MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 80: GLAMORGAN V STAFFORDSHIRE At Swansea Cricket Club Ground, St Helen’s, Swansea on Monday 26 [no play], Tuesday 27 August 1912 Result: Staffordshire won by an innings and 65 runs Points: Staffordshire 5 Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Glamorgan none; Staffordshire none First day score: Rain prevented any play on the first day Staffordshire Nichols, J E c Hacker b Creber 32 Brammer, W c Thomas b Creber 5 Barnes, S F b Hacker 0 L F Taylor st Moore-Gwyn b Creber 2 W H Twigg b Maxwell 42 * B Meakin c Moore-Gwyn b Cameron 15 Vost, E b Maxwell 4 Wilson, G A not out 73 Bucknell, A c Rattenbury b Creber 18 Deyes, G b Creber 2 + J Poole run out 1 Extras b 5, lb 3, w 1, nb 2 11 Total (all out) 205 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 25 25 28 49 92 105 109 154 165 205 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hacker 10.5 3 19 1 - 1 Creber 23 3 109 5 1 - Rattenbury 3 0 19 0 - - Maxwell 12 3 26 2 - 2 Cameron 3 0 21 1 - - Extras - - 11 1 - - Total 51.5 9 205 10 1 3 Glamorgan (Followed on) * T A L Whittington c Wilson b Deyes 7 (1) c Poole b Wilson 0 + H G Moore-Gwyn b Barnes 9 (2) run out 0 J L G Thomas b Barnes 1 (8) b Deyes 5 W P Morris b Barnes 2 (3) b Nichols 34 Bancroft, W J b Barnes 6 (4) b Barnes 7 Maxwell, J b Barnes 17 (5) st Poole b Barnes 3 Dr A W C Cameron b Barnes 0 (10) b Nichols 1 G L Rattenbury lbw b Bucknell 6 (9) not out 1 D B Williams b Wilson 12 (6) c Deyes b Barnes 6 Hacker, W S not out 4 (7) lbw b Nichols 4 Creber, H b Wilson 0 (11) c Brammer b Barnes 1 Extras b 10, lb 2, nb 2 14 0 Total (all out) 78 (all out) 62 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 14 22 27 28 35 43 62 62 78 78 Second innings 0 6 25 35 43 48 53 54 61 62 Barnes 14 5 30 6 - 2 (3) 8.3 4 12 4 - - Deyes 4 2 6 1 - - (5) 3 0 8 1 - - Bucknell 8 2 23 1 - - (2) 3 0 9 0 - - Wilson 1.5 0 5 2 - - (1) 6 1 13 1 - - Nichols (4) 9 2 20 3 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 0 1 - - Total 27.5 9 78 10 0 2 29.3 7 62 10 0 0 Notes: Staffordshire won this return match by an innings and 65 runs with just 4 minutes to spare at 6.26 pm on the second day. The match between the two sides at Stoke-on-Trent earlier in the month had also been won by Staffordshire. Torrential rain during Sunday night, followed by several prolonged showers on Monday morning meant play did not start until 11.45 am on Tuesday morning. For Staffordshire, who at lunchtime had scored 109-7, Wilson then hit 73 in 40 minutes which featured five sixes and three fours. Barnes took 10 wickets for 42 runs in the match, including 6 wickets for 30 runs in Glamorgan’s first innings, during which he bowled unchanged. Having secured the final wicket of the match he was given a standing ovation as the players left the field. For Glamorgan, who were dismissed twice in under 58 overs, Morris’ second innings score of just 34 represented over a quarter of the runs scored off the bat in both innings. Creber took 5 wickets for 109 runs in the Staffordshire innings. All sources give Hacker bowling 1 and Maxwell 2 no balls in the Staffordshire first innings although the total for the innings is only 2, the assumption being that one was scored from. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: South Wales Daily News 27,28 August; Western Mail 27,28 August; Staffordshire scorebook; Staffordshire Advertiser 31 August; Staffordshire Annual Report; Staffordshire Sentinel 25,26 August; Cricket 31 August, p 474. 111