1927 County Championship Explained

Tournament Format:	League system
Champions:	Lancashire
Count:	4
Previous Year:	1926
Previous Tournament:	1926 County Championship
Next Year:	1928
Next Tournament:	1928 County Championship

The 1927 County Championship was the 34th officially organised running of the County Championship. Lancashire County Cricket Club won the championship title for a second successive year.^[1] In May 1927, Warwickshire beat Yorkshire by eight wickets, which was Yorkshire's first loss in 71 consecutive matches in the County Championship.^[2]

Points Changes

Final placings were still decided by calculating the percentage of points gained against possible points available but in March 1927 the MCC revised the points scoring as follows:^[3]

• Eight points were awarded for a win
• Four points were awarded for a tie
• Five points for the side leading after the first innings of a drawn match
• Three points for the side losing after the first innings of a drawn match
• Four points for the sides if tied after the first innings of a drawn match
• Four points for a no result on first innings (after more than six hours playing time)
• If the weather reduces a match to less than six hours and there has not been a result on first innings then the match shall be void.

Table

County Championship table

width=175	Team	width=20 abbr="Played"	Pld	width=20 abbr="Won"	W	width=20 abbr="Lost"	L	width=20 abbr="Drawn"	DWF	width=20 abbr="Drawn"	DLF	width=20 abbr="No Result"	NR	width=20 abbr="Points"	Pts	width=40 abbr="Percentage of possible points"	%PC
	28	10	1	11	5	1	154	68.75
	28	12	3	8	4	1	152	67.85
	27	10	3	5	6	3	135	62.54
	26	12	6	4	3	1*	129	62.01
	20	8	3	2	3	4	99	61.87
	22	8	3	4	5	2*	107	60.79
	22	7	3	5	5	2*	104	59.09
	26	8	8	5	3	2	106	50.96
	20	5	5	5	4	1	81	50.62
	28	7	9	6	2	4*	108	48.92
	23	3	4	7	7	2	88	47.82
	26	6	7	1	9	3	92	44.23
	23	5	9	5	3	1	78	42.39
	23	3	9	4	7	0	65	35.32
	21	1	8	7	4	1	59	35.11
	24	4	12	1	6	1	59	30.72
	27	1	17	2	6	1	40	18.51

*includes a tie on first innings

Notes and References

1. Book: Engel, Matthew. Matthew Engel . Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004, pages 493-494. 2004. John Wisden & Company Ltd. 0-947766-83-9.
2. Web site: Poacher-turned-gamekeeper . ESPN Cricinfo . 28 May 2019.
3. Book: Wynne-Thomas, Peter. Peter Wynne-Thomas. The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records. 1983. Hamlyn Publishing Group. 0-600-34667-6.