Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1895

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1895 was the first season in which the English county cricket club Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

played in the County Championship

County Championship

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

which had been established in 1890. The club settled their place by coming fifth with five championship wins. It was the club's 25th season although the matches in the period between 1888 and 1893 were not given first-class status. Matches in 1894 were accorded first class status, but were not included in the County Championship.

1895 season

Derbyshire joined the County Championship, together with Essex, Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Hampshire.
Derbyshire played 16 games in the County Championship, and one match against MCC. They won six matches altogether and drew seven. Brewer's son Sydney Evershed

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

was in his fifth season as captain. William Chatterton

William Chatterton

William Chatterton was an English cricketer and footballer. He played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1882 and 1902 and for England in 1891/2. He captained Derbyshire between 1887 and 1889 and scored over 10,000 runs in his first-class career as well as taking over 200 wickets...

was top scorer although George Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

George Arthur Davidson was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1886 and 1898 and for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1888 and 1898. A useful all-rounder, he scored over 5500 runs and took 621 wickets in his first class career.Davidson was born in Brimington, Derbyshire, the son...

had a better average and took most wickets with 93 (79 in the championship).

Making their entry in the Championship, the club tried out a large number of players, all of whom played less than 20 games for the club. John Berwick

John Berwick

John Albert Berwick was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1895 and 1901.Berwick was born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, the son of John Berwick, bootmaker and his wife Rebecca...

lasted longest as a regular player, while John Hall

John Hall (cricketer)

John Peter Hall was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1895 and 1897.Hall was born at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. His cricket career began in the 1895 when Derbyshire entered the County Championship...

and Henry Blackwell

Henry Blackwell (cricketer)

Henry Blackwell was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1895 and 1898.Blackwell was born at Wirksworth Derbyshire, the son of William Blackwell, a butcher and his wife Fanny...

appeared infrequently over several seasons. John Goodall

John Goodall

John Goodall was a footballer who rose to fame as a centre-forward for England and for Preston North End at the time of the development of the Football League, and also became Watford's first manager in 1903...

, John Bennett

John Bennett (Derbyshire cricketer)

John William Bennett was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1895 and 1896.Bennett was born in Lower Whitfield, Glossop, the son of Hiram Bennett a cotton spinner, and he also worked in the cotton industry...

and Joseph Brooks

Joseph Brooks (cricketer)

Joseph Brooks was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1895 and 1896.Brooks was born at South Normanton, Derbyshire, the son of John Brooks, a coal miner, and his wife Maria. He made his debut for Derbyshire in August 1895 against Hampshire when he made 2 not out...

played in 1895 and in 1896, while Harry Storer

Harry Storer, Sr.

Harry Storer was an English football goalkeeper who played for Arsenal and Liverpool, and a cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1895.- Life and playing career :...

and Thomas Richardson

Thomas Richardson (cricketer)

Thomas Haden Richardson was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1895.Richardson was born at Tutbury, Staffordshire, the son of John T. H. Richardson and his wife Sarah Richards...

only played in the 1895 season. Jesse Boot

Jesse Boot (cricketer)

Jesse Boot was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1895.Boot was born in South Normanton, the son of Joseph Boot, a miner, and his wife Ann. Boot himself was also a coal miner. His only appearance for Derbyshire came late the 1895 season, against Leicestershire in August...

and Harry Spencer

Harry Spencer (cricketer, born 1868)

Harry Spencer was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1895.Spencer was born in Northowram, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was the son of William Spencer, a grocer, and his wife Mary....

played only one match.

Matches

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
!No.
!Date
!V
!Result
!Margin
!Notes
|-
|1
|13 May 1895
|Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Warwickshire. Its limited overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears. Their kit colours are black and gold and the shirt sponsor...

At Edgbaston

Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England...

|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
|AFA Lilley

Dick Lilley

Arthur Frederick Augustus Lilley was an English cricketer who played in 35 Tests from 1896 to 1909, more than any other England wicket-keeper in the first sixty years of Test cricket.The conservative cricket establishment of the time was not effusive in its appreciation of this great keeper...

139; HW Bainbridge 104
HJ Pallett 8-69

|-
|2
|20 May 1895
|MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

At Lord's
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
|42 runs
|Not a match of the 1895 County Championship
F Martin 6-22; W Mead 6-90
|-
|3
|03 Jun 1895
|Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

At County Ground, Southampton
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
|Innings and 79 runs
|T Soar

Thomas Soar

Thomas Soar was an English cricketer. Soar was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast.Soar made his debut for Hampshire in 1888. The club by this time had lost their first-class status, meaning Soar's debut match for the county against the Marylebone Cricket Club was a non first-class...

7-49; H Baldwin

Harry Baldwin (cricketer)

Harry Baldwin was an English cricketer. Baldwin was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.-Career:Baldwin made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 1877 season against Derbyshire...

5-61
|-
|4
|10 Jun 1895
|Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Cricket Club

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
|201 runs
|GA Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

9-39
|-
|5
|20 Jun 1895
|Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

At Headingley
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
|107 runs
|
|-
|6
|24 Jun 1895
|Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland....

