Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 84 : SURREY 2 ND XI V WILTSHIRE At The Oval, Kennington, London on Monday 25, Tuesday 26 August 1913 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by 71 runs Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: T Attewell and G Perkins Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI 3 (M B Burrows, - Cook, and A E R Gilligan); Wiltshire none First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 132 and 114-1 wicket (- Cook 46*, W J Abel 21*); Wiltshire 181 Surrey 2 nd XI M Howell lbw b Newman 19 (1) c Stancomb b Smith 28 Cook, - run out 3 (2) c Stancomb b Mitchell 46 Abel, W J c Bond b Mitchell 43 (3) b Newman 126 Peach, H A b Mitchell 30 (4) b Mitchell 16 M B Burrows b Mitchell 2 (5) not out 58 G E C Wood b Newman 0 (6) b MacBryan 48 Myers, E B b Mitchell 0 (7) not out 24 Blacklidge, H G c Overton b Newman 11 A E R Gilligan c Bond b Newman 0 * A W F Rutty b Mitchell 3 + Sullivan, D not out 15 Extras b 6 6 b 31, lb 6, w 4, nb 1 42 Total (all out) 132 (5 wickets declared) 388 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 132 Second innings - - - - - Mitchell 22 4 71 5 - - (1) 28 5 101 2 1 1 R W Awdry 10 3 31 0 - - (2) 5 1 27 0 1 - Newman 12 5 24 4 - - (3) 21 4 53 1 - - Smith (4) 16 3 95 1 2 - Overton (5) 15 4 40 0 - - Brown (6) 3 0 14 0 - - MacBryan (7) 3 0 16 1 - - Extras - - 6 1 - - - - 42 0 - - Total 44 12 132 10 0 0 91 17 388 5 4 1 Wiltshire C S Awdry b Gilligan 9 (1) b Myers 115 Capt C G Bond b Gilligan 31 (2) b Blacklidge 41 S J H Taunton run out 4 (3) c Rutty b Gilligan 0 Newman, A W b Gilligan 3 (4) c Sullivan b Gilligan 33 D C Brown not out 48 (5) st Sullivan b Gilligan 0 F W Stancomb b Blacklidge 0 (6) b Abel 11 * R W Awdry b Gilligan 43 (7) c Sullivan b Blacklidge 25 E C MacBryan b Gilligan 1 (8) b Blacklidge 12 Smith, W R R st Sullivan b Blacklidge 17 (9) lbw b Abel 10 Overton, W b Blacklidge 0 (10) b Abel 0 Mitchell, H b Blacklidge 0 (11) not out 0 Extras b 17, lb 8 25 b 20, lb 1 21 Total (all out) 181 (all out) 268 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 22 128 181 Second innings 103 268 Gilligan 19 6 53 5 - - (1) 23 3 85 3 - - Myers 6 1 23 0 - - (2) 13 7 21 1 - - Blacklidge 14.3 2 28 4 - - (3) 23.2 2 75 3 - - Abel 5 0 29 0 - - (4) 13 7 32 3 - - Peach 8 2 23 0 - - (5) 2 0 16 0 - - Burrows (6) 3 0 18 0 - - Extras - - 25 1 - - - - 21 0 - - Total 52.3 11 181 10 0 0 77.2 19 268 10 0 0 Notes: Surrey won this return match by 71 runs at 5.55 pm on the second day, having set Wiltshire a target of 340 in 4 hours. They had also defeated Wiltshire, by an innings and 7 runs at Westbury earlier in the month. For the winners there were 1 five and 22 fours in Abel’s 126 in an innings of just 75 minutes and Burrows scored 58 not out. Gilligan took 5 wickets for 53 runs in Wiltshire’s first innings. Sullivan caught 2 batsmen and stumped 2 more in the match. For the losers there were 1 five and 13 fours in C S Awdry’s 115, an innings lasting 105 minutes. He added 103 with Bond in less than an hour for the first wicket in Wiltshire’s second innings. Mitchell took 5 wickets for 71 runs in Surrey’s first innings. [Missing: Toss; Wiltshire wicket-keeper; Cook’s initials; part fall of wickets; in Surrey second innings boundaries in Burrows’ 58 not out.] Sources: Surrey Year Book 1913, p 113; Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 28 August; North Wilts Herald 29 August; Wiltshire News 29 August; Wiltshire Times 30 August; The Sportsman 26,27 August; Cricket 6 September, p 600. 117