Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 21 : DEVON V MONMOUTHSHIRE At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Monday 14, Tuesday 15 July 1913 Result: Monmouthshire won by four wickets Points: Monmouthshire 5 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon 1 (S O Reed); Monmouthshire none First day score: Monmouthshire 184; Devon 47 and 177-5 wickets (S O Reed 42*, R G Cruwys 39*) Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c Fulcher b Wreford 5 (1) c Carroll b Sturt 35 Smith, - c and b Light 1 (2) run out 10 + Diver, E J b Light 5 (6) b Light 17 * E S Phillips c Carroll b Sturt 39 (4) c Shelley b Knight 36 F G Phillips c Shelley b Wreford 64 (5) not out 47 W E C Hudden c Preedy b Light 7 (8) not out 6 L Phillips b Light 24 (7) c Reed b Sturt 11 K C Raikes c and b Light 0 C Hewes b Sturt 31 (3) c Cruwys b Light 8 H A Gilbert not out 8 L N Phillips b Sturt 0 Extras 0 b 8 8 Total (all out) 184 (6 wickets) 178 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 6 19 78 106 136 138 149 184 184 Second innings 32 52 71 117 145 165 - - - - Wreford 20 3 89 2 - - (2) 17 0 47 0 - - Light 19 2 58 5 - - (3) 10 2 27 2 - - Sturt 6.5 1 19 3 - - (1) 12 2 33 2 - - Preedy 6 0 18 0 - - (5) 3 0 18 0 - - Reed (4) 3 0 13 0 - - Knight (6) 7 1 32 1 - - Extras - - 0 0 - - - - 8 1 - - Total 51.5 6 184 10 0 0 52 5 178 6 0 0 Devon (Followed on) E A Fulcher b Gilbert 0 (2) c E S Phillips b Gilbert 1 Reed, S O b Gilbert 3 (6) b Silverlock 81 F H Carroll b Gilbert 2 (4) c Silverlock b Hudden 24 R Knight b Gilbert 5 (3) c and b F G Phillips 44 W F Sturt b Gilbert 5 (5) c L Phillips b Gilbert 14 Light, W F not out 19 (1) c L Phillips b Gilbert 0 R G Cruwys lbw b Gilbert 0 (7) c Silverlock b Gilbert 48 * J F Shelley c E S Phillips b Raikes 1 (8) not out 74 + Davies, T b Gilbert 0 (10) b Silverlock 4 Preedy, E A lbw b Gilbert 0 (9) c Raikes b Silverlock 0 W Wreford st Diver b Gilbert 1 (11) b Gilbert 1 Extras b 10, lb 1 11 b 22 22 Total (all out) 47 (all out) 313 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 0 4 5 15 30 30 33 33 33 47 Second innings 1 4 68 96 100 199 300 300 312 313 Gilbert 11.2 7 10 9 - - (2) 32.2 14 93 5 - - Silverlock 6 0 20 0 - - (4) 13 4 40 3 - - Raikes 5 3 6 1 - - (3) 30 11 77 0 - - F G Phillips (1) 14 5 49 1 - - Hudden (5) 5 0 18 1 - - E S Phillips (6) 5 1 14 0 - - Extras - - 11 0 - - - - 22 0 - - Total 22.2 10 47 10 0 0 99.2 35 313 10 0 0 Notes: Monmouthshire won by 4 wickets at 4.00 pm on the second day, having made Devon follow on. For the winners there were 10 fours in F G Phillips’ 64; he also top-scored in Monmouthshire’s second innings with an unbeaten 47. Hewes’ 31 contained a hit for 7. Gilbert had match figures of 14 wickets for 103 runs, including 9 wickets for 10 runs in Devon’s first innings and 5 for 93 in their second. His analysis in Devon’s first innings was a record for Monmouthshire; he bowled unchanged as Devon were bowled out in just 22.2 overs and dismissed eight batsmen without assistance from his teammates. For the losers there were 9 fours in the debutant Reed’s 81 and 15 fours in Shelley’s unbeaten 74. Light took 5 wickets for 58 runs in Monmouthshire’s first innings. [Missing: Umpires; Smith’s initials.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Devon Annual Handbook; Western Daily Mercury 15,16 July; Western Mail 15,16 July; Western Morning News 16 July; Monmouthshire Evening Post 14,15,19 July; South Wales Daily News 15,16 July; Cricket 19 July, p 424. 54