1974 English cricket season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1974 English cricket season continued the recent pattern of joint tours with India and Pakistan again playing three Tests each against England.

Honours

County Championship - Worcestershire
Gillette Cup - Kent
Sunday League - Leicestershire
Benson & Hedges Cup - Surrey
Minor Counties Championship - Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire County Cricket Club
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Second XI Championship - Middlesex II
Wisden - Dennis Amiss
Dennis Amiss
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, Mike Denness
Mike Denness
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, Norman Gifford
Norman Gifford
Norman Gifford was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner...

, Tony Greig
Tony Greig
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, Andy Roberts

Test series

Leading batsmen

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1974 English cricket season – leading batsmen by average
Name	Innings	Runs	Highest	Average	100s
Clive Lloyd Clive Lloyd Clive Hubert Lloyd CBE AO is a former West Indies cricketer. He captained the West Indies between 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s...	31	1458	178*	63.39	4
Barry Richards	27	1406	225*	61.13	4
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....	31	1332	202*	60.54	3
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...	36	1783	160*	59.43	6
Roy Virgin Roy Virgin Roy Thomas Virgin, born at Taunton, Somerset, on 26 August 1939, was a cricketer who played for Somerset and Northamptonshire.A right-handed opening batsman, Virgin had a mostly solid but unspectacular career in first-class cricket, except for two individual seasons, one for each of his two...	39	1936	144*	56.94	7

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1974 English cricket season – leading batsmen by aggregate
Name	Innings	Runs	Highest	Average	100s
Roy Virgin Roy Virgin Roy Thomas Virgin, born at Taunton, Somerset, on 26 August 1939, was a cricketer who played for Somerset and Northamptonshire.A right-handed opening batsman, Virgin had a mostly solid but unspectacular career in first-class cricket, except for two individual seasons, one for each of his two...	39	1936	144*	56.94	7
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....	42	1932	240*	48.30	6
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...	36	1783	160*	59.43	6
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...	41	1690	133	44.47	6
Brian Davison	39	1670	142	46.38	4

Leading bowlers

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1974 English cricket season – leading bowlers by average
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Andy Roberts	4366	198	1621	119	13.62
Geoff Arnold Geoff Arnold Geoff Arnold is an English cricketer who played 34 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals for England. His nickname of "Horse" was based on his initials of GG. He was a seam and swing bowler, who finished his first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1963 to 1982, with 1130 wickets at an average...	2922	140	1069	75	14.25
Vanburn Holder Vanburn Holder Vanburn Alonzo Holder is a former West Indian cricketer who played in forty Tests and twelve ODIs from 1969 to 1979.Holder played in the golden era of West Indian fast bowling...	3954	146	1493	94	15.88
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...	1869	80	776	47	16.51
Basil D'Oliveira Basil D'Oliveira Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE , known affectionately around the world as "Dolly", was a South African-born English cricketer. D'Oliveira was classified as 'coloured' under the apartheid regime, and hence barred from first-class cricket, resulting in his emigration to England...	2073	105	697	40	17.42

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1974 English cricket season – leading bowlers by aggregate
Name	Balls	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Andy Roberts	4366	198	1621	119	13.62
Bishan Bedi	6513	306	2760	112	24.64
Vanburn Holder Vanburn Holder Vanburn Alonzo Holder is a former West Indian cricketer who played in forty Tests and twelve ODIs from 1969 to 1979.Holder played in the golden era of West Indian fast bowling...	3954	146	1493	94	15.88
Fred Titmus Fred Titmus Frederick John Titmus MBE was an English cricketer, whose first-class career spanned five decades. Although he was best known for his off spin , he was an accomplished lower-order batsman who deserved to be called an all-rounder, even opening the batting for England on six occasions...	5648	312	1953	88	22.19
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...	3985	146	1744	84	20.76

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...

1975
Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1975

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