1911 English cricket season

1911 English cricket season

1911 was the 22nd season of County Championship cricket in England. Warwickshire were champions for the first time.

Honours

County Championship

Main article: 1911 County Championship

The experimental point scoring system adopted for 1910 on the recommendation of Lancashire was generally regarded as unsatisfactory. Several alternative proposals were put forward by counties such as Yorkshire[1] Sussex, and Surrey.[2] Ultimately Somerset in February 1911 put forward a scheme in which, for the first time, points were awarded for a win on the first innings, and this was accepted by the MCC in the final week of that month.[2]

County Played Won Lost First Innings Points %
Won Lost No
result 		Poss Obtd
1 Warwickshire 20 13 4 3 0 0 100 74 74.00
2 Kent 26 17 4 3 2 0 130 96 73.84
3 Middlesex 22 14 5 3 0 0 110 79 71.81
4 Lancashire 30 15 7 5 3 0 150 93 62.00
5 Surrey 30 15 7 4 4 0 150 91 60.66
6 Essex 18 8 5 4 1 0 90 53 58.88
7 Yorkshire 28 14 8 1 4 1 135 77 57.03
8 Nottinghamshire 20 9 5 3 3 0 100 57 57.00
9 Worcestershire 24 12 11 0 1 0 120 61 50.83
10 Northamptonshire 18 8 9 0 0 1 85 40 47.05
11 Hampshire 24 7 10 4 3 0 120 50 41.66
12 Gloucestershire 20 5 12 0 3 0 100 38 38.00
13 Sussex 24 4 16 2 2 0 120 28 23.33
14 Derbyshire 18 2 13 0 3 0 90 13 14.44
15 Leicestershire 22 1 16 2 3 0 110 14 12.72
16 Somerset 16 1 13 0 2 0 80 7 8.75
Details as recorded in John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack[3]
  • 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.
  • Matches in which no result was achieved on the first innings were not included in calculating maximum possible points.
  • Final placings were decided by calculating the percentage of possible points.

Minor Counties Championship

For this season, the Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire Second Elevens withdrew from the competition due to their counties' financial difficulties;[4] however, Kent Second Eleven joined the South and West division and Hertfordshire moved to the North and East.[5]

North and East

County Played Won First Innings Points[6] %
Won Lost No

Result

Possible Obtained
1 Staffordshire 8 7 0 0 0 40 35 87.50
2 Durham 10 7 0 1 0 50 36 72.00
3 Bedfordshire 8 3 3 0 0 40 24 60.00
4 Hertfordshire 10 5 0 2 0 50 27 54.00
5 Cambridgeshire 10 3 2 3 0 50 24 48.00
6 Northumberland 8 3 1 0 0 40 18 45.00
7 Suffolk 8 2 2 0 0 40 16 40.00
8 Lincolnshire 10 3 1 0 0 50 16 36.00
9 Norfolk 12 2 1 3 0 60 16 26.66
10 Cheshire 8 1 0 1 0 40 6 15.00

South and West

County Played Won First Innings Points[6] %
Won Lost No

Result

Possible Obtained
1 Berkshire 10 9 0 0 1 45 45 100.00
2 Surrey Second Eleven 8 6 1 0 0 40 33 82.50
3 Kent Second Eleven 10 8 0 0 0 50 40 80.00
4 Glamorgan 10 7 1 0 0 50 38 76.00
5 Monmouthshire 8 4 1 1 0 40 24 60.00
6 Dorset 8 1 3 1 0 40 15 37.50
7 Buckinghamshire 10 2 1 2 0 50 15 30.00
8 Devon 10 2 0 3 0 50 13 26.00
9 Cornwall 8 2 0 0 0 40 10 25.00
10 Wiltshire 10 0 1 1 0 50 4 8.00
11 Carmarthenshire 8 0 0 0 1 35 0 0.00

