1994 English cricket season
- 1994 English cricket season
The 1994 English cricket season saw the emergence of a very strong Warwickshire team who won both the County Championship and the Sunday League.
Honours
*County Championship - Warwickshire
*NatWest Trophy - Worcestershire
*Sunday League - Warwickshire
*Benson & Hedges Cup -
*Minor Counties Championship - Devon
*MCCA Knockout Trophy - Devon
*Second XI Championship - Somerset II
*Wisden Cricketers of the Year - Brian Lara, Devon Malcolm, Tim Munton, Steve Rhodes, Kepler Wessels
Test Series
England played New Zealand in a 3-test series, winning the first, and drawing the remaining two.
South Africa also toured England in 1994, playing three test matches. They won one, drew one and lost one.
Leading batsmen
J D Carr topped the batting averages, scoring 1,543 runs @ 90.76, and with a top score of 261*.
Brian Lara posted the highest individual innings score in first class cricket (501*) playing for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston, and also scored the largest number of runs throughout the season (2,066 @ 89.82). He also hit an unprecedented 7 centuries in a period of 8 innings (although the first of these was not achieved in the county championship, but playing for the West Indies in a test match against England in Antigua. He scored 375, which was then the highest individual innings in test matches.)
Leading bowlers
External sources
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Events/ENG.html CricketArchive – season and tournament itineraries]
Annual reviews
* Playfair Cricket Annual 1995
* Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1995
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