1936 County Championship Explained

The 1936 County Championship was the 43rd officially organised running of the County Championship. Derbyshire County Cricket Club won their maiden (and so far the only) championship title.^[1] ^[2]

Table

A minimum of 24 matches
15 points for a win
7.5 points to each side in a match where the scores finish level
5 points for first-innings lead in a drawn match
3 points for first-innings deficit in a drawn match
4 points to each side where the first-innings scores are level in a drawn match or where there is no result on first innings or where there is no play.
Positions decided by a percentage of points won against possible points available
Matches with the first two days washed out would then be played as one day matches and decided on first innings, with 10 points for the winner and 3 points for the loser.

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	13	4	5	5	1	239	56.90
	26	10	4	8	3	1	203	52.05
	30	10	2	12	4	2	230	51.11
	30	10	7	4	8	1	203	45.11
	28	8	3	9	8	0	189	45.00
	30	9	7	6	6	2	191	42.44
	26	9	10	2	3	2	162	41.53
	28	9	9	4	5	1	174	41.42
	26	8	8	5	5	0	160	41.02
	30	7	5	9	9	0	177	39.33
	30	7	6	7	5	5	175	38.88
	28	7	9	4	7	1	150	35.71
	24	4	8	2	7	3	103	28.61
	30	4	10	7	6	3	125	27.77
	24	2	5	8	8	1	98	27.22
	26	1	12	6	5	2	68	17.43
	24	0	9	5	9	1	61	16.94

Book: Engel, Matthew. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004, pages 493-494. 2004. John Wisden & Company Ltd. 0-947766-83-9.
Book: Wynne-Thomas, Peter. The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records. 1983. Hamlyn Publishing Group. 0-600-34667-6.