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Cricket tournament
1895 Minor Counties Championship
Cricket format2 days
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsDurham, Norfolk, Worcestershire
Participants14
Matches40
Most runsThomas Pointon (382 for Cheshire)
Most wicketsPeter Rogers (60 for Oxfordshire)
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The 1895 Minor Counties Championship was the first running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 3 June to 29 August 1895. The inaugural title was shared between three counties—Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire—as they finished level on three points apiece.

The leading run-scorer was Thomas Pointon, playing for Cheshire, whose score of 110 against Durham was one of only six centuries scored over the course of the season. The leading wicket-taker, Oxfordshire's Peter Rogers, took three ten wicket match hauls.

Table

  • One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss.
Team Pld W L D Pts
Durham 8 4 1 3 3
Norfolk 8 4 1 3 3
Worcestershire 10 5 2 3 3
Buckinghamshire ‡ 4 3 1 0 2
Berkshire ‡ 2 1 0 1 1
Northamptonshire ‡ 2 1 0 1 1
Wiltshire ‡ 2 1 1 0 0
Bedfordshire 8 3 4 1 –1
Cambridgeshire ‡ 2 0 1 1 –1
Cheshire ‡ 6 1 2 3 –1
Oxfordshire 8 2 3 3 –1
Hertfordshire 8 2 4 2 –2
Lincolnshire ‡ 4 0 3 1 –3
Staffordshire 8 0 4 4 –4
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Notes
  •   denotes the Champion team(s).
  •  ‡  denotes a team that failed to play the minimum of eight matches. These teams are sometimes omitted from the table altogether.

Averages

Most runs
Aggregate Average Player County
382 47.75 Thomas Pointon Cheshire
364 40.44 James Welford Durham
305 25.41 William Brown Staffordshire
286 23.83 John Young Durham
275 27.50 John Skrimshire Norfolk
Source:
Most wickets
Aggregate Average Player County
60 11.90 Peter Rogers Oxfordshire
57 9.05 Charles Shore Norfolk
50 12.68 Brusher Rogers Oxfordshire
50 13.86 Sam Raynor Worcestershire
49 11.75 William Brown Bedfordshire
Source:

References

  1. ^ "Minor Counties Championship 1895 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Minor Counties Championship 1895 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. "Minor Counties Championship 1895 - Centuries". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Bowling in Minor Counties Championship 1895 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  5. "Minor Counties Championship 1895 - Ten Wickets in a Match". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  6. "Minor Counties Championship 1895 - Final Table". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 September 2013.

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