1913 County Championship

English cricket tournament April 2022 First-class cricket League system Kent 4 16 Jack Hobbs 2,238 for Surrey Major Booth 158 for Yorkshire 1912 1912 County Championship 1914 1914 County Championship The 1913 County Championship was the twenty-fourth officially organised running of the County Championship. Kent County Cricket Club won their fourth championship title, and equalled Yorkshire's 1901 record of twenty wins in one season.Wynne-Thomas Peter The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records 1983 Hamlyn Publishing Group 0-600-34667-6 Table 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. Final placings were decided by calculating the percentage of possible points. CountyPlayedWonLostFirst InningsPoints %WonLostNoresultPossObtd1Kent2820331113511081.482Yorkshire281644311359570.373Surrey261354401308162.304Northamptonshire221241501106861.815Nottinghamshire20853401005353.006Middlesex20764301005050.007Sussex2810104311356548.148Lancashire267117011255644.809Gloucestershire228111201104540.9010Hampshire267114401305139.2311Warwickshire247113301204739.1612Worcestershire2069131953637.8913Derbyshire18410220902831.1114Leicestershire224131401102724.5415Essex1829241852023.5216Somerset16211210801721.25 Records +Most runssubscription https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/County_Championship_1913/Batting_by_Runs.html Batting and Fielding in County Championship 1913 (Ordered by Runs) CricketArchive Aggregate Average Player County 2,238 52.04 Jack Hobbs Surrey 2,146 48.77 Phil Mead Hampshire 1,949 44.29 Wally Hardinge Kent 1,804 42.95 James Seymour Kent 1,609 40.22 Johnny Tyldesley Lancashire+ Most wicketssubscription https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/County_Championship_1913/Bowling_by_Wickets.html Bowling in County Championship 1913 (Ordered by Wickets) CricketArchive Aggregate Average Player County 158 19.09 Major Booth Yorkshire 154 19.31 Bill Hitch Surrey 153 20.51 George Dennett Gloucestershire 145 15.54 Colin Blythe Kent 138 17.50 George Thompson Northamptonshire Notable events Lancashire, after suffering severe financial losses despite a dry summer,25 August 1913 Lancashire Cricket Bombshell – Mr. A. H. Hornby's Criticism – Captain and the Team's Failure Liverpool Daily Post 5 would propose radical reductions in the county cricket fixture list.John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack John Wisden & Co. 1914 Pardon Sydney H. Sydney Pardon 51st London 141-142 Lancashire Matches This would lead that club's committee to ultimately propose a reduction in county matches to two days.The Coming Cricket Season – Large Numbers of Week-End Starts – The Centenary of Lord's The Times 9 April 1914 London 36 After increasing financial losses throughout county cricket the following season, this reduction would be carried out for 1919,After the 1914 season, World War I meant that no county cricket was played between 1915 and 1918County Cricket – Two-Day Matches This Season – Team interval Allowed The Guardian 6 February 1919 7 but was almost instantly considered a failure and a reversion to three-day matches took place for 1920. Notes note References Category:1913 in English cricket Category:County Championship seasons County