1906 English cricket season

[County Championship]

• 1 for a win
• 0 for a draw, a tie or an abandoned match
• -1 for a loss

  [Minor Counties Championship]

• 3 for an outright win
• 2 for a win on the first innings
• 1 for a match with no first innings decision
• 0 for a loss either outright or on the first innings of a drawn match

  [Wisden Cricketers of the Year]

• Jack Crawford, Arthur Fielder, Ernie Hayes, Kenneth Hutchings, Neville Knox

  Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

Notable events

• By winning their last eleven county matches, Kent won the Championship for the first time after Gloucestershire beat Yorkshire by a single run at Bristol in the final round of matches
• Kent's Arthur Fielder became the first bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings in the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord’s
• Tom Hayward set numerous batting records:

1. The highest aggregate of runs in a first-class season – since beaten only by Compton and Bill Edrich in 1947.
2. The earliest to score 2,000 runs, on 5 July.
3. Two separate hundreds in consecutive matches against Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.

• George Hirst became the only player to score 2,000 runs and take 200 wickets in a season. Against Somerset at Taunton, Hirst also became the only player to have two centuries and two five-wicket returns in one match.

  Annual reviews

• John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack, 1907