1910 English cricket season
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1910 was the twenty-first season of County Championship cricket in England. Kent won a second successive title. Norfolk won the Minor Counties Championship, defeating Berkshire in the final challenge match. There were no overseas tours to England during the season, the English team having toured South Africa over the 1909â10 winter. A tour to the West Indies also took place over the 1910â11 winter.
Honours
1910 County Championship
For the first time since the official County Championship began, the scoring system was changed.
Proposals to reform the game as a result of financial losses by many counties in the wet summer of 1909[1][2] â including a proposal by Lord Hawke of relegation and promotion as practiced by The Football League[3] â led to first Warwickshire[4] and then Lancashire advocating a plan under which only wins would count in determining a county's position. This would be adopted as a trial on 26 April,[5] a few days before the season started.
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | Abandoned[a] | Pts | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent | 25 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 76.00 |
| 2 | Surrey | 28 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 16 | 57.14 |
| 3 | Middlesex | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 50.00 |
| 4 | Lancashire | 29 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 48.27 |
| 5 | Nottinghamshire | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 45.00 |
| 6 | Hampshire | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 41.66 |
| 7 | Sussex | 25 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 40.00 |
| 8 | Yorkshire | 27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 37.06 |
| 9 | Northamptonshire | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 36.84 |
| 10 | Leicestershire | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 35.29 |
| 11 | Essex | 17 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 29.41 |
| 12 | Gloucestershire | 20 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 25.00 |
| 13 | Worcestershire | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 22.72 |
| 14 | Warwickshire | 19 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 21.05 |
| 15 | Derbyshire | 20 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10.00 |
| 16 | Somerset | 18 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Details as recorded in John Wisdenâs Cricketersâ Almanack[6] | ||||||||
- One point was awarded for a win. Final placings were decided by dividing the number of points earned by the number of completed matches (i.e. those that ended in a win, loss or draw), and multiplying by 100.
Minor Counties Championship
For this season, the four-division format would be replaced by a two-division format of "North and East" and "South and West", following a meeting at Lord's in September 1909.[7] Each team would play at least four opponents from their own division home and away, and the winners of the two divisions would meet in a final to decide the Minor Counties Champion.
North and East
| County | Played | Won | Won on 1st inns |
No Result |
Possible points |
Points obtained |
% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norfolk | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 36 | 72.00 |
| 2 | Suffolk | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 28 | 70,00 |
| 3 | Yorkshire Second Eleven | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 26 | 57.77 |
| 4 | Northumberland | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 23 | 57.50 |
| 5 | Staffordshire | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 33 | 55.00 |
| 6 | Lincolnshire | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 21 | 42.00 |
| 7 | Durham | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 20 | 40.00 |
| 8 | Nottinghamshire Second Eleven | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 16 | 35.55 |
| 9 | Bedfordshire | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 25.00 |
| 10 | Cheshire | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 12 | 24.00 |
| 11 | Cambridgeshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0.00 |
South and West
| County | Played | Won | Won on 1st inns |
No Result |
Possible points |
Points obtained |
% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berkshire[b] | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 45 | 90.00 |
| 2 | Glamorgan[b] | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 45 | 90.00 |
| 3 | Monmouthshire | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 28 | 70.00 |
| 4 | Surrey Second Eleven | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 31 | 68.88 |
| 5 | Carmarthenshire | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 15 | 37.50 |
| 5 | Hertfordshire | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 15 | 37.50 |
| 7 | Devon | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 45 | 16 | 35.55 |
| 8 | Dorset | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 13 | 26.00 |
| 9 | Cornwall | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 25.00 |
| 10 | Wiltshire | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 11 | 22.00 |
| 11 | Buckinghamshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0.00 |
Final
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397 G.A. Stevens 201, N.W. Stevens 57 Belcher 4/101 |
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- Berkshire won the toss and decided to bat.
Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)
| 1910 English season leading batsmen[10] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s |
| Johnny Tyldesley | Lancashire | 35 | 51 | 4 | 2265 | 158 | 46.22 | 7 |
| Kenneth Hutchings | Kent | 29 | 42 | 2 | 1654 | 144 | 41.35 | 5 |
| Plum Warner | Middlesex MCC |
27 | 44 | 4 | 1646 | 150 not out | 41.15 | 5 |
| Cecil Wood | Leicestershire | 19 | 35 | 2 | 1250 | 99 | 37.87 | 0 |
| Jack Sharp | Lancashire | 33 | 45 | 2 | 1626 | 150 | 37.81 | 4 |
| Alfred Hartley | Lancashire | 32 | 47 | 4 | 1585 | 234 | 36.86 | 3 |
| Henry Foster | Worcestershire | 16 | 28 | 0 | 1032 | 126 | 36.85 | 3 |
| James Seymour | Kent | 29 | 46 | 4 | 1546 | 193 | 36.80 | 3 |
| Punter Humphreys | Kent | 29 | 46 | 2 | 1618 | 200 not out | 36.77 | 3 |
| Frank Tarrant | Middlesex MCC |
26 | 41 | 2 | 1415 | 142 | 36.53 | 3 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)
| 1910 English season leading bowlers[10] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets
in innings |
10 wickets
in match |
| J.T. Hearne | Middlesex MCC |
21 | 4512 | 1523 | 119 | 12.79 | 8/34 | 11 | 3 |
| Razor Smith | Surrey | 36 | 8541 | 3225 | 247 | 13.05 | 8/13 | 26 | 8 |
| Douglas Carr | Kent | 10 | 1856 | 895 | 63 | 14.20 | 8/86 | 6 | 2 |
| Colin Blythe | Kent | 25 | 6249 | 2497 | 175 | 14.26 | 7/53 | 18 | 4 |
| Frank Woolley | Kent | 31 | 4389 | 1973 | 136 | 14.50 | 8/52 | 11 | 1 |
| George Hirst | Yorkshire | 36 | 6127 | 2426 | 164 | 14.79 | 9/23 | 11 | 2 |
| Harry Dean | Lancashire | 29 | 5799 | 2113 | 137 | 15.42 | 9/77 | 8 | 4 |
| Philip Le Couteur | Oxford University | 14 | 1991 | 1151 | 72 | 15.98 | 6/20 | 6 | 3 |
| Frank Tarrant | Middlesex MCC |
26 | 5595 | 2169 | 134 | 16.18 | 7/42 | 12 | 3 |
| James Iremonger | Nottinghamshire | 21 | 3711 | 1358 | 79 | 17.18 | 7/35 | 6 | 1 |
Annual reviews
Notes
- These games were all either abandoned owing to the death of King Edward VII or limited to two days on account of the funeral of the King. It would be agreed not to count these games as "matches played" under the new point system.