County season wicket takers — County Championship 1897
T Richardson is the first listed entry with 238 wickets in Redball’s recorded data for the 1897 County Championship. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Wickets | Innings | Matches | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T Richardson | 238 | 51 | 26 | Player overview → |
| J Briggs | 140 | 47 | 26 | Player overview → |
| FG Bull | 109 | 30 | 16 | Player overview → |
| JT Hearne | 102 | 29 | 16 | Player overview → |
| WR Cuttell | 102 | 44 | 25 | Player overview → |
| CHG Bland | 95 | 31 | 20 | Player overview → |
| TW Hayward | 91 | 46 | 24 | Player overview → |
| AW Hallam | 90 | 45 | 26 | Player overview → |
| AW Mold | 88 | 34 | 20 | Player overview → |
| CL Townsend | 88 | 32 | 18 | 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: 1897-05-03 to 1897-09-01. 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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