Denaby & Cadeby – Hoyland & Silkstone 38 Denaby 57 – All 10 wickets for Robinson

May 1906

Mexborough and Swinton Times May 12, 1906

Hoyland Hindered

Hoyland and Silkstone 38                      Denaby and Cadeby 57

GL Robinson 10-19                                                        C Bury 22

The wicket at Platts Common must have been wicked, for batsmen were scraping about helpless against bowlers who had a regular beanfeast.

Denaby were the visitors, and they took the field eager to show that their form against Wath was all wrong and Hoyland Silkstone accordingly suffered. It was a low scoring game, Hoyland leading off with a long list of batting failures, the whole team being sent back for the miserable total of 38, Mahon’s performance in the circumstance of carrying his bat through the innings for 17 being worthy of commendation. Indeed, his score was intrinsically of greater value than many a 50 under other circumstances.

The great destructive factor in the downfall of the side was GL Robinson, of Denaby, who brought off an achievement, 10 wickets for 19 runs, as wonderful as it is unusual. To take 10 wickets at any time is no small feat, but to take them for less than a score of run, is altogether out of the common.

Well bowled Robinson!

Indifferently as had the Hoyland men batted, it was well for Denaby that there task was not harder, for only Bury (22) and GL Robinson (15) could rise superior to “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” and the aggregate when the last man was bowled was but 57 – a majority of 19. The Hoyland bowling was well handled but the preliminary want of batting success rendered victory almost a certainty for Denaby