Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 2: SURREY 2 ND XI V GLAMORGAN At The Oval, Kennington, London on Monday 1, Tuesday 2 June 1914 Result: Surrey 2 nd XI won by four wickets Points: Surrey 2 nd XI 5 Toss: Not known Umpires: Not known Debutants: Surrey 2 nd XI 1 (R A M Basset); Glamorgan none First day score: Glamorgan 218 and 16-2 wickets (E R Sweet-Escott 9*, T R Morgan 1*); Surrey 2 nd XI 249 Glamorgan * + N V H Riches c Peach b Basset 109 (5) b Basset 2 J R Tait c Mason b Freeman 9 (1) st Sullivan b Myers 6 E R Sweet-Escott b Freeman 0 (2) run out 42 W P Morris c Platt b Myers 13 (3) c Sullivan b Freeman 0 Bancroft, W J lbw b Freeman 0 (6) c Sullivan b Peach 23 Maxwell, J b Myers 8 (7) b Basset 1 S H Rees st Sullivan b Basset 21 (9) b Myers 37 J W Jones c Peach b Platt 3 (8) b Basset 1 T R Morgan lbw b Platt 0 (4) b Basset 31 Hacker, W S b Basset 0 (10) not out 34 Creber, H not out 42 (11) b Myers 8 Extras b 7, lb 2, nb 4 13 lb 3, w 1 4 Total (all out) 218 (all out) 189 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 93 218 Second innings 15 77 79 83 84 111 113 177 189 Freeman 22 4 47 3 - 3 (1) 17 5 58 1 - - Myers 26 8 62 2 - - (2) 20.1 7 36 3 1 - Platt 18 6 46 2 - 1 (3) 4 1 9 0 - - Basset 12.2 3 29 3 - - (4) 14 4 43 4 - - Spring 2 0 8 0 - - (5) 5 1 10 0 - - Peach 4 0 9 0 - - (6) 10 3 29 1 - - Sandham 3 0 4 0 - - Extras - - 13 0 - - - - 4 1 - - Total 87.2 21 218 10 0 4 70.1 21 189 10 1 0 Surrey 2 nd XI Sandham, A lbw b Creber 79 (1) c Maxwell b Creber 37 Myers, E B lbw b Hacker 2 (2) b Hacker 2 Mason, W b Hacker 2 (3) c Bancroft b Creber 35 Peach, H A b Hacker 33 ( ) c Riches b Maxwell 4 * A W F Rutty c Rees b Creber 72 ( ) b Hacker 16 Spring, W A st Riches b Creber 2 ( ) b Jones 36 Alwin, R C not out 9 ( ) not out 13 Platt, G J W b Hacker 31 ( ) not out 7 + Sullivan, D b Hacker 3 R A M Basset c Morris b Creber 7 Freeman, A J b Hacker 0 Extras b 5, lb 4 9 b 6, lb 4 10 Total (all out) 249 (6 wickets) 160 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 6 68 168 249 Second innings 4 59 120 - - - - Creber 22 3 80 4 - - (1) 15 2 46 2 - - Hacker 22.1 6 79 6 - - (2) 9 0 53 2 - - Maxwell 10 0 65 0 - - (3) 5 0 24 1 - - Morris 2 0 16 0 - - Tait (4) 5 0 14 0 - - Jones (5) 4.3 1 13 1 - - Extras - - 9 0 - - - - 10 0 - - Total 56.1 9 249 10 0 0 38.3 3 160 6 0 0 Notes: Surrey 2nd XI won this match by 4 wickets on the second afternoon; they had been set 159 to win in 2 hours and 10 minutes and won with only a little time to spare. Play had continued until 7.00 pm on the first day with stumps being set to be drawn at 5.00pm on the second day. For the winners there was 1 five and 10 fours in Sandham’s 79 and 1 six and 9 fours in Rutty’s 72; together they added 100 for the fourth wicket in only 45 minutes. In the Surrey second innings Spring made a cut for an all-run 7. Sullivan took 2 catches and made 2 stumpings in the match. For the losers there were 1 five and 9 fours in Riches’s 109, an innings lasting 3 hours and 45 minutes. Riches and Creber added 125 in 2 hours for the Glamorgan last wicket in their first innings. Rees and Hacker put on 64 in just under 1 hour for the ninth wicket in their second innings. Hacker took 6 wickets for 79 runs in the Surrey first innings. [Missing: Toss; umpires; part fall of wickets; in Surrey second innings part batting order; precise time completed.] Sources: Surrey Year Book, p 101; Western Mail 2,3 June; The Sportsman 2,3 June; World of Cricket 6 June, p 223-224. 44