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1910 English cricket season
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| Field | Value |
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| previous_year | 1909 |
| previous_tournament | 1909 English cricket season |
| next_year | 1911 |
| next_tournament | 1911 English cricket season |
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 1909–10 winter. A tour to the West Indies also took place over the 1910–11 winter.
Honours
- County Championship – Kent
- Minor Counties Championship – Norfolk
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Harry Foster, Alfred Hartley, Charles Llewellyn, Razor Smith, Frank Woolley
1910 County Championship
Main article: 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 – including a proposal by Lord Hawke of relegation and promotion as practiced by The Football League – led to first Warwickshire 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, a few days before the season started.
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | Abandoned | Pts | % | Details as recorded in *John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
- 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. 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 |
| 2 | Suffolk | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 28 |
| 3 | Yorkshire Second Eleven | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 26 |
| 4 | Northumberland | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 23 |
| 5 | Staffordshire | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 33 |
| 6 | Lincolnshire | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 21 |
| 7 | Durham | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 20 |
| 8 | Nottinghamshire Second Eleven | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 16 |
| 9 | Bedfordshire | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10 |
| 10 | Cheshire | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 12 |
| 11 | Cambridgeshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
South and West
| County | Played | Won | Won on | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st inns | No | ||||||
| Result | Possible | ||||||
| points | Points | ||||||
| obtained | % | ||||||
| 1 | Berkshire | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 45 |
| 2 | Glamorgan | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 45 |
| 3 | Monmouthshire | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 28 |
| 4 | Surrey Second Eleven | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 31 |
| 5 | Carmarthenshire | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 15 |
| 5 | Hertfordshire | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 15 |
| 7 | Devon | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 45 | 16 |
| 8 | Dorset | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 13 |
| 9 | Cornwall | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10 |
| 10 | Wiltshire | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 11 |
| 11 | Buckinghamshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
Final
| score-team1-inns1 = 397 | runs-team1-inns1 = G.A. Stevens 201, N.W. Stevens 57 | wickets-team1-inns1 = Belcher 4/101 | score-team2-inns1 = 153 | runs-team2-inns1 = C.Y. Nepean 40 | wickets-team2-inns1 = Allsopp 5/42, G.B. Raikes 4/50 | score-team2-inns2 = 94 | wickets-team2-inns2 = Allsopp 3/15
Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)
| 1910 English season leading batsmen | 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 | Name | Team | Matches | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets | 10 wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, 1911
Notes
References
References
- (1910). "John Wisden's Cricketer's Alamanack".
- (16 March 1910). "Warwickshire County Cricket Club: More Funds Required". The Birmingham Post.
- (26 March 1910). "The Future of Cricket – Important Recommendations: Reform from Lord's". Gloucestershire Chronicle.
- (31 January 1910). "Lord Hawke's Cricket Scheme – Warwickshire's Alternative Proposals". Evening Sentinel.
- (26 April 1910). "Cricket – Important Proposals Accepted: The County Championship". [[Western Daily Press]].
- (1911). "John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack". John Wisden & Co..
- (23 September 1909). "Cricket – Minor Counties Championship". [[Southern Daily Echo]].
- (25 August 1910). "Cricket Notes". Evening Post.
- (1911). "John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack".
- Wynne-Thomas, Peter. (1983). "The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records". Rigby Publishers.
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