MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 62: MONMOUTHSHIRE V CORNWALL At The Abergavenny Cricket Club Ground, Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road, Abergavenny on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 August 1912 Result: Cornwall won by an innings and 5 runs Points: Cornwall 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Monmouthshire 2 (- Clare, C W Webb); Cornwall none First day score: Monmouthshire 62 and 106-8 wickets (F G Phillips 27*); Cornwall 173 Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c Vibart b Whiting 6 (1) c Bickford-Smith b Escott 5 G C Phillips c Vibart b Escott 0 (2) c and b Hawken 21 N C Phillips b Whiting 8 (3) c Escott b Hawken 14 Diver, E J c and b Whiting 4 (4) b Whiting 5 * E S Phillips c Bickford-Smith b Whiting 20 (7) b Escott 18 K C Raikes b Whiting 5 (5) b Hawken 0 + W P Geen b Whiting 18 (6) run out 0 F G Phillips c H Tresawna b Whiting 0 (9) not out 27 H A James c Hawken b Whiting 0 (8) c Vibart b Port 4 C W Webb b Escott 0 (10) st Vibart b Whiting 0 Clare, - not out 0 (11) b Whiting 0 Extras 1 12 Total (all out) 62 (all out) 106 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 6 18 19 29 62 62 Second innings 51 87 106 106 106 Whiting 13 4 31 8 - - (1) 16.3 3 46 3 - - Escott 10.3 0 18 2 - - (2) 12 3 22 2 - - Hawken 2 0 12 0 - - (3) 6 0 19 3 - - Port (4) 5 1 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 12 1 - - Total 25.3 4 62 10 - - 34.3 6 104x 10 - - 106 Cornwall * H Tresawna b Raikes 0 A S Whitworth b F G Phillips 2 W N Bickford-Smith b F G Phillips 6 F C Barnes b F G Phillips 0 Dr W S Tresawna not out 93 + Vibart, R F c James b Raikes 31 Trevarthen, C c Geen b Clare 13 E Hawken b Clare 0 G H Escott b Clare 3 Whiting, F J b Clare 6 F G Port b F G Phillips 6 Extras 13 Total (all out) 173 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 173 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Raikes 17 3 68 2 - - F G Phillips 14 2 44 4 - - Clare 9 1 48 4 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - Total 40 6 173 10 - - Notes: Cornwall won this return match by an innings and five runs; bad light had halted play early on the first evening but less than two overs were needed to finish the match on the second morning. The match between the two sides at Penzance in July had been won by Cornwall. For the winners, Tresawna’s 93 not out contained 3 sixes and 11 fours. Whiting took 11 wickets for 77 runs in the match, including 8 for 31 in Monmouthshire’s first innings. Vibart made 4 dismissals in the match. For Monmouthshire F G Phillips top-scored with 27 not out. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Monmouthshire second innings Port’s bowling analysis, runs bowling 2 short; Clare’s initials; precise time completed.] Sources: Free Press of Monmouthshire 16 August; Monmouthshire Evening Post 12,13 August; Monmouthshire Weekly Post 17 August; South Wales Argus 12,13 August; South Wales Daily News 13,14 August; Western Mail 13,14 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 15 August; Western Daily Mercury 13,14 August; Cricket 14 September, p 507. 93