1907 English cricket season

none March 2015 May 2026 1906 1906 English cricket season 1908 1908 English cricket season 1907 was the 18th season of County Championship cricket in England. Nottinghamshire won their first official title.Engel Matthew Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004, pages 493-494 2004 John Wisden & Company Ltd 0-947766-83-9 England played their sixth Test series against South Africa but it was the first to be held in England.Wynne-Thomas Peter The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records 1983 Hamlyn Publishing Group 0-600-34667-6 South African tour South African cricket team in England in 1907 This was the fourth South African tour of England following those in 1894, 1901 and 1904. The 1907 tour was the first to feature Test matches between England and South Africa in England, although the teams had played Tests in South Africa since 1888–89. England won the series 1–0 with two matches drawn. Series summary First Test at Lord'sSouth Africa in British Isles 1907 (1st Test) – match drawn Second Test at HeadingleySouth Africa in British Isles 1907 (2nd Test) – England won by 53 runs Third Test at The OvalSouth Africa in British Isles 1907 (3rd Test) – match drawn County Championship 1907 County Championship County Played Won Lost Drawn Abandoned Points FinishedGames % 1 Nottinghamshire 20 15 0 4 1 15 15 100.00 2 Worcestershire 18 8 2 10 0 6 10 60.00 2 Yorkshire 28 12 3 11 2 9 15 60.00 4 Surrey 28 12 4 12 0 8 16 50.00 5 Middlesex 20 8 4 8 1tampered a a 4 12 33.33 6 Lancashire 26 11 7 6 1tampered a a 4 18 22.22 7 Essex 22 10 7 5 0 3 17 17.64 8 Kent 26 12 9 5 0 3 21 14.28 9 Warwickshire 20 6 5 8 1 1 11 9.09 10 Gloucestershire 22 8 12 2 0 -4 20 -20.00 11 Leicestershire 20 6 10 4 0 -4 16 -25.00 12 Hampshire 24 6 11 7 0 -5 17 -29.41 13 Sussex 26 7 13 6 0 -6 20 -30.00 14 Somerset 18 3 12 3 0 -9 16 -66.66 15 Northamptonshire 20 2 12 6 0 -10 14 -71.42 16 Derbyshire 22 2 17 1 2 -15 19 -78.94Details as recorded in John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack.Pardon, p. 49. Points system: 1 for a win 0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match -1 for a loss Minor Counties Championship An entirely new system of scoring was adopted for the Minor Counties Championship in 1907. With Oxfordshire dropping out and Lincolnshire and Worcestershire Second Eleven coming in, the twenty-one Minor Counties clubs were split into four divisions – North, Midlands, East and West – and a system of semi-finals between division leaders and a final was used to determine the winner.Pardon, p. 394. North County Played Won Won on1st inns Noresult Possiblepoints Pointsobtained % 1 Lancashire Second Eleven 9 5 3 0 45 34 75.55 2 Staffordshire 9 5 1 0 45 28 62.22 3 Durham 10 3 1 1 45 18 40.00 4 Yorkshire Second Eleven 10 2 2 1 45 16 35.55 5 Lincolnshire 10 3 0 0 50 15 30.00 6 Northumberland 10 1 1 2 40 8 20.00 One match between Lancashire Second Eleven and Staffordshire was abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain. Midlands County Played Won Won on1st inns Noresult Possiblepoints Pointsobtained % 1 Surrey Second Eleven 8 6 1 0 40 33 82.50 2 Wiltshire 8 4 1 0 40 23 57.50 3 Berkshire 8 4 1 0 40 19 47.50 4 Buckinghamshire 8 2 0 0 40 10 25.00 5 Worcestershire Second Eleven 8 0 1 0 40 3 7.50 East County Played Won Won on1st inns Noresult Possiblepoints Pointsobtained % 1 Hertfordshire 8 6 1 0 40 33 75.00 2 Norfolk 8 4 1 0 40 23 57.50 3 Suffolk 8 2 1 1 35 13 37.14 4 Bedfordshire 8 2 1 0 40 13 32.50 5 Cambridgeshire 8 2 0 1 35 10 28.57 West County Played Won Won on1st inns Noresult Possiblepoints Pointsobtained % 1 Glamorgan 8 6 2 0 40 36 90.00 2 Devon 8 4 0 0 40 20 50.00 3 Dorset 8 2 1 0 40 13 32.50 4 Cornwall 8 1 2 0 40 11 27.50 5 Monmouthshire 8 1 1 0 40 8 20.00 Points system: 5 for an outright win 3 for a win