The 1988 English cricket season was dominated by Worcestershire who won the first of two successive championships and also a second successive Sunday league title.

Cricket made the front pages of national newspapers, due to the "Summer of four captains" phenomenon that afflicted the England national team, during its five match series against West Indies (see below).

Honours

• County Championship - Worcestershire
• NatWest Trophy - Middlesex
• Sunday League - Worcestershire
• Benson & Hedges Cup -
• Minor Counties Championship - Cheshire
  Cheshire County Cricket Club
  Cheshire 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 Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
  
  
• MCCA Knockout Trophy - Dorset
  Dorset County Cricket Club
  Dorset 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 Dorset and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
  
  
• Second XI Championship - Surrey II
• Wisden - Kim Barnett
  Kim Barnett
  Kim John Barnett was an English cricketer who briefly played for England in 1988 and 1989, and for Derbyshire from 1979 to 1998. He also played for Gloucestershire from 1999 to 2002, and for South African club sides...
  
  , Jeff Dujon
  Jeff Dujon
  Peter Jeffrey Leroy Dujon is a retired West Indian cricketer.He was the wicketkeeper for the West Indian cricket team of the 1980s, an athletic presence behind the stumps as well as a competent lower-order batsman....
  
  , Phil Neale
  Phil Neale
  Phillip Anthony "Phil" Neale OBE was a cricketer who played for Worcestershire and captained the team to success in the County Championship in 1988 and 1989. He also played football for Lincoln City and Scunthorpe United...
  
  , Franklyn Stephenson
  Franklyn Stephenson
  Franklyn DaCosta Stephenson, born at Saint James, Barbados on 8 April 1959, is a former cricketer who had a first-class career for teams in four continents...
  
  , Steve Waugh
  Steve Waugh
  Stephen Rodger "Steve" Waugh, AO is a former Australian cricketer and fraternal twin of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a successful medium-pace bowler...
  
  

Test series

England lost the five match series against West Indies 4-0, utilising four captains along the way.

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...
  
   1989
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1989