1895 Minor Counties Championship

The 1895 Minor Counties Championship was the first running of the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, and ran from 3 June to 29 August 1895. The inaugural title was shared between three counties—Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire—as they finished level on three points apiece.^[1]

1895 Minor Counties Championship

Cricket format	2 days
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Durham, Norfolk, Worcestershire
Participants	14
Matches	40
Most runs	Thomas Pointon (382 for Cheshire)
Most wickets	Peter Rogers (60 for Oxfordshire)
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The leading run-scorer was Thomas Pointon, playing for Cheshire,^[2] whose score of 110 against Durham was one of only six centuries scored over the course of the season.^[3] The leading wicket-taker, Oxfordshire's Peter Rogers,^[4] took three ten wicket match hauls.^[5]

Table

• One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss.

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts
Durham	8	4	1	3	3
Norfolk	8	4	1	3	3
Worcestershire	10	5	2	3	3
Buckinghamshire ‡	4	3	1	0	2
Berkshire ‡	2	1	0	1	1
Northamptonshire ‡	2	1	0	1	1
Wiltshire ‡	2	1	1	0	0
Bedfordshire	8	3	4	1	–1
Cambridgeshire ‡	2	0	1	1	–1
Cheshire ‡	6	1	2	3	–1
Oxfordshire	8	2	3	3	–1
Hertfordshire	8	2	4	2	–2
Lincolnshire ‡	4	0	3	1	–3
Staffordshire	8	0	4	4	–4
Source:[1]

Notes

•   denotes the Champion team(s).
•  ‡  denotes a team that failed to play the minimum of eight matches. These teams are sometimes omitted from the table altogether.^[6]

Averages

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 382 47.75 Thomas Pointon Cheshire 364 40.44 James Welford Durham 305 25.41 William Brown Staffordshire 286 23.83 John Young Durham 275 27.50 John Skrimshire Norfolk Source:[2]

Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 60 11.90 Peter Rogers Oxfordshire 57 9.05 Charles Shore Norfolk 50 12.68 Brusher Rogers Oxfordshire 50 13.86 Sam Raynor Worcestershire 49 11.75 William Brown Bedfordshire Source:[4]