minc69	Berkshire v Oxfordshire
	Minor Counties Championship 1896
Venue	County Ground, Kensington Road, Reading on 19th, 20th August 1896 (2-day match)
Balls per over	5
Toss	Oxfordshire won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Berkshire 0; Oxfordshire 0
Umpires	F Gladwin, J Relf
Close of play day 1	Berkshire (1) 17/0 (Ingram 1*, Nepean 12*)

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Oxfordshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WA Wells	c Dauglish b Barker	13
AJ Forbes	c Nepean b Wells	39
W Smith	c Croome b Wells	9
*GR Wood	c Dowell b Croome	16
CE Brownrigg	lbw b Barker	22
P Rogers	b Barker	3
WTF Deane	c Nepean b Barker	25
+FG Arnold	c Dowell b Barker	2
G Eustace	b Croome	20
RA Williams	st Dauglish b Nepean	14
A Rogers	not out	53
Extras		18
Total	(all out, 81.3 overs)	234
Fall of wickets:
1-31, 2-58, 3-75, 4-105, 5-110, 6-119, 7-131, 8-161, 9-167, 10-234 (81.3 ov)

Berkshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barker	29	9	67	5	-	-
Finch	11	0	50	0	-	-
Wells	13	9	21	2	-	-
Daffen	10	3	16	0	-	-
Croome	14	5	31	2	-	-
WBL Barrington	2	0	21	0	-	-
Ingram	2	0	8	0	-	-
Nepean	0.3	0	2	1	-	-

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Berkshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FM Ingram	c Wood b A Rogers	34
CEMY Nepean	b P Rogers	31
WBL Barrington	b P Rogers	0
JH Dowell	b A Rogers	6
RES Barrington	c Wood b A Rogers	11
A Daffen	b P Rogers	10
*ACM Croome	c Forbes b P Rogers	24
HD Wells	c and b Eustace	40
W Barker	c Brownrigg b P Rogers	26
+MJ Dauglish	not out	4
FW Finch	retired hurt	12
Extras	(? b, ? lb, 2 nb, ? w)	16
Total	(all out, 93 overs)	214
Fall of wickets:
1-44, 2-44, 3-61, 4-86, 5-95, 6-124, 7-136, 8-194, 9-194

Oxfordshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
A Rogers	37	10	68	3	-	-
P Rogers	46	19	85	5	-	-
Williams	5	0	25	0	-	2
Eustace	5	0	20	1	-	-

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Oxfordshire second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AJ Forbes	b Croome	1
WA Wells	c Dauglish b Daffen	18
W Smith	st Dauglish b Croome	0
*GR Wood	c Dauglish b Croome	0
CE Brownrigg	lbw b Barker	27
G Eustace	c Croome b Daffen	0
P Rogers	c Daffen b Croome	1
WTF Deane	not out	26
A Rogers	not out	20
+FG Arnold	did not bat
RA Williams	did not bat
Extras	(? b, ? lb, 1 nb, ? w)	9
Total	(7 wickets, 52 overs)	102
Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-7, 3-7, 4-32, 5-32, 6-41, 7-59

Berkshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Barker	11	3	20	1	-	1
Croome	17	7	25	4	-	-
Finch	2	0	8	0	-	-
Daffen	12	5	22	2	-	-
Nepean	3	1	4	0	-	-
Wells	6	2	10	0	-	-
WBL Barrington	1	0	4	0	-	-

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Notes
--> G Eustace made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> JH Dowell made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> HD Wells made his debut in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> WBL Barrington made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> G Eustace made his last appearance in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CE Brownrigg (1) passed his previous highest score of 17 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> A Rogers (1) passed his previous highest score of 33 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> W Barker (1) passed his previous highest score of 12 in Minor Counties Championship matches
--> CE Brownrigg (2) passed his previous highest score of 22 in Minor Counties Championship matches

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This card comes from the Minor Counties Research Project
This return match was drawn, Berkshire having won the match at Thame at the beginning of the month. For Oxfordshire there were 10 fours in A Rogers's 53 not out. Batting eleventh in the order, he and Williams put on 67 runs for the tenth wicket in the visitors' first innings. This was a new high for the season and a new record for the competition, surpassing the 62 runs put on for the tenth wicket by Scriven and F Smith for Northamptonshire v Durham at Northampton in May. In the Berkshire innings, Wells and Barker added 58 runs for the eighth wicket. The innings closed when Finch was hit in the stomach by a ball from Eustace and had to retire hurt.
[Missing: Extras breakdown.]
Sources: Berkshire Chronicle 22 August; Reading Observer 22 August; Reading Standard 21 August; Jackson's Oxford Journal 22 August; Oxford Chronicle 22 August; Oxford Times 22 August; The Sportsman 20,21 August.

 

 

 

 

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