1909 English cricket season

[2][3] Monty Noble's Australian tourists played 42 first-class matches, including a five Test series to contest The Ashes.

Carr became the first man to play for England having made his first-class debut earlier in the same season.

[7][8] Kent won their second County Championship title, playing 26 matches with 16 wins and only two losses during the season.

[1] These calls led nowhere in the short term, although for the 1911 County Championship a new system of awarding points was introduced.

Ted Arnold and William Burns set a then world record fifth-wicket partnership of 393 runs for Worcestershire against Warwickshire.