1906 County Championship
Cricket format | First-class cricket (3 days) |
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Tournament format(s) | League system |
Champions | Kent (1st title) |
Participants | 16 |
Most runs | Tom Hayward (2,814 for Surrey) |
Most wickets | George Hirst (182 for Yorkshire) |
![1906 County Championship is located in England](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/England_location_map.svg/350px-England_location_map.svg.png)
![Derbyshire Derbyshire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Derbyshire
![Essex Essex](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Essex
![Gloucestershire Gloucestershire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Gloucestershire
![Hampshire Hampshire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Hampshire
![Kent Kent](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Kent
![Lancashire Lancashire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Lancashire
![Leicestershire Leicestershire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Leicestershire
![Middlesex Middlesex](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Middlesex
![Northamptonshire Northamptonshire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Northamptonshire
![Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Nottinghamshire
![Somerset Somerset](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Somerset
![Surrey Surrey](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Surrey
![Sussex Sussex](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Sussex
![Warwickshire Warwickshire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Warwickshire
![Worcestershire Worcestershire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Worcestershire
![Yorkshire Yorkshire](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
Yorkshire
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Location of the home ground of each countyThe 1906 County Championship was the seventeenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 3 May to 30 August 1906. Kent won its first championship title, while the previous season's winners, Yorkshire, finished in second place.
Table[]
- One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss. Final placings were decided by dividing the number of points earned by the number of completed matches (i.e. those that ended in a win or a loss), and multiplying by 100.
Team | Pld | W | L | D | Pts | Fin | %Fin | ||
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Kent | 22 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 77.77 | ||
Yorkshire | 28 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 70.00 | ||
Surrey | 28 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 63.63 | ||
Lancashire | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 42.85 | ||
Nottinghamshire | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 38.46 | ||
Warwickshire | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 27.27 | ||
Essex | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 20.00 | ||
Hampshire | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | -2 | 16 | –12.50 | ||
Gloucestershire | 20 | 6 | 10 | 4 | -4 | 16 | –25.00 | ||
Sussex | 24 | 6 | 12 | 6 | -6 | 18 | –33.33 | ||
Middlesex | 18 | 4 | 10 | 4 | –6 | 14 | –42.85 | ||
Northamptonshire | 16 | 4 | 10 | 2 | –6 | 14 | –42.85 | ||
Somerset | 18 | 4 | 10 | 4 | –6 | 14 | –42.85 | ||
Worcestershire | 20 | 2 | 8 | 10 | –6 | 10 | –60.00 | ||
Leicestershire | 22 | 3 | 14 | 5 | –11 | 17 | –64.70 | ||
Derbyshire | 20 | 2 | 17 | 1 | –15 | 19 | –78.94 | ||
Source:[1] |
Records[]
Batting[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Ranji_1897_page_058_T._Hayward_in_the_attitude_for_the_on-drive.jpg/165px-Ranji_1897_page_058_T._Hayward_in_the_attitude_for_the_on-drive.jpg)
Tom Hayward scored the most runs recorded in a single County Championship season, as well as scoring nearly 1,000 runs more than the next leading run-scorer in 1906.
Bowling[]
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See also[]
- 1906 English cricket season
- Kent County Cricket Club in 1906
References[]
- ^ "County Championship 1906 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ "Batting and Fielding in County Championship 1906 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ "Bowling in County Championship 1906 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
Categories:
- 1906 in English cricket
- County Championship seasons
- English cricket seasons from 1890 to 1918