1907 English cricket season

1907 was the 18th season of County Championship cricket in England. Nottinghamshire won their first official title.[1] England played their sixth Test series against South Africa but it was the first to be held in England.[2]

1907 English cricket season

South African tour

This was the fourth South African tour of England following those in 1894, 1901 and 1904. The 1907 tour was the first to feature Test matches between England and South Africa in England, although the teams had played Tests in South Africa since 1888–89. England won the series 1–0 with two matches drawn.

Series summary

County Championship

CountyPlayedWonLostDrawnAbandonedPointsFinished
Games
%
1Nottinghamshire20150411515100.00
2Worcestershire188210061060.00
2Yorkshire2812311291560.00
4Surrey2812412081650.00
5Middlesex208481[a]41233.33
6Lancashire2611761[a]41822.22
7Essex221075031717.64
8Kent261295032114.28
9Warwickshire2065811119.09
10Gloucestershire2281220-420-20.00
11Leicestershire2061040-416-25.00
12Hampshire2461170-517-29.41
13Sussex2671360-620-30.00
14Somerset1831230-916-66.66
15Northamptonshire2021260-1014-71.42
16Derbyshire2221712-1519-78.94
Details as recorded in John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack.[6]

Points system:

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

Minor Counties Championship

An entirely new system of scoring was adopted for the Minor Counties Championship in 1907. With Oxfordshire dropping out and Lincolnshire and Worcestershire Second Eleven coming in, the twenty-one Minor Counties clubs were split into four divisions – North, Midlands, East and West – and a system of semi-finals between division leaders and a final was used to determine the winner.[7]

North

CountyPlayedWonWon on
1st inns
No
result
Possible
points
Points
obtained
%
1Lancashire Second Eleven9530453475.55
2Staffordshire9510452862.22
3Durham10311451840.00
4Yorkshire Second Eleven10221451635.55
5Lincolnshire10300501530.00
6Northumberland1011240820.00

One match between Lancashire Second Eleven and Staffordshire was abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain.

Midlands

CountyPlayedWonWon on
1st inns
No
result
Possible
points
Points
obtained
%
1Surrey Second Eleven8610403382.50
2Wiltshire8410402357.50
3Berkshire8410401947.50
4Buckinghamshire8200401025.00
5Worcestershire Second Eleven80104037.50

East

CountyPlayedWonWon on
1st inns
No
result
Possible
points
Points
obtained
%
1Hertfordshire8610403375.00
2Norfolk8410402357.50
3Suffolk8211351337.14
4Bedfordshire8210401332.50
5Cambridgeshire8201351028.57

West

CountyPlayedWonWon on
1st inns
No
result
Possible
points
Points
obtained
%
1Glamorgan8620403690.00
2Devon8400402050.00
3Dorset8210401332.50
4Cornwall8120401127.50
5Monmouthshire811040820.00

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.

Semi-Finals

  1. 22 August – Lancashire Second Eleven 263 defeated Hertfordshire 85 and 101 by an innings and 77 runs[8]
  2. 29 August – Surrey Second Eleven 198 and 103 lost to Glamorgan 146 and 156 for six wickets by four wickets[9]

Final

  • Lancashire Second Eleven 243 and 121 defeated Glamorgan 74 and 182 by 108 runs.[10]

Wisden Cricketers of the Year

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1907 English season leading batsmen[11]
Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s 50s
C.B. FrySussex19343144918746.7445
“Plum” WarnerMiddlesex
MCC
27476189114946.12313
Tom HaywardSurrey34586235316145.25712
Albert LawtonDerbyshire
MCC
1221183512941.7534
Geoffrey FosterOxford University
Worcestershire
18334118216340.7526
Henry FosterWorcestershire
MCC
19333112715237.5635
Jack HobbsSurrey376362135166 not out37.45415
Arthur HillHampshire1120171111637.4215
Percy PerrinEssex20342119411737.3138
Tip FosterWorcestershire1625188817437.0024

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1907 English season leading bowlers[12]
Name Team Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wickets
in innings
10 wickets
in match
Reggie SchwarzSouth Africans4269161613711.807/41122
Albert HallamNottinghamshire5617213316812.698/67206
Schofield HaighYorkshire3567130810212.827/1381
Thomas WassNottinghamshire5316232816314.288/65176
William HuddlestonLancashire271510927614.367/4272
Gordon WhiteSouth Africans16618245614.717/3331
George HirstYorkshire6831279918315.299/45174
Colin BlytheKent6817282218315.4210/30176
Humphrey GilbertOxford University17146834415.528/4841
Wilfred RhodesYorkshire6265269317315.566/19132

Notable events

  • 1 June – Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs in one day's cricket against Northamptonshire, setting two records:
  1. The best bowling analysis in a first-class match, beaten only by Jim Laker when he took nineteen wickets for 90 runs for England against Australia in 1956.
  2. The first bowler to take seventeen wickets in a single day – a feat since equalled only by Hedley Verity in 1933 and Tom Goddard in 1939.[13]
  • Playing against Gloucestershire at the Spa Ground in June, Northamptonshire were dismissed in their first innings for only 12 runs, which is still the lowest innings total in the history of the County Championship.[14]
  • As many as ten pairs of bowlers bowled unchanged throughout two completed innings during a match, the most on record in English cricket history.[15][16]

Notes

a The match between Middlesex and Lancashire at Lord's was abandoned when it was found the pitch was trampled by impatient spectators.

References

  1. Engel, Matthew (2004). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004, pages 493-494. John Wisden & Company Ltd. ISBN 0-947766-83-9.
  2. Wynne-Thomas, Peter (1983). The Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-34667-6.
  3. South Africa in British Isles 1907 (1st Test)
  4. South Africa in British Isles 1907 (2nd Test)
  5. South Africa in British Isles 1907 (3rd Test)
  6. Pardon, p. 49.
  7. Pardon, p. 394.
  8. Lancashire Second XI v Hertfordshire in 1907
  9. Glamorgan v Surrey Second XI in 1907
  10. Glamorgan v Lancashire Second XI in 1907
  11. First Class Batting in England in 1907
  12. First Class Bowling in England in 1907
  13. Frindall, p. 255.
  14. "Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire in 1907". Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  15. Webber, pp. 168-171.
  16. Frindall, pp. 285-289.

Bibliography

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