1901 English cricket season

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Yorkshire defended their County Championship title in the 1901 English cricket season, though, unlike in 1900, they lost one game during the season, to 12th-placed Somerset. Middlesex finished second, winning six of their eight finished games, but had the highest percentage of draws of anyone save Essex. Once again, Ranjitsinhji contributed more than 2,000 runs to Sussex' cause, and with 2,000 runs from C. B. Fry as well, the team finished fourth in the table - beaten, however, by Lancashire, whose England Test batsman Johnny Tyldesley contributed 2,605 runs. The South Africans also toured the country during 1901, playing 15 first class games but not a single Test match, but still lost more matches than they won on tour.

1 Honours
2 County Championship
3 Overall first-class statistics
- 3.1 Leading batsmen
- 3.2 Leading bowlers
4 References

[edit] Honours

County Championship - Yorkshire
Minor Counties Championship - Durham
Wisden - Len Braund, Charlie McGahey, Frank Mitchell, Willie Quaife, Johnny Tyldesley

[edit] County Championship

[edit] Final table

The final County Championship table is shown below. One point was awarded for a win, none for a draw, and minus one for a loss. Positions were decided on percentage of points over completed games.

County Championship 1901 - Final Standings
	Team	P	W	L	D	A	Pts	GC¹	Pts/GC (as %)
1	Yorkshire	28	20	1	6	1	19	21	90.48
2	Middlesex	18	6	2	10	0	4	8	50.00
3	Lancashire	28	11	5	12	0	6	16	37.50
4	Sussex	24	8	4	12	0	4	12	33.33
5	Warwickshire	16	7	4	5	0	3	11	27.27
6	Surrey	28	7	6	14	1	1	13	7.69
=7	Hampshire	18	6	6	6	0	0	12	0.00
=7	Kent	22	7	7	7	1	0	14	0.00
9	Nottinghamshire	20	5	6	8	1	-1	11	-9.09
10	Essex	22	4	5	12	1	-1	9	-11.11
11	Worcestershire	22	7	10	4	1	-3	17	-17.65
=12	Leicestershire	20	4	10	5	1	-6	14	-42.86
=12	Somerset	18	4	10	3	1	-6	14	-42.86
14	Gloucestershire	24	3	10	11	0	-7	13	-53.85
15	Derbyshire	20	0	13	7	0	-13	13	-100.00

¹ Games completed

Points system:

1 for a win
0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match
-1 for a loss

[edit] Most runs in the County Championship

1901 County Championship - leading batsmen
Name	Team	Matches	Runs	Average	100s	50s
Johnny Tyldesley	Lancashire	28	2605	60.58	8	13
C. B. Fry	Sussex	23	2382	74.43	9	10
Bobby Abel	Surrey	27	2264	50.31	5	14
Ranjitsinhji	Sussex	21	2067	76.55	7	8
Tom Hayward	Surrey	25	2039	58.25	2	17

[edit] Most wickets in the County Championship

1901 County Championship - leading bowlers
Name	Team	Matches	Balls bowled	Wickets taken	Average
Wilfred Rhodes	Yorkshire	27	6934	196	13.59
George Herbert Hirst	Yorkshire	27	5093	135	16.75
Fred Tate	Sussex	24	6055	126	20.00
Frederick Roberts	Gloucestershire	22	5700	118	22.56
Charles Llewellyn	Hampshire	18	5460	115	23.25

[edit] Overall first-class statistics

[edit] Leading batsmen

1901 English cricket season - leading batsmen
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Runs	Average	100s	50s
Bobby Abel	England, Players, Surrey	38	3309	55.15	7	21
C.B. Fry	Gentlemen, London County, Sussex	29	3147	78.67	13	10
Johnny Tyldesley	England, Lancashire, Players, Under 30s	35	3041	55.29	9	14
Tom Hayward	England, Players, Surrey	36	2535	50.70	2	21
Ranjitsinhji	England, Gentlemen, London County, MCC, Sussex	27	2468	70.51	8	10

[edit] Leading bowlers

1901 English cricket season - leading bowlers
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Balls bowled	Wickets taken	Average
Wilfred Rhodes	Players, Under 30s, Yorkshire	37	9391	251	15.12
George Herbert Hirst	Players, Under 30s, Yorkshire	36	6813	183	16.38
Albert Trott	MCC, Middlesex, Players	29	7735	176	21.78
Tom Richardson	Surrey	32	7762	159	23.25
Fred Tate	Sussex	27	6814	142	19.50