MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 32: DEVON V BERKSHIRE At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Wednesday 24, Thursday 25 July 1912 Result: Devon won by an innings and 222 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Berkshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Berkshire 2 (T P W Norris, C K Cotton) First day score: Devon 502; Berkshire 53-1 wicket (H W Shoosmith 4*, H V Whichelow 8*) Devon R Knight b Hawksworth 6 R G Cruwys b Hawksworth 30 F H Carroll c Nepean b Shoosmith 232 Light, W F b Gray 54 M M F Conde-Williams c Nepean b Woodburn 26 * J F Shelley c Norris b Willcocks 44 E C Ball st Todd b Woodburn 42 + Davies, T not out 51 W Wreford st Todd b Woodburn 4 Preedy, E A st Todd b Woodburn 4 Robinson, W H M st Todd b Woodburn 0 Extras b 6, lb 3 9 Total (all out) 502 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 31 48 162 226 303 426 494 498 502 502 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hawksworth 42 17 115 2 - - Willcocks 17 3 73 1 - - Cotton 12 2 54 0 - - Woodburn 24 7 84 5 - - Gray 14 1 67 1 - - Shoosmith 15 0 100 1 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - Total 124 30 502 10 0 0 Berkshire (Followed on) G G M Bennett c Shelley b Knight 40 ( ) b Preedy 42 Shoosmith, H W c Carroll b Wreford 9 ( ) b Preedy 26 Whichelow, H V b Light 8 ( ) not out 32 T P W Norris b Wreford 7 ( ) b Wreford 16 Dr W Y Woodburn c Preedy b Wreford 2 ( ) c Cruwys b Light 8 Hawksworth, G M not out 15 ( ) c Cruwys b Light 13 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Cruwys b Wreford 0 ( ) c Light b Preedy 5 P H H Gray b Light 1 ( ) b Preedy 9 H F Willcocks b Wreford 7 ( ) c Knight b Light 24 C K Cotton b Wreford 0 ( ) c and b Light 0 + A F Todd c Light b Wreford 3 ( ) b Light 6 Extras b 1 1 b 4, lb 1, nb 1 6 Total (all out) 93 (all out) 187 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 41 53 59 65 67 67 72 79 79 93 Second innings 71 74 92 113 135 140 150 179 179 187 Wreford 16 5 39 7 - - (1) 13 2 37 1 - 1 Light 14 4 24 2 - - (3) 20.2 2 64 5 - - Preedy 5 1 19 0 - - (4) 19 2 65 4 - - Robinson 6 2 9 0 - - (5) 6 5 6 0 - - Knight 2 1 1 1 - 1 (2) 5 0 9 0 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 6 0 - - Total 43 13 93 10 0 1 63.2 11 187 10 0 1 Notes: Devon won this match by an innings and 222 runs at 3 pm on the second day. Berkshire followed on 409 runs behind. For the winners, Carroll top-scored with 232, an innings of 4¼ hours which contained 36 fours. It was one short of the Devon record set by E W Burdett in 1911. Light scored 54 and Davies’s 51 not out came in 15 minutes. Carroll and Light added 114 runs for the third wicket and Carroll and Ball 123 for the sixth wicket. Wreford took 7 wickets for 39 runs in Berkshire’s first innings whilst Light took 5 wickets for 64 in their second. For the losers, Woodburn took 5 wickets for 84 runs whilst Bennett top-scored in both innings with 40 and 42. A F Todd made 4 stumpings in the Devon innings. [Missing: Umpires; in Devon first innings boundaries in Light’s 54 and Davies’s 51 not out; in Berkshire second innings batting order.] Sources: Devon and Exeter Gazette 25,26,29 July; Western Daily Mercury 25,26 July; Reading Mercury 3 August; Reading Observer 27 July; Reading Standard 26 July; Cricket 3 August, p 393. 63