1910 was the twenty-first season of

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in England.

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won a second successive title.

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won the

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, defeating

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in the final challenge match. There were no overseas tours to England during the season, the English team having toured South Africa over the 1909–10 winter. A tour to the West Indies also took place over the 1910–11 winter.

Honours

–

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– Harry Foster,

Alfred Hartley Alfred Hartley (11 April 1879 – 9 October 1918) was a first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire. He was killed in action during World War I. Hartley was a solid, defensive right-handed opening batsman from the West Indies who had a fair ...

, Charles Llewellyn, Razor Smith,

Frank Woolley Frank Edward Woolley (27 May 1887 – 18 October 1978) was an English professional cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1906 and 1938 and for the England cricket team. A genuine all-rounder, Woolley was a left-handed batsm ...

1910 County Championship

For the first time since the official County Championship began, the scoring system was changed. Proposals to reform the game as a result of financial losses by many counties in the wet summer of 1909 – including a proposal by

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relegation and promotion Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes call ...

as practiced by

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– led to first Warwickshire and then Lancashire advocating a plan under which only wins would count in determining a county's position. This would be adopted as a trial on 26 April, a few days before the season started. * One point was awarded for a win. Final placings were decided by dividing the number of points earned by the number of completed matches (i.e. those that ended in a win, loss or draw), and multiplying by 100.

Minor Counties Championship

For this season, the four-division format would be replaced by a two-division format of "North and East" and "South and West", following a meeting at Lord's in September 1909. Each team would play at least four opponents from their own division home and away, and the winners of the two divisions would meet in a final to decide the Minor Counties Champion.

North and East

South and West

Final

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

Annual reviews

* ''

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'', 1911

Notes

References

External links

CricketArchive – season summaries
{{County Championship seasons 1910 in English cricket English cricket seasons in the 20th century