The 1922 English cricket season saw Yorkshire recover the County Championship and begin a run of four successive titles.

Honours

• County Championship - Yorkshire
• Minor Counties Championship - Buckinghamshire
• Wisden - Arthur Carr, Tich Freeman
  Tich Freeman
  Alfred Percy "Tich" Freeman was an English cricketer. A leg spin bowler for Kent and England, he is the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season, and is the second most prolific wicket taker in first class cricket history.-Career:Freeman's common name comes from his extremely short...
  
  , Charlie Parker
  Charlie Parker (cricketer)
  Charles Warrington Leonard "Charlie" Parker was an English cricketer, who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first-class cricket, behind Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman.-Life and career:Parker took no serious attention to cricket in his childhood, preferring to concentrate...
  
  , C A G Russell, Andy Sandham
  Andy Sandham
  Andrew Sandham was an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman who played 14 Test matches between 1921 and 1930. He scored over 40,000 first-class runs, but bowled only very rarely; he took just 18 wickets in his career.Sandham made his Surrey debut in 1911, and was capped in 1913...
  
  

Notable matches

Warwickshire and Hampshire took part in one of the most remarkable of all County Championship matches, at Edgbaston on 14-16 June. Warwickshire made 223 and then dismissed Hampshire for only 15, Calthorpe

Freddie Calthorpe

Frederick Somerset Gough Calthorpe , styled The Honourable from 1912, was an English cricketer....

 taking 4/4 and Howell

Harry Howell (cricketer)

Henry Howell was an English footballer and cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 1920 to 1924.-Cricket career:...

 6/7. Eight batsmen made ducks. Following on, Hampshire did much better, but still seemed certain to lose at 274 for 8. George Brown

George Brown (cricketer)

George Brown was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1921 to 1923. George Brown was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, the son of Edwin Brown and Sarah Ann...

 with 172, and the captain's

Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson

Lionel Hallam Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson was known principally as a cricketer who captained Hampshire and England...

 valet and wicket-keeper Walter Livsey

Walter Livsey

Walter Herbert Livsey was an English cricketer for Hampshire from 1913 until 1929. A wicket-keeper, Livsey played 320 first-class matches and was considered one of the greatest keepers of the 1920s with 649 dismissals. He was also a tidy keeper, allowing only three byes during Oxford's...

 with 110 not out, took the total to 521. Warwickshire needed 314 to win. Jack Newman

Jack Newman (English cricketer)

John Alfred 'Jack' Newman was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire...

 and Alec Kennedy then bowled Hampshire to a remarkable victory.

External sources

• CricketArchive – season summary