ENGLISH CRICKET

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10408, 31 August 1911, Page 5

ENGLISH CRICKET

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS

WON BY WARWICKSHIRE

(Received August 30, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, August 29. Warwickshire beat Northamptonshire by an innings and 53 runs. R. E. Foster, in Northamptonshire's second innings, took six wickets for 63 runs. Warwickshire lias won the County Championship, with a percentage of 74. This is the first time since the institution of the Championship in 1873 that Warwickshire have headed the list.

(Last season Warwickshire were third to last in the championship, their percentage being only 21.05. The County Championship last season was fought out under a neiv system of reckoning points, the result being determined by the percentage of wins to matches played, and the same system has been used this season. This method was proposed by Lancashire and adopted last seaison as an experiment. Its defects were obvious, but as things turned out some exceptionally interesting cricket was seen. Curiously enough, Lancashire, suffered most from the change. They finished fourth, but under the old system they would have been second. Ke Q * car " ried off the championship with a percentage of 76, for the second year in succession, and would have won according to any method of scoring. They showed the best and most 'consistent cricket, and made their position safe during the second week in August with four matches still to play. Deducting" one fixture abandoned owing to the death of King Edward and five ourtailed on account of the funeral, 176 were played in the championship, 133 being won, and 43 drawn. The bad weather told heavily against Lancashire, ten of their matches being left unfinished. The Warwickshire eleven was formed in 1863-4, and was re-formed in 1882. v '