The 2004 English cricket season saw the English cricket team

English cricket team

The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end...

 record a 4-0 Test series whitewash over the West Indies. Their one-day form was poor, however. In the Natwest Trophy, they failed to make the final, which saw New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

 defeat the West Indies by 107 runs. And in the Natwest Challenge, they went down 2-1 to the Indian cricket team

Indian cricket team

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. In domestic cricket, Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

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 won the County Championship

County Championship

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

.

Honours

• County Championship - Warwickshire
• C&G Trophy - Gloucestershire
• National League - Glamorgan
• Twenty20 Cup - Leicestershire
• Minor Counties Championship - Bedfordshire
  Bedfordshire County Cricket Club
  Bedfordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Bedfordshire and competing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The Minor Counties play three-day...
  
   and Devon shared title
• MCCA Knockout Trophy - Berkshire
  Berkshire County Cricket Club
  Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Berkshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy....
  
  
• Second XI Championship - Somerset II
• Second XI Trophy - Worcestershire II
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year - Ashley Giles
  Ashley Giles
  Ashley Fraser Giles MBE is a retired English cricketer. Giles played the entirety of his 14-year first-class career at Warwickshire County Cricket Club where he is now employed as Director of Cricket...
  
  , Steve Harmison
  Steve Harmison
  Stephen James Harmison MBE is an English cricketer. Primarily a fast bowler, he represented England in 63 Tests, 58 ODI's, and 2 T20's. He also plays county cricket for Durham....
  
  , Robert Key
  Robert Key (cricketer)
  Robert William Trevor Key is an English cricketer. He is the captain of Kent County Cricket Club, and a former member of the England Test match and One Day International sides....
  
  , Andrew Strauss
  Andrew Strauss
  Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...
  
  , Marcus Trescothick
  Marcus Trescothick
  Marcus Edward Trescothick MBE is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club, and represented England in 76 Test matches and 123 One Day Internationals. A left-handed opening batsman, he made his first-class debut for Somerset in 1993 and quickly established...
  
  

County Championship

Division One
Division Two

Twenty20 Cup

Twenty20 Cup - Group Tables
North Division
Mid/West/Wales Division
South Division

External sources

• Cricinfo
• CricketArchive – season and tournament itineraries

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   2005
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 2005