1906 was the 17th season of
County Championship
The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It bec ...
cricket
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in England. The title was decided in the final round of matches with
Kent County Cricket Club
Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...
finishing just ahead of
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...
.
George Hirst
George Herbert Hirst (7 September 1871 – 10 May 1954) was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1891 and 1921, with a further appearance in 1929. One of the best all-r ...
completed a unique "double Double" of 2,385 runs and 208 wickets.
Tom Hayward
Thomas Walter Hayward (29 March 1871 – 19 July 1939) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey and England between the 1890s and the outbreak of World War I. He was primarily an opening batsman, noted especially for the qual ...
broke
Bobby Abel
Robert Abel (30 November 1857 – 10 December 1936), nicknamed "The Guv'nor", was a Surrey and England opening batsman who was one of the most prolific run-getters in the early years of the County Championship. He was the first England player ...
’s 1901 record for the most runs scored in a first-class season.
County Championship
The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It bec ...
Points system:
* 1 for a win
* 0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match
* -1 for a loss
Minor Counties 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 ...
Points system:
* 3 for an outright win
* 2 for a win on the first innings
* 1 for a match with no first innings decision
* 0 for a loss either outright or on the first innings of a drawn match
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
The ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season". The award began in 1889 with the naming ...
*
Jack Crawford,
Arthur Fielder
Arthur Fielder (19 July 1877 – 30 August 1949) was an English professional cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Champi ...
,
Ernie Hayes
Ernest George Hayes (6 November 1876 – 2 December 1953) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Surrey, Leicestershire and England.
Ernie Hayes was a right-handed batsman, usually batting at No 3 and strong at driving and pull ...
,
Kenneth Hutchings
Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings (7 December 1882 – 3 September 1916) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1902 and 1912. He was primarily a batsman who played a major rol ...
,
Neville Knox
Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)
Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)
Notable events
* By winning their last eleven county matches, Kent won the Championship for the first time after Gloucestershire beat Yorkshire by a single run at
Bristol
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in the final round of matches
* Kent's
Arthur Fielder
Arthur Fielder (19 July 1877 – 30 August 1949) was an English professional cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Champi ...
became the first bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings in the
Gentlemen v Players
Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ...
match at
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...
* Tom Hayward set numerous batting records:
# The highest aggregate of runs in a first-class season – since beaten only by
Compton
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Canada
* Compton (electoral district), a former Quebec federal electoral district
* Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton
* Compton, Que ...
and
Bill Edrich
William John Edrich (26 March 1916 – 24 April 1986) was a first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Norfolk County Cricket Club, Norfolk and England cricket team, England.
Ed ...
in 1947.
# The earliest to score 2,000 runs, on 5 July.
# Two separate hundreds in consecutive matches against Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
* George Hirst became the only player to score 2,000 runs and take 200 wickets in a season. Against Somerset at Taunton, Hirst also became the only player to have two centuries and two five-wicket returns in one match.
[Wynne-Thomas ''op. cit.'', p. 9.]
See also
*
Kent County Cricket Club in 1906
Kent County Cricket Club's 1906 season was the seventeenth season in which the county competed in the County Championship and saw the county win their first Championship title.Stern J, Williams M (eds) (2013) "1906 – Surprise surrounds first ch ...
References
Annual reviews
* ''
John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack'', 1907
{{County Championship seasons
1906 in English cricket
English cricket seasons in the 20th century