MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 69: BERKSHIRE V BUCKINGHAMSHIRE At The County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on Friday 16, Saturday 17 August 1912 Result: Buckinghamshire won by eight wickets Points: Buckinghamshire 5 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: C Hughes and F Johnson Debutants: Berkshire none; Buckinghamshire 2 (W Adams, W E Hazelton) First day score: Berkshire 175 and 18-0 wicket (G G M Bennett 14*, H W Shoosmith 4*); Buckinghamshire 243 Berkshire G G M Bennett c Hazelton b Sewell 18 (1) c Ross b Sewell 40 Shoosmith, H W b Field 7 (2) st Shaw b Sewell 13 A P Strange c and b Sewell 3 (3) c Shaw b Sewell 0 H Brougham b Field 9 (4) c Lowndes b Hazelton 20 G Belcher c Shaw b Sewell 0 (5) c Field b Wright 44 Whichelow, H V b Field 0 (6) b Sewell 0 Dr W Y Woodburn c & b Sewell 37 (7) c Sewell b Field 14 C T Wynyard c Lowndes b Sewell 53 (8) b Field 3 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Lowndes b Le Gros 3 (9) st Shaw b Sewell 19 Hawksworth, G M run out 31 (10) c Sewell b Field 31 + A F Todd not out 5 (11) not out 1 Extras 9 9 Total (all out) 175 (all out) 194 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 43 91 95 136 175 Second innings 54 54 60 84 84 138 194 Field 15 2 36 3 - - (1) 14.5 5 43 3 - - Sewell 21 4 85 5 - - (2) 22 2 90 5 - - Le Gros 5 1 21 1 - - Hazelton 2 0 24 0 - - (3) 10 1 43 1 - - Wright (4) 3 1 9 1 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - 9 0 - - Total 43 7 175 10 - - 49.5 9 194 10 - - Buckinghamshire E H D Sewell c and b Hawksworth 20 (4) not out 45 N D C Ross b Hawksworth 4 D H Field b Hawksworth 9 P W Le Gros c Shoosmith b Hawksworth 73 (3) c Bennett b Belcher 1 + B H G Shaw c Shoosmith b Hawksworth 0 P L Frith c and b Hawksworth 61 * W F L F Lowndes b Hawksworth 28 A G de Rothschild c Woodburn b Hawksworth 22 W Adams c Brougham b Hawksworth 0 (1) not out 61 W E Hazelton not out 23 (2) b Belcher 8 Wright, M W c Woodburn b Hawksworth 0 Extras w 2 3 13 Total (all out) 243 (2 wickets) 128 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 32 33 112 243 243 Second innings 40 - - - - - - - - Belcher 14 2 44 0 1 - (1) 14 3 39 2 - - Hawksworth 37 8 97 10 - - (2) 16 8 46 0 - - Woodburn 10 2 40 0 1 - (3) 4.4 1 30 0 - - Wynyard 6 1 30 0 - - Brougham 3 0 20 0 - - Shoosmith 4 1 9 0 - - Extras - - 3 0 - - - - 13 0 - - Total 74 14 243 10 2 0 34.4 12 128 2 - - Notes: Buckinghamshire won this match by 8 wickets on the second day. For the winners there were 12 fours in Le Gros’s 73, 9 fours in Frith’s 61 and Adams scored an unbeaten 61. Sewell took 10 wickets in the match for 175 runs, including 5 for 85 runs in Berkshire’s first innings during which he bowled unchanged and 5 for 90 in their second. For the losers Wynyard scored 53 whilst Hawksworth, with his medium-slow accurate bowling, took all 10 wickets for 97 runs whilst bowling throughout Buckinghamshire’s first innings. This feat was the first time a Berkshire player had taken all ten wickets in an innings and has not been equalled since. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Berkshire first innings boundaries in Wynyard’s 53; in Buckinghamshire second innings boundaries in Adams’s 61 not out; precise time completed.] Sources: Reading Standard 24 August; Wokingham Chronicle 23 August; Bucks Advertiser 24 August; Bucks Herald 24 August; South Bucks Free Press 23 August; Slough Chronicle 23 August; Cricket 24 August, p 452. 100