Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 29: DEVON V BERKSHIRE At The County Ground, Prince of Wales Drive, Pennsylvania, Exeter on Friday 17, Saturday 18 July 1914 Result: Devon won by an innings and 158 runs Points: Devon 5 Toss: Devon Umpires: Not known Debutants: Devon 1 (J Amory); Berkshire 1 (C W Battye) First day score: Devon 453-9 wickets declared; Berkshire 98-7 wickets (Sir C E M Y Nepean 26*) Devon E A Fulcher c Howard b Sharpe 21 Reed, S O c Batty b Hawksworth 24 F H Carroll b Mockler-Ferryman 107 F W Beech b Hawksworth 105 Light, W F b Hawksworth 65 * J F Shelley c Hinde b Hawksworth 24 W F Sturt b Sharpe 0 J Amory c and b Hawksworth 4 + Davies, T b Sharpe 9 Tate, E not out 33 M R Fishwick not out 31 Extras b 21, lb 7, w 2 30 Total (9 wickets declared) 453 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 55 55 235 331 359 359 363 377 383 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Hawksworth 39 8 152 5 - - Bailey 5 1 16 0 - - Sharpe 30 4 129 3 - - Battye 12 2 51 0 - - Mockler-Ferryman 18 0 75 1 2 - Extras - - 30 0 - - Total 104 15 453 9 2 0 Berkshire (Followed on) Shoosmith, H W b Amory 8 (2) run out 32 W H R Hinde c Tate b Sturt 6 (1) b Amory 0 Capt A M Holdsworth b Amory 13 (3) c Davies b Amory 16 T P W Norris b Fishwick 30 (4) b Amory 0 C W Battye b Amory 5 (5) c Tate b Light 16 * Sir C E M Y Nepean not out 39 (6) c Shelley b Amory 23 Bailey, W G c Davies b Amory 5 (7) c Davies b Fishwick 6 Capt A G M Sharpe c Davies b Light 1 (8) c Carroll b Amory 13 Hawksworth, G M b Light 12 (9) c Carroll b Amory 11 + P Howard c Sturt b Light 7 (10) not out 10 H Mockler-Ferryman run out 0 (11) c Amory b Light 27 Extras b 3, w 1 4 b 7, lb 3, nb 1 11 Total (all out) 130 (all out) 165 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 28 28 33 74 89 98 116 130 130 Second innings 4 40 48 67 78 94 112 119 128 165 Sturt 9 4 32 1 1 - (1) 10 3 26 0 - - Amory 19 5 57 4 - - (2) 19 6 68 6 - - Fishwick 6 1 24 1 - - (4) 12 3 23 1 - - Light 5 0 13 3 - - (3) 11.3 2 29 2 - 1 Tate (5) 2 0 8 0 - - Extras - - 4 1 - - - - 11 1 - - Total 39 10 130 10 1 0 54.3 14 165 10 0 1 Notes: Devon won this match by an innings and 158 runs just before 3.00 pm on the second day, having asked Berkshire to follow on. For the winners Carroll’s 107 included 19 fours whilst Beech’s 105 was scored in 2 hours and 45 minutes and included 12 fours; they added 180 runs for the third wicket in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Light scored 65, which contained 1 five and 10 fours. Tate and Fishwick put on 70 for the Devon last wicket before Shelley declared. Debutant J Amory (who was also known as Heathcoat-Amory) had match figures of 10 wickets for 125 runs, including 6 wickets for 68 runs in the Berkshire second innings. Davies took 4 catches in the match. For Berkshire Nepean top scored with an unbeaten 39 whilst Hawksworth took 5 wickets for 152 runs. [Missing: Umpires; in Devon innings duration of Carroll’s 107.] Sources: Devon Scorebook; Devon and Exeter Gazette 18,20 July; Exeter Express and Echo 17,18 July; Western Daily Mercury 18,20 July; Western Morning News 18,20 July; Western Times 20 July; Berkshire Chronicle 24 July; Reading Mercury 25 July; The Sportsman 18,20 July; World of Cricket 25 July, p 377. 71