County Championship, 1938
Kent v Essex
Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend
7,9,10 May 1938 (3-day match)
Result: Kent won by 6 wickets
Points: Kent 12, Essex 0
Toss: Essex
Umpires: GM Lee and JA Newman
Close of Play:
Day 1: Essex 450, Kent 4/0 (Spencer 2*, Fagg 2*)
Day 2: Kent 548, Essex 66/3 (O'Connor 14*, Nichols 11*)
Essex 1st innings
*DR Wilcox c Todd b Harding 10
LC Eastman lbw b Todd 13
AV Avery c Ames b Wright 16
J O'Connor b Wright 20
MS Nichols c Chalk b Wright 163
RM Taylor c & b Todd 7
AB Lavers c Cole b Harding 39
AB Quick b Todd 17
TPB Smith lbw b Todd 103
+TH Wade b Harding 37
R Smith not out 7
Extras (b 6, lb 4, w 2, nb 6) 18
Total (all out, 111.4 overs) 450
FoW: 1-26, 2-26, 3-57, 4-64, 5-71, 6-140, 7-170, 8-354, 9-437,
10-450.
Bowling O M R W
Harding 24 1 126 3
Cole 15 1 61 0
Todd 30 3 116 4
Wright 32.4 6 92 3
Lewis 10 3 37 0
Kent 1st innings
TW Spencer c Wade b Nichols 2
AE Fagg c Wade b Nichols 19
FE Woolley c Taylor b TPB Smith 38
*FGH Chalk c TPB Smith b Eastman 46
+LEG Ames c Taylor b TPB Smith 170
BH Valentine c Eastman b Nichols 151
LJ Todd b Nichols 29
DVP Wright not out 51
NW Harding b Nichols 4
CG Cole run out 3
C Lewis b TPB Smith 19
Extras (b 3, lb 13) 16
Total (all out, 113.5 overs) 548
FoW: 1-5, 2-46, 3-64, 4-166, 5-368, 6-459, 7-468, 8-482, 9-485,
10-548.
Bowling O M R W
Nichols 33 5 146 5
TPB Smith 36.5 5 152 3
Eastman 30 1 135 1
R Smith 8 0 66 0
Lavers 4 0 14 0
O'Connor 2 0 19 0
Essex 2nd innings
*DR Wilcox b Todd 0
LC Eastman c Valentine b Wright 24
AV Avery b Todd 16
J O'Connor c Todd b Wright 113
MS Nichols lbw b Wright 26
RM Taylor c Woolley b Valentine 35
AB Lavers b Valentine 22
AB Quick b Wright 8
TPB Smith lbw b Todd 10
+TH Wade b Wright 0
R Smith not out 0
Extras (b 4, lb 2) 6
Total (all out, 67.1 overs) 260
FoW: 1-0, 2-41, 3-41, 4-111, 5-186, 6-225, 7-249, 8-260, 9-260,
10-260.
Bowling O M R W
Harding 11 1 59 0
Cole 3 0 11 0
Todd 25.1 4 80 3
Wright 23 7 78 5
Valentine 5 1 26 2
Kent 2nd innings (target: 163 runs)
AE Fagg lbw b Eastman 27
FE Woolley c R Smith b Eastman 53
*FGH Chalk c Quick b Nichols 20
+LEG Ames not out 41
BH Valentine st Wade b Eastman 3
LJ Todd not out 17
Extras (lb 3) 3
Total (4 wickets, 30 overs) 164
DNB: TW Spencer, DVP Wright, NW Harding, CG Cole, C Lewis.
FoW: 1-63, 2-100, 3-104, 4-137.
Bowling O M R W
Nichols 11 0 71 1
TPB Smith 2 0 3 0
Eastman 9 0 50 3
R Smith 4 0 28 0
Taylor 4 0 9 0
- The match aggregate of 1,422 runs was only 58 runs short of
the highest in a county championship match in England (1475 -
Northamptonshire v Surrey, 1920).
- 610 runs were scored by both teams on Day 2.
- Nichols 163, two 6's, seventeen 4's in 288 minutes
- TPB Smith 103, two 6's, seventeen 4's, 113 minutes.
- Woolley scored 36 of his 1st innings 38 in boundaries (nine 4's)
in 17 minutes.
- Ames 170 in 135 minutes, three 6's and twenty-four 4's.
- Valentine 151 in 140 minutes, two 6's and twenty-two 4's.
- O'Connor 113 in 149 minutes, twenty 4's.
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