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The 1907 English cricket season gave Nottinghamshire its first-ever official County Championship title. The season also saw the sixth Test match series against South Africa but the first to be held in England.
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South African tour
This was the fourth South African tour of England following those in 1894, 1901 and 1904. The 1907 tour was the first to feature Test matches between England and South Africa in England, although the teams had played Tests in South Africa since 1888-89.
England won the series 1-0 with two matches drawn.
Series summary
County Championship
Points system:
Minor Counties Championship
An entirely new system of scoring was adopted for the Minor Counties Championship in 1907. With Oxfordshire dropping out and Lincolnshire and Worcestershire Second Eleven coming in, the twenty-one Minor Counties clubs were split into four divisions – North, Midlands, East and West – and a system of semi-finals between division leaders and a final was used to determine the winner.
North
One match between Lancashire Second Eleven and Staffordshire was abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain.
West
Points system:
Matches with no first innings result are ignored when calculating maximum possible points.
Semi-Finals
- 22 August – Lancashire Second Eleven 263 defeated Hertfordshire 85 and 101 by an innings and 77 runs
- 29 August – Surrey Second Eleven 198 and 103 lost to Glamorgan 146 and 156 for six wickets by four wickets
Final
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
Notable events
- The best bowling analysis in a first-class match, beaten only by Jim Laker when he took nineteen wickets for 90 runs for England against Australia in 1956.
- The first bowler to take seventeen wickets in a single day – a feat since equalled only by Hedley Verity in 1933 and Tom Goddard in 1939.