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1914 English cricket season
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1914 was the twenty-fifth season of County Championship cricket in England. It was terminated at the end of August following the outbreak of the First World War. The last four matches to be played all finished on 2 September and the remaining five scheduled fixtures were cancelled.

Honours

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County Championship

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Main article: 1914 County Championship
County Played Won Lost First Innings Points %
Won Lost No
result 		Poss Obtd
1 Surrey 26[a] 15 2 5 3 1 125 93 74.40
2 Middlesex 20 11 2 4 3 0 100 70 70.00
3 Kent 28 16 7 1 4 0 140 87 62.14
4 Yorkshire 28 14 4 3 7 0 140 86 61.42
5 Hampshire 28 13 4 3 8 0 140 82 58.57
6 Sussex 27[a] 10 6 4 6 1 130 68 52.30
7 Warwickshire 24 9 7 4 4 0 120 61 50.83
8 Essex 24 9 9 4 2 0 120 59 49.16
9 Northamptonshire 21[a] 7 6 4 4 0 105 51 48.57
10 Nottinghamshire 20 5 5 6 3 1 95 46 48.42
11 Lancashire 26 6 9 5 6 0 130 51 39.23
12 Derbyshire 20 5 12 3 0 0 100 34 34.00
13 Leicestershire 23[a] 4 11 5 3 0 115 38 33.04
14 Worcestershire 22 2 13 3 3 1 105 22 20.95
15 Somerset 19[a] 3 16 0 0 0 95 15 15.78
15 Gloucestershire 22 1 17 3 1 0 110 15 13.63
Details as recorded in John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack[1]

Minor Counties Championship

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Essex Second Eleven entered the competition for the first time. The county had, however, had a highly successful second eleven so early as 1902.[2]

The Minor Counties Championship was, much more than the first-class competition, ruined by the outbreak of war in August when most of the matches were scheduled to be played. Some teams played as few as two games.

Staffordshire – who were leading the table when the last games were played – were declared as champions.[3]

1914 Minor Counties Championship table[b][4]
County Played Won First innings Points %
Won Lost No
result 		Poss Obtd
1 Staffordshire 10 8 1 0 0 50 43 86.00
2 Hertfordshire 8 4 2 1 1 35 27 77.14
3 Devon 4 3 0 0 0 20 15 75.00
4 Wiltshire 4 2 1 0 0 20 13 65.00
5 Kent Second Eleven 10 4 2 1 1 45 27 60.00
6 Glamorgan 8 2 2 2 1 35 18 51.42
Norfolk 7 2 2 2 0 35 18 51.42
8 Buckinghamshire 2 1 0 0 0 10 5 50.00
Lincolnshire 6 3 0 0 0 30 15 50.00
Surrey Second Eleven 8 3 1 2 0 40 20 50.00
11 Cornwall 7 2 2 0 0 35 16 45.71
12 Cheshire 7 3 0 0 0 35 15 42.85
13 Durham 9 3 1 1 0 45 19 42.22
14 Monmouthshire 7 1 1 1 2 25 9 36.00
15 Northumberland 6 2 0 0 0 30 10 33.33
16 Cambridgeshire 7 2 0 1 0 35 11 31.42
17 Berkshire 4 1 0 1 0 20 6 30.00
Bedfordshire 5 1 0 1 1 20 6 30.00
19 Essex Second Eleven 7 1 0 2 0 35 7 20.00
20 Suffolk 6 1 0 0 0 30 5 16.66
21 Dorset 2 0 0 0 0 10 0 0.00
  • Five points were awarded for a win.
  • Three points were awarded for "winning" the first innings of a drawn match.
  • One point was awarded for "losing" the first innings of a drawn match.
  • Matches in which no result was achieved on the first innings were not included in calculating maximum possible points.
  • Final placings were decided by calculating the percentage of possible points.

