Kent County Cricket Club's 1906 season was the seventeenth season in which the county competed in the

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and saw the county win their first Championship title.Stern J, Williams M (eds) (2013) "1906 – Surprise surrounds first championship" in ''The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', p.657
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Kent played 25

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matches during the season, losing only four matches overall and only two matches in the

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. They finished equal on points with

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and

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but won the title on the percentage of finished matches won.

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considered that there was a "general consensus" Kent were "the best county side of the year" and that they had "shown the most brilliant form", whilst

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wrote that "a more brilliant side it would be hard to imagine".Quoted in Burnton S (2016
The forgotten feats of Kenneth Hutchings, a life cruelly cut short at the Somme

, 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-13. The title was sealed with a final game victory by an innings against

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, the team's twelfth successive victory. Two of the county's players,

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 ...

and

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 ...

were selected as

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in 1907 as a result of their performances during the season.Wilde S (2013) "1907 Five cricketers of the year" in ''Wisden Cricketers of the Year: A Celebration of Cricket's Greatest Players'', pp.58–60.
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The Championship victory was the first of four by Kent during the Golden Age of cricket in the years leading up to the

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. It was celebrated by the club by the commissioning of a famous

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'' which now hangs in the

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in the

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Background

After dominating

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in the early years of

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's reign, the players who made up Kent's great side of the 1840s had retired and by the 1850s the county had been reduced to often having to amalgamate with other sides to produce a challenging team.Moseling M, Quarrington T (2013) ''A Half-Forgotten Triumph: The story of Kent's County Championship title of 1913'', pp.1–2. Cheltenham: SportsBooks. . The formation of a County Club in

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in 1859 and the amalgamation of this with the original Kent Cricket Club in 1870 to create the modern Kent County Cricket Club, provided the basis for re-emergence, although the club suffered from financial instabilityKent County Cricket Club Timeline

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. Retrieved 2017-11-23. and

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's view was that Kent could not hope to compete at the level it once had throughout the 1870s and 1880s.Moseling & Quarrington ''op. cit.'' p.2. When the

was formerly established in 1890 Kent were initially able to finish only in mid table. The establishment of the

Tonbridge Nursery The Angel Ground was a sports ground at Tonbridge in the English county of Kent. It was used as a venue for first-class cricket by Kent County Cricket Club between 1869 and 1939 and then for association football by Tonbridge Angels F.C., until ...

in 1897 as a player development centre for young professionals was one of the key developments that lay the foundations for the successes of the pre-war period. The Nursery, which was run by Captain William McCanlis and set up and overseen by Tom Pawley, who became the club's general manager in 1898, provided coaching and match practise for the young professionals who, by 1914, had become the basis of the Kent team, gradually taking the place of the amateurs who had dominated the Kent teams of the 1870s and 80s.Moseling & Quarrington ''op. cit.'', pp.2–3.Lewis P (2013) ''For Kent and Country'', p.33. Brighton: Reveille Press. . By 1906 around 60% of all appearances were by professionals, with bowlers such as

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and

forming the core of the Kent attack.Moseling & Quarrington ''op. cit.'', p.11. Professional batsmen such as

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and

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became an increasingly important part of Kent's batting lineup, coming together with a group of "gifted"Moseling & Quarrington 'op. cit.'' p.3. amateurs to produce strong sides. McCanlis W (1907) 1907 – Blythe blooms in Kentish nursery, in Stern J & Williams M (eds) (2013) ''The Essential Wisden: An Anthology of 150 Years of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', p.657. London: A & C Black. Republished from ''Wisden Cricketer's Almanack'', 1907. The Nursery began to pay dividends quickly and Kent finished third in the Championship in 1900.Moseling & Quarrington 'op. cit'', pp.3–4. Mid table finishes followed between 1901 and 1903 before the side finished third again in 1904 in the first year of

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's captaincy. A sixth-place finish in 1905 saw Seymour,

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(who would go on to captain the county) and Arthur Day all score over 1,000 Championship runs and Blythe take 130 wickets. The season had also seen the debut in the Kent Second XI of a young Nursery professional called

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.Frank Woolley
Cricketer of the Year 1911, ''

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'', 1911. Retrieved 2017-11-23.

