Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899

Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
1899 season
Captain Samuel Hill Wood
County Championship 15
Most runs Levi Wright
Most wickets John Hulme
Most catches William Storer

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty-eight years. It was their fifth season in the County Championship and they won three matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table.

1899 season

Derbyshire played eighteen games in the County Championship in 1899, one match against MCC and one match against the touring Australians. The only won two matches in the County Championship which left them at the bottom of the table. The early death of George Davidson from pneumonia in February had deprived Derbyshire of a valuable all-rounder with several years potential service ahead of him, and left the bowling dependent almost entirely upon Hulme who had probably his best season with 93 first-class wickets in a very unfavourable summer for bowlers due to dry weather. The captain was Samuel Hill Wood in his first season as captain. Levi Wright was top scorer. William Storer played for England in the first test against Australia in June.

The most significant addition to the Derbyshire squad in the season was Joe Humphries who became a long-serving wicket keeper. John Young played the first of three seasons in which he played frequently, but the remainder who made their debut played only in 1899 or intermittently thereafter. George Gregory and Thomas Higson played intermittenty up to 1910. Richard Kenward played one season and next played for Sussex. Albert Steeples, Leonard Ward and Frank Wright played one career first class match each during the season.

Matches

List of matches
No. Date V Result Margin Notes
1 4 May 1899[1] Surrey
Kennington Oval 		Lost 10 wickets Brockwell 102; Jephson 5-51
2 15 May 1899[2] Warwickshire
County Ground, Derby 		Drawn Dickens 5-22 and 6-23; JJ Hulme 7-58
3 18 May 1899 [3] MCC
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood 		Won 2 wickets Martin 5-13 and 6-76
4 22 May 1899[4] Hampshire
County Ground, Southampton 		Won 7 wickets JJ Hulme 5-60; Baldwin 6-113
5 25 May 1899[5] Leicestershire
Grace Road, Leicester 		Drawn de Trafford 117; JJ Hulme 5-35
6 5 Jun 1899[6] Surrey
Queen's Park, Chesterfield 		Lost Innings and 164 runs Jephson 5-12
7 8 Jun 1899[7] Yorkshire
Dewsbury and Savile Ground 		Lost 9 wickets JA Berwick 5-82; Rhodes 5-65; Hirst 5-57
8 12 Jun 1899[8] Lancashire
Old Trafford, Manchester 		Lost 8 wickets Cutell 120; Hallows 5-31
9 19 Jun 1899[9] Nottinghamshire
Trent Bridge, Nottingham 		Lost Innings and 180 runs Wass 5-42; Bottom 5-34; H Bagshaw 5-18
10 22 Jun 1899[10] Essex
County Ground, Leyton 		Won 98 runs Mead 6-54 and 5-51; JJ Hulme 6-52 and 6-29
11 26 Jun 1899[11] Australia
County Ground, Derby 		Lost Innings and 249 runs Trumble 100; Noble 156; Darling 134*; McLeod 6-89
12 3 Jul 1899[12] Yorkshire

County Ground, Derby 		Lost Innings and 160 runs Brown 192; JJ Hulme 7-124; Wainwright 7-38
13 13 Jul 1899[13] Lancashire
North Road Ground, Glossop 		Lost 269 runs JJ Hulme 6-50; Mold 7-19; W Storer 5-59; A Ward 6-29
14 20 Jul 1899[14] Leicestershire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield 		Drawn W Storer 216
15 24 Jul 1899[15] Essex
County Ground, Derby 		Drawn Perrin 196; Bull 5-71
16 31 Jul 1899[16] Worcestershire
County Ground, Derby 		Drawn Arnold 121; W Sugg 107; W Bestwick 5-86
17 7 Aug 1899[17] Hampshire
County Ground, Derby 		Lost 9 wickets LG Wright 138; Heseltine 7-106; JJ Hulme 6-108
18 17 Aug 1899[18] Worcestershire
County Ground, New Road, Worcester 		Lost Innings and 218 runs G Bromley-Martin 129; H Foster 162; Lowe 102; Burrows 5-37; WIlson 5-45
19 21 Aug 1899[19] Nottinghamshire
County Ground, Derby 		Drawn LG Wright 115; A Jones 5-140
20 28 Aug 1899[20] Warwickshire
Edgbaston, Birmingham 		Drawn

