1892 English cricket season

1892 was the third season of County Championship cricket in England. Surrey set a record number of wins with thirteen of their sixteen matches to retain the title. George Lohmann and Bill Lockwood took over 100 wickets each in the 16 Championship matches.^{[note 1]}

Honours

County Championship – Surrey
Wisden (Five Batsmen of the Year) – Herbie Hewett, Lionel Palairet, Walter Read, Stanley Scott, Andrew Stoddart

Points system:

1892 County Championship – leading batsmen
Name	Team	Matches	Runs	Average	100s	50s
Herbie Hewett	Somerset	16	1047	40.26	1	9
Arthur Shrewsbury	Nottinghamshire	16	920	41.84	4	0
Walter Read	Surrey	16	896	40.72	3	3
Stanley Scott	Middlesex	15	861	39.13	1	5
Andrew Stoddart	Middlesex	16	848	30.28	1	2

1892 County Championship – leading bowlers
Name	Team	Matches	Balls bowled	Wickets taken	Average
Bill Lockwood	Surrey	16	3411	114	13.26
Arthur Mold	Lancashire	16	3315	104	13.70
George Lohmann	Surrey	15	4326	102	13.87
John Hearne	Middlesex	16	4299	100	16.23
William Attewell	Nottinghamshire	16	4756	97	12.79

1892 English cricket season – leading batsmen
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Runs	Average	100s	50s
Herbie Hewett	Gentlemen, Somerset, South of England	24	1407	35.17	1	11
Andrew Stoddart	Gentlemen, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Middlesex, South of England	26	1403	31.17	1	7
Lionel Palairet	Gentlemen, Oxford University, Somerset	26	1343	31.97	2	7
Arthur Shrewsbury	North of England, Nottinghamshire, Players	22	1260	42.00	5	1
Billy Gunn	Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), North of England, Nottinghamshire, Players	25	1120	30.27	1	6

1892 English cricket season – leading bowlers
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Balls bowled	Wickets taken	Average
John Hearne	Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Middlesex, South of England	25	6803	163	15.39
Sammy Woods	Gentlemen, Somerset, South of England	25	5284	153	16.83
Bill Lockwood	Players, Surrey	22	4452	151	13.60
George Lohmann	Players, South of England, Surrey	23	6069	151	15.33
William Attewell	Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), North of England, Nottinghamshire, Players	26	7271	144	14.00

^ Some eleven-a-side matches played from 1772 to 1863 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources.^[1] However, the term only came into common use around 1864, when overarm bowling was legalised. It was formally defined as a standard by a meeting at Lord's, in May 1894, of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the county clubs which were then competing in the County Championship. The ruling was effective from the beginning of the 1895 season, but pre-1895 matches of the same standard have no official definition of status because the ruling is not retrospective.^[2] Matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status.^[3] Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as top-class or, at least, historically significant.^[4] For further information, see First-class cricket.

^ "First-Class matches in England in 1772". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
^ Wisden (1948). Preston, Hubert (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (85th ed.). London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd. p. 813. OCLC 851705816.
^ ACS 1982, pp. 4–5.
^ ACS 1981, pp. 1–40.