1874 English cricket season

1874 was the 88th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). W. G. Grace become the first player to perform the “double” in an English season. In 21 first-class matches, he scored 1,664 runs and took 140 wickets.

1874 English cricket season

Champion County

^[a]

• Gloucestershire^[b]

Playing record (by county)

[1]

County	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
Derbyshire	4	3	0	1
Gloucestershire	6	4	1	1
Kent	4	1	2	1
Lancashire	6	1	3	2
Middlesex	6	1	4	1
Nottinghamshire	8	5	3	0
Surrey	10	3	6	1
Sussex	8	1	5	2
Yorkshire	12	8	3	1
^[c]

Leading batsmen (qualification 15 innings)

1874 English season leading batsmen[2]
Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s	50s
W. G. Grace	Gloucestershire MCC	21	32	0	1664	179	52.00	8	2
Harry Jupp	Surrey	21	37	2	1275	154	36.42	3	7
A. N. Hornby	Lancashire MCC	8	15	2	365	72	28.07	0	3
Henry Charlwood	Sussex	16	30	5	701	100	28.04	1	2
Fred Grace	Gloucestershire	18	27	4	645	103	28.04	1	2

Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)

1874 English season leading bowlers[3]
Name	Team	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets in innings	10 wickets in match
Thomas Lang	Oxford University Gloucestershire	1351	395	35	11.28	6/27	4	1
Martin McIntyre	Nottinghamshire All England Eleven	1002	408	36	11.33	6/18	3	0
Allen Hill	Yorkshire	3075	1156	105	11.44	8/48	10	5
Tom Emmett	Yorkshire	3790	1243	107	11.61	6/21	10	2
James Southerton	Surrey	4857	1576	128	12.31	8/70	13	4

Notes

^a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
^b Some sources give Derbyshire and though this was once accepted in some publications, including Wisden on the basis of the "least matches lost" principle, it has been superseded.
^c Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.

References

1. Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
2. First Class Batting in England in 1874
3. First Class Bowling in England in 1874

Annual reviews

• John Lillywhite’s Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
• James Lillywhite’s Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
• John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 1875

External links

• CricketArchive – season summaries