Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 76 : DORSET V DEVON At Sherborne School Cricket Ground, Horsecastles Lane, Sherborne on Monday 18, Tuesday 19 August 1913 Result: Devon won by 32 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Dorset none; Devon none First day score: Devon 311; Dorset 112 -1 wicket (Gordon 68*) Devon * J F Shelley st Farrer b Webb 9 (1) c Gordon b Cummins 33 Reed, S O run out 121 (2) b McIntyre 6 F H Carroll c Cummins b Goodden 87 (3) b Cummins 0 E A Fulcher b Walby 2 (4) c Farrer b Cummins 2 W F Sturt b Cummins 18 (5) c Farrer b Busk 25 Rev G L A Heslop c Walby b McIntyre 13 (6) lbw b Cummins 0 Light, W F run out 31 (7) b McIntyre 1 Tate, E b Busk 12 (8) c Busk b McIntyre 2 W Wreford b McIntyre 1 (9) b McIntyre 7 + Davies, T b McIntyre 2 (10) not out 16 M R Fishwick not out 0 (11) b Cummins 6 Extras b 9, lb 6 15 b 5, lb 5, nb 1 11 Total (all out) 311 (all out) 109 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 17 188 193 223 271 273 279 286 311 311 Second innings 27 28 38 49 49 52 60 68 96 109 McIntyre 26 2 94 3 - - (1) 10 1 41 4 - - Webb 15 1 53 1 - - Walby 22 4 66 1 - - (3) 2 1 1 0 - - Cummins 10 2 31 1 - - (2) 15.1 1 47 5 - 1 Busk 10 5 7 1 - - (4) 4 1 9 1 - - Hope 5 1 28 0 - - Freeman 1 0 7 0 - - Goodden 5 2 10 1 - - Extras - - 15 2 - - - - 11 0 - - Total 94 17 311 10 0 0 31.1 4 109 10 0 1 Dorset C J B Webb c Davies b Carroll 41 (1) b Sturt 4 G M Gordon c and b Wreford 90 (2) c Davies b Wreford 1 Freeman, E J b Tate 22 (3) b Wreford 11 P P Hope b Tate 14 (4) b Fishwick 13 Walby, E C b Tate 2 (5) b Wreford 0 * C P Goodden b Sturt 38 (6) b Wreford 0 E A McIntyre b Tate 1 (7) c Sturt b Wreford 32 H C B Cummins lbw b Tate 5 (10) b Fishwick 28 J K Manger lbw b Tate 17 (9) not out 35 R D Busk c and b Sturt 10 (8) b Fishwick 2 + H W F B Farrer not out 0 (11) b Fishwick 1 Extras b 11, lb 2, nb 1 14 b 6, nb 1 7 Total (all out) 254 (all out) 134 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 112 142 170 173 178 182 208 230 254 254 Second innings 4 15 23 23 23 39 45 71 132 134 Sturt 15 4 41 2 - - (1) 7 0 27 1 - - Wreford 20 1 71 1 - 1 (2) 16 1 67 5 - 1 Light 15 3 55 0 - - (5) 1 1 0 0 - - Fishwick 15 8 37 0 - - (3) 9 3 27 4 - - Tate 15.1 3 33 6 - - (4) 4 0 6 0 - - Carroll 1 0 3 1 - - Extras - - 14 0 - - - - 7 0 - - Total 81.1 19 254 10 0 1 37 5 134 10 0 1 Notes: Devon won this match by 32 runs on the second day, having set Dorset a target of 167 in just under 2 hours. For the winners there were 10 fours in Reed’s 121 in an innings lasting 3½ hours and 6 fours in Carroll’s 87. Together they put on 171 for Devon’s second wicket. Tate took 6 wickets for 33 runs in Dorset’s first innings and Wreford took 5 wickets for 67 in their second innings including a ‘hat trick’, dismissing Freeman, Walby and Goodden. For the losers there were 3 sixes and 6 fours in Gordon’s 90 and he added 112 for the first wicket with Webb. In Dorset’s second innings Cummins and Manger added 61 for the ninth wicket after the earlier batting had collapsed. Cummins took 5 wickets for 47 runs in Devon’s second innings, bowling unchanged. Farrer made 3 dismissals in the match. Nine batsmen were bowled out in Dorset’s second innings. [Missing: Umpires; precise time of completion.] S ources: Devon Scorebook; Devon Annual Handbook; Dorset County Chronicle 21 August; East Dorset Herald 21 August; Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 19,20 August; Western Daily Mercury 19,20 August; Western Gazette 22 August; Western Morning News 19,20 August; Western Times 19,20 August; The Sportsman 19,20 August; Cricket 23 August, p 552. 109