1874 English cricket season
1874 was the 88th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). W. G. Grace become the first player to perform the “double” in an English season. In 21 first-class matches, he scored 1,664 runs and took 140 wickets.
Champion County
- Gloucestershire[b]
Playing record (by county)
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Kent | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Middlesex | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Surrey | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Sussex | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Yorkshire | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 15 innings)
| 1874 English season leading batsmen[2] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| W. G. Grace | Gloucestershire MCC | 21 | 32 | 0 | 1664 | 179 | 52.00 | 8 | 2 |
| Harry Jupp | Surrey | 21 | 37 | 2 | 1275 | 154 | 36.42 | 3 | 7 |
| A. N. Hornby | Lancashire MCC | 8 | 15 | 2 | 365 | 72 | 28.07 | 0 | 3 |
| Henry Charlwood | Sussex | 16 | 30 | 5 | 701 | 100 | 28.04 | 1 | 2 |
| Fred Grace | Gloucestershire | 18 | 27 | 4 | 645 | 103 | 28.04 | 1 | 2 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)
| 1874 English season leading bowlers[3] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| Thomas Lang | Oxford University Gloucestershire | 1351 | 395 | 35 | 11.28 | 6/27 | 4 | 1 |
| Martin McIntyre | Nottinghamshire All England Eleven | 1002 | 408 | 36 | 11.33 | 6/18 | 3 | 0 |
| Allen Hill | Yorkshire | 3075 | 1156 | 105 | 11.44 | 8/48 | 10 | 5 |
| Tom Emmett | Yorkshire | 3790 | 1243 | 107 | 11.61 | 6/21 | 10 | 2 |
| James Southerton | Surrey | 4857 | 1576 | 128 | 12.31 | 8/70 | 13 | 4 |
Notes
a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
b Some sources give Derbyshire and though this was once accepted in some publications, including Wisden on the basis of the "least matches lost" principle, it has been superseded.
c Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.
References
- Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
- First Class Batting in England in 1874
- First Class Bowling in England in 1874
Annual reviews
- John Lillywhite’s Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
- James Lillywhite’s Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
- John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 1875