Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 44 : DEVON V CORNWALL At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Monday 4, Tuesday 5 August 1913 Result: Devon won by an innings and 56 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon none; Cornwall none First day score: Cornwall 143 and 11-0 wicket (H Tresawna 9*, W N Bickford-Smith 2*); Devon 303 Cornwall * H Tresawna c Light b Wreford 5 (1) run out 11 W N Bickford-Smith c Davies b Wreford 2 (2) c Davies b Wreford 5 Trevarthen, C b Light 4 (7) c Sturt b Wreford 0 Barnes, F C b Light 2 (3) b Wreford 2 + Vibart, R F b Fishwick 64 (4) c Carroll b Wreford 3 J C Bickford-Smith b Fishwick 11 (5) c Light b Wreford 18 J Davies c Light b Wreford 10 (8) b Fishwick 24 R J Holman not out 29 (6) b Light 8 E Hawken b Wreford 0 (9) b Fishwick 23 F G Port c Fishwick b Wreford 3 (10) b Fishwick 1 Whiting, F J b Wreford 0 (11) not out 1 Extras b 9, lb 2, nb 2 13 b 8 8 Total (all out) 143 (all out) 104 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 2 7 13 13 45 67 136 136 143 143 Second innings 14 16 20 25 42 43 62 101 103 104 Wreford 14 1 53 6 - 2 (1) 19 5 41 5 - - Light 9 1 38 2 - 2 (2) 14 3 28 1 - - Fishwick 5 2 17 2 - - (3) 3.3 0 12 3 - - Sturt 3 0 10 0 - - Preedy 2 0 12 0 - - (4) 4 0 15 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 8 1 - - Total 33 4 143 10 0 4 40.3 8 104 10 0 0 Devon Rev W H Arundell b Whiting 29 Reed, S O lbw b Hawken 72 F H Carroll c Davies b Barnes 47 E A Fulcher b Whiting 59 W F Sturt lbw b Hawken 6 Light, W F c Port b Whiting 42 R Knight c W N Bickford-Smith b Hawken 4 W Wreford c Port b Whiting 0 + Davies, T b Whiting 21 Preedy, E A b Whiting 3 M R Fishwick not out 7 Extras b 5, lb 4, w 1, nb 3 13 Total (all out) 303 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 81 149 161 175 256 270 271 276 286 303 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hawken 20 5 54 3 1 - Whiting 23.3 4 93 6 - - Port 11 0 57 0 - 1 Barnes 15 5 43 1 - 2 Holman 4 0 22 0 - - Davies 4 0 13 0 - - Trevarthen 4 1 8 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - Total 81.3 15 303 10 1 3 Notes: Devon won by an innings and 56 runs on the second day. For the winners there were 7 fours in Reed’s 72 and 9 fours in Fulcher’s 59. Wreford took 11 wickets for 94 runs in the match, including figures of 6 wickets for 53 runs in Cornwall’s first innings and 5 for 41 in their second. Light took 3 catches in the match. Cornwall’s first innings lasted barely 2 hours, during which time Vibart scored 64, with 1 six and 6 fours. Whiting took 6 wickets for 93 runs in Devon’s innings. [Missing; Toss; umpires; Devon captain; precise time completed.] Source: Devon Scorebook; Devon Annual Handbook; Western Daily Mercury 5,6 August; Western Morning News 6 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 7 August; Cricket 9 August, p 496. 77