Australia v England
1925-01-01
On a rain-affected New Year's Day at the MCG in 1925, Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe walked out to open and put on 283 — at the time the highest opening stand in Ashes Test history and an innings that announced one of the great opening partnerships of all cricket. England lost the match but the partnership had begun in earnest.
Australia v England
1925-03-04
Herbert Collins's Australians retained the Ashes 4-1 in the long, hot summer of 1924-25, but the central story of the series was the bowling of Maurice Tate — 38 wickets in five Tests, then a world record for any bowler in an Ashes series — and the formation, finally, of the Hobbs-Sutcliffe opening partnership.
Australia v England
1925-02-27
On Test debut at the SCG in February 1925, the 33-year-old leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett took 5 for 45 and 6 for 37 against Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Hendren. The 11 for 82 was, and remains, one of the great Test debut performances by a wrist-spinner — a late beginning to a career that would yield 216 Test wickets.
Surrey v Somerset
1925-08-17
On Monday 17 August 1925 at Taunton, the 42-year-old Jack Hobbs cut a Jim Bridges short ball for four to reach 101 — his 126th first-class century, equalling W.G. Grace's career record. The next morning he made another, 101 not out, and the 'Master' had passed the figure that had defined English batting since 1895.
Yorkshire and English County Championship
1925-08-31
Between 1922 and 1925 Yorkshire won four consecutive County Championship titles — the longest unbroken run by any county since the championship became official in 1890. Captained by Geoffrey Wilson and then Major Lupton, the side built around Sutcliffe, Holmes, Rhodes, Macaulay and Robinson lost only 11 of 116 matches across the four seasons.
Middlesex v Worcestershire
1925-07-21
On 21 July 1925 the 36-year-old Patsy Hendren made 277 for Middlesex against Worcestershire at New Road — at the time his career-best, in a 1925 season in which he scored 3,311 runs at 70.44 and was second in the English averages only to Jack Hobbs.
Kent and England
1925-08-31
In 1925 the 38-year-old Frank Woolley scored 3,069 first-class runs and took 110 wickets — one of the great all-round seasons in English county cricket and the formal peak of a career that would finish with 58,969 runs and 2,068 wickets, both still among the top five in cricket history.
Hindus, Parsis, Muslims, Europeans
1925-12-01
Through the 1920s the Bombay Quadrangular — between teams chosen on the religious and ethnic lines of the city's communities (Hindus, Parsis, Muslims, Europeans) — was the most important annual cricket competition in India and the principal showcase for the country's emerging Test players.
New South Wales and Australia
1925-12-30
Through 1925-26 the 28-year-old Alan Kippax of New South Wales established himself as the heir to the Trumper-Macartney tradition of Australian batting stylists, scoring 1,309 first-class runs at 65.45 and earning the first of his 22 Test caps.
Pollard / Women's cricket in England
1925-08-15
Through the 1920s Marjorie Pollard was the leading all-rounder in English women's cricket and the founding journalist of the women's game. Her playing career, her organisation of the 1926 Colwall cricket week, and her editorship of Women's Cricket magazine from 1930 onward made her the central figure in the institutional history of women's cricket in England.
Australia v England
1925-03-04
On his debut Test series, the 30-year-old Yorkshire opener Herbert Sutcliffe scored 734 runs in five Tests at an average of 81.55 — at the time the highest Test debut series aggregate by any batsman in cricket history.