1900 English cricket season

The 1900 English cricket season saw Yorkshire finish the season unbeaten in the County Championship, the first time this had happened since the start of the official championship in 1890. They therefore became county champions, while defending champions Surrey finished in the middle of the pack in seventh. Lancashire were second, and the matches between the two top teams both ended in draws; Yorkshire made 230 in the first innings of the first game, compared to Lancashire's 96, but still could not force a victory, and in the second - with a crowd of over 44,000 present over three days at Old Trafford - Yorkshire took a lead of seven runs on first innings, but as only two and a half hours of play had been possible on the second day, the game was drawn. Sussex, who finished third with 18 of 24 matches drawn, enjoyed 2,000 runs from Ranjitsinhji for the second season running, as he bettered the record for most runs in a Championship season to 2,563. There were no international matches during this season.

Honours

*County Championship - Yorkshire
*Minor Counties Championship - Durham, Glamorgan, Northamptonshire ("shared title")
*Wisden ("Mr R E Foster and Four Yorkshiremen") - Tip Foster, Schofield Haigh, George Herbert Hirst, Tom Taylor, John Tunnicliffe

County Championship

Final table

The final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.

Overall first-class statistics

Leading batsmen

Leading bowlers

Annual reviews

* Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1901

External links

* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/1900_ENG.html Cricket in England in 1900]