James Stubbings was an English

England

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 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played first class cricket for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1880 and 1885.

Stubbings was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire

Whitwell, Derbyshire

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, the son of James Stubbings, a mason, and his wife Ann. Stubbings himself became a stonemason. He was a notable performer for Whitwell Cricket Club in the 1880s with 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...

 and 'G G' Walker

George Glossop Walker

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 and all three also played for Welbeck as well as the county.

Stubbings played for Players of the North in 1877, in a scratch team

Scratch team

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 for Yorkshire against the Australians in 1878 and for Derbyshire against Harrow Wanderers

Harrow School

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 in the 1879 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1879

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. His debut first-class appearance for the Derbyshire side was in the 1880 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1880

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1880 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their tenth season.Derbyshire played Lancashire and Yorkshire who they had played in the previous season...

 against the touring Australians

Australian cricket team in England in 1880

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, and in the same year he played county matches against Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 and Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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 taking 5-51 in the second innings. His next Derbyshire game was in the 1885 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1885

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 against Lancashire. He later played matches for Derbyshire in 1892

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1892

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1892 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty one years. Derbyshire's matches were not considered to be first class in this season. The club had lost first class status after 1887 and did not regain it until 1894, the...

 and 1893

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1893

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1893 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty two years. Derbyshire's matches were not considered to be first class in this season. The club had lost first class status after 1887 and did not regain it until the following...

 when Derbyshire was without first-class status.

Stubbings was a right-handed batsman and played 10 innings in 5 first class matches with a top score of 10 and an average of 3.71. He was a right-handed fast bowler and took 7 first-class wickets with an average of 20.28 and a best performance of 5-51.

Stubbings died in Huddersfield

Huddersfield

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 at the age of 56.

Stubbings' brother, Walter

Walter Stubbings

Walter Stubbings was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1900.Stubbings was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of James Stubbings, a mason, and his wife Ann. He made just one first-class appearance for the Derbyshire side, in a match against Essex during the 1900 season...

, fourteen years his junior, played one first-class match for Derbyshire.