1909 English cricket season
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The 1909 English cricket season provided confirmation of Australia's superiority as Monty Noble's team retained the Ashes.
's Australia defeated England 2-1 to retain the Ashes. Two matches were drawn.
Honours
- County Championship - Kent
- Minor Counties Championship - Wiltshire
- Wisden - Warren BardsleyWarren BardsleyWarren "Curly" Bardsley was an Australian Test cricketer. An opening batsman, Bardsley played 41 Tests between 1909 and 1926 and over 200 first-class games for New South Wales...
, Sydney BarnesSydney BarnesSydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the sport's history...
, Douglas CarrDouglas CarrDouglas Ward Carr was an English amateur cricketer.Carr went to Brasenose College at Oxford University and while there played both football and cricket...
, Arthur DayArthur DayArthur Percival Day, born 10 April 1885, at Blackheath, Kent, and died 22 January 1969, at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, was a cricketer who played for Kent during the period of the county's greatest success in the County Championship.-Career:...
, Vernon RansfordVernon RansfordVernon Seymour Ransford was an Australian cricketer who played in 20 Tests between 1907 and 1912. His best series was the 1909 tour of England when he topped the Australian batting averages, helped by a career best score of 143 not out. The following year he was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year...
Test series
Monty NobleMonty Noble
Montague Alfred Noble was an Australian cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. A right-hand batsman, right-handed bowler who could deliver both medium pace and off-break bowling, capable fieldsman and tactically sound captain, Noble is considered as one of the great Australian...
's Australia defeated England 2-1 to retain the Ashes. Two matches were drawn.
External sources
Annual reviews
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1910