Cricket
Events
- Fuller Pilch reaches his peak as a top-class batsman, scoring 551 runs at an unprecedented average of 61.22, an outstanding achievement on the unpredictable pitches of his time.
England
- Champion County – not determined
- Most runs – Fuller Pilch 551 @ 61.22 (HS 153*)
- Most wickets – William Lillywhite 38 (BB 7–?)
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