Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 20 : KENT 2 ND XI V SURREY 2 ND XI At The Angel Ground, Tonbridge on Friday 11, Saturday 12 July 1913 Result: Kent 2 nd XI won by an innings and 3 runs Points: Kent 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Surrey 2 nd XI Umpires: Not known Debutants: Kent 2 nd XI none; Surrey 2 nd XI 2 (T E Abel, J H Lockton) First day score: Surrey 2 nd XI 74 and 69-3 wickets (-*, -*); Kent 2 nd XI 188 Surrey 2 nd XI Abel, W J b Preston 0 ( ) st Povey b Freeman 14 Myers, E B b Preston 8 ( ) lbw b Jennings 39 Alwin, R C b Preston 15 ( ) lbw b Preston 9 Peach, H A b Preston 0 ( ) b Preston 11 Mason, W b Preston 0 ( ) b Freeman 15 Blacklidge, H G b Preston 24 ( ) lbw b Freeman 0 J H Lockton b Preston 0 ( ) b Preston 1 Abel, T E lbw b Preston 0 ( ) lbw b Preston 0 * A W F Rutty b Freeman 10 ( ) b Freeman 13 + Sullivan, D c Draper b Preston 10 ( ) not out 6 Freeman, A J not out 0 ( ) b Freeman 0 Extras b 2, lb 5 7 b 3 3 Total (all out) 74 (all out) 111 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 11 11 11 38 38 38 51 69 74 Second innings 41 61 69 91 91 92 92 92 111 111 Freeman 14 3 35 1 - - (1) 14.2 5 36 5 - - Preston 17.3 6 15 9 - - (2) 16 6 43 4 - - Draper 4 0 17 0 - - (3) 3 1 7 0 - - Wycherley (4) 3 2 5 0 - - Jennings (5) 4 0 17 1 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - - - 3 0 - - Total 35.3 9 74 10 0 0 40.2 14 111 10 0 0 Kent 2 nd XI Collins, G C b Lockton 17 * L H W Troughton b Myers 5 Dutnall, F st Sullivan b W J Abel 3 Jennings, D W c Sullivan b Freeman 33 G J V Weigall b Freeman 26 J H E Whitehead c Alwin b Blacklidge 12 Draper, R G b Freeman 18 Wycherley, C T b Lockton 17 Freeman, A P c Peach b Freeman 15 + Povey, A not out 18 Preston, H J B st Sullivan b Freeman 4 Extras b 14, lb 2, w 4 20 Total (all out) 188 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 9 18 39 85 92 120 149 157 183 188 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - W J Abel 13 3 27 1 1 - Myers 6 2 14 1 2 - Lockton 14 4 30 2 1 - Blacklidge 13 2 41 1 - - T E Abel 8 2 13 0 - - Freeman 17.1 3 43 5 - - Extras - - 20 0 - - Total 71.1 16 188 10 4 0 Notes: Kent 2nd XI won this return match by an innings and 3 runs before 12 o’clock on the second day. The match between the two teams at The Oval in June had been drawn with Surrey winning on first innings. For the winners Preston took 9 wickets for 15 runs in Surrey’s first innings, bowling unchanged. In Surrey’s second innings he took 4 for 43, giving him match figures of 13-58 (9 of his victims were bowled), whilst A P Freeman took 5 wickets for 36 runs in Surrey’s second innings. Jennings was Kent’s top-scorer with 33. For the losers Myers made their highest score with 39 runs in their second innings whilst A J Freeman took 5 wickets for 43 runs in Kent’s innings. [Missing: Umpires; first day score not out batsmen; in Surrey second innings batting order.] Sources: Kent Year Book, p 232; Surrey Year Book, p 107; Kent and Sussex Courier 18 July; The Sportsman 14 July; Cricket 19 July, p 418. 53