1900 English cricket season

The 1900 English cricket season saw Yorkshire finish the season unbeaten in the County Championship, the first time this had happened since the start of the official championship in 1890. They therefore became county champions, while defending champions Surrey finished in the middle of the pack in seventh. Lancashire were second, and the matches between the two top teams both ended in draws; Yorkshire made 230 in the first innings of the first game, compared to Lancashire's 96, but still could not force a victory, and in the second - with a crowd of over 44,000 present over three days at Old Trafford - Yorkshire took a lead of seven runs on first innings, but as only two and a half hours of play had been possible on the second day, the game was drawn. Sussex, who finished third with 18 of 24 matches drawn, enjoyed 2,000 runs from Ranjitsinhji for the second season running, as he bettered the record for most runs in a Championship season to 2,563. There were no international matches during this season.

Honours

County Championship – Yorkshire
Minor Counties Championship – Durham, Glamorgan, Northamptonshire (shared title)
Wisden (Mr R E Foster and Four Yorkshiremen) – Tip Foster, Schofield Haigh, George Hirst, Tom Taylor, John Tunnicliffe

County Championship

Final table

The final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.

County Championship 1900 - Final Standings
	Team	P	W	L	D	Pts	GC¹	Pts/GC (as %)
1	Yorkshire	28	16	0	12	16	16	100.00
2	Lancashire	28	15	2	11	13	17	76.47
3	Kent	22	8	4	10	4	12	33.33
3	Sussex	24	4	2	18	2	6	33.33
5	Nottinghamshire	18	7	4	7	3	11	27.27
6	Warwickshire	18	3	2	13	1	5	20.00
7	Gloucestershire	22	9	7	6	2	16	12.50
7	Middlesex	22	9	7	6	2	16	12.50
7	Surrey	28	9	7	12	2	16	12.50
10	Essex	22	4	6	12	-2	10	-20.00
11	Somerset	16	4	11	1	-7	15	-46.67
12	Worcestershire	22	3	10	9	-7	13	-53.85
13	Derbyshire	18	2	7	9	-5	9	-55.56
14	Leicestershire	22	3	11	8	-8	14	-57.14
15	Hampshire	22	0	16	6	-16	16	-100.00

¹ Games completed

Points system:

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

Most runs in the County Championship

1900 County Championship - leading batsmen
Name	Team	Matches	Runs	Average	100s	50s
Ranjitsinhji	Sussex	22	2563	85.43	9	9
Bobby Abel	Surrey	22	1880	58.75	10	3
Tom Hayward	Surrey	28	1850	50.00	6	8
C. B. Fry	Sussex	20	1830	63.10	9	4
Gilbert Jessop	Gloucestershire	22	1733	44.43	5	11

Most wickets in the County Championship

1900 County Championship - leading bowlers
Name	Team	Matches	Balls bowled	Wickets taken	Average
Wilfred Rhodes	Yorkshire	26	6973	206	12.29
Albert Trott	Middlesex	22	6261	154	19.85
Schofield Haigh	Yorkshire	28	4954	145	14.16
Walter Mead	Essex	22	5323	122	15.45
Johnny Briggs	Lancashire	27	6699	120	17.45

Overall first-class statistics

Leading batsmen

1900 English cricket season - leading batsmen
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Runs	Average	100s	50s
Ranjitsinhji	Sussex	26	3065	87.57	11	10
Tom Hayward	Players, South of England, Surrey	38	2693	53.86	10	11
Bobby Abel	Players, South of England, Surrey	31	2592	56.34	12	7
C. B. Fry	Gentlemen, London County, MCC, Sussex	26	2325	61.18	9	9
Gilbert Jessop	Gentlemen, Gloucestershire, London County, South of England	31	2210	40.18	6	13

Leading bowlers

1900 English cricket season - leading bowlers
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Balls bowled	Wickets taken	Average
Wilfred Rhodes	North of England, Players, Yorkshire	35	9300	261	13.81
Albert Trott	London County, MCC, Middlesex, Players, South of England	36	9182	211	23.33
Schofield Haigh	Players, Yorkshire	33	5751	163	14.82
Fred Tate	Sussex	30	6863	141	21.53
J. T. Hearne	MCC, Middlesex, Players	29	6646	135	21.05

References

Annual reviews

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1901

External links

Cricket in England in 1900

English cricket seasons

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