The 1895 Minor Counties Championship was the first running of the

Minor Counties Cricket Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...

, and ran from 3 June to 29 August 1895. The inaugural title was shared between three counties—

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and

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—as they finished level on three points apiece. The leading run-scorer was Thomas Pointon, playing for

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, whose score of 110 against Durham was one of only six

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scored over the course of the season. The leading wicket-taker,

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's Peter Rogers, took three ten wicket match hauls.

Table

* One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss. ;Notes * denotes the Champion team(s). * denotes a team that failed to play the minimum of eight matches. These teams are sometimes omitted from the table altogether.

Averages

References

External links

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1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...