1874 English cricket season
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1874 was the 88th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). W. G. Grace become the first player to perform the âdoubleâ in an English season. In 21 first-class matches, he scored 1,664 runs and took 140 wickets.[note 1]
Champion County
Playing record (by county)
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Kent | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Middlesex | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Surrey | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Sussex | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Yorkshire | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 15 innings)
| 1874 English season leading batsmen[6] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| W. G. Grace | Gloucestershire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 21 | 32 | 0 | 1664 | 179 | 52.00 | 8 | 2 |
| Harry Jupp | Surrey | 21 | 37 | 2 | 1275 | 154 | 36.42 | 3 | 7 |
| A. N. Hornby | Lancashire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 8 | 15 | 2 | 365 | 72 | 28.07 | 0 | 3 |
| Henry Charlwood | Sussex | 16 | 30 | 5 | 701 | 100 | 28.04 | 1 | 2 |
| Fred Grace | Gloucestershire | 18 | 27 | 4 | 645 | 103 | 28.04 | 1 | 2 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)
| 1874 English season leading bowlers[7] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| Thomas Lang | Oxford University Gloucestershire | 1351 | 395 | 35 | 11.28 | 6/27 | 4 | 1 |
| Martin McIntyre | Nottinghamshire All England Eleven | 1002 | 408 | 36 | 11.33 | 6/18 | 3 | 0 |
| Allen Hill | Yorkshire | 3075 | 1156 | 105 | 11.44 | 8/48 | 10 | 5 |
| Tom Emmett | Yorkshire | 3790 | 1243 | 107 | 11.61 | 6/21 | 10 | 2 |
| James Southerton | Surrey | 4857 | 1576 | 128 | 12.31 | 8/70 | 13 | 4 |
Labels
a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
b Some sources give Derbyshire and though this was once accepted in some publications, including Wisden on the basis of the "least matches lost" principle, it has been superseded.
c Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.
Notes
- Some eleven-a-side matches played from 1772 to 1863 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources.[1] However, the term only came into common use around 1864, when overarm bowling was legalised. It was formally defined as a standard by a meeting at Lord's, in May 1894, of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the county clubs which were then competing in the County Championship. The ruling was effective from the beginning of the 1895 season, but pre-1895 matches of the same standard have no official definition of status because the ruling is not retrospective.[2] Matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status.[3] Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as top-class or, at least, historically significant.[4] For further information, see First-class cricket.