1890 County Championship

1890 County Championship

Cricket format	First-class cricket (3 days)
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Surrey (1st title)
Participants	8
Matches played	54
Most runs	Arthur Shrewsbury (1,082 for Nottinghamshire)[1]
Most wickets	George Lohmann (113 for Surrey)[2]

The 1890 County Championship was the first officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 12 May to 28 August 1890. Surrey County Cricket Club, who had been proclaimed Champion County by sections of the press the previous season,^[3] became the first official champions by winning 9 of their 14 matches.^[4]

Table

• One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss.

Team	Pld	W	T	L	D	Pts
Surrey	14	9	0	3	2	6
Lancashire	14	7	0	3	4	4
Kent	14	6	0	3	5	3
Yorkshire	14	6	0	3	5	3
Nottinghamshire	14	5	0	5	4	0
Gloucestershire	14	5	0	6	3	–1
Middlesex	12	3	0	8	1	–5
Sussex	12	1	0	11	0	–10
Source:[4]

Averages

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 1,082 49.18 Arthur Shrewsbury Nottinghamshire 832 36.17 W. G. Grace Gloucestershire 798 34.69 James Cranston Gloucestershire 704 39.11 Bobby Abel Surrey 693 33.00 William Gunn Nottinghamshire Source:[1]

Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 113 12.66 George Lohmann Surrey 102 12.08 John Sharpe Surrey 90 12.90 Bobby Peel Yorkshire 88 14.45 Frederick Martin Kent 80 14.61 Arthur Mold Lancashire Source:[2]

References

1. "Batting in 1890 County Championship (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
2. "Bowling in 1890 County Championship (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
3. Scyld Berry (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (146th ed.). John Wisden & Co., Ltd. p. 542. ISBN 978-1-905625-16-1.
4. "County Championship 1890 table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 April 2009.

External links

• 1890 County Championship at CricketArchive