1914 English cricket season

none March 2015 May 2026 1913 1913 English cricket season 1915 1915 to 1918 English cricket seasons 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 County Championship – Surrey Minor Counties Championship – Staffordshire Wisden – Johnny Douglas, Percy Fender, Wally Hardinge, Donald Knight, Sydney Smith County Championship 1914 County Championship CountyPlayedWonLostFirst InningsPoints %WonLostNoresultPossObtd1Surrey26"notplayed" 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".1525311259374.402Middlesex201124301007070.003Kent281671401408762.144Yorkshire281443701408661.425Hampshire281343801408258.576Sussex27"notplayed"1064611306852.307Warwickshire24974401206150.838Essex24994201205949.169Northamptonshire21"notplayed"764401055148.5710Nottinghamshire2055631954648.4211Lancashire26695601305139.2312Derbyshire205123001003434.0013Leicestershire23"notplayed"4115301153833.0414Worcestershire222133311052220.9515Somerset19"notplayed"316000951515.7815Gloucestershire221173101101513.63Details as recorded in John Wisden’s Cricketers’ AlmanackJohn Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack John Wisden & Co. 1915 Pardon Sydney H. Sydney Pardon 52nd London 1 Part II: The Leading Counties in 1914 Minor Counties Championship Essex Second Eleven entered the competition for the first time. The county had, however, had a highly successful second eleven so early as 1902.Pardon Sydney H. John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 1903 John Wisden & Co. London 203 40th Essex Matches 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.Point Cricket Retrospect: Records of the Staffordshire County Club – Championship Honours Won Evening Sentinel 12 September 1914 Stoke-on-Trent 3 +1914 Minor Counties Championship tableTwenty-five matches were abandoned on account of the war and are not included in "matches played".John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack 1915 Pardon 52nd 364 The Second-Class CountiesCountyPlayedWonFirst inningsPoints%WonLostNoresultPossObtd1Staffordshire108100504386.002Hertfordshire84211352777.143Devon43000201575.004Wiltshire42100201365.005Kent Second Eleven104211452760.006Glamorgan82221351851.42Norfolk72220351851.428Buckinghamshire2100010550.00Lincolnshire63000301550.00Surrey Second Eleven83120402050.0011Cornwall72200351645.7112Cheshire73000351542.8513Durham93110451942.2214Monmouthshire7111225936.0015Northumberland62000301033.3316Cambridgeshire72010351131.4217Berkshire4101020630.00Bedfordshire5101120630.0019Essex Second Eleven7102035720.0020Suffolk6100030516.6621Dorset200001000.00 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) 1914 English season leading batsmenWynne-Thomas Peter The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records Rigby Publishers 1983 072701868X Australia 24NameTeamMatchesInningsNot outsRunsHighest scoreAverage100sJ. W. HearneMiddlesex26438211620460.458Jack HobbsSurrey29482269722658.6311Phil MeadHampshire31535247621351.587John GunnNottinghamshire203451358154 not out46.823Frank TarrantMiddlesex MCC264441879250 not out45.823Frank WoolleyKent315222272160 not out45.446Robert RelfSussex1524198913043.003Sidney SmithNorthamptonshire21342137317742.901Andy DucatSurrey25386137011842.814Johnny TyldesleyLancashire26475175425341.764 Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls) 1914 English season leading bowlersNameTeamMatchesBalls bowledRuns concededWickets takenAverageBest bowling5 wickets in innings10 wickets in matchColin BlytheKent296052258317015.199/97135Alonzo DrakeYorkshire316104241815815.3010/35111Cec ParkinLancashire612165353415.737/3431Sidney SmithNorthamptonshire214123170710516.256/5281James HorsleyDerbyshire1319219155616.336/7751Jack WhiteSomerset13369214098516.579/46104Harold McDonnellHampshire810036093517.407/4721Major BoothYorkshire315903280315717.858/64133Wilfred RhodesYorkshire315044215711818.277/1941Archibald SlaterDerbyshire20286412646918.316/1951 Notable events 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.John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack 1915 Pardon 52nd 301 M.C.C. Matches On 31 July against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, Northamptonshire's George Thompson becomes the first fielder to hold three catches off successive balls.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.Frindall Bill The Wisden Book of Cricket Records 1998 Headline London 0747222037 270 – 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.Overson Chris All Ten: The Ultimate Bowling Feat Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians 2017 9781908165893 90–93 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.Frindall The Wisden Book of Cricket Records 1998 284 Annual reviews John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack, 1915 See also Cricket in the Great War Notes References External links CricketArchive – season summaries Category:1914 in English cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 20th century