South and West Challenge Match

Because Berkshire had not played Surrey Second Eleven, the new rules required a challenge match.[6]

23 August 1911 (1911-08-23)
[7]
v
87
80
210
219/5
Harrison 68, G.W. Palmer 64
Surrey Second Eleven won by five wickets
Reading
  • Berkshire won the toss and decided to bat

Final

30 August 1911 (1911-08-30)
[8]
v
289
Nichols 61, B. Meakin 50, Hollywood 45
Abel 4/99
83

Barnes 4/31, Nicholls 3/31
255
B. Meakin 133
Abel 5/65
127
Spring 34
Barnes 6/43
Staffordshire won by 334 runs
County Ground, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Staffordshire won the toss and decided to bat.
  • Staffordshire did not enforce the follow-on

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1911 English season leading batsmen[9]
Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s
C. B. Fry Hampshire 15 26 2 1728 258 not out 72.00 7
Phil Mead Hampshire 29 52 5 2562 223 54.51 9
Reggie Spooner Lancashire 26 45 0 2312 224 51.37 7
Percy Perrin Essex 15 27 2 1281 114 51.24 6
Septimus Kinneir Warwickshire 20 36 3 1629 268 not out 49.36 6
Tom Hayward Surrey 30 51 6 2149 202 47.75 5
Plum Warner Middlesex

MCC

31 51 5 2123 244 46.15 5
Frank Tarrant Middlesex

MCC

29 48 4 2030 207 not out 46.13 5
Joe Hardstaff senior Nottinghamshire 21 40 6 1547 145 45.50 5
Cecil Wood Leicestershire 23 44 7 1614 117 not out 43.62 5

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1911 English season leading bowlers[9]
Name Team Matches Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wickets

in innings

10 wickets

in match

Punter Humphreys Kent 29 1073 534 33 16.18 5/29 1 0
George Thompson Northamptonshire 22 4415 1889 113 16.71 7/44 13 4
William East Northamptonshire 17 2647 988 59 16.74 7/11 4 1
Arthur Day Kent 12 1259 583 34 17.14 8/49 2 0
Schofield Haigh Yorkshire 31 4047 1684 97 17.36 7/20 2 0
Harry Dean Lancashire 28 7781 3191 183 17.43 9/109 15 3
J.T. Hearne Middlesex
MCC 		24 6246 2134 122 17.49 7/33 7 0
Arthur Litteljohn Middlesex 7 2011 904 51 17.72 8/69 5 2
Douglas Carr Kent 9 1818 985 55 17.90 8/67 4 2
John Evans Oxford University
Hampshire 		9 1308 575 32 17.96 7/50 2 1

References

  1. ^ "County Cricket – Yorkshire Club's Suggested Scheme of Counting". Weekly Examiner. Huddersfield, Yorkshire. 8 October 1910. p. 7.
  2. ^ a b "Cricket Reform: Somerset's Proposal Carried – Five Points for a Win Outright". The Guardian. Manchester. 25 February 1911. p. 13.
  3. ^ Pardon, Sydney H., ed. (1912). "Part II: The Leading Counties in 1911". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (49th ed.). London: John Wisden & Co. p. 1.
  4. ^ "The Cricket Season: Attempts To Awaken Interest – Prospect of the Counties". Western Daily Press. Bristol. 13 April 1911. p. 7.
  5. ^ "Minor Counties' Association". Evening Despatch. Birmingham. 7 December 1910. p. 8.
  6. ^ a b c Pardon, ed. (1912). "Second-Class Counties". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (49th ed.). p. 386.
  7. ^ "Minor Counties' Championship". Daily Mirror. London. 25 August 1911. p. 14.
  8. ^ Pardon, ed. (1912). "Second-Class Counties". John Wisden's Cricketer's Almanack (49th ed.). p. 387.
  9. ^ a b Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records. Australia: Rigby Publishers. p. 24. ISBN 072701868X.

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