MInor Counties Championship 1912

MATCH NUMBER 66: DEVON V DORSET At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Road, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Wednesday 14, Thursday 15 August 1912 Result: Devon won by four wickets Points: Devon 5 Toss: Dorset Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Dorset none First day score: Dorset 119 and 48-1 wicket (F A S Sewell 22*, A M Harrison 21*); Devon 97 Dorset Rev W H Arundell c Carroll b Wreford 1 (1) b Light 3 F A S Sewell c Orchard b Wreford 15 (2) c Carroll b Preedy 23 A M Harrison c Davies b Wreford 0 (3) b Preedy 55 J A Parke c Carroll b Wreford 1 (5) b Fishwick 0 C J B Webb c Cruwys b Light 34 (4) b Fishwick 22 R M Manser b Light 44 (6) b Fishwick 31 H C B Cummins b Light 6 (7) lbw b Fishwick 7 * C P Goodden c Davies b Light 2 (8) b Fishwick 4 R H D Bolton b Preedy 1 (9) b Fishwick 0 + C H L Kindersley not out 7 (10) b Fishwick 4 Walby, E C b Light 2 (11) not out 1 Extras lb 4, w 1, nb 1 6 b 15, lb 5, nb 4 24 Total (all out) 119 (all out) 174 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 1 1 3 26 83 104 109 110 110 119 Second innings 13 51 95 95 117 142 152 174 Wreford 25 10 42 4 - 1 (1) 11 2 29 0 - 3 Light 18 7 17 5 - - (2) 24 6 52 1 - - Fishwick 6 0 14 0 - - (4) 13 3 23 7 - - Preedy 13 3 31 1 - - (3) 18 3 40 2 - 1 Knight 2 0 9 0 1 - (5) 2 0 6 0 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 24 0 - - Total 64 20 119 10 1 1 68 14 174 10 0 4 Devon * J F Shelley b Webb 3 (6) b Cummins 4 J F Orchard c Cummins b Webb 3 (1) c Walby b Cummins 24 F H Carroll lbw b Cummins 1 (4) b Walby 42 R Knight b Webb 19 (2) lbw b Walby 48 Light, W F c Walby b Webb 9 (5) not out 52 R G Cruwys c Harrison b Sewell 4 (8) not out 6 M M F Conde-Williams b Webb 13 (7) b Cummins 15 W Wreford lbw b Webb 9 (3) c substitute b Webb 0 Preedy, E A b Webb 0 + Davies, T b Sewell 9 M R Fishwick not out 8 Extras b 14, lb 5 19 b 5, w 1, nb 2 8 Total (all out) 97 (6 wickets) 199 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 9 11 33 52 52 64 64 79 97 Second innings 61 64 100 151 169 191 - - - - Cummins 7 3 10 1 - - (1) 15 5 47 3 - - Webb 23.2 6 43 7 - - (2) 19 4 58 1 - 2 Sewell 17 5 25 2 - - (3) 9 1 28 0 1 - Walby (4) 19 5 38 2 - - Harrison (5) 5 1 20 0 - - Extras - - 19 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 47.2 14 97 10 0 0 67 16 199 6 1 2 Notes: Devon won this match by 4 wickets a few minutes after 6 pm on the second day, making the highest score of the match in their second innings. Play did not start until 11.50 am on the second day due to rain when, with the agreement of both captains, a new pitch was cut. For the winners, Light scored 52 not out. Fishwick took 7 wickets for 23 runs in Dorset’s second innings and Light took 5 wickets for 17 runs in their first. The Devon wicket-keeper Davies was struck a severe blow on the jaw by Sewell’s bat when the batsman missed a pull shot towards the end of the first day and Carroll took his place behind the stumps. Dorset’s Bolton fielded as a substitute. For Dorset Harrison top-scored with 55 and Webb took 7 wickets for 43 runs in the Devon first innings. [Missing: Umpires; in Dorset second innings boundaries in Harrison’s 55; in Devon second innings boundaries in Light’s 52 not out and who was the Dorset substitute who caught Wreford.] Sources: Devon and Exeter Gazette 15,16 August; Western Daily Mercury 15,16 August; Dorset County Chronicle 22 August; Weymouth and Portland Standard 20 August; Sporting Life 15,16 August; The Sportsman 15,16 August; Cricket 24 August, p 452. 97