minc167	Wiltshire v Worcestershire
	Minor Counties Championship 1898
Venue	The County Ground, Swindon on 12th, 13th August 1898 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Worcestershire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Wiltshire 0; Worcestershire 0
Umpires	J Edge, W Haggard
Close of play day 1	Wiltshire (1) 161/7 (Shorland 36*)

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Worcestershire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*HK Foster	lbw b Overton	7
GE Bromley-Martin	b Shorland	15
WL Foster	c Snell b Shorland	1
RE Foster	c Snell b Overton	15
GF Wheldon	b Shorland	13
A Millward	c Miller b Overton	7
EG Bromley-Martin	c Ransome b Miller	40
A Bird	c Smart b Miller	44
RD Burrows	b Miller	0
GA Wilson	b Miller	8
+T Straw	not out	1
Extras	(? b, ? lb, 2 nb, 1 w)	10
Total	(all out, 68.2 overs)	161
Fall of wickets:
1-15, 2-19, 3-36, 4-51, 5-60, 6-60, 7-140, 8-140, 9-150, 10-161 (68.2 ov)

Wiltshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Shorland	25	5	51	3	1	1
Overton	26	6	64	3	-	-
Miller	10.2	1	26	4	-	1
Newman	7	1	10	0	-	-

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Wiltshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FW Newman	lbw b Burrows	2
CS Awdry	c Millward b Wilson	18
OG Radcliffe	c Straw b Wilson	25
CAH Ransome	b Bird	19
ET Shorland	c RE Foster b Burrows	51
HS Snell	b Bird	0
*AM Miller	b Wilson	0
AJ Atfield	b Wilson	54
WH Goudge	c Wilson b Bird	16
+T Smart	b Burrows	4
W Overton	not out	0
Extras		8
Total	(all out, 75.1 overs)	197
Fall of wickets:
1-20, 2-20, 3-55, 4-71, 5-71, 6-72, 7-161, 8-192, 9-197, 10-197 (75.1 ov)

Worcestershire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Bird	27	8	51	3	-	-
Wilson	31	10	62	4	-	-
Burrows	11.1	3	37	3	-	-
EG Bromley-Martin	3	0	21	0	-	-
Millward	3	0	18	0	-	-

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Worcestershire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*HK Foster	b Shorland	0
GE Bromley-Martin	c Shorland b Newman	52
WL Foster	b Miller	15
A Bird	lbw b Shorland	2
RE Foster	not out	147
GF Wheldon	b Miller	0
A Millward	b Miller	0
EG Bromley-Martin	c Newman b Radcliffe	31
RD Burrows	b Radcliffe	7
GA Wilson	not out	80
+T Straw	did not bat
Extras	(? b, ? lb, 1 nb, ? w)	22
Total	(8 wickets, 119 overs)	356
Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-45, 3-61, 4-?, 5-?, 6-95, 7-186, 8-200

Wiltshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Overton	31	13	59	0	-	-
Shorland	27	10	40	2	-	-
Miller	21	6	55	3	-	-
Newman	17	8	31	1	-	-
Smart	5	0	26	0	-	-
Ransome	3	0	10	0	-	-
Atfield	2	0	8	0	-	1
Radcliffe	7	0	45	2	-	-
Awdry	3	0	36	0	-	-
Goudge	2	0	15	0	-	-
Snell	1	0	9	0	-	-

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Notes
--> A Millward made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> ET Shorland (1) passed his previous highest score of 13 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> AJ Atfield (1) passed his previous highest score of 40 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RE Foster (2) passed his previous highest score of 78 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> RE Foster (2) made his first century in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> GA Wilson (2) passed his previous highest score of 11 in Minor Counties Championship matches

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
This return match was drawn. The visitors had won the encounter between the two sides at Worcester in July. The match featured the three highest seventh wicket partnerships of the season. For Worcestershire, there was 1 six, 1 five and 17 fours in R E Foster's 147 not out, which was scored in under two hours. It was the third highest score by a batsman during the season.
The merit of this innings was somewhat reduced as Miller arranged that every member of the Wiltshire team bowled, the first time this had ever happened in a championship match.
Wilson's 80 not out contained 14 fours, and G E Bromley-Martin scored 52. In the visitors' first innings, E G Bromley-Martin and Bird added 80 for the seventh wicket. In the Worcestershire second innings, R E Foster and E G Bromley-Martin added 91 runs for the seventh wicket and Foster and Wilson had an unbroken stand of 156 for the ninth wicket, scored in just 90 minutes. The ninth wicket partnership was the largest of the season, while the two seventh wicket partnership were the highest and the third highest of the year. For the home team, Atfield scored 54 and Shorland 51. In the Wiltshire innings, Shorland and Atfield added 89 runs for the seventh wicket, the second highest partnership of the season for that wicket. In Wiltshire newspaper reports, Shorland played under the pseudonym 'A Butcher', but was Shorland in the Worcestershire papers. Newman kept wicket for Wiltshire when Smart temporarily retired after a ball hit his hand in the Worcestershire first innings.
[Missing: Extras breakdown; in Worcestershire 2nd inns threes and twos in R E Foster's 147 not out, boundaries in G E Bromley-Martin's 52, and fall of 4th and 5th wickets; in Wiltshire innings boundaries in Atfield's 54 and Shorland's 51.]
Sources: Marlborough Times 19 August; North Wilts Herald 19 August; Wiltshire Chronicle 20 August; Wiltshire Telegraph 20 August; Worcester Herald 20 August; Sporting Life 13,15 August; The Sportsman 13,15 August.

 

 

 

 

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