1897 Minor Counties Championship

1897 Minor Counties Championship
Cricket format 2 days
Tournament format(s) League system
Champions Worcestershire (2nd title)
Participants 16
Matches played 54
Most runs

Arthur Croome

(431 for Berkshire)

Most wickets

George Nash

(62 for Buckinghamshire)

The 1897 Minor Counties Championship was the third running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 7 June to 28 August 1897. Having been unbeaten for the entire season, Worcestershire won their second consecutive outright title,[1] having also shared the title in 1895.[2] Staffordshire were level in the table with Worcestershire, but played an insufficient number of matches to be considered co-champions.[1] Sixteen teams competed in the championship, with Cornwall, Dorset and Monmouthshire all competing for the first time, though none of them played the minimum of eight matches.

The leading run-scorer, Arthur Croome of Berkshire,[3] also had the highest individual score of the season, 158 against Hertfordshire.[4] The leading wicket-taker for the second consecutive season, Buckinghamshire's George Nash,[5] took three ten wicket match hauls, including 16/74 against Oxfordshire.[6]

Table

Team Pld W L D Pts Fin %Fin
Worcestershire 1070377100.00
Staffordshire double-dagger 210111100.00
Glamorgan 84133560.00
Durham 83142450.00
Buckinghamshire 85213742.86
Wiltshire 105233742.86
Norfolk 84222633.33
Northumberland 8224040.00
Berkshire 103431714.29
Northamptonshire 81251333.33
Hertfordshire 81524666.67
Oxfordshire double-dagger 61504666.67
Cambridgeshire double-dagger 605155100.00
Cornwall double-dagger 202022100.00
Dorset double-dagger 201111100.00
Monmouthshire double-dagger 403133100.00
Source: [1]
Notes

Averages

Most runs
Aggregate Average Player County
431 25.35 Arthur Croome Berkshire
430 35.83 Richard Lowe Glamorgan
415 37.72 George Simpson Northumberland
411 34.25 Ted Arnold Worcestershire
396 24.75 Leopold Collins Berkshire
Source: [3]
Most wickets
Aggregate Average Player County
62 14.62 George Nash Buckinghamshire
61 10.57 Ted Arnold Worcestershire
57 11.73 George Thompson Northamptonshire
55 11.18 Mat Wright Buckinghamshire
54 10.75 Albert Bird Worcestershire
Source: [5]

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