Sporting and Athletic Records

5° CRICKET mined by the percentage of games won and drawn (reckoning I for a win and '/« f or a draw) to the total number of games played. Won Lost Drawn Total games Percentage of points gained Surrey 34 11 1 52 7a Lancashire 25 8 10 43 69 Yorkshire 30 10 12 52 69 Middlesex 14 9 11 34 57 Derbyshire 9 10 13 I 2 48 Essex ID 11 7 28 48 Gloucestershire ... 13 16 7 36 45 Warwickshire 9 H 13 36 43 Somerset 9 15 9 33 40 Hampshire 11 17 4 32 40 Nottinghamshire 8 15 11 34 39 Sussex 1 18 11 36 34 Kent 8 20 8 36 33 Leicester 5 18 7 30 a8 ( i v ) 1 8 7 0—1 8 9 6 Of the eight counties which have contested the championship during the last 27 years, SURREY have been champions 8 times, NOTTINGHAM­ SHIRE 7 times, and YORKSHIRE 6 times; GLOUCESTERSHIRE and LAN­ CASHIRE twice each, and MIDDLESEX and SUSSEX once each. From the following table it will be seen that although only twicechampions LAN­ CASHIRE come out top ofthelistfor the whol period— NOTTINGHAMSHIRE'S large number of drawn games depriving that county of first place. At the same time it should be borne in mind that LANCASHIRE played 80 fewer games than YORKSHIRE and 103 fewer than SURREY . In the