Minor Counties Championship 1913

MONMOUTHSHIRE 1913 Championship matches: Played 8, won 3, lost 3, drawn 2 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings none) Position: Twelfth out of twenty Won: v Cornwall at Penzance, v Devon at Exeter and v Glamorgan at Newport Lost: v Cheshire at Chester, v Glamorgan at Cardiff and v Cheshire at Newport Drawn - won on first innings: v Cornwall at Abergavenny Drawn - lost on first innings: v Devon at Newport Drawn - no decision on first innings: None Captain: E S Phillips (8 matches) Wicket-keepers: E J Diver (7 matches) and S C Wilcox (1 match) Debutants: 7 (R Carter, L Edwards, H A Gilbert, C Hewes, L N Phillips, - Smith and S C Wilcox) Final Season: 13 (R Carter, L Edwards, E H Francis, H A Gilbert, C Hewes, C Hews, H A James, G H Kentish, L Phillips, L N Phillips, G W Smith, - Smith and L F Stedman) Hon Secretary: A Butler Professionals: 6 (E J Diver, G H Kentish, A J Silverlock, - Smith, G W Smith and S C Wilcox) Home Grounds 2: Abergavenny Cricket Club Ground, Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road, Abergavenny (1 match) and Newport Cricket Club Ground, Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport (3 matches) Notes: A better season for Monmouthshire who won three matches and rose four places up the Table. Players being unavailable made team selection difficult. Cheshire were opponents in place of Staffordshire. Arthur Silverlock was both leading run scorer and wicket taker. He scored 481 runs at 43.72 and took 33 wickets at a cost of 12.87 runs each. Edward Phillips supported him with 454 runs at 37.83. During the season career milestones reached were 7000 runs by Arthur Silverlock and 50 catches by Edward Phillips. MONMOUTHSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1913 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 7 players who made their Championship debut for Monmouthshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1913 was the last or only season that these 13 players appeared for Monmouthshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I R Carter + 1 2 0 3 3 1.50 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Diver, E J 7 12 1 25 112 10.18 - - - 7 8 - - - - - - - - L Edwards + 2 3 1 10* 10 5.00 - - 2 1 - - - - - - - - - J H Evans 2 4 1 10 10 3.33 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - E H Francis 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - - 1 0 2 0 - - - - H A Gilbert + 2 2 2 15* 23 - - - - 1 - 66.4 26 165 24 6.87 9-10 2 3 C Hewes + 3 4 0 31 39 9.75 - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - C E Hews 1 2 0 4 4 2.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - W E C Hudden 3 4 1 9 22 7.33 - - 1 - - 5 0 18 1 18.00 1-18 - - H A James 3 4 0 14 34 8.50 - - - 4 - 1 0 2 0 - - - - H C James 2 3 0 33 74 24.66 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kentish, G H 1 2 0 7 7 3.50 - - 1 1 - 19.3 4 67 2 33.50 2-50 - - W R Lewis 2 4 1 24 24 8.00 - - 2 3 - - - - - - - - - A M Maltby 6 10 1 77* 222 24.66 - 2 1 4 - - - - - - - - - E S Phillips 8 13 1 121 454 37.83 2 - 2 7 - 12 2 37 1 37.00 1-20 - - F G Phillips 8 12 1 64 246 22.36 - 2 2 4 - 136.1 32 465 28 16.60 6-93 - 4 L Phillips 2 3 0 24 36 12.00 - - - 2 - - - - - - - - - L N Phillips + 2 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - K C Raikes 6 8 1 33 94 13.42 - - 2 4 - 108.3 31 276 12 23.00 3-27 - - G L Robathan 5 7 0 49 78 11.14 - - 1 5 - - - - - - - - - Silverlock, A J 8 13 2 179* 481 43.72 1 - - 5 - 150 25 425 33 12.87 6-12 1 3 Smith, - + 4 6 0 10 16 2.66 - - 2 3 - - - - - - - - - Smith, G W 1 2 0 8 15 7.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - L F Stedman 1 2 0 3 3 1.50 - - 1 - - 4 0 22 0 - - - - Wilcox, S C + 1 1 1 0* 0 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - T B Williams 2 2 0 14 17 8.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - W A Williams 4 5 1 16 29 7.25 - - 1 - - 46 10 165 9 18.33 4-0 - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 152 - - - - - - - - 230 3 - - - - Total 88 134 15 179* 2209 18.56 3 4 26 53 8 549.5 130 1874 113 16.58 9-10 3 10 (27 players) (6 ball overs) Note: In match 57 the Monmouthshire bowler’s overs and maidens are unknown and the runs conceded are 174 short. 165