←1909 1911 → |
1910 was the twenty-first season ofCounty Championshipcricket in England.Kent won a second successive title.Norfolk won theMinor Counties Championship, defeatingBerkshire in the final challenge match. There were no overseas tours to England during the season, theEnglish team having touredSouth Africa over the 1909–10 winter.A tour to the West Indies also took place over the 1910–11 winter.
For the first time since the official County Championship began, the scoring system was changed.
Proposals to reform the game as a result of financial losses by many counties in the wet summer of 1909[1][2] – including a proposal byLord Hawke ofrelegation and promotion as practiced byThe Football League[3] – led to first Warwickshire[4] and then Lancashire advocating a plan under which only wins would count in determining a county's position. This would be adopted as a trial on 26 April,[5] a few days before the season started.
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | Abandoned[a] | Pts | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent | 25 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 76.00 |
| 2 | Surrey | 28 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 16 | 57.14 |
| 3 | Middlesex | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 50.00 |
| 4 | Lancashire | 29 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 48.27 |
| 5 | Nottinghamshire | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 45.00 |
| 6 | Hampshire | 24 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 41.66 |
| 7 | Sussex | 25 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 40.00 |
| 8 | Yorkshire | 27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 37.06 |
| 9 | Northamptonshire | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 36.84 |
| 10 | Leicestershire | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 35.29 |
| 11 | Essex | 17 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 29.41 |
| 12 | Gloucestershire | 20 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 25.00 |
| 13 | Worcestershire | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 22.72 |
| 14 | Warwickshire | 19 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 21.05 |
| 15 | Derbyshire | 20 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10.00 |
| 16 | Somerset | 18 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Details as recorded inJohn Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack[6] | ||||||||
For this season, the four-division format would be replaced by a two-division format of "North and East" and "South and West", following a meeting at Lord's in September 1909.[7] Each team would play at least four opponents from their own division home and away, and the winners of the two divisions would meet in a final to decide the Minor Counties Champion.
| County | Played | Won | Won on 1st inns | No Result | Possible points | Points obtained | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norfolk | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 36 | 72.00 |
| 2 | Suffolk | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 28 | 70,00 |
| 3 | Yorkshire Second Eleven | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 26 | 57.77 |
| 4 | Northumberland | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 23 | 57.50 |
| 5 | Staffordshire | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 33 | 55.00 |
| 6 | Lincolnshire | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 21 | 42.00 |
| 7 | Durham | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 20 | 40.00 |
| 8 | Nottinghamshire Second Eleven | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 16 | 35.55 |
| 9 | Bedfordshire | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 25.00 |
| 10 | Cheshire | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 12 | 24.00 |
| 11 | Cambridgeshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0.00 |
| County | Played | Won | Won on 1st inns | No Result | Possible points | Points obtained | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berkshire[b] | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 45 | 90.00 |
| 2 | Glamorgan[b] | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 45 | 90.00 |
| 3 | Monmouthshire | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 28 | 70.00 |
| 4 | Surrey Second Eleven | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 31 | 68.88 |
| 5 | Carmarthenshire | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 15 | 37.50 |
| 5 | Hertfordshire | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 15 | 37.50 |
| 7 | Devon | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 45 | 16 | 35.55 |
| 8 | Dorset | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 13 | 26.00 |
| 9 | Cornwall | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 25.00 |
| 10 | Wiltshire | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 11 | 22.00 |
| 11 | Buckinghamshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0.00 |
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| 1910 English season leading batsmen[10] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s |
| Johnny Tyldesley | Lancashire | 35 | 51 | 4 | 2265 | 158 | 46.22 | 7 |
| Kenneth Hutchings | Kent | 29 | 42 | 2 | 1654 | 144 | 41.35 | 5 |
| Plum Warner | Middlesex MCC | 27 | 44 | 4 | 1646 | 150 not out | 41.15 | 5 |
| Cecil Wood | Leicestershire | 19 | 35 | 2 | 1250 | 99 | 37.87 | 0 |
| Jack Sharp | Lancashire | 33 | 45 | 2 | 1626 | 150 | 37.81 | 4 |
| Alfred Hartley | Lancashire | 32 | 47 | 4 | 1585 | 234 | 36.86 | 3 |
| Henry Foster | Worcestershire | 16 | 28 | 0 | 1032 | 126 | 36.85 | 3 |
| James Seymour | Kent | 29 | 46 | 4 | 1546 | 193 | 36.80 | 3 |
| Punter Humphreys | Kent | 29 | 46 | 2 | 1618 | 200 not out | 36.77 | 3 |
| Frank Tarrant | Middlesex MCC | 26 | 41 | 2 | 1415 | 142 | 36.53 | 3 |
| 1910 English season leading bowlers[10] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings | 10 wickets in match |
| J.T. Hearne | Middlesex MCC | 21 | 4512 | 1523 | 119 | 12.79 | 8/34 | 11 | 3 |
| Razor Smith | Surrey | 36 | 8541 | 3225 | 247 | 13.05 | 8/13 | 26 | 8 |
| Douglas Carr | Kent | 10 | 1856 | 895 | 63 | 14.20 | 8/86 | 6 | 2 |
| Colin Blythe | Kent | 25 | 6249 | 2497 | 175 | 14.26 | 7/53 | 18 | 4 |
| Frank Woolley | Kent | 31 | 4389 | 1973 | 136 | 14.50 | 8/52 | 11 | 1 |
| George Hirst | Yorkshire | 36 | 6127 | 2426 | 164 | 14.79 | 9/23 | 11 | 2 |
| Harry Dean | Lancashire | 29 | 5799 | 2113 | 137 | 15.42 | 9/77 | 8 | 4 |
| Philip Le Couteur | Oxford University | 14 | 1991 | 1151 | 72 | 15.98 | 6/20 | 6 | 3 |
| Frank Tarrant | Middlesex MCC | 26 | 5595 | 2169 | 134 | 16.18 | 7/42 | 12 | 3 |
| James Iremonger | Nottinghamshire | 21 | 3711 | 1358 | 79 | 17.18 | 7/35 | 6 | 1 |