MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 72: WILTSHIRE V DORSET At The County Ground, Timbrell Street, Trowbridge on Friday 16, Saturday 17 August 1912 Result: Match drawn - Dorset won on first innings Points: Dorset 3, Wiltshire 1 Toss: Dorset Umpires: Not known Debutants: Wiltshire 1 (H G Mathews); Dorset 1 (H S Read) First day score: Dorset 150 and 2-1 wicket (C P Goodden 0*, C H L Kindersley 0*); Wiltshire 99 Dorset Rev W H Arundell b Mitchell 4 ( ) lbw b Overton 12 R H D Bolton c Overton b Mitchell 28 (2) lbw b Overton 2 A M Harrison c Awdry b Mitchell 21 ( ) not out 29 H S Read lbw b Overton 0 R M Manser lbw b Laverton 18 ( ) b Newman 1 J A Parke b Overton 0 F A S Sewell c Stancomb b Laverton 1 ( ) not out 1 Walby, E C c Stancomb b Overton 17 H C B Cummins lbw b Mitchell 32 * C P Goodden c Overton b Mitchell 22 (1) b Overton 10 + C H L Kindersley not out 0 (3) c and b Overton 2 Extras 7 3 Total (all out) 150 (5 wickets) 60 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 98 148 150 Second innings 2 - - - - - Mitchell 21.1 5 53 5 - - (1) 8 2 13 0 - - Newman 6 5 1 0 - - (3) 9 4 8 1 - - Smith 6 3 7 0 - - Overton 15 4 60 3 - - (2) 17 4 36 4 - - Laverton 4 0 22 2 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 52.1 17 150 10 - - 34 10 60 5 - - Wiltshire S J H Taunton b Harrison 31 S Whittaker run out 9 H G Mathews c Cummins b Read 1 Newman, A W c Parke b Harrison 25 * R W Awdry c Kindersley b Walby 14 R G C Pinfield b Walby 3 W R C Laverton b Walby 0 F W Stancomb b Walby 0 Overton, W b Walby 0 Smith, W R R not out 1 Mitchell, H b Walby 10 Extras 5 Total (all out) 99 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 26 28 53 76 86 99 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Read 10 2 23 1 - - Cummins 9 4 16 0 - - Sewell 4 0 21 0 - - Harrison 12 5 17 2 - - Walby 8.3 1 17 6 - - Extras - - 5 1 - - Total 43.3 12 99 10 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Dorset winning on first innings on the second day. Rain stopped play half an hour before lunch on the second day and, after a subsequent torrential storm, the match was abandoned at 3 pm. For Dorset Cummins’s innings of 32, made at number 9, was the highest score of the match and with Goodden he added 50 for the ninth wicket. Walby took 6 wickets for 17 runs in Wiltshire’s innings. For Wiltshire Taunton top-scored with 31 whilst Mitchell took 5 wickets for 53 runs in Dorset’s first innings. [Missing: Umpires; part fall of wickets; extras breakdown; Wiltshire wicket-keeper; in Dorset second innings part batting order.] Sources: Devizes and Wilts Gazette 22 August; Swindon Advertiser 17 August; Dorset County Chronicle 22 August; Weymouth and Portland Standard 20 August; Sporting Life 17,19 August; Sportsman 17,19 August; Cricket 24 August, p 454. 103