Minor Counties Championship 1909

63 MATCH NUMBER 32 : DEVON V MONMOUTHSHIRE – WEST DIVISION At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 July 1909 Result: Devon won by one wicket Points: Devon 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon 2 (Lt F O’B Wilson, Capt E D Young); Monmouthshire none First day score: Devon 309; Monmouthshire 143-7 wickets (W A Williams 22*) Devon Lt G C Harrison b W A Williams 76 (1) c W A Williams b F G Phillips 8 Lt F O’B Wilson b W A Williams 36 (2) st J R Williams b Silverlock 5 J F Orchard run out 27 (3) b Silverlock 9 Light, W F b Stedman 57 (4) b F G Phillips 7 + Davies, T c Stratton b Stedman 11 (5) c and b Silverlock 13 Capt E D Young b Silverlock 6 (6) c J R Williams b F G Phillips 0 D C Boles b W A Williams 10 (7) c and b Silverlock 3 J F Shelley b W A Williams 26 (8) b Silverlock 3 Capt J C Hartley c W A Williams b Silverlock 27 (9) not out 22 * L Tamworth run out 12 (10) run out 0 Aston, W H not out 9 (11) not out 10 Extras b 9, lb 3 12 b 1, nb 2 3 Total 309 (9 wickets) 83 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 74 140 171 208 220 220 255 264 294 309 Second innings 9 13 30 30 30 41 45 52 57 - F G Phillips 10 1 35 0 - - (2) 14 2 27 3 - - W A Williams 27 3 74 4 - - (3) 2 1 2 0 - - Silverlock 28.1 4 103 2 - - (1) 15 2 51 5 - 2 Stedman 14 3 72 2 - - Hudden 4 1 13 0 - - Extras - - 12 2 - - - - 3 1 - - Total 83.1 12 309 10 0 0 31 5 83 9 0 2 Monmouthshire (Followed-on) M Stratton c Aston b Young 25 (4) c Harrison b Boles 72 Silverlock, A J c Aston b Boles 52 (2) b Hartley 22 * E S Phillips b Hartley 22 (3) b Boles 0 Diver, E J c Boles b Hartley 7 (5) c Shelley b Young 35 T B Williams run out 0 (6) not out 63 W E C Hudden b Aston 1 (7) b Hartley 0 W A Williams not out 25 (1) b Boles 3 F G Phillips b Boles 5 (8) c Tamworth b Light 17 L H Weight b Boles 4 (9) b Hartley 2 L F Stedman b Boles 0 (10) c Shelley b Hartley 0 + J R Williams lbw b Hartley 10 (11) c and b Hartley 6 Extras b 8, lb 2, w 2, nb 1 13 b 2, lb 4, w 1 7 Total 164 227 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 79 88 110 111 115 127 143 152 152 164 Second innings 11 13 39 117 155 155 195 205 205 227 Aston 7 1 21 1 - - (3) 10 1 41 0 - - Hartley 14.2 4 30 3 - - (2) 28 6 77 5 - - Boles 18 1 62 4 - - (1) 21 5 42 3 - - Wilson 3 0 17 0 2 1 (6) 5 1 12 0 1 - Light 10 2 19 0 - - (4) 12 3 32 1 - - Young 3 2 2 1 - - (5) 3 0 16 1 - - Extras - - 13 1 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 55.2 10 164 10 2 1 79 16 227 10 1 0 Notes: Devon won this close match by one wicket just before time, with the last wicket putting on the 26 runs needed for victory amid reported scenes of great excitement. The margin of victory was the narrowest of the season for a team successfully chasing a fourth innings target. The match was for T Davies’s benefit. Monmouthshire followed on 145 runs behind and set Devon a victory target of 83 runs in 100 minutes. Hartley and Aston added 26 for the last wicket, the winning run being a bye. Weight at point missed catching Aston when the score was 72. For the winners, there were 9 fours in Harrison’s 76 and 1 six and 9 fours in Light’s 57. For Monmouthshire, there were 9 fours in Stratton’s 72, 7 fours in T B Williams’s 63 not out, and 6 fours in Silverlocks’s 52. [Missing: Umpires; precise time completed.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette 13,14 July; Western Daily Mercury 13,14 July; Western Morning News 13,14 July; Monmouthshire Evening Post 12,13 July; South Wales Argus 12,13,14 July; South Wales Daily News 13,14 July; Western Mail 13,14 July; The Sportsman 13,14 July; Cricket 22 July, p 283.