MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 44: DORSET V BERKSHIRE At The Recreation Ground, Dorchester on Monday 5, Tuesday 6 [no play] August 1912 Result: Match drawn - Dorset won on first innings Points: Dorset 3, Berkshire 1 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset none; Berkshire none First day score: As scorecard – rain prevented any play on the second day Berkshire G G M Bennett b Webb 74 (5) not out 21 H Brougham c substitute b Cummins 9 (2) c Kindersley b Cummins 6 Shoosmith, H W b Webb 2 (1) c Kindersley b Cummins 5 J E D Denning b Webb 0 (3) b Webb 16 G Belcher b Webb 0 (6) b Webb 0 C T Wynyard b Webb 2 (4) b Webb 2 Dr W Y Woodburn b Sewell 12 (7) b Sewell 1 J H B Lockhart c Webb b Cummins 14 (8) b Webb 1 * Sir C E M Y Nepean b Cummins 7 (9) b Webb 0 Hawksworth, G M b Webb 1 + A F Todd not out 0 Extras 6 4 Total (all out) 127 (8 wickets) 56 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 127 Second innings 56 - - Cummins 3 - - ( ) 2 - - Webb 6 - - ( ) 5 - - Sewell 1 - - ( ) 1 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 4 0 - - Total 127 10 - - 56 8 - - Dorset R H D Bolton b Belcher 14 Rev W H Arundell b Brougham 32 T H Fowler b Belcher 0 A M Harrison b Hawksworth 31 J A Parke b Hawksworth 0 C J B Webb c Todd b Hawksworth 12 H C B Cummins b Belcher 1 P F C Williams c Bennett b Brougham 35 F A S Sewell c Todd b Hawksworth 8 * C P Goodden not out 6 + C H L Kindersley c and b Belcher 4 Extras 10 Total (all out) 153 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 153 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Belcher 18.3 3 22 4 - - Hawksworth 26 4 - - Brougham 8 2 - - Lockhart 11 2 60 0 - - Wynyard 5 0 27 0 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - Total 153 10 - - Notes: This match was drawn with Dorset winning on first innings. Inclement weather meant there was no play on the second day and the match was abandoned at 2 pm. For the visitors Bennett top-scored in both innings with scores of 74 and an unbeaten 21. For Dorset Williams made the highest score of 35 whilst Webb took 11 wickets in the match, with 6 wickets in Berkshire’s first innings and 5 wickets in the second. All his victims were bowled. Bowling runs for the match for Berkshire bowlers have been deduced from the averages in Wisden except for Hawksworth whose averages in Wisden exclude this match so he has been given the balance of the runs conceded. [Missing: Toss; umpires; fall of wickets; extras breakdown; in Berkshire first innings boundaries in Bennett’s 74, the substitute who caught Brougham; full bowling analyses; in Berkshire second innings full bowling analyses; in Dorset innings full bowling analyses.] Sources: Dorset County Chronicle 8 August; Reading Chronicle 9 August; Reading Standard 10 August; Wokingham Chronicle 9 August; Sporting Life 6,7 August; Sportsman 6,7 August; Cricket 10 August, p 415. 75