MInor Counties Championship 1912

MINOR COUNTIES V SOUTH AFRICANS – REPRESENTATIVE MATCH – FIRST-CLASS At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke on Trent on [Monday 29], Tuesday 30, and [Wednesday 31] July 1912 Result: Match drawn Toss: Minor Counties Umpires: C Marshall and M Myers Debutants for Minor Counties Representative Team 11 (all players) First day score: No play possible; Second day score: As final scorecard Minor Counties + N V R Riches (Glam) b Faulkner 51 E H Bourne (Staffs) st Ward b Faulkner 16 G A Stephens (Norfolk) b Faulkner 0 H Brougham (Berks) run out 9 * T A L Whittington (Glam) b Faulkner 15 Nichols, J E (Staffs) lbw Pegler 6 B Meakin (Staffs) st Ward b Faulkner 3 Harrison, R (Durham) retired hurt 8 Milne, G T (N'land) not out 9 Morris, A (Durham) b Pegler 3 H A Gilbert (Brecon) c Cox b Pegler 0 Extras b 5, lb 1, w 1 7 Total (all out) 127 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 51 51 69 89 127 - Taylor 5 1 9 0 - - Cox 5 0 12 0 - - Carter 4 0 13 0 1 - Faulkner 27 8 59 5 - - Pegler 23.5 6 27 3 - - Extras - - 7 1 - - Total 64.5 15 127 9 - - South Africans * L J Tancred b Morris 8 H W Taylor not out 12 + T A Ward b Morris 0 S J Snooke b Morris 0 A D Nourse C G White G A Faulkner R Beaumont S J Pegler C P Carter J L Cox Extras b 2 2 Total (3 wickets) 22 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 20 20 22 - - - - - - - Gilbert 7 1 15 0 - - Morris 6.3 3 5 3 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - Total 13.3 4 22 3 - - Notes: This match was drawn as little play was possible due to the weather. Torrential rain the previous night and a heavy downpour during the day meant that no play was possible on Monday. On the second day play started at 2.35pm. No play took place on the final day and the match was abandoned at 1.00pm with rain falling. The Minor Counties had selected a strong side although S F Barnes was away on Test match duty for England. N V R Riches top scored with 51 for the hosts, an innings of 1 hour and 50 minutes, as Faulkner took 5 wickets for 59 for the visitors. Harrison severely wrenched his left knee and had to retire hurt, being replaced by the Staffordshire captain P Briggs in the field. Note that based on the detailed match report in the Staffordshire Advertiser, the fall of the fourth wicket in the Minor Counties innings has been determined with the score at 89 rather than the fifth wicket as in other publications. [Missing: Part fall of wickets, in the Minor Counties innings boundaries in Riches’s 51.] Sources: Staffordshire Advertiser 27 July, 3 August; Staffordshire Sentinel 29,30,31 July; The Times 30,31 July, 1 August; The History of South African Cricket p 760; Wisden 1913 Part II p 87; Cricket 3 August, p 394. 165