The 1938 English cricket season was notable for England's remarkable total at The Oval

The Oval

The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...

 with Len Hutton contributing a record 364.

Honours

• County Championship - Yorkshire
• Minor Counties Championship - Buckinghamshire
• Wisden - Hugh Bartlett
  Hugh Bartlett
  Hugh Tryon Bartlett DFC was a brilliant attacking left-handed batsman who played for Sussex on either side of the war.-Early years:...
  
  , Bill Brown
  Bill Brown (cricketer)
  William Alfred "Bill" Brown, OAM was an Australian cricketer who played 22 Tests between 1934 and 1948, captaining his country in one Test. A right-handed opening batsman, his partnership with Jack Fingleton in the 1930s is regarded as one of the finest in Australian Test history...
  
  , Denis Compton
  Denis Compton
  Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, and a footballer...
  
  , Kenneth Farnes
  Ken Farnes
  Kenneth Farnes was an English cricketer. He played in 15 Tests from 1934 to 1939.Farnes was born in Leytonstone, Essex, and was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park. He made his first-class debut for Essex in 1930, aged only 19. He took 5-36 in his second county match against Kent...
  
  , Arthur Wood

Test series

England and Australia drew the series 1-1 with two matches drawn and one game abandoned without a ball being bowled. England won the famous match at The Oval

The Oval

The Kia Oval, still commonly referred to by its original name of The Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth. In the past it was also sometimes called the Kennington Oval...

 in which they posted a record total of 903-7d and Len Hutton

Len Hutton

Sir Leonard "Len" Hutton was an English Test cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England in the years around the Second World War as an opening batsman. He was described by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket...

 scored 364.

External sources

• CricketArchive – season summary

Further reading

• Bill Frindall
  Bill Frindall
  William Howard Frindall, MBE was an English cricket scorer and statistician. He was familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Test Match Special, nicknamed the Bearded Wonder by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in...
  
  , The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
• Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
• Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975