MInor Counties Championship 1912

ANALYSIS INNS WICKET-KEEPER FOR VERSUS VENUE MATCH VARIOUS OTHER MOSTS IN THE SEASON Most players – Cheshire 31, Wiltshire 30, Suffolk 29 Most grounds – Cheshire 4, Dorset 4, Durham 4, Kent 2nd XI 4, Lincolnshire 4 Most captains – Staffordshire 4, Lincolnshire 3, Suffolk 3 Most wicket-keepers – Northumberland 6, Wiltshire 5, Staffordshire 4 Most debut players – Cheshire 16, Bedfordshire 8, Kent 2 nd XI 8, Staffordshire 8, Suffolk 8 Most final season players – Cheshire 19, Suffolk 14, Wiltshire 12 MODES OF DISMISSAL 2,360 wickets were taken of which 1,028 were bowled, 134 were lbw, 1,047 were caught, 83 were stumped, 66 were run out and 2 hit wicket. 9 ANALYSIS OF MATCH SCORES MISSING DATA No instances of runs batting adding incorrectly Six cases of bowling analyses being partly or completely absent – Match 34 (Cornwall v Berkshire), Match 44 (Dorset v Berkshire) and Match 82 (Wiltshire v Buckinghamshire) - or runs bowling adding incorrectly – Match 24 (Cornwall v Monmouthshire), Match 34 (Cornwall v Berkshire), and Match 62 (Monmouthshire v Cornwall) One instance of bowling analyses being clearly incorrect – Match 59 (Kent 2nd XI v Cornwall) Toss not known for nine matches Full extras breakdown not known for 49 matches Falls of wickets unknown or incomplete for 45 matches Second innings batting orders not known or incomplete in 21 matches Second innings bowling orders not known in five matches Captains not known in two matches – Match 21 (Devon captain v Cornwall) and Match 26 (Kent 2nd XI captain v Cornwall) Wicket-keepers not known in two matches – Matches 72 (Wiltshire wicket-keeper v Dorset) and 74 (Wiltshire wicket-keeper v Dorset) Umpires not known for 45 matches (including one match in which only one umpire is known) Precise time of match completion not known in 24 instances First day close-of-play details not known for seven matches Players whose initials are unknown – Draper (Kent 2nd XI – Matches 2 v Surrey 2 nd XI, 70 v Surrey 2nd XI, 26 v Cornwall, 52 v Dorset), Lord (Monmouthshire – Match 13 v Glamorgan), Clare (Monmouthshire – Match 62 v Cornwall), Ewing (Monmouthshire – Match 83 v Staffordshire) Unknown details in matches abandoned without play – Match 77 (wicket-keeper for Buckinghamshire v Berkshire), Match 78 (eleventh man for Cambridgeshire v Lincolnshire), Match 79 (entire team for Surrey 2nd XI v Suffolk), Match 84 (both teams for Hertfordshire v Buckinghamshire) 10 ADDENDUM AND CORRIGENDUM TO PREVIOUS BOOKS 1898 Page 89 Remove G P Williams from Final Season players list. He played for Monmouthshire again in 1904 and 1912. 1906 Page 89 The Oxfordshire player F Hodgkins has now been identified as Frederick Edwin Hodgkins. His additional initial should also be reflected on the subsequent pages 103, 150, 157, 180, and 199. 1909 Page 89 The Berkshire professional Leonard has been identified as Arthur Leonard. His birth was registered in 1879 as Arthur Bamford in Leicester and he showed himself by that name in the 1911 census. He played for Reading at football in the name of Leonard when he lived in Reading. His initial should also be reflected on the subsequent pages 150, 155, 162, and 166. Page 101 Subsequent research has shown the ground in Torquay to be the one at 'Cricketfield Road' rather than “The Recreation Ground, The Seafront'. This change also needs reflecting on page 175. 1911 Page 43 In the Missing section, "Previse" should read "Precise". Page 144 Requires the insertion of A F Leach-Lewis under "Most dismissals in an innings" and the alteration of the total from 9 to 10. In Match 67 he took 4 catches for Kent 2nd XI in the Buckinghamshire first innings at Stoke Poges. 127