on the first innings 0 for a loss either outright or on the first innings of a drawn match Matches with no first innings result are ignored when calculating maximum possible points. Semi-finals 22 August – Lancashire Second Eleven 263 defeated Hertfordshire 85 and 101 by an innings and 77 runsLancashire Second XI v Hertfordshire in 1907 29 August – Surrey Second Eleven 198 and 103 lost to Glamorgan 146 and 156 for six wickets by four wicketsGlamorgan v Surrey Second XI in 1907 Final Lancashire Second Eleven 243 and 121 defeated Glamorgan 74 and 182 by 108 runs.Glamorgan v Lancashire Second XI in 1907 Wisden Cricketers of the Year Albert Hallam, Reginald Schwarz, Frank Tarrant, Bert Vogler, Thomas Wass Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings) 1907 English season leading batsmenFirst Class Batting in England in 1907 Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s 50sC.B. Fry Sussex 19 34 3 1449 187 46.74 4 5“Plum” Warner MiddlesexMCC 27 47 6 1891 149 46.12 3 13Tom Hayward Surrey 34 58 6 2353 161 45.25 7 12Albert Lawton DerbyshireMCC 12 21 1 835 129 41.75 3 4Geoffrey Foster Oxford UniversityWorcestershire 18 33 4 1182 163 40.75 2 6Henry Foster WorcestershireMCC 19 33 3 1127 152 37.56 3 5Jack Hobbs Surrey 37 63 6 2135 166 not out 37.45 4 15Arthur Hill Hampshire 11 20 1 711 116 37.42 1 5Percy Perrin Essex 20 34 2 1194 117 37.31 3 8Tip Foster Worcestershire 16 25 1 888 174 37.00 2 4 Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls) 1907 English season leading bowlersFirst Class Bowling in England in 1907 Name Team Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wicketsin innings 10 wicketsin matchReggie Schwarz South Africans 4269 1616 137 11.80 7/41 12 2Albert Hallam Nottinghamshire 5617 2133 168 12.69 8/67 20 6Schofield Haigh Yorkshire 3567 1308 102 12.82 7/13 8 1Thomas Wass Nottinghamshire 5316 2328 163 14.28 8/65 17 6William Huddleston Lancashire 2715 1092 76 14.36 7/42 7 2Gordon White South Africans 1661 824 56 14.71 7/33 3 1George Hirst Yorkshire 6831 2799 183 15.29 9/45 17 4Colin Blythe Kent 6817 2822 183 15.42 10/30 17 6Humphrey Gilbert Oxford University 1714 683 44 15.52 8/48 4 1Wilfred Rhodes Yorkshire 6265 2693 173 15.56 6/19 13 2 Notable events 1 June – Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs in one day's cricket against Northamptonshire, setting two records: The best bowling analysis in a first-class match, beaten only by Jim Laker when he took nineteen wickets for 90 runs for England against Australia in 1956. The first bowler to take seventeen wickets in a single day – a feat since equalled only by Hedley Verity in 1933 and Tom Goddard in 1939.Frindall, p. 255. Playing against Gloucestershire at the Spa Ground in June, Northamptonshire were dismissed in their first innings for only 12 runs, which is still the lowest innings total in the history of the County Championship.Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire in 1907 https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7289.html 3 September 2012 As many as ten pairs of bowlers bowled unchanged throughout two completed innings during a match, the most on record in English cricket history.Webber, pp. 168-171.Frindall, pp. 285-289. Notes tampered a aThe match between Middlesex and Lancashire at Lord's was abandoned when it was found the pitch was trampled by impatient spectators. References 2 Bibliography H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962 Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979 Sydney H. Pardon (editor), John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, Forty-Fifth Edition, Wisden, 1908 Roy Webber, The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951 External links CricketArchive – England in 1907 Category:1907 in English cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 20th century