The 1920 English cricket season had no Test cricket as the post-war recovery continued. Middlesex rose from 13th in 1919 to take the first of two back-to-back titles. Worcestershire returned to the championship after missing the 1919 season.

Honours

• County Championship - Middlesex
• Minor Counties Championship - no competition
• Wisden - Plum Warner
  Plum Warner
  Sir Pelham Francis Warner MBE , affectionately and better known as Plum Warner, or even "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket was a Test cricketer....
  
  

Leading batsmen

Patsy Hendren

Patsy Hendren

Elias Henry Hendren better known as Patsy Hendren was an English cricketer. Patsy was one of the most prolific English batsmen of the period between the wars, averaging 47.63 in his 51 Test matches...

 topped the averages with 2520 runs @ 61.46, just ahead of Jack Hobbs

Jack Hobbs

Sir John Berry "Jack" Hobbs was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches from 1908 to 1930....

 who scored 2827 @ 58.89.

Leading bowlers

Jack Hobbs topped the bowling averages but he only took 17 wickets so it hardly counts! The real leading bowler was Wilfred Rhodes

Wilfred Rhodes

Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets in and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches...

with 161 wickets @ 13.18.

External sources

• CricketArchive – season summary