Minor Counties Championship 1913

MATCH NUMBER 58 : WILTSHIRE V GLAMORGAN At The County Ground, Timbrell Street, Trowbridge on Friday 8, Saturday 9 August 1913 Result: Glamorgan won by an innings and 155 runs Points: Glamorgan 5 Toss: Wiltshire Umpires: G L R Hutchings and C Hughes Debutants: Wiltshire 1 (E C MacBryan); Glamorgan none First day score: Wiltshire 145; Glamorgan 374 Wiltshire S J H Taunton b Hacker 2 (1) b Maxwell 13 + T S Luce run out 5 (2) c Billings b Hacker 5 J R Tayler c Jones b Hacker 0 (3) c Riches b Hacker 1 D C Brown b Creber 4 (6) run out 6 Newman, A W c Hacker b Creber 14 (4) c Billings b Maxwell 7 E C MacBryan lbw b Hacker 7 (8) lbw b Maxwell 0 * R W Awdry c Maxwell b Hacker 17 (7) c Riches b Hacker 16 R G C Pinfield not out 71 (5) c Billings b Maxwell 16 C W Hurn c Billings b Hacker 4 (9) b Hacker 0 Overton, W c Williams b Maxwell 12 (10) not out 1 Mitchell, H c Riches b Hacker 0 (11) c Tait b Hacker 2 Extras 9 7 Total (all out) 145 (all out) 74 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 7 8 14 25 33 64 145 Second innings 19 19 25 27 52 71 74 Hacker 22 5 58 6 - - (2) 14.1 3 32 5 - - Creber 20 3 45 2 - - Maxwell 4 0 28 1 - - (1) 15 1 35 4 - - Jones 1 0 5 0 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 7 1 - - Total 47 8 145 10 - - 29.1 4 74 10 - - Glamorgan * N V H Riches c Awdry b Mitchell 71 J R Tait c Newman b Awdry 66 R A Gibbs lbw b Mitchell 47 T R Morgan lbw b Mitchell 4 + E A Billings c Taunton b Awdry 16 Maxwell, J b Awdry 5 J L G Thomas c Awdry b Mitchell 10 J W Jones c Overton b Tayler 76 D B Williams b Tayler 19 Hacker, W S not out 18 Creber, H c Pinfield b Awdry 9 Extras 33 Total (all out) 374 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 104 177 211 220 334 374 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Mitchell 29 2 120 4 - - Awdry 19.5 1 98 4 - - Tayler 3 0 7 2 - - Newman 15 1 47 0 - - Overton 13 3 44 0 - - Pinfield 4 1 25 0 - - Extras - - 33 0 - - Total 83.5 8 374 10 - - Notes: Glamorgan won this match by an innings on the second day, rain having delayed the start of play for 1½ hours on the Saturday morning. For the winners Riches scored 71, Tait 66, and Jones 76. Hacker took 6 wickets for 58 runs in Wiltshire’s first innings and 5 wickets for 32 runs in their second, giving him match figures of 11 for 90. Both he and Maxwell bowled unchanged in Wiltshire’s second innings, which lasted for just 29.1 overs. Billings took 4 catches in the match and Riches 3. For the losers there were 13 fours in Pinfield’s unbeaten 71 but no other Wiltshire batsman reached 20 in the match. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Glamorgan innings number of boundaries in Riches’s 71, Tait’s 66, and Jones’s 76; time completed.] Sources: Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 14 August; North Wilts Herald 15 August; Wiltshire News 15 August; Western Mail 9,11 August; Cricket 16 August, p 511; The Sportsman 6,11,12 August. 91