Statistics

County Championship batting averages

Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s
W Storer 17 31 1027 216* 39.50 1
LG Wright 18 34 1064 138 33.25 2
H Bagshaw 16 30 820 77* 28.27 0
SH Evershed 2 3 78 39 26.00 0
W Sugg 14 24 552 107 23.00 1
WB Delacombe 1 2 23 20* 23.00 0
Samuel Hill Wood 4 8 125 58 20.83 0
W Chatterton 12 24 407 53 17.69 0
R Kenward 10 17 285 56 16.76 0
JH Young 3 5 61 42* 15.25 0
W Ellis 7 11 166 58 15.09 0
TA Higson 15 26 340 46 14.16 0
JJ Hulme 18 31 355 59 12.67 0
EM Ashcroft 1 1 11 11 11.00 0
JW Hancock 13 23 227 43* 10.80 0
W Locker 1 2 20 11 10.00 0
A Steeples 1 2 18 16 9.00 0
J Humphries 6 10 64 18* 8.00 0
F Davidson 5 9 62 43 6.88 0
JA Berwick 8 14 66 27 5.50 0
W Bestwick 18 29 91 25 5.05 0
W S Eadie 1 1 5 5 5.00 0
C Middleton 2 4 14 9 4.66 0
W Wilmot 1 2 6 6 3.00 0
F Wright 1 2 4 4 2.00 0
A Warren 1 2 2 1* 2.00 0
GR Gregory 1 1 2 2 2.00 0
LF Ward 1 2 0 0 0.00 0 [21]

County Championship bowling averages

Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average
JJ Hulme 4627 1933 82 7-58 23.57
W Bestwick 2984 1417 48 5-86 29.52
TA Higson 1835 839 27 4-74 31.07
W Storer 955 628 20 5-59 31.40
JA Berwick 820 420 12 5-82 35.00
F Davidson 570 226 11 4-77 20.54
JW Hancock 1030 586 9 3-139 65.11
H Bagshaw 235 120 5 5-18 24.00
JH Young 250 152 3 2-52 50.66
W Ellis 130 63 0
A Warren 99 79 0
W Chatterton 75 35 0
W Sugg 40 41 0
LG Wright 35 39 0
A Steeples 30 21 0
EM Ashcroft 25 11 0
F Wright 20 37 0
C Middleton 15 18 0
Samuel Hill Wood 15 6 0 [22]

Wicket Keeper

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cricket Archive - Surrey v Derbyshire 1899
  2. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Warwickshire 1899
  3. ↑ Cricket Archive - Marylebone Cricket Club v Derbyshire 1899
  4. ↑ Cricket Archive - Hampshire v Derbyshire 1899
  5. ↑ Cricket Archive - Leicestershire v Derbyshire 1899
  6. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Surrey 1899
  7. ↑ Cricket Archive - Yorkshire v Derbyshire 1899
  8. ↑ Cricket Archive - Lancashire v Derbyshire1899
  9. ↑ Cricket Archive - Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 1899
  10. ↑ Cricket Archive - Essex v Derbyshire 1899
  11. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Australians 1899
  12. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Yorkshire 1899
  13. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Lancashire 1899
  14. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Leicestershire 1899
  15. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Essex 1899
  16. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Worcestershire 1899
  17. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Hampshire 1899
  18. ↑ Cricket Archive - Worcestershire v Derbyshire 1899
  19. ↑ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 1899
  20. ↑ Cricket Archive - Warwickshire v Derbyshire 1899
  21. ↑ Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1899
  22. ↑ Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1899

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