Levi Wright

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Levi George Wright (January 15, 1862, Oxford — 11 January 1953, Normanton, Derbyshire) was a cricketer who played for Derbyshire and who was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1906.

Wright was a right-handed batsman and a renowned fieldsman at point. He also occasionally kept wicket. He moved from Oxford to Derby as a schoolmaster and appeared for the county from 1883 through to 1909, his career including the period from 1888 to 1894 when Derbyshire were demoted from first-class status because of poor results. They were reinstated in 1894 and admitted to the County Championship in 1895.

Wright made almost 15,000 runs for Derbyshire at an average of 26 runs per innings, respectable enough figures for the time and for one of the perennially weaker counties. His best seasons came as he got older: he scored 1,000 runs in a season six times, the first when he was 37 years old, and his best season of all was 1905, when in all matches he scored 1,855 runs, at an average of more than 42 runs per innings. The citation as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the 1906 edition of Wisden paid tribute not just to his run-getting at the age of 43, but also his continued quick reactions as a fielder.

Wright captained Derbyshire for part of 1906 and for the whole season in 1907, but the team finished bottom of the Championship in both seasons.

Wright also played association football for Derby County and Notts County.