1892 English cricket season

Cricket season review March 2015 March 2015 1891 1891 English cricket season 1893 1893 English cricket season The 1892 English cricket season featured the third edition of the County Championship. Surrey set a record number of wins with thirteen of their sixteen matches to retain the title. George Lohmann and Bill Lockwood took over 100 wickets each in the 16 Championship matches.note status Any match listed in the ACS' Important Match Guide (1981) is historically important, and therefore of the highest standard, whether or not a scorecard might exist. The same applies to numerous matches discovered by researchers since 1981.ACS 1981 1–40 For further information, see First-class cricket. Honours County Championship – Surrey Wisden (Five Batsmen of the Year) – Herbie Hewett, Lionel Palairet, Walter Read, Stanley Scott, Andrew Stoddart County Championship 1892 County Championship Final table Team P W L D Pts1 Surrey 161321112 Nottinghamshire 16102483 Somerset 1685334 Lancashire 1675425 Middlesex 1676316 Yorkshire 1655607 Gloucestershire 16187−77 Kent 16295−79 Sussex 161123−11 Points system: 1 for a win 0 for a draw -1 for a loss Most runs in the County Championship 1892 County Championship – leading batsmen Name Team Matches Runs Average 100s 50sHerbie Hewett Somerset 16 1047 40.26 1 9Arthur Shrewsbury Nottinghamshire 16 920 41.84 4 0Walter Read Surrey 16 896 40.72 3 3Stanley Scott Middlesex 15 861 39.13 1 5Andrew Stoddart Middlesex 16 848 30.28 1 2 Most wickets in the County Championship 1892 County Championship – leading bowlers Name Team Matches Balls bowled Wickets taken AverageBill Lockwood Surrey 16 3411 114 13.26Arthur Mold Lancashire 16 3315 104 13.70George Lohmann Surrey 15 4326 102 13.87John Hearne Middlesex 16 4299 100 16.23William Attewell Nottinghamshire 16 4756 97 12.79 Overall first-class statistics Leading batsmen thumb|Lionel Palairet and Herbie Hewett of Somerset 1892 English cricket season – leading batsmen Name Team(s) Matches Runs Average 100s 50sHerbie Hewett Gentlemen, Somerset, South of England 24 1407 35.17 1 11Andrew Stoddart Gentlemen, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Middlesex, South of England 26 1403 31.17 1 7Lionel Palairet Gentlemen, Oxford University, Somerset 26 1343 31.97 2 7Arthur Shrewsbury North of England, Nottinghamshire, Players 22 1260 42.00 5 1Billy Gunn Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), North of England, Nottinghamshire, Players 25 1120 30.27 1 6 Leading bowlers 1892 English cricket season – leading bowlers Name Team(s) Matches Balls bowled Wickets taken AverageJohn Hearne Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Middlesex, South of England 25 6803 163 15.39Sammy Woods Gentlemen, Somerset, South of England 25 5284 153 16.83Bill Lockwood Players, Surrey 22 4452 151 13.60George Lohmann Players, South of England, Surrey 23 6069 151 15.33William Attewell Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), North of England, Nottinghamshire, Players 26 7271 144 14.00 Notes note References Bibliography ACS Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863 1981 ACS Nottingham https://archive.acscricket.com/online_library/match_guides/bi_imp_match_guide/index.html 85045528 ACS 1982 A Guide to First-class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles ACS Nottingham https://archive.acscricket.com/online_library/match_guides/bi_match_guide/index.html 10586869 Warner Pelham Pelham Warner Lords: 1787–1945 1946 Harrap London 877106024 Annual reviews James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1896 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1896 Further reading Altham H. S. Harry Altham E. W. Swanton E. W. Swanton A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) 5th 1962 George Allen & Unwin London 894274808 Birley Derek Derek Birley A Social History of English Cricket 1999 Aurum Press London 978-18-54107-10-7 https://archive.org/details/socialhistoryofe0000birl_d1n5 Internet Archive Bowen Rowland Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 978-04-13278-60-9 Major John John Major More Than A Game 2007 HarperCollins London 978-00-07183-64-7 https://archive.org/details/morethangamestor0000majo_b8t0 Internet Archive Category:1892 in English cricket 1892