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.[1]
| Cricket format | First-class cricket |
|---|---|
| Tournament format | League system |
| Champions | Kent (4th title) |
| Participants | 16 |
| Most runs | Jack Hobbs 2,238 for Surrey |
| Most wickets | Major Booth 158 for Yorkshire |
Table
edit- Five points were awarded for a win.
- Three points were awarded for "winning" the first innings of a drawn match.
- One point was awarded for "losing" the first innings of a drawn match.
- Final placings were decided by calculating the percentage of possible points.
| 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
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Notable events
edit- Lancashire, after suffering severe financial losses despite a dry summer,[4] would propose radical reductions in the county cricket fixture list.[5] This would lead that club's committee to ultimately propose a reduction in county matches to two days.[6] After increasing financial losses throughout county cricket the following season, this reduction would be carried out for 1919,[note 1][7] but was almost instantly considered a failure and a reversion to three-day matches took place for 1920.
Notes
edit- ↑ After the 1914 season, World War I meant that no county cricket was played between 1915 and 1918
References
edit- ↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-34667-6.
- ↑ "Batting and Fielding in County Championship 1913 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Bowling in County Championship 1913 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Lancashire Cricket Bombshell – Mr. A. H. Hornby's Criticism – Captain and the Team's Failure". Liverpool Daily Post. 25 August 1913. p. 5.
- ↑ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1914). "Lancashire Matches". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (51st ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. pp. 141–142.
- ↑ "The Coming Cricket Season – Large Numbers of Week-End Starts – The Centenary of Lord's". The Times. London. 9 April 1914. p. 36.
- ↑ "County Cricket – Two-Day Matches This Season – Team interval Allowed". The Guardian. 6 February 1919. p. 7.