1874 English cricket season
The 1874 English cricket season saw WG Grace become the first player to perform the “double” in an English season. In 21 first-class matches, he scored 1664 runs and took 140 wickets.
The season was notable for a major accident to leading Yorkshire fast bowler Allen Hill, who was the leading wicket-taker in the game at the time[1] but never bowled for the rest of the season.
Champion County[a]
Playing record (by county)[2]
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Kent | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Middlesex | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Surrey | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Sussex | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Yorkshire | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 15 innings)
| 1874 English season leading batsmen[3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| WG Grace | Gloucestershire MCC |
21 | 32 | 0 | 1664 | 179 | 52.00 | 8 | 2 |
| Harry Jupp | Surrey | 21 | 37 | 2 | 1275 | 154 | 36.42 | 3 | 7 |
| Monkey Hornby | Lancashire MCC |
8 | 15 | 2 | 365 | 72 | 28.07 | 0 | 3 |
| Henry Charlwood | Sussex | 16 | 30 | 5 | 701 | 100 | 28.04 | 1 | 2 |
| Fred Grace | Gloucestershire | 18 | 27 | 4 | 645 | 103 | 28.04 | 1 | 2 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)
| 1874 English season leading bowlers[4] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| Thomas Lang | Oxford University Gloucestershire |
1351 | 395 | 35 | 11.28 | 6/27 | 4 | 1 |
| Martin McIntyre | Nottinghamshire All England Eleven |
1002 | 408 | 36 | 11.33 | 6/18 | 3 | 0 |
| Allen Hill | Yorkshire | 3075 | 1156 | 105 | 11.44 | 8/48 | 10 | 5 |
| Tom Emmett | Yorkshire | 3790 | 1243 | 107 | 11.61 | 6/21 | 10 | 2 |
| James Southerton | Surrey | 4857 | 1576 | 128 | 12.31 | 8/70 | 13 | 4 |
Notes
a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
b Some sources give Derbyshire and though this was once accepted in some publications, including Wisden on the basis of the "least matches lost" principle, it has been superseded.
c Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.
References
- ^ Allen Hill
- ^ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
- ^ First Class Batting in England in 1874
- ^ First Class Bowling in England in 1874
Annual reviews
- John Lillywhite’s Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
- James Lillywhite’s Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
- John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 1875