Honours

• County Championship - Kent
• Gillette Cup - Sussex
• Sunday League - Hampshire
• Benson & Hedges Cup - Kent
• Minor Counties Championship - Devon
  Devon County Cricket Club
  Devon 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 Devon and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy....
  
  
• Second XI Championship - Sussex II
• Wisden - David Gower
  David Gower
  David Ivon Gower OBE is a former English cricketer who became a commentator for Sky Sports. Although he eventually rose to the captaincy of the England cricket team during the 1980s, he is best known for being one of the most stylish left-handed batsmen of the modern era. Gower played 117 Test...
  
  , John Lever
  John Lever
  John Lever MBE is an English former cricketer, who played in twenty one Tests and twenty two ODIs for England from 1976 to 1986...
  
  , Chris Old
  Chris Old
  Chris Old is an English former cricketer, who played in forty six Tests and thirty two ODIs from 1972 to 1981....
  
  , Clive Radley
  Clive Radley
  Clive Thornton Radley MBE is an English former cricketer, who played eight Tests and four One Day Internationals for England...
  
  , John Shepherd
  John Shepherd (cricketer)
  John Neil Shepherd is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1969 to 1971...
  
  

External sources

• CricketArchive – season and tournament itineraries

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   1979
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1979