Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 43 : BERKSHIRE V DORSET At The County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on Monday 4, Tuesday 5 August 1913 Result: Dorset won by two wickets Points: Dorset 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Berkshire 1 (H T Crichton); Dorset none First day score: Berkshire 261 and 27-2 wickets (J E Denning 16*, A F Todd 7*); Dorset 192 Berkshire Capt L P Collins c Farrer b Hope 5 (5) lbw b Webb 14 J E D Denning b Hope 10 (3) c Goodden b Hope 16 Shoosmith, H W c Farrer b Hope 18 (2) c Webb b Hope 0 H F M Morres c Freeman b Sewell 1 (7) c Farrer b Cummins 76 G G M Bennett c Busk b Hope 28 (6) c Goodden b Hope 0 H T Crichton c Busk b Webb 109 (8) b Webb 1 Bailey, W G lbw b Sewell 1 (9) c Farrer b Cummins 66 Dr W Y Woodburn c Manser b Busk 32 (1) c Webb b Hope 0 * Sir C E M Y Nepean c Busk b Hope 9 (10) not out 44 Hawksworth, G M c Manser b Webb 14 (11) b Cummins 5 + A F Todd not out 11 (4) c and b Webb 18 Extras w 2 23 nb 1 15 Total (all out) 261 (all out) 255 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 18 261 Second innings 0 0 255 Hope 20 3 76 5 - - (1) 16 0 68 4 - 1 Sewell 20 3 88 2 1 - (4) 10 0 49 0 - - Busk 11 2 39 1 1 - (3) 8 0 46 0 - - Walby 8 1 19 0 - - (5) 4 0 21 0 - - Webb 9 1 16 2 - - (2) 13 2 35 3 - - Cummins (6) 7.4 4 21 3 - - Extras - - 23 0 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 68 10 261 10 2 0 58.4 6 255 10 0 1 Dorset F A S Sewell c and b Hawksworth 37 (1) c Shoosmith b Bailey 68 R M Manser lbw b Bailey 8 (2) c Nepean b Morres 0 Freeman, E J c Morres b Hawksworth 9 (3) b Bailey 12 J K Manger c Shoosmith b Morres 11 (6) c Shoosmith b Hawksworth 2 Walby, E C st Todd b Hawksworth 6 (9) not out 17 C J B Webb not out 43 (4) lbw b Morres 83 * C P Goodden b Morres 10 (7) b Morres 76 P P Hope b Hawksworth 29 (8) c Shoosmith b Morres 28 + H W F B Farrer c Shoosmith b Morres 3 (10) not out 28 H C B Cummins c and b Morres 6 (5) b Hawksworth 2 R D Busk st Todd b Crichton 28 Extras 2 9 Total (all out) 192 (8 wickets) 325 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 50 192 Second innings 149 167 167 176 - - Hawksworth 24 7 95 4 - - (1) 35 7 126 2 - - Bailey 8 0 28 1 - - (5) 12 1 53 2 - - Morres 17 2 63 4 - - (2) 21 3 88 4 - - Crichton 0.4 0 4 1 - - (3) 7.1 0 35 0 - - Woodburn (4) 2 1 5 0 - - Shoosmith (6) 3 1 9 0 - - Extras - - 2 0 - - - - 9 0 - - Total 49.4 9 192 10 - - 80.1 13 325 8 - - Notes: Dorset won this match by 2 wickets at 5.30 pm on the second day, despite trailing by 69 runs after the first two innings. They were set 325 to win in 3½ hours and had looked to be struggling when their sixth wicket fell with the score at just 176 but the captain, Goodden, and the tail saw them to victory. For the winners Sewell scored 68, Webb 83, and there were 1 six and 12 fours in Goodden’s 76. Hope took 9 wickets for 144 runs in the match, including figures of 5 for 76 in Berkshire’s first innings. Farrer took 2 catches in each innings and Busk took 3 catches in Berkshire’s first innings. For the losers the debutant Crichton scored 109, Bailey 66, and Morres 76. Morres also took 8 wickets for 151 in the match. Shoosmith took 5 catches in the match. [Missing: Toss; umpires; breakdown of extras; part fall of wickets; in Berkshire first innings boundaries and time taken for Crichton’s 109; in Berkshire second innings boundaries in Morres’ 76 and Bailey’s 66; in Dorset second innings boundaries in Sewell’s 68 and Webb’s 83.] Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 8 August; Reading Chronicle 8 August; Reading Observer 9 August; Dorset County Chronicle 7 August; East Dorset Herald 7 August; The Sportsman 5 August; Sporting Life 5 August; Cricket 9 August, p 494. 76