Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 57 : MONMOUTHSHIRE V CORNWALL At The Abergavenny Town Cricket Club Ground, Pen-y-Pound, Avenue Road, Abergavenny on Friday 8, Saturday 9 August 1913 Result: Match drawn - Monmouthshire won on first innings Points: Monmouthshire 3; Cornwall 1 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: C E Brown and C Marshall Debutants: Monmouthshire 1 (L Edwards); Cornwall none First day score: Monmouthshire 466; Cornwall 7-0 wicket (F G Port 6*, H Tresawna 1*) Monmouthshire A M Maltby lbw b Whiting 34 Silverlock, A J not out 179 H A James b Whiting 2 + Diver, E J b Barnes 1 * E S Phillips c J C Bickford-Smith b Whiting 121 H C James b Whiting 17 G L Robathan b Davies 49 L Edwards b Davies 0 F G Phillips b Davies 12 C Hewes b Port 0 W A Williams b Port 3 Extras 48 Total (all out) 466 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 68 79 277 466 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hawken 9 1 44 0 - - Whiting 30 6 109 4 - - Port 20.5 0 90 2 - - Barnes 22 3 68 1 - - Humphreys 7 1 31 0 - - Davies 14 3 34 3 - - W N Bickford-Smith 7 0 42 0 - - Extras - - 48 0 - - Total 109.5 14 466 10 - - Cornwall F G Port b F G Phillips 52 * H Tresawna c Diver b Silverlock 8 Dr W S Tresawna b Williams 1 + Vibart, R F run out 1 C G Humphreys lbw b Williams 9 W N Bickford-Smith c Edwards b Williams 11 Barnes, F C c Robathan b Silverlock 0 J C Bickford-Smith st Diver b Silverlock 2 J Davies not out 65 E Hawken b Williams 25 Whiting, F J b F G Phillips 0 Extras 40 Total (all out) 214 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 45 50 51 102 214 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - F G Phillips 2 - - Silverlock 3 - - Williams 4 - - Extras - - 40 1 - - Total - - 214 10 - - Notes: Play started late on the first day and rain prevented a recommencement on the second day until 4.15 pm; following this showers interrupted play, stumps eventually being drawn at 7.00 pm. Monmouthshire took the first innings points in this return fixture, having beaten Cornwall by an innings earlier in the season. Silverlock’s unbeaten innings of 179 was scored in a little over 5 hours and included 2 sixes and 22 fours. E S Phillips’ innings of 121 was compiled in less than 2 hours and included 1 six and 19 fours. Silverlock and Phillips added 198 for Monmouthshire’s fourth wicket and the former also added 114 for the sixth wicket with Robathan. Williams took 4 wickets in Cornwall’s innings. For the visitors Port scored 52 and there were 3 sixes and 9 fours in Davies’ unbeaten 65. Davies added 87 for Cornwall’s ninth wicket with Hawken. Whiting took 4 wickets for 114 runs in Monmouthshire’s innings. It was feared at one time that the Suffragettes would interfere with the match. However they did not interfere with the pitch, although they had attempted to set fire to the pavilion. The Cornwall bowling figures in the Monmouthshire innings were not reported and have been calculated from the published end of season averages. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Cornwall innings full bowling analyses and boundaries in Port’s 52.] Sources: Abergavenny Mail 12 August; Hereford Times 16 August; Monmouthshire Beacon 15 August; Monmouthshire Evening Post 8,9,11 August; Monmouthshire Weekly Post 16 August; South Wales Argus 8,9,11 August; South Wales Daily News 9,11 August; The Cornishman 14 August; Royal Cornwall Gazette 14 August; Western Mail 9,11 August; Cricket 23 August, p 546; The Sportsman 6,11 August. 90