Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 7: KENT 2 ND XI V MONMOUTHSHIRE At Folkestone Cricket Club Ground, Cheriton Road, Folkestone on Monday 22, [Tuesday 23] June 1914 Result: Match Drawn - No decision on first innings Points: No points awarded Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Kent 2 nd XI 2 (W H Ashdown, J C Colquhoun); Monmouthshire none First day score: As scorecard - no play on the second day Monmouthshire Silverlock, A J c Tuff b Hickmott 75 W E C Hudden c Smith b Hickmott 16 + Diver, E J b Hickmott 5 * E S Phillips b Ashdown 25 T B Williams c and b Hickmott 31 F G Phillips run out 19 K C Raikes lbw b Freeman 4 M Stratton c Freeman b Hickmott 0 W R Lewis b Freeman 14 Ewing, D A not out 2 J R Williams c Hickmott b Smith 25 Extras b 4, lb 3, w 1 8 Total (all out) 224 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 23 31 85 157 157 162 165 189 196 224 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hickmott 18 3 59 5 1 - Smith 7.3 2 34 1 - - Freeman 18 6 59 2 - - Wycherley 6 1 15 0 - - Tuff 5 2 18 0 - - Ashdown 6 2 31 1 - - Extras - - 8 1 - - Total 60.3 16 224 10 1 0 Kent 2 nd XI J C Colquhoun c Ewing b Raikes 80 Dutnall, F b F G Phillips 19 Ashdown, W H b Raikes 6 Jennings, D W c Hudden b F G Phillips 53 + A F Leach-Lewis c Silverlock b Raikes 0 * G J V Weigall lbw b Raikes 10 Hickmott, W E not out 0 F N Tuff not out 0 Freeman, A P Smith, A Wycherley, C T Extras b 7 7 Total (6 wickets) 175 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 44 141 145 175 175 - - - - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - F G Phillips 22 8 54 2 - - Raikes 23 9 38 4 - - Ewing 11 0 37 0 - - Silverlock 9 0 39 0 - - Extras - - 7 0 - - Total 65 17 175 6 0 0 Notes: Heavy rain meant that no play was possible on the second day and so this match was left drawn, with there being no decision on the first innings and no points awarded. For Kent Colquhoun scored 80 on debut and Jennings 53. Hickmott took 5 wickets for 59 runs. For Monmouthshire Silverlock made 75. Raikes took 4 wickets. [Missing: Umpires; in Monmouthshire innings boundaries in Silverlock’s 75; in Kent innings boundaries in Colquhoun’s 80 and Jennings’s 53.] Sources: Kent Year Book, p 222-223; Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald 27 June; Hythe Reporter 27 June; South Wales Argus 22,23 June; South Wales Daily News 24 June; Western Mail 23,24 June; The Sportsman 23 June; World of Cricket 27 June, p 291. 49