1906 season

Kent started the season with a match against the MCC at

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which they lost by 69 runs.Scorecard - MCC v Kent in 1906
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. The first four

matches of the season saw losses to

and

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, a draw with

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and a sole win away at

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. These were the only losses the side would suffer in the Championship during the season and a run of four wins, including a one wicket win against

which is generally considered the turning point of the season, and three draws led up to the visit of the touring West Indian side to

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in mid July. A victory by an innings and 14 runs was the first of twelve successive wins leading up to the end of the championship season.Scorecard - Kent v West Indians in 1906
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Eleven of the matches won successively were in the County Championship, but despite the long winning streak Kent could not have won the title without Yorkshire losing at least one game towards the end of the season. On 25 August, with only two matches remaining in the season, Kent won against Worcestershire and Yorkshire lost by a single run against

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. After a victory against

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, the championship was clinched with a win in the county's final match against

. The match saw Kent score 610 runs, their highest first-class score at the time, surpassing the 576 they had scored at

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in July,'Highest innings totals for Kent' in ''Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017'', p.179. Canterbury:

.County Championship 1906 - Highest team totals
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. and remains the highest total made at Dean Park.Dean Park, Bournemouth - Highest team totals in first-class cricket
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. A loss in the

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against the Rest in September at

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completed the season.Scorecard - Champion County match 1906 - The Rest v Kent
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Kent scored quickly throughout the year at a rate that averaged 80 runs an hour with a style that is claimed aimed to win matches rather than draw them.Birley D (1999) ''A social history of English cricket'', p.180. London:

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. The core of the side was formed of professionals who had been coached at the County's

and contributed around 60% of appearances during 1906.

Painting

Albert Chevallier Tayler - Kent Vs Lancashire 1906

At a celebratory dinner in London in October, the Kent chairman,

George Harris, 4th Baron Harris Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, (3 February 1851 – 24 March 1932), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Bombay. He was also an English amateur cricketer, mainly active f ...

, suggested that the club commission a painting to celebrate the championship victory.Williamson
A Canterbury tale

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, 2005-12-09. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Kent selected

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as the artist. Tayler was paid 200 guineas by Kent for the painting. Harris suggested that the painting should show an action shot of a match at the

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, and suggested that the bowler in the painting should be Colin Blythe. Kent had only played three matches at Canterbury during the 1906 season and the match against Lancashire in July was chosen to be depicted. Blythe had taken eight wickets during the match which was part of the annual

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. The painting, entitled ''

'', remained at the St Lawrence Ground until 1999, at which time it was moved to the

as Kent could no longer afford the insurance. In 2006 the painting was sold to a charity foundation at auction for £680,000 and remains on display in the

at Lord's on long-term loan.Auction feat for cricket painting
BBC News website, 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2016-02-17.

Players

The 1906 side was captained by Cloudesley Marsham and featured England international players

and

. Blythe had toured South Africa over the 1905–06 winter and Fielder toured Australia in 1903–04. Both bowlers would go on to tour Australia in 1907–08 as would batsman

who played his first full season in 1906.Obituary - Colin Blythe
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1918. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1917. Retrieved 2016-02-17.Burnton S (2016) ''op. cit.'' Fielder and Hutchings were selected as two of Wisden's five

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in 1907 as a result of their 1906 performances. Future Kent great

made his First XI debut in 1906 Wooley FE (1939
My happy cricket life
''

'', 1939. Retrieved 2017-04-25. and the team also featured Wally Hardinge in the early years of his career. Woolley is Kent's all-time leading run scorer and has made the most appearances for the County in first-class cricket whilst Hardinge, who at the time also played football for

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,Wally Hardinge
Football and the First World War. Retrieved 2016-02-17. is second on both lists.

