1904 was the 15th season of

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in England.

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went through the season unbeaten and clinched the Championship title. Lancashire drew ten games, but their 16 wins were still more than any other team could muster. Defending champions

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fell to fourth place, losing two successive matches to

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

and

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in June to have a negative percentage five games into the season. They did eventually win nine games, though, which was enough to take them past everyone bar

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and

. Yorkshire were two losses from sharing the Championship with Lancashire, and drew with the Champions on both occasions; despite Lancashire

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in their match at

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Johnny Tyldesley John Thomas Tyldesley (22 November 1873 – 27 November 1930) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Test cricket for England. He was a specialist professional batsman, usually third in the batting order, wh ...

made an unbeaten century from number three to draw the game. However, even a win in this match could not have given Yorkshire the title.

Honours

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*Wisden - Bernard Bosanquet,

Ernest Halliwell Ernest Austin "Barberton" Halliwell (7 September 1864 – 2 October 1919) was a first-class cricketer, who played eight Test matches for South Africa between 1892 and 1902, including three as captain. He played as a wicket-keeper, and was the fir ...

James Hallows James Hallows (14 November 1873 – 20 May 1910) was an English first-class cricketer, active from 1898 to 1907, who played for Lancashire. He was born at Little Lever, near Bolton and died at Farnworth. Hallows was a left-handed middle-order b ...

Percy Perrin Percival Albert Perrin (26 May 1876 – 20 November 1945), known as either "Percy" or "Peter", was an English cricketer, who played for Essex as a right-handed middle-order batsman for more than thirty years from 1896. Perrin was a Tottenham p ...

Reggie Spooner Reginald Herbert Spooner (21 October 1880 – 2 October 1961) was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England. He also played Rugby Union for England. Biography The son of the Rev. G. H. Spooner, of Woolton, Spooner was educated at Ma ...

County Championship

Final table

The final

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. * 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

Most wickets in the County Championship

South Africans tour

The

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toured

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during the season, playing 22 matches. Most of them were against regular first-class sides, but there were also matches against an England XI (with five players who had already played Test cricket), against

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(with two Test players) and a South of England side with five Test players. The tourists won ten of their 22 matches, and lost two, against

Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see His ...

and

. They did not manage to beat any of the top four sides in the Championship, though; they drew with Lancashire and Yorkshire (twice), lost to Kent and tied with Middlesex. Frank Mitchell, the South Africans' captain, also played first class cricket for

during the season, which helped him score more than 1,000 first class runs in the season. 839 of those were made for South Africa;

Louis Tancred Louis Joseph Tancred (7 October 1876 – 28 July 1934) was a South African cricketer who played in 14 Test matches from 1902 to 1913, including three as captain. Born into a cricketing family in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, Tancred attended St ...

(1217) and Maitland Hathorn were the two players to make more than 1,000 runs for South Africa only. On the bowling side, pace bowler

Johannes Kotze Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze (7 August 1879 – 7 July 1931) was a cricketer from Cape Colony who played in three Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to: * Te ...

headed the attack, claiming 104 wickets in his 22 matches for South Africa.Player Oracle Reveals Results
from CricketArchive, retrieved 5 August 2006

Overall first-class statistics

Leading batsmen

Leading bowlers

References

External links

CricketArchive – England in 1904
{{International cricket tours of England 1904 in English cricket

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...