MInor Counties Championship 1912

WILTSHIRE 1912 Championship matches: Played 8, won 1, lost 3, drawn 4 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 3, no decision on first innings none) Position: Fourteenth out of twenty Won: v Buckinghamshire at Melksham Lost: v Glamorgan at Cardiff, v Buckinghamshire at Bletchley and v Glamorgan at Trowbridge Drawn - won on first innings: v Surrey 2nd XI at Westbury Drawn - lost on first innings: v Surrey 2nd XI at The Oval, v Dorset at Trowbridge and v Dorset at Wimborne Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captain: A M Miller (5 matches) - R W Awdry (3 matches) led the side in the matches in which A M Miller did not play Wicket-keepers: G C Davenport (2 matches), C G Fraser (1 match), T S Luce (1 match), T Smart (1 match) and F W Stancomb (1 match). It is not known who kept wicket in the matches against Dorset at Trowbridge and Dorset at Wimborne. Debutants: 5 (C W Hurn, H G Mathews, C K Merewether, Sgt I H Muddle and E P Thompson) Final Season: 12 (H W Cobb, C G Fraser, E Grant, H G Mathews, C K Merewether, Sgt I H Muddle, J Pugh, E T Shorland, T Smart, J E Stevens, E P Thompson and S Whittaker) Hon Secretary: W A Yockney Professionals: 6 (H Mitchell, A W Newman, W Overton, A S Sellick, T Smart and W R R Smith) Home Grounds 3: The Cricket Ground, Melksham House, Melksham - new ground (1 match); The County Ground, Timbrell Street, Trowbridge (2 matches) and Leighton Recreation Centre, Westbury - new ground (1 match) Notes: Wiltshire did not have a good season finishing in the lower half of the Table. New opponents were Buckinghamshire in place of Kent 2nd XI and Monmouthshire. Wiltshire did not have a settled team as thirty players appeared during the season. The batting was not strong - Arthur Newman scored 303 runs but half of them came in a single innings. The bowling was stronger with Harry Mitchell taking 46 wickets at 14.78, Arthur Newman 35 at 16.20 and William Overton 28 at 13.57. During the season career milestones reached were 4000 runs by Audley Miller, 2000 runs and 500 wickets by William Overton and 200 wickets by Arthur Newman. WILTSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1912 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 5 players who made their Championship debut for Wiltshire during the season. The name in bold denotes that 1912 was the last or only season that these 12 players appeared for Wiltshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I C S Awdry 2 4 0 22 40 10.00 - - - 1 - 4 0 30 0 - - - - R W Awdry 7 13 0 41 172 13.23 - - 2 3 - 3 0 18 0 - - - - H W Cobb 1 2 1 3* 3 3.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - G C Davenport 2 4 1 15* 36 12.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - C G Fraser 1 2 1 0* 0 0.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - E Grant 1 2 0 6 8 4.00 - - - 3 - 18 4 45 0 - - - - C W Hurn + 1 2 0 44 46 23.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - W R C Laverton 5 8 0 37 78 9.75 - - 2 1 - 54 15 169 16 10.56 3-19 - - T S Luce 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - 3 - - - - - - - - G W Mathews 4 8 0 60 140 17.50 - 1 2 3 - - - - - - - - - H G Mathews + 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - C K Merewether + 2 3 0 15 22 7.33 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - A M Miller 5 10 2 94* 190 23.75 - 1 1 5 - 19.2 3 62 1 62.00 1-39 - - Mitchell, H 8 14 4 14 67 6.70 - - 3 10 - 236.2 59 680 46 14.78 6-36 - 5 Sgt I H Muddle + 1 2 0 0 0 0.00 - - 2 - - - - 7 1 7.00 1-7 - - Newman, A W 8 15 1 153 303 21.64 1 - 1 7 - 221.4 59 567 35 16.20 6-47 - 2 F E Newman 3 6 0 25 50 8.33 - - 1 1 - 3 0 18 1 18.00 1-18 - - Overton, W 8 14 3 25 85 7.72 - - 3 5 - 117 26 380 28 13.57 6-27 - 1 R G C Pinfield 2 3 0 16 24 8.00 - - - 1 - 1 0 2 0 - - - - J Pugh 1 2 0 33 33 16.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - T C G Sandford 1 2 0 1 2 1.00 - - - 1 - 5 2 10 0 - - - - Sellick, A S 5 9 1 28* 98 12.25 - - 1 4 - - - - - - - - - E T Shorland 1 2 0 5 9 4.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Smart, T 1 2 1 1 1 1.00 - - - - 2 - - - - - - - - Smith, W R R 1 1 1 1* 1 - - - - - - 6 3 7 0 - - - - F W Stancomb 2 3 1 10* 10 5.00 - - 2 3 - - - - - - - - - J E Stevens 1 2 0 1 1 0.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - S J H Taunton 4 7 0 31 86 12.28 - - 2 1 - 12.4 1 37 3 12.33 2-28 - - E P Thomson + 1 2 0 4 4 2.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - S Whittaker 7 12 0 32 126 10.50 - - 4 3 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 138 - - - - - - - - 137 2 - - - - Total 88 159 17 153 1776 12.50 1 2 32 58 5 701 172 2169 133 16.30 6-27 0 8 (30 players) (6 ball overs) Note: In Match 82 the bowlers' overs and maidens are unknown for both Buckinghamshire innings. 162