1906 English cricket season

The 1906 English cricket season saw the County Championship decided on the very last day with Kent just pipping Yorkshire for the title. It is famous for two outstanding individual feats in George Hirst’s unique "double Double" of 2,385 runs and 208 wickets, and Tom Hayward breaking Bobby Abel’s 1901 record for the most runs scored in a first-class season.

County Championship

	County	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points	Finished Games	%
1	Kent	22	16	2	4	14	18	77.77
2	Yorkshire	28	17	3	8	14	20	70.00
3	Surrey	28	18	4	6	14	22	63.63
4	Lancashire	26	15	6	5	9	21	42.85
5	Nottinghamshire	20	9	4	7	5	13	38.46
6	Warwickshire	20	7	4	9	3	11	27.27
7	Essex	22	9	6	7	3	15	23.00
8	Hampshire	20	7	9	4	-2	16	-12.50
9	Gloucestershire	20	6	10	4	-4	16	-25.00
10	Sussex	24	6	12	6	-6	18	-33.33
11	Somerset	18	4	10	4	-6	14	-42.85
11	Middlesex	18	4	10	4	-6	14	-42.85
11	Northamptonshire	16	4	10	2	-6	14	-42.85
14	Worcestershire	20	2	8	10	-6	10	-60.00
15	Leicestershire	22	3	14	5	-11	17	-64.70
16	Derbyshire	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

Minor Counties Championship

	County	Played	Won	Won on 1st inns	No result	Possible points	Points obtained	%
1	Staffordshire	12	8	3	0	36	30	83.33
2	Devon	10	6	2	0	30	19	73.33
3	Bedfordshire	10	5	2	1	30	20	66.67
4	Berkshire	10	5	2	0	30	19	63.33
4	Surrey Second Eleven	10	5	2	0	30	19	63.33
6	Yorkshire Second Eleven	10	6	0	0	30	18	60.00
7	Hertfordshire	12	5	3	0	36	21	58.23
8	Durham	10	5	0	0	30	15	50.00
8	Glamorgan	12	6	0	0	36	18	50.00
8	Norfolk	8	4	0	0	24	8	50.00
11	Monmouthshire	10	2	4	0	30	14	46.66
12	Dorset	8	3	1	0	24	11	45.83
13	Wiltshire	10	4	0	0	30	12	40.00
14	Suffolk	8	2	1	0	24	8	33.33
15	Buckinghamshire	8	2	0	0	24	6	25.00
15	Cambridgeshire	8	2	0	0	24	6	25.00
17	Cornwall	8	1	0	0	24	3	12.50
17	Oxfordshire	8	1	0	0	24	3	12.50
19	Lancashire Second Eleven	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

Wisden Cricketers of the Year

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
Cuthbert Burnup	Kent	13	21	3	1207	179	67.05	4	6
Tom Hayward	Surrey	36	61	8	3518	219	66.37	13	17
Kenneth Hutchings	Kent	21	34	4	1597	176	53.23	4	11
Ted Arnold	Worcestershire	21	39	4	1767	166	50.48	6	8
James Iremonger	Nottinghamshire	23	43	6	1794	200 not out	48.48	4	9
Percy Perrin	Essex	23	43	3	1893	150	47.32	5	11
Johnny Tyldesley	Lancashire	31	52	3	2270	295 not out	46.32	4	15
George Hirst	Yorkshire	35	58	6	2385	169	45.86	6	15
Ernie Hayes	Surrey	35	56	5	2309	218	45.27	7	11
Arthur Jones	Nottinghamshire	21	39	3	1560	105	43.33	1	14
William Burns	Worcestershire	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
William Huddleston	Lancashire	1405	613	50	12.26	9/36	3	2
Willis Cuttell	Lancashire	2653	909	67	13.56	6/43	5	1
Schofield Haigh	Yorkshire	5810	2540	174	14.59	7/35	13	4
George Hirst	Yorkshire	7838	3434	208	16.50	7/18	19	4
Albert Hallam	Nottinghamshire	4994	1723	104	16.56	6/30	8	1
George Dennett	Gloucestershire MCC	6875	3096	175	17.69	10/40	20	5
Billy Bestwick	Derbyshire	4657	2123	115	18.46	7/49	11	4
Thomas Wass	Nottinghamshire	3656	1888	100	18.88	8/25	9	4
Alfred Morcom	Cambridge University	1534	700	37	18.91	6/25	2	1
Frank Tarrant	Middlesex MCC	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 pipped Yorkshire by a single run at Bristol.
In the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord’s, Arthur Fielder became the first bowler to ever take all ten wickets in an innings in that match.^[5]
Tom Hayward set numerous batting records:

The highest aggregate of runs in a first-class season – since beaten only by Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.^[6]
The earliest to score 2,000 runs, reaching the aggregate on 5 July.^[7]
Two separate hundreds in two 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]

References

↑ Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac, Forty-Fourth Edition (1907), p. 2
↑ Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac (1907), p. 346
↑ First Class Batting in England in 1906
↑ First Class Bowling in England in 1906
↑ Webber, Roy; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; pp. 148-149. Published 1951 by Playfair Books
↑ Webber; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 89.
↑ Webber; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 102.
↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 8 ISBN 072701868X
↑ Wynne-Thomas; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 9

Annual reviews

John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, 1907

External links

CricketArchive – season summaries

English cricket seasons

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