page_title: Kent County Cricket Club in 1909
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Kent County Cricket Club in 1909 / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of Kenneth Lotherington Hutchings (1882-1916). Caption read "A Century Maker". Brief biography read "K. L. Hutchings - Men of the Day No. 1079. Was born at Southborough , a village near Tunbridge Wells on December 7th 1882, and was the youngest of four brothers, all of whom gained their colours at Tonbridge School. K.L. Hutchings was in the eleven for five years, and captained the team for the last two, with an average of 47 per innings in 1901 and 62 in 1902. He was one of the Kent XI that visited the United States in 1903; but he was hardly known in first class cricket till last season, when he was one of the most successful bats in England; he averaged 64.66 for Kent in the County Championship games..... By scoring two centuries for Kent in their match with Worcestershire, Mr. K. L. Hutchings joins the select company who have gained this distinction".
context_page_description: Kent County Cricket Club's 1909 season was the twentieth season in which the County competed in the County Championship. Kent played 30 first-class cricket matches during the season, losing only two matches overall, and won their second Championship title. They finished clearly ahead of second place Lancashire in the 1909 County Championship with the previous years winners Yorkshire in third place.
  Two of the County's players Arthur Day and Douglas Carr were selected as Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1910 as a result of their performances during the season. Carr made his debut in first-class cricket during the season at the age of 37 and played in his only Test match in August.
  The Championship title was the second of four by Kent during the Golden Age of cricket in the years leading up to the First World War. It followed their first title in 1906, with the nucleus of the side unchanged from then. It was followed by their third title in 1910 and fourth in 1913.
context_section_description: During 1909 Kent played 30 first-class matches, including 26 in the County Championship. They won 18, drew ten and lost only two matches, both during Tonbridge week in June.
  Punter Humphreys led the county in run scoring with a total of 1,390 runs, including 1,207 in the County Championship, closely followed by Kenneth Hutchings with 1,368 total runs. Hutchings led the Championship aggregate for Kent with 1,251 runs. Frank Woolley, James Seymour and Arthur Day also scored more than 1,000 runs for Kent during the season. Day and Hutchings both scored three centuries, as did Jack Mason who averaged 65.25 with the bat in 14 innings. Humphreys scored the County's highest score of the season with 208, at the time a record highest individual score for Kent.
  Woolley and Arthur Fielder shared a partnership of 235 for the tenth wicket against Worcestershire at Amblecote. As of April 2016 this remains the highest last-wicket partnership in the County Championship. The pair came together when Kent were still 40 behind Worcestershire's first innings of 360 and raised Kent's total to 555 before Kent went on to win by an innings. Woolley, who scored 185, had retired hurt earlier in the innings after being hit in the mouth by a ball from Ted Arnold. Fielder contributed 112 not out to the partnership, the only first-class century of his career.
  Colin Blythe was Kent's leading wicket taker in 1909, taking 178 Championship wickets at an average of 14.07, a total which led all bowlers in the Championship. He took 185 wickets in total during the season for Kent, including taking 10 wickets in a match five times and five wickets in an innings 18 times during the season with his left arm spin bowling. Fast bowler Arthur Fielder took 95 wickets with spinners Woolley, Douglas Carr and Bill Fairservice all making significant contributions.
  Kent's best individual bowling figures for the season were Blythe's 9/42 taken against Leicestershire in May, closely followed by the same bowler's 9/44 against Northamptonshire in the same month. His 16/102 in the match against Leicestershire were the season's best bowling figures in the County Championship, followed by his 14/75 in the match against Northamptonshire.
  Fred Huish took 63 wicket-keeping dismissals for Kent during the season, including 35 catches and 22 stumpings in the County Championship. James Seymour took 35 catches in the Championship as part of Kent's well respected slip cordon. Seymour played in every Championship match for Kent during the season, with Blythe, Humphreys, Hutchings and Woolley all playing in 25.
caption: Kenneth Hutchings who led Kent in County Championship run scoring in 1909
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