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

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1914 English season leading batsmen[5]
Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s
J. W. Hearne Middlesex 26 43 8 2116 204 60.45 8
Jack Hobbs Surrey 29 48 2 2697 226 58.63 11
Phil Mead Hampshire 31 53 5 2476 213 51.58 7
John Gunn Nottinghamshire 20 34 5 1358 154 not out 46.82 3
Frank Tarrant Middlesex

MCC

26 44 4 1879 250 not out 45.82 3
Frank Woolley Kent 31 52 2 2272 160 not out 45.44 6
Robert Relf Sussex 15 24 1 989 130 43.00 3
Sidney Smith Northamptonshire 21 34 2 1373 177 42.90 1
Andy Ducat Surrey 25 38 6 1370 118 42.81 4
Johnny Tyldesley Lancashire 26 47 5 1754 253 41.76 4

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

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1914 English season leading bowlers[5]
Name Team Matches Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wickets

in innings

10 wickets

in match

Colin Blythe Kent 29 6052 2583 170 15.19 9/97 13 5
Alonzo Drake Yorkshire 31 6104 2418 158 15.30 10/35 11 1
Cec Parkin Lancashire 6 1216 535 34 15.73 7/34 3 1
Sidney Smith Northamptonshire 21 4123 1707 105 16.25 6/52 8 1
James Horsley Derbyshire 13 1921 915 56 16.33 6/77 5 1
Jack White Somerset 13 3692 1409 85 16.57 9/46 10 4
Harold McDonnell Hampshire 8 1003 609 35 17.40 7/47 2 1
Major Booth Yorkshire 31 5903 2803 157 17.85 8/64 13 3
Wilfred Rhodes Yorkshire 31 5044 2157 118 18.27 7/19 4 1
Archibald Slater Derbyshire 20 2864 1264 69 18.31 6/19 5 1

Notable events

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  • To celebrate the centenary of the Marylebone Cricket Club, a match was played at Lord's on 22, 23 and 24 June between the previous winter's MCC South African team and a representative team from the Rest of England. The game was not a success: champion bowler Barnes did not play for the MCC team, who also had the worst of the pitch and lost by an innings.[6]
  • On 31 July against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, Northamptonshire's George Thompson becomes the first fielder to hold three catches off successive balls.[c][7] – the first three of four wickets in four balls by Sidney Smith.
  • In August at Weston-super-Mare in the first cricket week at the ground, Yorkshire's Alonzo Drake – in what would become his second-last first-class game – takes all ten Somerset wickets while bowling just 53 balls.[8] This remains the fewest balls bowled to take all ten wickets, and Drake actually took the ten in just 42 consecutive deliveries – also a record.[9]

Annual reviews

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e Owing to the war, the matches Somerset v. Northamptonshire at Taunton on 10, 11 and 12 August, Sussex v. Surrey at Brighton on 3, 4, and 5 September for the benefit of George Cox, and Surrey v Leicestershire at the Oval on 7, 8 and 9 September were not played and are not included in the count of "matches played".
  2. ^ Twenty-five matches were abandoned on account of the war and are not included in "matches played".
  3. ^ This feat was not to be emulated by any other out-fielder until Marcus Trescothick in 2018. Four wicket-keepers have also achieved a hat-trick of catches, but none predated Thompson's achievement.

References

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  1. ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1915). "Part II: The Leading Counties in 1914". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (52nd ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. p. 1.
  2. ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1903). "Essex Matches". John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (40th ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. p. 203.
  3. ^ Point (12 September 1914). "Cricket Retrospect: Records of the Staffordshire County Club – Championship Honours Won". Evening Sentinel. Stoke-on-Trent. p. 3.
  4. ^ Pardon, ed. (1915). "The Second-Class Counties". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (52nd ed.). p. 364.
  5. ^ a b Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records. Australia: Rigby Publishers. p. 24. ISBN 072701868X.
  6. ^ Pardon, ed. (1915). "M.C.C. Matches". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (52nd ed.). p. 301.
  7. ^ Frindall, Bill, ed. (1998). The Wisden Book of Cricket Records. London: Headline. p. 270. ISBN 0747222037.
  8. ^ Overson, Chris (2017). All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. pp. 90–93. ISBN 9781908165893.
  9. ^ Frindall, ed. (1998). The Wisden Book of Cricket Records. p. 284.
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