1908 English cricket season

1908 English cricket season

1908 was the nineteenth season of County Championship cricket in England.

American John Barton "Bart" King topped the bowling averages as a member of the touring Philadelphian cricket team.

Honours

County Championship

Main article: 1908 County Championship
County Played Won Lost Drawn Abandoned Points Finished

Games

%
1 Yorkshire 28 16 0 12 0 16 16 100.00
2 Kent 25 17 3 5 1 14 20 70.00
3 Surrey 29 13 4 12 1 9 17 52.94
4 Middlesex 19 6 3 10 1 3 9 33.33
5 Sussex 28 6 4 18 0 2 10 20.00
6 Worcestershire 18 6 5 7 0 1 11 9.09
7 Lancashire 25 10 9 6 1 1 19 5.26
8 Nottinghamshire 20 6 7 7 0 -1 13 -7.69
9 Hampshire 22 7 9 6 0 -2 16 -12.50
10 Gloucestershire 24 8 11 5 0 -3 19 -15.78
11 Essex 22 5 7 10 0 -2 12 -16.67
12 Warwickshire 21 5 9 7 1 -4 14 -28.57
13 Leicestershire 21 4 8 9 1 -4 12 -33.33
14 Derbyshire 22 5 13 4 0 -8 18 -44.44
15 Northamptonshire 22 3 14 5 0 -11 17 -64.71
16 Somerset 20 2 13 5 0 -11 15 -73.33
Details as recorded in John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack[1]

Points system:

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

Minor Counties Championship

Worcestershire Second Eleven dropped out and Carmarthenshire took their place. Dorset moved from the West division in 1907 to the South.[2]

North

County Played Won Won on

1st inns

No

result

Possible

points

Points

obtained

%
1 Staffordshire 10 5 4 0 50 37 74.00
2 Durham 10 6 0 50 30 60.00
3 Yorkshire Second Eleven 10 2 3 50 19 38.00
4 Lincolnshire 10 3 1 50 18 36.00
6 Northumberland 10 3 1 50 18 36.00
6 Lancashire Second Eleven 10 2 0 50 10 20.00

South

County Played Won Won on

1st inns

No

result

Possible

points

Points

obtained

%
1 Wiltshire 8 6 1 0 40 33 82.50
2 Surrey Second Eleven 8 6 0 40 30 75.00
3 Dorset 8 2 1 40 13 32.50
4 Buckinghamshire 8 2 0 40 10 25.00
5 Berkshire 8 1 1 40 8 20.00

East

County Played Won Won on

1st inns

No

result

Possible

points

Points

obtained

%
1 Hertfordshire 8 3 3 0 40 24 60.00
2 Bedfordshire 8 4 1 40 23 57.50
2 Suffolk 8 4 1 40 23 57.50
4 Norfolk 8 2 1 40 13 32.50
5 Cambridgeshire 8 0 1 40 3 7.50

West

County Played Won Won on

1st inns

No

result

Possible

points

Points

obtained

%
1 Glamorgan 8 6 0 0 40 30 90.00
1 Monmouthshire 8 6 0 40 30 90.00
1 Devon 8 6 0 40 20 50.00
4 Cornwall 8 1 1 40 8 27.50
5 Carmarthenshire 8 0 0 40 0 0.00

Points system:

  • 5 for an outright win
  • 3 for a win on the first innings
  • 0 for a loss either outright or on the first innings of a drawn match

Matches with no first innings result are ignored when calculating maximum possible points.

Glamorgan v. Monmouthshire (play-off)

Glamorgan and Monmouthshire met in a play-off to decide who should meet Wiltshire. The two were chosen over Devon because Monmouthshire had a better average runs, and Glamorgan had played in the 1907 semi-finals.[3]

26 August 1908 (1908-08-26)
[4]
v
136
Bancroft 43
G. Phillips 4/27
did not bat
  • Glamorgan won toss and decided to bat
  • Rain washed out all cricket on the second day, Thursday 27 August

Mr. F.E. Lacey awarded the right to meet Wiltshire to Glamorgan after the washout of the second day.[5]

