1913 County Championship

1913 County Championship
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament formatLeague system
ChampionsKent (4th title)
Participants16
Most runsJack Hobbs
2,238 for Surrey
Most wicketsMajor Booth
158 for Yorkshire
← 1912
1914 →

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.

Table

County Played Won Lost First Innings Points %
Won Lost No
result
Poss Obtd
1 Kent 28 20 3 3 1 1 135 110 81.48
2 Yorkshire 28 16 4 4 3 1 135 95 70.37
3 Surrey 26 13 5 4 4 0 130 81 62.30
4 Northamptonshire 22 12 4 1 5 0 110 68 61.81
5 Nottinghamshire 20 8 5 3 4 0 100 53 53.00
6 Middlesex 20 7 6 4 3 0 100 50 50.00
7 Sussex 28 10 10 4 3 1 135 65 48.14
8 Lancashire 26 7 11 7 0 1 125 56 44.80
9 Gloucestershire 22 8 11 1 2 0 110 45 40.90
10 Hampshire 26 7 11 4 4 0 130 51 39.23
11 Warwickshire 24 7 11 3 3 0 120 47 39.16
12 Worcestershire 20 6 9 1 3 1 95 36 37.89
13 Derbyshire 18 4 10 2 2 0 90 28 31.11
14 Leicestershire 22 4 13 1 4 0 110 27 24.54
15 Essex 18 2 9 2 4 1 85 20 23.52
16 Somerset 16 2 11 2 1 0 80 17 21.25

Records

Most runs
Aggregate Average Player County
2,23852.04Jack HobbsSurrey
2,14648.77Phil MeadHampshire
1,94944.29Wally HardingeKent
1,80442.95James SeymourKent
1,60940.22Johnny TyldesleyLancashire
Most wickets
Aggregate Average Player County
15819.09Major BoothYorkshire
15419.31Bill HitchSurrey
15320.51George DennettGloucestershire
14515.54Colin BlytheKent
13817.50George ThompsonNorthamptonshire

Notable events

Notes

  1. ↑ After the 1914 season, World War I meant that no county cricket was played between 1915 and 1918

References

  1. ↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-34667-6.
  2. ↑ "Batting and Fielding in County Championship 1913 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive.
  3. ↑ "Bowling in County Championship 1913 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive.
  4. ↑ "Lancashire Cricket Bombshell – Mr. A. H. Hornby's Criticism – Captain and the Team's Failure". Liverpool Daily Post. 25 August 1913. p. 5.
  5. ↑ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1914). "Lancashire Matches". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (51st ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. pp. 141–142.
  6. ↑ "The Coming Cricket Season – Large Numbers of Week-End Starts – The Centenary of Lord's". The Times. London. 9 April 1914. p. 36.
  7. ↑ "County Cricket – Two-Day Matches This Season – Team interval Allowed". The Guardian. 6 February 1919. p. 7.