Sporting and Athletic Records

FIRST CLASS MATCHES 43 Most Wickets taken in a Year in England 290 T? >£*i. lit-.A Taken by T. RICHARDSON at an average cost of rans per wicket i n 1895. N .B.— C. T. B. TURNER (the Australian) took 314 wickets in 1888 in all matches, including some with teams not then reckoned as first- class. 200 Wickets or more in a Year Bowler Year Wickets Average J. Southerton 1870 210 i4 - 6 E. Peate 1882 214 11 -5 G. A. Lohmann 1888 209 lo g „ 1889 202 13-4 „ 1890 220 13*6 J. T. Hearne 1893 212 16 „ 1896 257 14-2 A. Mold 1894 20 7 l 2 ' i 1895 213 15-9 T. Richardson ^95 290 i4 - 3 „ 1896 246 16-3 Australians (all matches) Bowler Year Wickets Average F. R. Spofforth 1884 218 12 -5 C. T. B. Turner 1888 314 in „ 1890 215 12-6 J. J.Ferris 1888 220 14 -1 „ 1890 215 13-2