Cricket
Events
- New Zealand tours England with a team containing many players who will later play Test cricket for New Zealand. However, this tour does not include any Test matches and the 1927 English cricket season is the last, apart from the Second World War years and the cancelled South African tour of 1970, in which there has been no Test cricket in England.
England
- County Championship – Lancashire
- Minor Counties Championship – Staffordshire
- Most runs – Wally Hammond 2969 @ 69.04 (HS 197)
- Most wickets – Charlie Parker 193 @ 19.94 (BB 9–46)
- Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Roger Blunt, Charlie Hallows, Wally Hammond, Douglas Jardine, Vallance Jupp
Australia
- Sheffield Shield – South Australia
- Most runs – Bill Ponsford 1229 @ 122.90 (HS 352)
- Most wickets – Norman Williams 35 @ 32.02 (BB 6–88)
India
- Bombay Quadrangular – Hindus
New Zealand
- Plunket Shield – Auckland
South Africa
- Currie Cup – Transvaal
West Indies
- Inter-Colonial Tournament – Barbados
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