1913 English cricket season

1913 was the twenty-fourth season of County Championship cricket in England. Kent won the title for the fourth time in eight seasons.

1913 English cricket season

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Honours

• County Championship – Kent
• Minor Counties Championship – Norfolk
• Wisden – Major Booth, George Gunn, Bill Hitch, Albert Relf, Lionel Tennyson

County Championship

Main article: 1913 County Championship

	County	Played	Won	Lost	First Innings			Points		%
					Won	Lost	No result	Poss	Obtd
1	Kent	28	20	3	3	1	1	135	110	81.48
2	Yorkshire	28	16	4	4	3	1	135	95	70.37
3	Surrey	26	13	5	4	4	0	130	81	62.30
4	Northamptonshire	22	12	4	1	5	0	110	68	61.81
5	Nottinghamshire	20	8	5	3	4	0	100	53	53.00
6	Middlesex	20	7	6	4	3	0	100	50	50.00
7	Sussex	28	10	10	4	3	1	135	65	48.14
8	Lancashire	26	7	11	7	0	1	125	56	44.80
9	Gloucestershire	22	8	11	1	2	0	110	45	40.90
10	Hampshire	26	7	11	4	4	0	130	51	39.23
11	Warwickshire	24	7	11	3	3	0	120	47	39.16
12	Worcestershire	20	6	9	1	3	1	95	36	37.89
13	Derbyshire	18	4	10	2	2	0	90	28	31.11
14	Leicestershire	22	4	13	1	4	0	110	27	24.54
15	Essex	18	2	9	2	4	1	85	20	23.52
16	Somerset	16	2	11	2	1	0	80	17	21.25
Details as recorded in John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack[1]

• Five points were awarded for a win.
• Three points were awarded for "winning" the first innings of a drawn match.
• One point was awarded for "losing" the first innings of a drawn match.
• Matches in which no result was achieved on the first innings were not included in calculating maximum possible points.
• Final placings were decided by calculating the percentage of possible points.

Minor Counties Championship

1913 Minor Counties Championship table^[2]

	County	Played	Won	First innings			Points		%
				Won	Lost	No result	Poss	Obtd
1	Norfolk	8	4	3	0	0	40	29	72.50
	Glamorgan	8	5	1	1	0	40	29	72.50
3	Hertfordshire	8	4	2	2	0	40	28	70.00
4	Staffordshire	10	6	0	1	1	45	31	68.88
5	Durham	10	5	1	1	1	45	29	64.44
6	Northumberland	10	5	1	0	1	45	28	62.22
7	Lincolnshire	10	4	3	1	0	50	30	60.00
8	Bedfordshire	8	4	0	2	0	40	22	55.00
9	Surrey Second Eleven	8	3	2	0	0	40	21	52.50
10	Berkshire	8	4	0	0	0	40	20	50.00
	Dorset	8	4	0	0	0	40	20	50.00
12	Monmouthshire	8	3	1	1	0	40	19	47.50
13	Devon	8	3	1	0	0	40	18	45.00
14	Cornwall	8	3	0	1	0	40	16	40.00
15	Cheshire	8	2	0	0	1	35	10	28.57
16	Buckinghamshire	8	2	0	1	0	40	11	27.50
	Cambridgeshire	8	2	0	1	0	40	11	27.50
	Wiltshire	8	2	0	1	0	40	11	27.50
19	Kent Second Eleven	8	1	1	2	0	40	10	25.00
20	Suffolk	8	0	0	1	0	40	1	2.50

• Five points were awarded for a win.
• Three points were awarded for "winning" the first innings of a drawn match.
• One point was awarded for "losing" the first innings of a drawn match.
• Matches in which no result was achieved on the first innings were not included in calculating maximum possible points.
• Final placings were decided by calculating the percentage of possible points.

Final

Because Norfolk and Glamorgan were tied on percentage and had not played each other, the rules required that they play a challenge match. Glamorgan accepted this on condition that a guarantee of £50 be given.^[3]

1 September 1913 (1913-09-01) [4]

Norfolk	v	Glamorgan
244 R. F. Popham 74 Hacker 4/79, Creber 4/79		168 Fulcher 5/26, Falconer 5/49
61 Creber 8/33

Norfolk won on first innings County Ground, Lakenham

• Norfolk won the toss and decided to bat
• Rain prevented any play on the first day until 2:55 P.M.,^[5] and on the second day until 3:50 P.M.^[6]

When rain prevented the match being played out, Norfolk were declared champions by virtue of their first innings lead.^[7]

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1913 English season leading batsmen[8]
Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s
Phil Mead	Hampshire	32	60	8	2627	171 not out	50.51	9
Jack Hobbs	Surrey	32	57	5	2605	184	50.09	9
George Gunn	Nottinghamshire	22	39	5	1697	170	49.91	6
Eric Leslie Kidd	Cambridge University Middlesex	14	24	3	1041	150	49.57	3
Frank Woolley	Kent	29	45	6	1760	224 not out	45.12	4
Reginald Lagden	Cambridge University	11	20	1	847	153	44.57	3
J. W. Hearne	Middlesex	29	49	3	2036	189	44.26	6
John Gunn	Nottinghamshire	21	38	6	1405	126	43.90	3
Wally Hardinge	Kent	32	56	7	2037	268	41.57	7
Frank Tarrant	Middlesex MCC	26	42	2	1630	142	40.75	3

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1913 English season leading bowlers[8]
Name	Team	Matches	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets in innings	10 wickets in match
Basil von Melle	Oxford University	9	2102	875	55	15.90	7/48	7	1
Colin Blythe	Kent	34	6722	2729	167	16.34	7/21	15	3
Norman Holloway	Sussex	12	2021	931	55	16.92	6/104	5	0
Alonzo Drake	Yorkshire	32	4908	1965	116	16.93	8/59	6	0
Frank Tarrant	Middlesex MCC	26	5919	2323	136	17.08	8/20	12	3
Sidney Smith	Northamptonshire	24	5160	1915	111	17.25	7/39	8	3
Razor Smith	Surrey	13	2774	1127	65	17.33	8/61	6	3
George Thompson	Northamptonshire	23	5872	2569	148	17.35	7/39	16	6
Albert Relf	Sussex	34	7322	2552	141	18.09	6/30	8	2
Douglas Carr	Kent	11	1814	1102	60	18.36	6/88	6	1