1897 Minor Counties Championship

1897 Minor Counties Championship
Cricket format2 days
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsWorcestershire (2nd title)
Participants16
Matches54
Most runsArthur Croome
(431 for Berkshire)
Most wicketsGeorge Nash
(62 for Buckinghamshire)
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The 1897 Minor Counties Championship was the third running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 7 June to 28 August 1897. Having been unbeaten for the entire season, Worcestershire won their second consecutive outright title,[1] having also shared the title in 1895.[2] Staffordshire were level in the table with Worcestershire, but played an insufficient number of matches to be considered co-champions.[1] Sixteen teams competed in the championship, with Cornwall, Dorset and Monmouthshire all competing for the first time, though none of them played the minimum of eight matches.

The leading run-scorer, Arthur Croome of Berkshire,[3] also had the highest individual score of the season, 158 against Hertfordshire.[4] The leading wicket-taker for the second consecutive season, Buckinghamshire's George Nash,[5] took three ten wicket match hauls, including 16/74 against Oxfordshire.[6]

  1. ^ a b "Minor Counties Championship 1897 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Minor Counties Championship 1895 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Minor Counties Championship 1897 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Minor Counties Championship 1897 - Centuries". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  5. ^ "Bowling in Minor Counties Championship 1897 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Minor Counties Championship 1897 - Ten Wickets in a Match". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 September 2013.