b Silverlock 0 J C Bickford-Smith b F G Phillips 0 (7) b W A Williams 40 + Vibart, R F b F G Phillips 0 (8) b W A Williams 7 E Hawken not out 0 (9) b Silverlock 4 B B Bennetts b F G Phillips 1 (10) c Hudden b W A Williams 7 Whiting, F J c E S Phillips b F G Phillips 0 (11) not out 1 Extras 0 w 1, nb 1 21 Total 41 196 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 4 14 15 31 36 41 Second innings 10 46 91 97 161 196 F G Phillips 11 5 14 8 - - (1) 12 2 39 1 - - Silverlock 10 1 27 2 - - (2) 25 6 66 5 - - W A Williams (3) 21 7 59 4 1 1 Stedman (4) 3 0 11 0 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 21 0 - - Total 21 6 41 10 0 0 61 15 196 10 1 1 Monmouthshire M Stratton b Tresawna 28 (1) c Meyrick b Hawken 0 Silverlock, A J c Trevarthen b Hawken 24 (2) not out 30 * E S Phillips c W N Bickford-Smith b Tresawna 14 (4) not out 3 T B Williams b Tresawna 6 + Diver, E J b Hawken 0 (3) c Bennetts b Whiting 15 L H Weight c Tresawna b Hawken 0 F G Phillips c Vibart b Hawken 0 W E C Hudden not out 54 W A Williams b Tresawna 57 L F Stedman b Richards 0 J R Williams b Richards 0 Extras w 2, nb 1 4 w 1 3 Total 187 (2 wickets) 51 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 49 61 73 73 77 77 77 177 187 187 Second innings 1 45 - - - - - - - - Whiting 14 4 42 0 - 1 (3) 7 6 1 1 - - Hawken 20 8 61 4 2 - (1) 13 2 39 1 1 - Tresawna 12 1 52 4 - - (2) 5 3 8 0 - - Trevarthen 4 0 23 0 - - Richards 1.2 0 5 2 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 51.2 13 187 10 2 1 25 11 51 2 1 0 Notes: Monmouthshire won by 8 wickets an hour after lunch on the second day. On the first day, rain stopped play at 5.30 pm. On the second, ‘a very strong wind split the screen sheet at the far end’. For the winners, W A Williams scored 57 and Hudden 54 not out. In the Monmouthshire first innings, Hudden and W A Williams added 100 runs for the eighth wicket. Williams had been dropped when his score was 4. In the Cornwall first innings, F G Phillips took 8 wickets for 14 runs. For the home side, Lubbock top-scored with 47, which included 8 fours. In the Monmouthshire second innings, Whiting bowled 7 overs and 6 maidens for just 1 run. In the Monmouthshire first innings Hawken took the wickets of Diver, Weight and F G Phillips in four balls in one over. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; precise time completed.] Sources: Royal Cornwall Gazette 15 July; West Briton 12 July; Western Daily Mercury 10,12 July; Western Morning News 10,12 July; Monmouthshire Evening Post 9,10 July; South Wales Argus 9,10,12 July; South Wales Daily News 10,12 July; Western Mail 10,12 July; The Sportsman 10,12 July; Cricket 29 July, p 302.