, who played in all 22 Championship matches during the season, is the fourth leading run scorer in the County's history and has made the third most appearances for Kent.Most runs for Kent
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. The side also included

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, who captained the side in the one game Marsham did not play,Scorecard - Kent v Surrey in 1906
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. and

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, both past county captains as well as Arthur Day, who went on to be one of the Cricketers of the Year in 1910Wilde S (2013) ''op. cit.'' pp.67-69
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and

Alec Hearne Alec Hearne (22 July 1863 – 16 May 1952) was a member of the famous cricketing Hearne family. He played as a professional for Kent County Cricket Club between 1884 and 1906 and made one Test match appearance for England. He was an all-round ...

who had been similarly honoured by Wisden in 1894.Wilde S (2013) ''op. cit.'' pp.20-22
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Hearne made his final appearance for Kent during July at the

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.First-class matches played by Alec Hearne
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. The main

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was Fred Huish, considered to be "first of a line of exceptional Kent wicket-keepers".Obituary: Fred Huish
''

'' 1958. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Woolley and reserve wicket-keeper and batsman

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were both awarded their county caps during the season.Three former Kent greats honoured in special presentation
Kent County Cricket Club, 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2016-02-17. The season also saw the penultimate appearance for Kent of

during the tour match against the West Indies. Harris, who was 55 at the time of the game, was a major figure in Kent and English cricket.First-class matches played by Lord Harris
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Raymond Munds also played only one non-championship game for the county during the season, the opening match against MCC.First-class matches played by Raymond Munds
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Ages given as of the first day of Kent's

season, 14 May 1906. Source: CricketArchive and

statistics

Statistics

During 1906 Kent played 25 first-class matches, including 22 in the

. They won 17, drew four and lost four matches, including only two losses in the Championship.

led the county in run scoring in his first full county season, with a total of 1,454 runs, including 1,358 in the County Championship.Cricketer of the Year 1907 - Kenneth Hutchings
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1907. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Both

, with 1,116 runs, and

, with 1,096, also scored more than 1,000 Championship runs. Burnup led the County's Championship averages with 69.75 and made Kent's highest score of the year, 179. Marsham G (1907
A short history of Kent cricket
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1907. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Both Burnup and Hutchings, who averaged 64.66 in the Championship, scored four centuries during the season.

was Kent's leading wicket taker in 1906. He took 172 wickets in total for Kent during the season, including 158 in the County Championship at an

average In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7, ...

of 19.74.Bowling for Kent - County Championship 1906
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17.

took 90 championship wickets at 19.16 and 111 wickets in total for Kent during the season despite not being able to play in seven matches due to an injury to his bowling hand. Both Fielder and Blythe took seven wicket hauls during the season, as did

who returned the best bowling figures of Kent's Championship campaign, 7/33 against

in June at

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.County Championship 1906 - five wickets in an innings
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Fielder took 10/90 during the

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match at

, at the time the only bowler to take 10 wickets in an innings in the fixture,Obituary - Arthur Fielder
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1949. Retrieved 2016-02-17. and took six wickets or more on 13 occasions during the season.
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1907. Retrieved 2016-02-17. Fred Huish took 56 wicket-keeping dismissals for Kent during the season, including 41 catches and 11 stumpings in the County Championship. James Seymour took 34 catches in the Championship as part of Kent's well respected slip cordon. Fielder, Humphreys and Seymour played in all 22 Championship matches with club captain Cloudesley Marsham playing in 21.

Batting statistics

The table below includes all first-class batting during the 1906 season. Source: CricketArchive statistics and scorecards.

Bowling statistics

The table below includes all first-class bowling during the 1906 season. Source: CricketArchive statistics and scorecards.

References

External links

Kent County Cricket Club
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