Minor Counties Championship 1914

MONMOUTHSHIRE 1914 Championship matches: Played 7, won 1, lost 2, drawn 4 (won on first innings 1, lost on first innings 1, no decision on first innings 2) Position: Fourteenth out of twenty one Won: v Cornwall at Camborne Lost: v Devon at Sidmouth and v Kent 2nd XI at Newport Drawn - won on first innings: v Glamorgan at Cardiff Drawn - lost on first innings: v Cornwall at Newport Drawn - no decision on first innings: v Kent 2nd XI at Folkestone and v Glamorgan at Newport Abandoned due to war: v Devon at Newport Captain: E S Phillips (7 matches) Wicket-keeper: E J Diver (7 matches) Debutants: 7 (C Beevers, H T Edwards, E T James, F Jones, M R Phillips, H R Thomas and G A Webb) Final Season: 15 (C Beevers, E J Diver, H T Edwards, D A Ewing, W E C Hudden, E T James, H C James, F Jones, B Phillips, E S Phillips, F Rees, A J Silverlock, M Stratton, H R Thomas and J R Williams) Hon Secretary: A Butler Professionals: 3 (E J Diver, D A Ewing and A J Silverlock) Home Grounds 1: Newport Cricket Club Ground, Athletic Grounds, Rodney Parade, Newport (3 matches) Notes: Monmouthshire did not do as well as in 1913 when they won 3 matches. Players being unavailable and poor weather meant a difficult season for them. Arthur Silverlock had a good season scoring 424 runs at 38.54 and taking 15 wickets at 17.86 runs each. Edward Phillips gave batting support with 254 runs at 23.09 and Fred Phillips gave bowling support with 20 wickets at a cost of 15.40 runs each. During the season career milestones reached were 4000 runs and 100 matches for Edward Phillips and 400 wickets by Arthur Silverlock. MONMOUTHSHIRE MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES 1914 In the averages below, + after name denotes the 7 players who made their Championship debut for Monmouthshire during the season. Names in bold denote that 1914 was the last or only season that these 15 players appeared for Monmouthshire in the Championship. Player M I NO HS Runs Ave 100 50 0 Ct St Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Ave BB-I 10M 5I C Beevers + 4 6 2 19 31 7.75 - - 3 1 - 42.5 7 187 7 26.71 4-53 - - Diver, E J 7 11 1 44 196 19.60 - - 1 8 1 - - - - - - - - H T Edwards + 1 2 0 4 6 3.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ewing, D A 7 11 1 31 42 4.20 - - 5 4 - 56.3 17 179 8 22.37 4-14 - - W E C Hudden 4 7 2 26 89 17.80 - - 1 2 - 4 0 7 0 - - - - E T James + 3 6 0 64 83 13.83 - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - H C James 5 9 0 110 203 22.55 1 - 1 4 - 3 1 18 0 - - - - F Jones + 2 2 0 10 15 7.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - W R Lewis 1 1 0 14 14 14.00 - - - - - - - - - - - - - A M Maltby 2 2 0 17 23 11.50 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - B Phillips 4 6 2 6* 10 2.50 - - 3 - - 33.2 6 66 14 4.71 7-? - 1 E S Phillips 7 11 0 78 254 23.09 - 2 - 1 - 5 0 56 0 - - - - F G Phillips 7 11 0 48 98 8.90 - - 4 1 - 106 28 308 20 15.40 5-58 - 1 M R Phillips + 2 2 0 9 10 5.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - K C Raikes 2 3 0 4 7 2.33 - - - 1 - 29 13 44 5 8.80 4-38 - - F Rees 1 2 0 15 19 9.50 - - - - - - - - - - - - - G L Robathan 1 2 1 19* 24 24.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - Silverlock, A J 7 11 0 139 424 38.54 1 2 1 3 - 97.1 20 268 15 17.86 5-74 - 1 M Stratton 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - H R Thomas + 1 1 0 0 0 0.00 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - G A Webb + 1 2 1 2 3 3.00 - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - J R Williams 4 6 1 25 45 9.00 - - 1 1 - - - - - - - - - T B Williams 3 5 0 31 54 10.80 - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - Extras/Sub/RO - - - - 96 - - - - - - - - 153 3 - - - - Total 77 120 11 139 1746 16.01 2 5 24 31 1 376.5 92 1286 72 17.86 7-? 0 3 (23 players) (6 ball overs) In Match 52 v Cornwall the Monmouthshire bowling for both innings is unknown. Runs conceded are 206 short. In Match 42 v Glamorgan the bowling for the Glamorgan innings is unknown. Runs conceded are 65 short. 162