Cricket
Events
- No cricket is played in South Africa due to the Boer War.
England
- County Championship – Yorkshire
- Minor Counties Championship – Durham
- Most runs – Bobby Abel 3309 @ 55.15 (HS 247)
- Most wickets – Wilfred Rhodes 251 @ 15.12 (BB 8–53)
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Len Braund, Charlie McGahey, Frank Mitchell, Willie Quaife, Johnny Tyldesley
Australia
- Sheffield Shield – Victoria
- Most runs – Clem Hill 620 @ 103.33 (HS 365*)
- Most wickets – Jack Saunders 29 @ 17.13 (BB 6–70) and Joe Travers 29 @ 20.75 (BB 9–30)
India
- Bombay Presidency – Parsees
South Africa
- Currie Cup – not contested
West Indies
- Inter-Colonial Tournament – Trinidad and Tobago
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“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
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