1906 English cricket season
Encyclopedia
The 1906 English cricket season saw the Championship decided on the very last day with Kent just pipping Yorkshire for the title. George Hirst achieved the unique feat of a "double Double", i.e. scoring over 2000 runs and taking more than 200 wickets in first-class matches: 2385 runs and 208 wickets.
Honours
- County Championship - Kent
- Minor Counties Championship - StaffordshireStaffordshire County Cricket ClubStaffordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Staffordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
- Wisden - Jack CrawfordJack Crawford (cricketer)John Neville Crawford was an English first-class cricketer who played mainly for Surrey. An amateur, he played as an all-rounder and was highly regarded from an unusually early age before a disagreement with his county curtailed his career. A right-handed batsman, Crawford had a reputation for...
, Arthur FielderArthur FielderArthur Fielder was the leading fast bowler in English cricket for the decade before World War I and one of the key contributors to Kent's four County Championship successes between 1906 and 1913.In some ways the founder of modern fast bowling, Fielder was the first fast bowler to rely on swing...
, Ernie HayesErnie HayesErnest George Hayes MBE was a cricketer who played for Surrey, Leicestershire and England....
, Kenneth HutchingsKenneth HutchingsKenneth Lotherington Hutchings was a cricketer who played for Kent and England....
, Neville KnoxNeville KnoxNeville Alexander Knox was an English fast bowler of the late 1900s and effectively the successor to Tom Richardson and William Lockwood in the Surrey team...