Minor Counties Championship 1914

MATCH NUMBER 36: GLAMORGAN V MONMOUTHSHIRE At The Arms Park, Westgate Street, Cardiff on Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 July 1914 Result: Match drawn - Monmouthshire won on first innings Points: Monmouthshire 3, Glamorgan 1 Toss: Monmouthshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Glamorgan none; Monmouthshire 1 (H T Edwards) First day score: Monmouthshire 123; Glamorgan 23-5 wickets (H Creber 2*, F Bennett 2*) Monmouthshire * E S Phillips b Bestwick 8 (1) st Cording b Creber 18 Silverlock, A J c Maxwell b Creber 45 (2) c Turnbull b Creber 17 H C James c Cording b Maxwell 20 (3) run out (Tait) 4 F Rees b Bestwick 15 (4) st Cording b Creber 4 F G Phillips c Cording b Maxwell 0 (5) b Hacker 0 + Diver, E J b Hacker 13 (6) c Bestwick b Creber 2 G L Robathan c Bennett b Bestwick 5 (7) not out 19 K C Raikes b Hacker 2 (8) b Hacker 1 H T Edwards b Hacker 2 (9) b Hacker 4 Ewing, D A b Bestwick 2 (10) b Hacker 1 B Phillips not out 1 (11) b Hacker 0 Extras w 1, nb 1 10 nb 2 13 Total (all out) 123 (all out) 83 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 78 123 Second innings 33 44 51 81 83 Hacker 20 6 33 3 - - (3) 12.3 6 16 5 - 2 Bestwick 20.5 5 30 4 - 1 (1) 13 5 11 0 - - Maxwell 10 2 22 2 1 - Creber 9 0 28 1 - - (2) 25 6 43 4 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 13 1 - - Total 59.5 13 123 10 1 1 50.3 17 83 10 0 2 Glamorgan J R Tait c Robathan b F G Phillips 10 * + G E Cording c James b F G Phillips 3 R A Gibbs run out 2 B Turnbull c and b Raikes 1 T R Morgan c and b Ewing 0 Creber, H run out 5 F Bennett c F G Phillips b Ewing 2 Maxwell, J not out 11 J L G Thomas run out 11 Hacker, W S c and b Ewing 5 Bestwick, W lbw b Ewing 0 Extras w 1 9 Total (all out) 59 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 29 35 54 59 59 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - F G Phillips 16 6 30 2 1 - Raikes 6 4 6 1 - - Ewing 9.3 5 14 4 - - Extras - - 9 3 - - Total 31.3 15 59 10 1 0 Notes: This match was drawn with Monmouthshire winning on the first innings. Rain delayed play until 2.45 pm on the first day and curtailed play on the second day at 4.00 pm, the match being called off at 5.15 pm. Glamorgan had been set 148 to win. For Monmouthshire Silverlock top-scored with 45; no other batsman scored more than 20 in the match. Glamorgan were dismissed in just 31.3 overs; F G Phillips bowled unchanged and no fewer than 3 batsmen were run out. For Glamorgan Hacker took 5 wickets for 16 runs in the Monmouthshire second innings; all of his 8 wickets in the match were bowled. Creber bowled unchanged through the Monmouthshire second innings. Cording caught 2 batsmen in the Monmouthshire first innings and stumped 2 in the second. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets.] Sources: South Wales Argus 22,23 July; South Wales Daily News 23,24 July; Western Mail 23,24 July; Monmouthshire Evening Post 22,23 July; World of Cricket 1 August, p 394. 78