f12114	Somerset v New Zealanders
	New Zealand in British Isles 1927
Venue	Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare on 6th, 8th August 1927 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	New Zealanders won the toss and decided to bat
Result	New Zealanders won by 94 runs
Umpires	WR Cuttell, HI Young
Close of play day 1	Somerset (1) 110/8 (Wellard 26*, Greswell 15*)

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New Zealanders first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JE Mills	b Greswell	6
CS Dempster	c Hill b Greswell	5
ML Page	b Wellard	0
RC Blunt	c Lee b Greswell	44		85	6	-
*+TC Lowry	c Wellard b Greswell	25		110	1	-
HM McGirr	c Young b Greswell	0
CCR Dacre	c Wellard b White	16				1
EHL Bernau	run out (White)	18
WE Merritt	b Lee	27		35
CFW Allcott	c Greswell b Lee	3
WHR Cunningham	not out	0
Extras	(5 b, 1 lb)	6
Total	(all out, 195 minutes, 72.3 overs)	150
Fall of wickets:
1-9 (Dempster), 2-10 (Page), 3-20 (Mills), 4-75 (Blunt), 5-78 (McGirr), 6-92 (Lowry), 7-102 (Dacre), 8-146 (Merritt), 9-150 (Allcott), 10-150 (Bernau, 72.3 ov)

Somerset bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Greswell	28	11	41	5	-	-
Wellard	18	4	29	1	-	-
White	19	6	41	1	-	-
Lee	7.3	1	33	2	-	-

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Somerset first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
A Young	b McGirr	1
JW Lee	b Bernau	0
JCW MacBryan	b Allcott	37		45	4	1
EF Longrigg	b McGirr	0
*JC White	b Bernau	7		65
CCC Case	b Bernau	10
RA Ingle	st Lowry b Merritt	0
GF Earle	b Bernau	0
AW Wellard	b Merritt	29
WT Greswell	not out	19		65
+ML Hill	absent
Extras	(6 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 2 w)	14
Total	(all out, 140 minutes, 48.1 overs)	117
Fall of wickets:
1-3 (Lee), 2-3 (Young), 3-3 (Longrigg), 4-47 (MacBryan), 5-58 (White), 6-65 (Ingle), 7-65 (Earle), 8-86 (Case), 9-117 (Wellard, 48.1 ov)

New Zealanders bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
McGirr	10	7	5	2	-	-
Bernau	9	0	27	4	-	-
Blunt	6	1	22	0	-	-
Merritt	15.1	7	28	2	-	-
Page	4	2	10	0	-	-
Allcott	4	2	11	1	-	-

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New Zealanders second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
JE Mills	c Case b White	16
CS Dempster	lbw b White	42			6	-
ML Page	c Longrigg b White	4
RC Blunt	lbw b White	26
*+TC Lowry	c Greswell b White	0
HM McGirr	b Lee	0
CCR Dacre	c MacBryan b White	5		5
EHL Bernau	b White	13
WE Merritt	lbw b White	1
CFW Allcott	b Greswell	15
WHR Cunningham	not out	0
Extras	(1 b, 5 lb)	6
Total	(all out, 140 minutes, 52.4 overs)	128
Fall of wickets:
1-56 (Mills), 2-61 (Dempster), 3-64 (Page), 4-64 (Lowry), 5-69 (McGirr), 6-74 (Dacre), 7-105 (Blunt), 8-109 (Merritt), 9-113 (Bernau), 10-128 (Allcott, 52.4 ov)

Somerset bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Greswell	11.4	1	42	1	-	-
Wellard	5	0	10	0	-	-
White	22	8	28	8	-	-
Lee	14	4	42	1	-	-

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Somerset second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
A Young	b Allcott	14
JW Lee	b McGirr	9
JCW MacBryan	b McGirr	4			1	-
EF Longrigg	b Allcott	8
*JC White	c Lowry b Allcott	3
CCC Case	b Allcott	0
RA Ingle	b Bernau	0
GF Earle	c and b Allcott	18		13		2
AW Wellard	b Merritt	3
WT Greswell	not out	1
+ML Hill	absent
Extras	(7 b)	7
Total	(all out, 85 minutes, 28 overs)	67
Fall of wickets:
1-18 (Lee), 2-22 (MacBryan), 3-36 (Longrigg), 4-37 (Young), 5-37 (Case), 6-38 (Ingle), 7-40 (White), 8-65 (Wellard), 9-67 (Earle, 28 ov)

New Zealanders bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
McGirr	9	3	12	2	-	-
Bernau	4	1	13	1	-	-
Blunt	6	2	12	0	-	-
Page	1	0	1	0	-	-
Allcott	5	3	3	5	-	-
Merritt	3	0	19	1	-	-

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Notes
--> The match was scheduled for three days but completed in two.
--> AW Wellard made his debut in First-Class matches
--> RC Blunt (1) passed 4000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 24
--> WE Merritt (1) passed 500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 2
--> JC White (2) passed 5500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 1

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ML Hill was called away on the second day due to a family bereavement; with the agreement of the New Zealanders, WT Luckes kept wicket as substitute for the remainder of the match

 

 

 

 

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