1908 English cricket season
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The 1908 English cricket season was the year in which American
John Barton "Bart" King topped the bowling averages as a member of the touring Philadelphian cricket team
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Cricket in the United States
Cricket in the United States is a sport played at the amateur, club, intercollegiate, and international competition levels. There have also been several recent attempts to form professional cricket leagues in the United States.-History:...
John Barton "Bart" King topped the bowling averages as a member of the touring Philadelphian cricket team
Philadelphian cricket team
The Philadelphian cricket team was a team that represented Philadelphia in first-class cricket between 1878 and 1913. Even with the United States having played the first ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844, the sport began a slow decline in the country. This decline was...
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Honours
- County Championship - Yorkshire
- Minor Counties Championship - StaffordshireStaffordshire County Cricket ClubStaffordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Staffordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
- Wisden (Lord Hawke and Four Cricketers of the Year) - Walter BrearleyWalter BrearleyWalter Brearley, born March 11, 1876, at Bolton, Lancashire; died January 30, 1937, at the Middlesex Hospital, Marylebone, London was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England....
, Lord Hawke, Jack HobbsJack HobbsSir John Berry "Jack" Hobbs was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches from 1908 to 1930....
, Alan Marshal, John NewsteadJohn NewsteadJohn Thomas Newstead was an English first-class cricketer, who played 96 first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1903 and 1913.Newstead was born in Marton, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England...
Leading batsmen
- Bernard BosanquetBernard Bosanquet (cricketer)Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. When bowled, it appears to be a leg break, but after pitching the ball turns in the opposite direction to that which is expected, behaving as an off break instead...
topped the averages with 1081 runs @ 54.05