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1906 English cricket season

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The 1906 English cricket season saw the County Championship decided on the very last day with Kent just pipping Yorkshire for the title. It is famous for two outstanding individual feats in George Hirst’s unique "double Double" of 2,385 runs and 208 wickets, and Tom Hayward breaking Bobby Abel’s 1901 record for the most runs scored in a first-class season.

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County Championship

Points system:

  • 1 for a win
  • 0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match
  • -1 for a loss

    • Minor Counties Championship

    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

  • Jack Crawford, Arthur Fielder, Ernie Hayes, Kenneth Hutchings, Neville Knox

    • Notable events

  • By winning their last eleven county matches, Kent won the Championship for the first time after Gloucestershire pipped Yorkshire by a single run at Bristol.
  • In the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord’s, Arthur Fielder became the first bowler to ever take all ten wickets in an innings in that match.
  • Tom Hayward set numerous batting records:
    1. The highest aggregate of runs in a first-class season – since beaten only by Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.
    2. The earliest to score 2,000 runs, reaching the aggregate on 5 July.
    3. Two separate hundreds in two 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.

    • Annual reviews

  • John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, 1907

    • References

    1906 English cricket season Wikipedia
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