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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 1909–10 winter. A tour to the West Indies also took place over the 1910–11 winter.

Honours

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1910 County Championship

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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[1][2] – including a proposal by Lord Hawke of relegation and promotion as practiced by The Football League[3] – 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 Wisden’s Cricketers’ 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

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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

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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

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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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31 August 1910 (1910-08-31)
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v
397
G.A. Stevens 201, N.W. Stevens 57
Belcher 4/101
153
C.Y. Nepean 40
Allsopp 5/42, G.B. Raikes 4/50
94

Allsopp 3/15
Norfolk won by an innings and 150 runs
County Ground, Lakenham
  • Berkshire won the toss and decided to bat.

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

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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)

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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

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Notes

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Berkshire won the South and West division over Glamorgan by virtue of having a better batting average over the season.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1910). John Wisden's Cricketer's Alamanack (47th ed.). pp. 165, 211, 265, 279–280.
  2. ^ "Warwickshire County Cricket Club: More Funds Required". The Birmingham Post. 16 March 1910. p. 7.
  3. ^ "The Future of Cricket – Important Recommendations: Reform from Lord's". Gloucestershire Chronicle. Gloucester, Gloucestershire. 26 March 1910. p. 6.
  4. ^ "Lord Hawke's Cricket Scheme – Warwickshire's Alternative Proposals". Evening Sentinel. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 31 January 1910. p. 3.
  5. ^ "Cricket – Important Proposals Accepted: The County Championship". Western Daily Press. Bristol. 26 April 1910. p. 5.
  6. ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1911). "Part II: The Leading Counties in 1910". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (48th ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. p. 1.
  7. ^ "Cricket – Minor Counties Championship". Southern Daily Echo. Southampton, Hampshire. 23 September 1909. p. 3.
  8. ^ "Cricket Notes". Evening Post. Nottingham. 25 August 1910. p. 3.
  9. ^ Pardon, ed. (1911). John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (48th ed.). p. 357.
  10. ^ a b Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records. Australia: Rigby Publishers. p. 24. ISBN 072701868X.
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