1904 County Championship

1904 County Championship

Cricket format	First-class cricket (3 days)
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Lancashire (2nd title)
Participants	15
Most runs	C. B. Fry (2,376 for Sussex)
Most wickets	George Dennett (123 for Gloucestershire)

Derbyshire

Essex

Gloucestershire

Hampshire

Kent

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Middlesex

Nottinghamshire

Somerset

Surrey

Sussex

Warwickshire

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

Location of the home ground of each county

The 1904 County Championship was the fifteenth officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 9 May to 5 September 1904. Lancashire won their second championship title, while six times champions Yorkshire finished in second place. The previous season's winners, Middlesex, finished in fourth place.

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.

Team	Pld	W	L	D	A	Pts	Fin	%Fin
Lancashire	26	16	0	10	0	16	16	100.00
Yorkshire	27	9	2	16	0	7	11	63.63
Kent	21	10	4	7	0	6	14	42.85
Middlesex	18	9	4	5	0	5	13	38.46
Nottinghamshire	20	7	4	9	0	3	11	27.27
Sussex	24	5	4	15	0	1	9	11.11
Leicestershire	20	6	6	8	0	0	12	0.00
Warwickshire	16	5	5	6	0	0	10	0.00
Gloucestershire	18	5	6	7	0	-1	11	–9.09
Derbyshire	18	5	8	5	0	-3	13	–23.07
Surrey	28	6	12	10	0	–6	18	–33.33
Somerset	18	5	11	2	0	–6	16	–37.50
Worcestershire	18	3	8	7	0	–5	11	–45.45
Essex	20	3	10	7	0	–7	13	–53.84
Hampshire	18	2	12	4	0	–10	14	–71.42
Source:

Records

Batting

C. B. Fry was the leading run-scorer for the second successive season.

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 2,376 79.20 C. B. Fry Sussex 2,237 69.90 Johnny Tyldesley Lancashire 2,074 50.58 Tom Hayward Surrey 1,848 51.33 George Hirst Yorkshire 1,812 60.40 James Iremonger Nottinghamshire Source: Bowling Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 123 19.36 Edward Dennett Gloucestershire 121 19.38 Charlie Blythe Kent 112 23.50 George Cox Sussex 108 18.71 James Hallows Lancashire 106 26.16 Bill Reeves Essex Source: