1896 Minor Counties Championship

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1896 Minor Counties Championship
Cricket format2 days
Tournament format(s) League system
Champions Worcestershire (1st title)
Participants13
Matches37
Most runs Harry Foster
(550 for Worcestershire)
Most wickets George Nash
(65 for Buckinghamshire)
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The 1896 Minor Counties Championship was the second running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 25 May to 29 August 1896. Worcestershire won their first outright title, [1] having shared the previous year's championship. [2] Buckinghamshire were runners-up and were the only other team to win more games than they lost. [1] Thirteen teams competed in the championship, down one from the previous year. Bedfordshire, Cheshire and Lincolnshire were absent, while Glamorgan and Northumberland made their Minor Counties Championship debuts.

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The leading run-scorer, Harry Foster, who played for Worcestershire, [3] was the only batsman to score more than one century over the course of the season. [4] The leading wicket-taker, Buckinghamshire's George Nash, [5] took the two largest match wicket hauls of the season: 14/100 and 12/102 against Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, respectively. [6]

Table

TeamPld W L D A PtsFin%Fin
Worcestershire 961205771.43
Buckinghamshire 841303560.00
Durham  Double-dagger-14-plain.png41120020.00
Hertfordshire 82240040.00
Northamptonshire 82240040.00
Northumberland 82240040.00
Wiltshire  Double-dagger-14-plain.png41120020.00
Berkshire 81250–13–33.33
Oxfordshire 81331–24–50.00
Glamorgan  Double-dagger-14-plain.png10100–11–100.00
Norfolk  Double-dagger-14-plain.png40310–33–100.00
Staffordshire  Double-dagger-14-plain.png20110–11–100.00
Cambridgeshire  Double-dagger-14-plain.png2001100—
Source: [1]
Notes

Averages

Most runs
Aggregate Average PlayerCounty
55045.83 Harry Foster Worcestershire
45032.14George Colson Northamptonshire
36533.18 Jack Saunders Buckinghamshire
34328.58Charles Nepean Berkshire
33625.84 George Thompson Northamptonshire
Source: [3]
Most wickets
Aggregate Average PlayerCounty
6511.01 George Nash Buckinghamshire
539.18 Ted Arnold Worcestershire
4715.78 George Thompson Northamptonshire
4510.42Billie Barker Berkshire
4313.34Brusher Rogers Oxfordshire
Source: [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Minor Counties Championship 1896 Points Table" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Minor Counties Championship 1895 Points Table" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Batting and Fielding in Minor Counties Championship 1896 (Ordered by Runs)" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Minor Counties Championship 1896 - Centuries" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Bowling in Minor Counties Championship 1896 (Ordered by Wickets)" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
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