Semi-Finals

Staffordshire v. Hertfordshire

24 August 1908 (1908-08-24)
[6]
v
231
Winser 53
41

Bucknell 6/14, Barnes 4/14
82

White 5/17
43

Barnes 5/11, Bucknell 5/43
Staffordshire won by 229 runs
County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Staffordshire won toss and decided to bat

Wiltshire v. Glamorgan

3 September 1908 (1908-09-03)
[7][8]
v
41

Creber 8/18
51/2
Glamorgan won on first innings
Hardenhuish Park Cricket Ground
  • There was no play on either Thursday 3 September or Friday 4 September due to persistent rain

Final

7 September 1908 (1908-09-07)
[9][10]
Staffordshire
v
Glamorgan
134

Nash 4/47, Creber 4/62
60
Riches 23
Barnes 7/19
9/1
79

Barnes 8/35
Staffordshire won by nine wickets
County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Glamorgan won the toss and decided to bat

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1908 English season leading batsmen[11]
Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s
Bernard Bosanquet Middlesex 14 22 2 1081 214 54.05 3
C.B. Fry Sussex 13 20 1 1000 214 52.63 3
Henry Foster Worcestershire 14 21 1 1105 215 48.04 2
Tom Hayward Surrey 37 52 1 2337 175 45.82 5
Plum Warner Middlesex

MCC

29 45 5 1822 120 45.55 5
Ranjitsinhji Sussex

MCC

18 28 3 1138 200 45.52 3
Johnny Tyldesley Lancashire 26 45 2 1891 243 43.97 6
Gilbert Jessop Gloucestershire 26 48 3 1885 164 41.88 4
Frank Tarrant Middlesex

MCC

33 49 7 1724 157 41.04 5
Alan Marshal Surrey 33 50 2 1931 176 40.22 5

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1908 English season leading bowlers[11]
Name Team Matches Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wickets
in innings 		10 wickets
in match
Bart King Philadelphians 10 2028 958 87 11.01 7/28 10 3
Schofield Haigh Yorkshire 26 3740 1380 103 13.39 7/23 8 2
George Hirst Yorkshire 35 6731 2445 174 14.05 7/51 15 3
Ernest Kirk Surrey 5 1236 470 30 15.66 6/41 3 0
Razor Smith Surrey 15 2244 895 57 15.70 6/27 5 2
Wilfred Rhodes Yorkshire 36 4827 1855 115 16.13 6/17 6 0
Walter Brearley Lancashire 20 5138 2636 163 16.17 8/61 21 7
John Newstead Yorkshire 36 6273 2311 140 16.50 7/18 9 3
Frank Tarrant Middlesex
MCC 		33 6744 2819 169 16.68 8/120 20 5
Colin Blythe Kent 28 8200 3326 197 16.88 8/83 20 6

References

  1. ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1909). "Part II: The Leading Counties in 1908". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (46th ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. p. 1.
  2. ^ Pardon, ed. (1909). "The Second-Class Counties". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (46th ed.). p. 387.
  3. ^ "Minor Counties Championship: Glamorgan and Monmouthshire to Meet Again". South Wales Argus. Newport, Glamorgan. 25 August 1908. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Cricket: Glamorgan v Monmouthshire – Match Abandoned". South Wales Argus. Newport, Glamorgan. 28 August 1908. p. 4.
  5. ^ "The Minor Counties Championship". The Times. London. 29 August 1908. p. 4.
  6. ^ "Minor Counties Semi-Final: Staffordshire Beat Hertford". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 26 August 1908. p. 2.
  7. ^ "Cricket – Minor Counties Competition: Semi-final – Wiltshire v Glamorgan". Evening Sentinel. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. 5 September 1908. p. 4.
  8. ^ "Minor Counties Championship – Wilts. v Glamorgan". Western Daily Press. Bristol. 7 September 1908. p. 9.
  9. ^ "Minor Counties Championship – Staffordshire v Glamorgan". The Guardian. London. 8 September 1908. p. 4.
  10. ^ "Minor Counties Championship – Staffordshire v. Glamorgan". Western Daily Press. Bristol. 9 September 1908. p. 9.
  11. ^ a b Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records. Australia: Rigby Publishers. p. 24. ISBN 072701868X.

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