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County Championship, 1931Somerset v Essex
 County Ground, Taunton
 13,15,16 June 1931 (3-day match)
 
Result: Match drawn 
Toss: SomersetUmpires: A Skelding and EJ Smith
 
Close of play:
Day 1: Somerset 212, Essex 52/2 (JA Cutmore 32*, J O'Connor 0*)
 Day 2: Essex 229, Somerset 85/1 (JW Lee 34*, GE Hunt 6*) 
Somerset 1st innings
A Young               c Smith            b Nichols              0
JW Lee                lbw                b Smith               39
JCW MacBryan          c Cutmore          b Nichols              4
RA Ingle              lbw                b Smith               66
*JC White             lbw                b Nichols             22
CCC Case                                 b Nichols             31
HD Burrough                              b Nichols             20
GF Earle              c Sheffield        b Nichols              2
AW Wellard                               b Smith               15
GE Hunt               not out                                   7
+FL Pratten           c Hipkin           b Nichols              0
Extras                (b 2, lb 3, w 1)                          6
Total                 (all out, 86.4 overs)                   212
FoW: 1-1, 2-5, 3-78, 4-126, 5-143,
     6-181, 7-183, 8-194, 9-208, 10-212.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Nichols                     23.4    5     55      7
Smith                       27      8     68      3
O'Connor                     2      0      8      0
Eastman                     14      2     32      0
Wade                        17      2     39      0
Hipkin                       3      1      4      0
Essex 1st innings
DF Pope                                  b White               17
JA Cutmore            run out                                  48
TH Wade               st Pratten         b White                0
J O'Connor            c Young            b White               48
TN Pearce                                b Young                1
MS Nichols            st Pratten         b Lee                  6
LC Eastman                               b Young               13
*HM Morris                               b Lee                 43
+JR Sheffield         c MacBryan         b Young                8
AB Hipkin             c Hunt             b White               26
TPB Smith             not out                                   9
Extras                (b 5, lb 4, w 1)                         10
Total                 (all out, 119.5 overs)                  229
FoW: 1-43, 2-47, 3-80, 4-81, 5-98,
     6-131, 7-143, 8-156, 9-204, 10-229.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Wellard                     30     11     53      0
Hunt                         4      1     17      0
White                       39.5   14     79      4
Lee                         23      5     51      2
Young                       23     11     19      3
Somerset 2nd innings
A Young                                  b Nichols             37
JW Lee                not out                                  34
GE Hunt               not out                                   6
Extras                (b 8)                                     8
Total                 (1 wicket, 43 overs)                     85
DNB: JCW MacBryan, RA Ingle, *JC White, CCC Case, HD Burrough,
     GF Earle, AW Wellard, +FL Pratten.
FoW: 1-69.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Nichols                     11      3     21      1
Smith                       12      3     27      0
Eastman                      5      1     10      0
Wade                         8      1     13      0
Hipkin                       6      3      5      0
Pope                         1      0      1      0
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