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
|W Chatterton

William Chatterton

127; G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

George Porter was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire between 1881 and 1896.Porter was born at Kilburn, Derbyshire, the son of John Porter a brickyard worker, and his wife Sarah Brentnall and was apprenticed to his uncle as a chimney sweep...

5-67
|-
|7
|01 Jul 1895
|Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire, and the current county champions. Its limited overs team is called the Nottinghamshire Outlaws...

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
|GA Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

6-45; W Flowers

Wilfred Flowers

Wilfred Flowers was a professional cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club between 1877 and 1896....

7-69; JW Bennett 5-40
|-
|8
|08 Jul 1895
|Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
|171 runs
|H Bagshaw 127*; S Evershed

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

112
S Haigh

Schofield Haigh

Schofield Haigh was a Yorkshire and England cricketer. He played for eighteen seasons for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, for England from the 1898/99 tour to 1912, and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1901....

5-73; JW Bennett 5-101; FW Miligan

Frank Milligan

Frank William Milligan was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played in two Tests in 1899. He died in the campaign to relieve Mafeking during the Second Boer War....

6-26
|-
|9
|11 Jul 1895
|Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club

At Trent Bridge
|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
|A Shrewsbury

Arthur Shrewsbury

Arthur Shrewsbury was an English cricketer, and rugby football administrator, who organised the first British Isles rugby tour to Australasia in 1888, and who was widely rated as competing with W. G...

143;
|-
|10
|15 Jul 1895
|Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...

At County Ground, Leyton
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
|134 runs
|GA Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

5-43; CJ Kortright

Charles Kortright

Charles Jesse Kortright was an English cricketer, who played for Essex and Free Foresters...

7-50 & 6-53; G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

5-80
|-
|11
|18 Jul 1895
|Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...

At Kennington Oval
|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
|T Richardson

Thomas Richardson (cricketer)

6-100; GA Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

5-72
|-
|12
|29 Jul 1895
|Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
|Innings and 53 runs
|T Richardson

Thomas Richardson (cricketer)

5-27 & 6-33; George Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

5-67
|-
|13
|01 Aug 1895
|Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

At Old Trafford, Manchester
|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
|GA Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

6-67
|-
|14
|05 Aug 1895
|Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
|Innings and 50 runs
|G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

7-52 & 7-49; H Baldwin

Harry Baldwin (cricketer)

5-76
|-

|15
|08 Aug 1895
|Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

At Grace Road, Leicestershire
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
|127 runs
|W Sugg

Walter Sugg

Walter Sugg was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire in 1881, and for Derbyshire from 1884 until 1902.-Life and career:...

104*
F Wright 5-78; GG Walker 9-68; F Geeson 5-94
|-
|16
|19 Aug 1895
|Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

At County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
|63 runs
|W Storer

William Storer

William Storer was an English footballer and a cricketer who played six Tests from 1897 to 1899, played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1887 to 1905 and played football for Derby County...

108
AW Mold

Arthur Mold

Arthur Webb Mold was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1889 and 1901. He played three Test matches for England in 1893 and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1892. A fast bowler, he was one of the most effective bowlers...

7-57; GA Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

8-25; G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

5-55
|-
|17
|26 Aug 1895
|Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

County Championship batting averages

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="80%"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Name !! Matches !! Inns !! Runs !! High score !! Average !! 100s
|-
| H Bagshaw || 15 || 25 || 701 || 127* || 30.47 || 1
|-
| W Chatterton

William Chatterton

|| 16 || 28 || 787 || 127 || 29.14|| 1
|-
| W Storer || 15 || 24 || 618 || 108 || 29.09|| 1
|-
| G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

|| 15 || 25 || 641 || 79 || 26.70 || 0
|-
| SH Evershed

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

|| 11 || 17 || 442 || 112 || 26.00|| 1
|-
| W Sugg

Walter Sugg

Walter Sugg was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire in 1881, and for Derbyshire from 1884 until 1902.-Life and career:...

|| 16 || 27 || 590 || 104* || 24.58 || 1
|-
| LG Wright

Levi Wright

Levi George Wright was an English footballer and cricketer. He played association football for Derby County and Notts County and cricket for Derbyshire from 1883 to 1909 being captain for a season and a half in 1906/1907. He scored over 15,000 runs in his first class career and took 237 catches...

|| 16 || 27 || 555 || 90 || 20.55|| 0
|-
| J Goodall

John Goodall

|| 1 || 2 || 36 || 32 || 18.00 || 0
|-
| GG Walker

George Glossop Walker

George Glossop Walker was an English Cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1881 and 1898.- Early life :...

|| 13 || 19 || 225 || 48 || 17.30|| 0
|-
| JW Bennett || 12 || 19 || 227 || 43 || 13.35|| 0
|-
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

|| 14 || 23 || 234 || 93 || 13.00|| 0
|-
| H Storer

Harry Storer, Sr.

