Minor Counties Championship 1909

69 MATCH NUMBER 38 : CORNWALL V DEVON – WEST DIVISION At The Camborne Cricket Club Ground, Roskear, Camborne on Friday 16 July 1909 Result: Devon won by two wickets Points: Devon 5 Toss: Cornwall Umpires: Not known Debutants: Cornwall 2 (A R Godrich, G Harvey); Devon 1 (Capt R C S Waller) First day score: As match - completed in one day Cornwall * H Tresawna b Waller 9 (1) b Aston 6 W N Bickford-Smith b Coate 15 (2) c Shelley b Aston 5 Trevarthen, C c Coate b Waller 10 (3) b Coate 0 A R Godrich c and b Waller 4 (4) b Aston 1 A B Lubbock b Aston 20 (5) c Wilson b Coate 12 J C Bickford-Smith c Light b Coate 4 (6) not out 14 G Harvey b Coate 10 (7) b Aston 7 G H Escott lbw b Aston 4 (8) b Aston 0 + Vibart, R F b Sturt 17 (9) b Coate 5 E Hawken c Sturt b Waller 31 (10) c Davies b Waller 8 Whiting, F J not out 0 (11) b Waller 0 Extras b 7, lb 1 8 b 4, w 1 5 Total 132 63 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 34 34 39 48 70 75 92 114 132 Second innings 5 8 9 28 28 45 45 50 63 63 Coate 15 2 70 3 - - (1) 8 1 34 3 1 - Waller 8.1 2 22 4 - - (3) 3 1 5 2 - - Sturt 4 0 9 1 - - Aston 10 3 23 2 - - (2) 10 3 19 5 - - Extras - - 8 0 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 37.1 7 132 10 0 0 21 5 63 10 1 0 Devon Lt F O’B Wilson c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 10 (2) c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 14 J F Orchard c Vibart b Hawken 1 (6) run out 7 Light, W F c Hawken b Whiting 5 (1) b Whiting 34 + Davies, T b Whiting 14 (3) c and b Whiting 0 F H Carroll c Godrich b Hawken 10 (4) b Hawken 2 J F Shelley b Whiting 32 (5) c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 13 W F Sturt c Tresawna b Hawken 1 (7) c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 2 Capt R C S Waller c Escott b Hawken 2 (8) not out 4 * L Tamworth c Vibart b Whiting 6 (9) c Lubbock b Whiting 0 R F Coate st Vibart b Hawken 17 (10) not out 0 Aston, W H not out 9 Extras b 11, w 1 12 b 1 1 Total 119 (8 wickets) 77 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 18 28 35 59 84 86 87 98 119 Second innings 48 48 50 52 68 72 75 76 - - Hawken 15.3 3 62 6 1 - (2) 11.2 2 40 3 - - Whiting 15 3 45 4 - - (1) 12 3 36 4 - - Extras - - 12 0 - - - - 1 1 - - Total 30.3 6 119 10 1 0 23.2 5 77 8 0 0 Notes: Devon won by two wickets shortly after 6.15 pm on the first day. The margin of victory was the second closest of the season for a team successfully chasing a fourth innings target. When the visitors began their second innings, they required 77 runs to win with 75 minutes of play remaining on the first day. The pitch started to crumble from early on and was the subject of much criticism from both sides. It was described as ‘wretched’ by several players and others said that it was the worst they had played on all season. No batsmen scored fifty, with the top scores being 34 by Light for Devon and 31 by Hawken for Cornwall. Light’s 34 contained 1 six and 6 fours. There was talk about moving the fixture with Carmarthenshire due to be played at Camborne at the beginning of August, but it came to nothing. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Cornish Telegraph 22 July; Royal Cornwall Gazette 22 July; West Briton 19 July; Western Daily Mercury 17 July; Western Morning News 17 July; The Sportsman 17 July; Cricket 5 August, p 320.