1905 County Championship

1905 County Championship

Cricket format	First-class cricket (3 days)
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Yorkshire (7th title)
Participants	16
Most runs	David Denton (1,963 for Yorkshire)
Most wickets	Walter Lees (169 for Surrey)

Derbyshire

Essex

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Middlesex

Northamptonshire

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

Location of the home ground of each county

The 1905 County Championship was the sixteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 4 May to 4 September 1905. Yorkshire won their seventh championship title, while the previous season's winners, Lancashire, finished in fourth place. The number of participants was expanded from fifteen to sixteen, with Northamptonshire gaining first-class status, having previously played with some success in the Minor Counties Championship.

Table

• One point was awarded for a win, and one point was taken away for each loss. 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 or a loss), and multiplying by 100.
• The tied match did not count as a finished match for working out the percentage.

Team	Pld	W	T	L	D	A	Pts	Fin	%Fin
Yorkshire	28	18	0	3	7	0	15	21	71.42
Lancashire	26	12	0	3	10	1	9	15	60.00
Sussex	28	13	0	4	11	0	9	17	52.94
Surrey	28	14	1	6	6	1	8	20	40.00
Leicestershire	22	8	0	5	9	0	3	13	23.07
Kent	22	10	1	7	4	0	3	17	17.64
Warwickshire	22	5	0	4	13	0	1	9	11.11
Gloucestershire	18	8	0	8	2	0	0	16	0.00
Worcestershire	18	5	0	5	8	0	0	10	0.00
Nottinghamshire	20	6	0	7	7	0	–1	13	–7.69
Middlesex	18	4	0	7	7	0	–3	11	–27.27
Essex	20	3	0	10	7	0	–7	13	–53.84
Northamptonshire	12	2	0	8	2	0	–6	10	–60.00
Derbyshire	20	3	0	14	3	0	–11	17	–64.70
Somerset	18	1	0	10	7	0	–9	11	–81.81
Hampshire	20	1	0	12	7	0	–11	13	–84.61
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Records

Batting

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 1,963 46.73 David Denton Yorkshire 1,912 86.90 C. B. Fry Sussex 1,785 66.11 Willie Quaife Warwickshire 1,713 61.17 George Hirst Yorkshire 1,651 43.44 Levi Wright Derbyshire Source: Bowling Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 169 17.01 Walter Lees Surrey 154 21.40 George Cox Sussex 131 19.48 George Dennett Gloucestershire 130 19.94 Charlie Blythe Kent 126 18.71 Wilfred Rhodes Yorkshire Source: