The 1973 English cricket season saw Hampshire win their second-ever title while a very strong Kent side continued to dominate the limited overs game.

Honours

• County Championship - Hampshire
• Gillette Cup - Gloucestershire
• Sunday League - Kent
• Benson & Hedges Cup - Kent
• Minor Counties Championship - Shropshire
  Shropshire County Cricket Club
  Shropshire 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 Shropshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
  
  
• Second XI Championship - Essex II
• Wisden - Keith Boyce
  Keith Boyce
  Keith David Boyce played 21 Tests and 8 One Day Internationals for the West Indies in the 1970s, he died from the effects of chronic cirrhosis of the liver while sitting in a chair at a pharmacist in Speightstown, Barbados in 1996.Boyce was the first man to take eight wickets in a List A match; he...
  
  , Bevan Congdon
  Bevan Congdon
  Bevan Ernest Congdon OBE is a former New Zealand all-rounder who played 61 Test matches from 1965 to 1978. He was captain of the New Zealand Test and ODI team from 1972 to 1974. Congdon was the first New Zealand captain to record a victory over Australia...
  
  , Keith Fletcher
  Keith Fletcher
  Keith Fletcher is a former English cricketer, who played for Essex and England. He later became England's team manager. His nickname was "The Gnome of Essex", so christened by his Essex team-mate, Ray East, because Fletcher's winklepickers had begun to curl up at the toes due to wear...
  
  , Roy Fredericks
  Roy Fredericks
  Roy Clifton Fredericks was a West Indian cricketer who played from 1968 to 1977....
  
  , Peter Sainsbury
  Peter Sainsbury
  Peter James Sainsbury, , is a retired cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1954 to 1976 and the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1955 to 1960....
  
  

Test series

1973 saw New Zealand and West Indies tour England. Whilst beating New Zealand 2-0 in the three match series, England went down 2-0 to the West Indies, losing the final test by an innings and 226 runs.

Leading batsmen

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1973 English cricket season – leading batsmen by average
Name	Innings	Runs	Highest	Average	100s
Glenn Turner Glenn Turner Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel....	44	2416	153*	67.11	9
Maurice Foster Maurice Foster (cricketer) Maurice Linton Churchill Foster played 14 Tests and two One Day Internationals for the West Indies and he was a talented table-tennis player....	20	828	127	63.69	1
Geoffrey Boycott Geoffrey Boycott Geoffrey Boycott OBE is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's most successful opening batsmen...	30	1527	141*	63.62	5
Rohan Kanhai Rohan Kanhai Rohan Bholalall Kanhai is a former West Indian Cricket player of Indo-Guyanese descent. He is widely considered as one of the best batsmen of the 1960s. Kanhai featured in several great West Indian teams, playing with, among others, Sir Garfield Sobers, Roy Fredericks, Lance Gibbs, and Alvin...	22	1129	230*	62.72	4
Mike Procter Mike Procter Michael John Procter is a former South African cricketer. A fast bowler and hard hitting batsman, his chances for a long and productive test career were wrecked by South Africa's banishment from world cricket in the 1970s and 1980s...	29	1475	152	61.45	6

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1973 English cricket season – leading batsmen by aggregate
Name	Innings	Runs	Highest	Average	100s
Glenn Turner Glenn Turner Glenn Maitland Turner played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen. He is the current head of the New Zealand Cricket selection panel....	44	2416	153*	67.11	9
John Jameson John Jameson (cricketer) John Alexander Jameson MBE is a former English cricketer who played in four Tests and three ODIs for England from 1971 to 1975. Jameson represented Warwickshire from 1960 until 1976....	43	1948	168	48.70	5
Michael Smith	41	1677	116	45.32	2
Gordon Greenidge Gordon Greenidge Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE is a former member of the West Indies cricket team.Greenidge was an opening batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in 1974 and continued playing internationally until 1991. He was half of the West...	38	1656	196*	48.70	5
Pasty Harris Pasty Harris Michael John Harris is an English cricketer who played for various first class cricket teams. He played from 1964 until 1982 in a 344-game career which took him to South Africa and New Zealand...	40	1655	201*	43.55	4

Leading bowlers

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1973 English cricket season – leading bowlers by average
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Tom Cartwright Tom Cartwright Thomas William Cartwright MBE was an English cricketer. He played in five Tests for England in 1964 and 1965. His withdrawal from the 1968-69 tour to South Africa, and replacement in the touring team by Basil D'Oliveira, precipitated the sporting isolation of South Africa until apartheid was...	4864	349	1410	89	15.84
Peter Sainsbury Peter Sainsbury Peter James Sainsbury, , is a retired cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1954 to 1976 and the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1955 to 1960....	3295	253	945	53	17.83
Bishan Bedi	5186	308	1884	105	17.94
Peter Lee	4443	182	1901	101	18.82
Tony Nicholson Tony Nicholson Anthony George "Tony" Nicholson was an English cricketer: a medium-pace bowler who played county cricket for Yorkshire between 1962 and 1975...	3323	165	1232	65	18.95

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1973 English cricket season – leading bowlers by aggregate
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Bishan Bedi	5186	308	1884	105	17.94
Peter Lee	4443	182	1901	101	18.82
Robin Jackman Robin Jackman Robin Jackman is a former English cricketer, who played in four Tests and fifteen ODIs for England from 1974 to 1983. He was a seam bowler and useful tail-end batsman. During a first-class career lasting from 1966 to 1982, he took 1,402 wickets...	3912	141	1888	92	20.52
John Shepherd John Shepherd (cricketer) John Neil Shepherd is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1969 to 1971...	4803	229	2054	92	22.32
Tom Cartwright Tom Cartwright Thomas William Cartwright MBE was an English cricketer. He played in five Tests for England in 1964 and 1965. His withdrawal from the 1968-69 tour to South Africa, and replacement in the touring team by Basil D'Oliveira, precipitated the sporting isolation of South Africa until apartheid was...	4864	349	1410	89	15.84

External sources

• CricketArchive – season and tournament itineraries

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
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• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1974