1910 English cricket season


1910 was the twenty-first season of County Championship cricket in England. Kent won a second successive title. Norfolk won the Minor Counties Championship, defeating Berkshire 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

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 Lord Hawke of relegation and promotion as practiced by The Football League – 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, 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.

Annual reviews

John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, 1911