1906 English cricket season explained

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1906 was the 17th season of County Championship cricket in England. The title was decided in the final round of matches with Kent County Cricket Club finishing just ahead of Yorkshire. George Hirst completed a unique "double Double" of 2,385 runs and 208 wickets. Tom Hayward broke Bobby Abel’s 1901 record for the most runs scored in a first-class season.

See main article: 1906 County Championship.

	County	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points	Finished Games	%
1		22	16	2	4	14	18	77.77
2		28	17	3	8	14	20	70.00
3		28	18	4	6	14	22	63.63
4		26	15	6	5	9	21	42.85
5		20	9	4	7	5	13	38.46
6		20	7	4	9	3	11	27.27
7		22	9	6	7	3	15	23.00
8		20	7	9	4	-2	16	-12.50
9		20	6	10	4	-4	16	-25.00
10		24	6	12	6	-6	18	-33.33
11		18	4	10	4	-6	14	-42.85
11		18	4	10	4	-6	14	-42.85
11		16	4	10	2	-6	14	-42.85
14		20	2	8	10	-6	10	-60.00
15		22	3	14	5	-11	17	-64.70
16		20	2	17	1	-15	19	-78.94
^[1]

Points system:

• 1 for a win
• 0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match
• -1 for a loss

	County	Played	Won	Won on 1st inns	No result	Possible points	Points obtained	%
1		12	8	3	0	36	30	83.33
2		10	6	2	0	30	19	73.33
3		10	5	2	1	30	20	66.67
4		10	5	2	0	30	19	63.33
4		10	5	2	0	30	19	63.33
6		10	6	0	0	30	18	60.00
7		12	5	3	0	36	21	58.23
8		10	5	0	0	30	15	50.00
8		12	6	0	0	36	18	50.00
8		8	4	0	0	24	8	50.00
11		10	2	4	0	30	14	46.66
12		8	3	1	0	24	11	45.83
13		10	4	0	0	30	12	40.00
14		8	2	1	0	24	8	33.33
15		8	2	0	0	24	6	25.00
15	Cambridgeshire	8	2	0	0	24	6	25.00
17		8	1	0	0	24	3	12.50
17		8	1	0	0	24	3	12.50
19		8	0	1	0	24	2	8.33
20	Northumberland	8	0	0	1	24	1	4.16
^[2]

Points system:

• 3 for an outright win
• 2 for a win on the first innings
• 1 for a match with no first innings decision
• 0 for a loss either outright or on the first innings of a drawn match

• Jack Crawford, Arthur Fielder, Ernie Hayes, Kenneth Hutchings, Neville Knox

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1906 English season leading batsmen^[3]
Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s	50s
	Kent	13	21	3	1207	179	67.05	4	6
		36	61	8	3518	219	66.37	13	17
		21	34	4	1597	176	53.23	4	11
		21	39	4	1767	166	50.48	6	8
	Nottinghamshire	23	43	6	1794	200 not out	48.48	4	9
		23	43	3	1893	150	47.32	5	11
		31	52	3	2270	295 not out	46.32	4	15
		35	58	6	2385	169	45.86	6	15
		35	56	5	2309	218	45.27	7	11
		21	39	3	1560	105	43.33	1	14
		18	32	4	1206	165	43.07	3	8

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1906 English season leading bowlers^[4]
Name	Team	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets in innings	10 wickets in match
		1405	613	50	12.26	9/36	3	2
		2653	909	67	13.56	6/43	5	1
	Yorkshire	5810	2540	174	14.59	7/35	13	4
		7838	3434	208	16.50	7/18	19	4
		4994	1723	104	16.56	6/30	8	1
		6875	3096	175	17.69	10/40	20	5
		4657	2123	115	18.46	7/49	11	4
		3656	1888	100	18.88	8/25	9	4
		1534	700	37	18.91	6/25	2	1
		3696	1740	91	19.12	9/54	7	1

Notable events

• By winning their last eleven county matches, Kent won the Championship for the first time after Gloucestershire beat Yorkshire by a single run at Bristol in the final round of matches
• Kent's Arthur Fielder became the first bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings in the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's^[5]
• Tom Hayward set numerous batting records:

1. The highest aggregate of runs in a first-class season – since beaten only by Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.^[6]
2. The earliest to score 2,000 runs, on 5 July.^[7]
3. Two separate hundreds in consecutive matches against Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.

• George Hirst became the only player to score 2,000 runs and take 200 wickets in a season.^[8] Against Somerset at Taunton, Hirst also became the only player to have two centuries and two five-wicket returns in one match.^[9]

See also

• Kent County Cricket Club in 1906

Annual reviews

• John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, 1907

Notes and References

1. [Pardon, Sydney H.]
2. Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac (1907), p. 346
3. http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/ENG/1906_f_Batting_by_Average.html First Class Batting in England in 1906
4. http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/ENG/1906_f_Bowling_by_Average.html First Class Bowling in England in 1906
5. [Roy Webber|Webber, Roy]
6. Webber; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 89.
7. Webber op. cit., p. 102.
8. [Wynne-Thomas, Peter]
9. Wynne-Thomas op. cit., p. 9.