Harry Storer was an English football goalkeeper who played for Arsenal and Liverpool, and a cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1895.- Life and playing career :...

|| 6 || 10 || 92 || 35 || 10.22|| 0
|-
| JJ Hulme || 3 || 5 || 43 || 21 || 8.60|| 0
|-
| GA Marsden

George Marsden (cricketer)

George Allen Marsden was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1894 and 1898.Marsden was born in Wirksworth, the son of George Marsden a printer and auctioneer and his wife Anne Allen...

|| 2 || 4 || 28 || 17 || 7.00|| 0
|-
| C Evans

Charles Evans (cricketer)

Charles Evans was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1889 and 1895.Evans was born at Newbold, Derbyshire the son of George Evans, an engine wright at a colliery and his wife Harriett...

|| 3 || 5 || 34 || 11 || 6.80|| 0
|-
| TH Richardson

Thomas Richardson (cricketer)

|| 3 || 5 || 34 || 11 || 6.80|| 0
|-
| JA Berwick

John Berwick

John Albert Berwick was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1895 and 1901.Berwick was born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, the son of John Berwick, bootmaker and his wife Rebecca...

|| 3 || 6 || 26 || 13 || 6.50|| 0
|-
| S Hill-Wood || 3 || 5 || 21 || 7* || 7.00|| 0
|-
| J Boot

Jesse Boot (cricketer)

|| 1 || 2 || 4 || 4 || 2.00|| 0
|-
| J Brooks

Joseph Brooks (cricketer)

|| 3 || 3 || 2 || 2* || 2.00 || 0
|-
| JP Hall

John Hall (cricketer)

|| 2 || 4 || 3 || 2 || 1.00|| 0
|-
| F Mycroft

Frank Mycroft

Frank Mycroft was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895.Mycroft was born in Shirland Toadhole Furnace, Derbyshire, the son of Matthew Mycroft, a farmer of , and his wife Eliza. Mycroft started playing for Derbyshire in the 1893 season before they were included in the...

|| 1 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 0.50|| 0
|-
| H Spencer

Harry Spencer (cricketer, born 1868)

|| 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0.00|| 0
|-
| S Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1890 and 1895.Malthouse was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of John G. Malthouse, a mason, and his wife Ann...

|| 1 || 1 || 1 || 1* || – || 0
|}

Additionally Henry Blackwell

Henry Blackwell (cricketer)

Henry Blackwell was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1895 and 1898.Blackwell was born at Wirksworth Derbyshire, the son of William Blackwell, a butcher and his wife Fanny...

played in the non County Championship match against MCC making a total of 2 runs.

County Championship bowling averages

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="80%"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Name !! Balls !! Runs !! Wickets !! BB !! Average
|-
| G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

|| 4587 || 1397 || 89 || 9-39 || 15.68
|-
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

|| 3488 || 1273 || 70 || 7-49 || 18.19
|-
| GG Walker

George Glossop Walker

George Glossop Walker was an English Cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1881 and 1898.- Early life :...

|| 1679 || 912 || 38 || 9-68 || 24.00
|-
| JW Bennett || 1307 || 465 || 29 || 5-8 || 16.03
|-
| W Sugg

Walter Sugg

Walter Sugg was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire in 1881, and for Derbyshire from 1884 until 1902.-Life and career:...

|| 535 || 299 || 10 || 3-12 || 29.90
|-
| JJ Hulme || 745 || 357 || 9 || 3-32 || 39.56
|-
| C Evans

Charles Evans (cricketer)

|| 555 || 286 || 6 || 3-93 || 47.66
|-
| H Bagshaw || 145 || 81 || 4 || 2-27 || 20.25
|-
| W Chatterton

William Chatterton

|| 81 || 55 || 2 || 1-7 || 27.50
|-
| JP Hall

John Hall (cricketer)

|| 86 || 40 || 2 || 1-12 || 20.00
|-
| J Brooks

Joseph Brooks (cricketer)

|| 110 || 63 || 1 || 1-22 || 63.00
|-
| W Storer || 75 || 31 || 1 || 1-23 || 31.00
|-
| JA Berwick

John Berwick

John Albert Berwick was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1895 and 1901.Berwick was born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, the son of John Berwick, bootmaker and his wife Rebecca...

|| 45 || 12 || 0 || – || –
|-
| Samuel Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1890 and 1895.Malthouse was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of John G. Malthouse, a mason, and his wife Ann...

|| 110 || 41 || 0 || – || –
|-
| H Storer

Harry Storer, Sr.

Harry Storer was an English football goalkeeper who played for Arsenal and Liverpool, and a cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1895.- Life and playing career :...

|| 25 || 13 || 0 || – || –
|}

Wicket Keeping

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Name !! Matches !! Catches !! Stumpings
|-
| William Storer

William Storer

William Storer was an English footballer and a cricketer who played six Tests from 1897 to 1899, played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1887 to 1905 and played football for Derby County...

|| 16 || 38 || 3
|-
| Frank Mycroft

Frank Mycroft

|| 1 || 1 || 0
|}

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