County season wicket takers — County Championship 1896
T Richardson is the first listed entry with 191 wickets in Redball’s recorded data for the 1896 County Championship. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Wickets | Innings | Matches | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T Richardson | 191 | 47 | 25 | Player overview → |
| AW Mold | 130 | 36 | 19 | Player overview → |
| J Briggs | 122 | 39 | 21 | Player overview → |
| JT Hearne | 118 | 30 | 16 | Player overview → |
| CL Townsend | 101 | 31 | 18 | Player overview → |
| R Peel | 97 | 45 | 24 | Player overview → |
| E Wainwright | 90 | 46 | 25 | Player overview → |
| W Attewell | 86 | 27 | 16 | Player overview → |
| TW Hayward | 81 | 39 | 21 | Player overview → |
| GH Hirst | 80 | 43 | 25 | Player overview → |
Ordered by season total; equal totals use player identifier for stable ordering. Seasons follow the calendar year of match start. Domestic first-class records exclude Tests. Entries tied at the tenth-row cutoff may not all be shown.
Recorded match dates: 1896-05-04 to 1896-09-01. Date spans do not imply complete coverage. Career aggregates may cover a different set of matches.
Displayed source rows last updated: unavailable. Figures retrieved: 2026-10-01. This is not a live score feed.
Source: Redball’s recorded statistics. Methodology, definitions and coverage.
County seasons are grouped by the calendar year of match start. This is not a live score feed.
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