Minor Counties Championship 1914

GLAMORGAN 1914 Championship matches: Played 8, won 2, lost 1, drawn 5 (won on first innings 2, lost on first innings 2, no decision on first innings 1) Position: Sixth equal with Norfolk out of twenty one Won: v Wiltshire at Cardiff and v Surrey 2nd XI at Cardiff Lost: v Surrey 2nd XI at The Oval Drawn - won on first innings: v Durham at Swansea and v Essex 2nd XI at Swansea Drawn - lost on first innings: v Durham at Sunderland and v Monmouthshire at Cardiff Drawn - no decision on first innings: v Monmouthshire at Newport Abandoned due to war: v Wiltshire at Trowbridge and v Essex 2nd XI at Leyton Captain: N V H Riches (7 matches), G E Cording (1 match) led the side in the match in which N V H Riches did not play. Wicket-keepers: G E Cording (4 matches), E A Billings (2 matches) and N V H Riches (2 matches) Debutants: 4 (H Arundale, F Bennett, W Bestwick and T F Reason) Final Season: 11 (W J Bancroft, F Bennett, W Bestwick, E A Billings, G E Cording, R A Gibbs, W D Gibson, J Maxwell, S H Rees, B Turnbull and D B Williams) Hon Secretaries: W G Bowden and T A L Whittington Professionals: 6 (H Arundale, W J Bancroft, W Bestwick, H Creber, W S Hacker and J Maxwell) Home Grounds 2: The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff (3 matches) and Swansea Cricket Club Ground, St Helen’s, Swansea (2 matches) Notes: Glamorgan in 1913 were beaten in the Challenge Match by Norfolk, in 1914 they did not do so well. They increased their fixture list by adding Durham and Essex 2nd XI in place of Kent 2nd XI. The captain, Norman Riches, had a good season scoring 548 runs at 54.80. John Tait, 279 runs at 25.36, and James Maxwell, 255 runs at 25.50 supported their captain. Stamford Hacker took most wickets – 49 at 12.63 whilst Harry Creber obtained 34 wickets at 20.88. During the season Harry Creber reached the career milestones of 1000 wickets and 50 catches. GLAMORGAN MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1914 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 4 players who made their Championship debut for Glamorgan during the season. Names in bold denote that 1914 was the last or only season that these 11 players appeared for Glamorgan in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I Arundale, H + 1 - - - - - - - - - - 16 3 39 1 39.00 1-39 - - Bancroft, W J 3 6 1 81* 133 26.60 - 1 2 1 - - - - - - - - - F Bennett + 2 3 1 14* 21 10.50 - - - 1 - 4 0 15 0 - - - - Bestwick, W + 2 3 0 0 0 0.00 - - 3 3 - 86.1 28 131 12 10.91 6-44 - 1 E A Billings 2 3 1 26 44 22.00 - - 1 2 2 - - - - - - - - G E Cording 4 4 0 10 22 5.50 - - 1 5 4 - - - - - - - - Creber, H 8 10 4 42* 70 11.66 - - 1 4 - 252.3 45 710 34 20.88 6-50 - 1 A E Freethy 3 4 0 16 39 9.75 - - - - - - - - - - - - - R A Gibbs 3 5 0 59 92 18.40 - 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - W D Gibson 1 - - - - - - - - - - 8.3 0 37 2 18.50 2-37 - - Hacker, W S 8 9 2 34* 89 12.71 - - 2 5 - 252.1 68 619 49 12.63 7-45 2 6 J W Jones 2 4 1 50* 65 21.66 - 1 - - - 12.3 2 51 2 25.50 1-13 - - Maxwell, J 8 12 2 102* 255 25.50 1 - 2 5 - 134.5 23 434 23 18.86 6-72 - 1 T R Morgan 6 8 2 31 92 15.33 - - 2 2 - - - - - - - - - W P Morris 4 7 0 43 87 12.42 - - 2 2 - 4 0 26 0 - - - - T F Reason + 2 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - S H Rees 5 10 0 37 155 15.50 - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - N V H Riches 7 12 2 116* 548 54.80 2 3 1 6 1 4 1 7 1 7.00 1-7 - - E R Sweet-Escott 5 9 2 42 182 26.00 - - 1 1 - 2 0 7 0 - - - - J R Tait 6 11 0 93 279 25.36 - 2 - 2 - 8 0 36 0 - - - - J L G Thomas 2 3 0 11 21 7.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - B Turnbull 1 1 0 1 1 1.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - D B Williams 3 5 1 35 79 19.75 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 130 - - - - 1 - - - 163 2 - - - - Total 88 130 19 116* 2404 21.65 3 8 21 47 7 784.4 170 2275 126 18.05 7-45 2 9 (23 players) (6 ball overs) 154