1906 County Championship

1906 County Championship

Cricket format	First-class cricket (3 days)
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Kent (1st title)
Participants	16
Most runs	Tom Hayward (2,814 for Surrey)
Most wickets	George Hirst (182 for Yorkshire)

Derbyshire

Essex

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Middlesex

Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

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Location of the home ground of each county

The 1906 County Championship was the seventeenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 3 May to 30 August 1906. Kent won its first championship title, while the previous season's winners, Yorkshire, finished in second place.

Table

• One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss. Final placings were decided by dividing the number of points earned by the number of completed matches (i.e. those that ended in a win or a loss), and multiplying by 100.

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Fin	%Fin
Kent	22	16	2	4	14	18	77.77
Yorkshire	28	17	3	8	14	20	70.00
Surrey	28	18	4	6	14	22	63.63
Lancashire	26	15	6	5	9	21	42.85
Nottinghamshire	20	9	4	7	5	13	38.46
Warwickshire	20	7	4	9	3	11	27.27
Essex	22	9	6	7	3	15	20.00
Hampshire	20	7	9	4	-2	16	–12.50
Gloucestershire	20	6	10	4	-4	16	–25.00
Sussex	24	6	12	6	-6	18	–33.33
Middlesex	18	4	10	4	–6	14	–42.85
Northamptonshire	16	4	10	2	–6	14	–42.85
Somerset	18	4	10	4	–6	14	–42.85
Worcestershire	20	2	8	10	–6	10	–60.00
Leicestershire	22	3	14	5	–11	17	–64.70
Derbyshire	20	2	17	1	–15	19	–78.94
Source:

Records

Batting

Tom Hayward scored the most runs recorded in a single County Championship season, as well as scoring nearly 1,000 runs more than the next leading run-scorer in 1906.

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 2,814 70.35 Tom Hayward Surrey 1,873 46.82 Johnny Tyldesley Lancashire 1,771 43.19 George Hirst Yorkshire 1,767 49.08 Percy Perrin Essex 1,751 41.69 Jack Hobbs Surrey Source: Bowling Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 182 14.84 George Hirst Yorkshire 160 17.97 George Dennett Gloucestershire 158 19.74 Arthur Fielder Kent 154 20.25 Walter Lees Surrey 138 13.53 Schofield Haigh Yorkshire Source:

See also

• 1906 English cricket season
• Kent County Cricket Club in 1906