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Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1898 season Captain Sydney Evershed County Championship 9 Most runs William Storer Most wickets George Davidson Most catches William Storer ← 1897 1899 → Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1898 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty-seven years. It was their fourth season in the County Championship and they won three matches to finish ninth in the Championship table.
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1898 season
Derbyshire played sixteen games in the County Championship in 1898 and one match against MCC. The captain for the year was Sydney Evershed in his eighth season as captain. William Storer was top scorer with three centuries which he achieved while also bowling to take 28 wickets and being a useful wicket-keeper. George Davidson took most wickets at 65 as well as scoring a century. The season saw many high scores, and against Hampshire in August, four Derbyshire players Levi Wright, William Storer, William Chatterton and George Davidson scored centuries followed by two more from the Hampshire players in the same match. The Derbyshire total of 645 runs was to remain their highest match score until it was surpassed in the 2007 season.[1] Two matches later, Yorkshire set a record score against Derbyshire of 662 runs when Jack Brown scored 300 and John Tunnicliffe 243 in Walter Sugg's benefit match before Brown deliberately knocked down his wicket. It remained a national partnership record until two more Yorkshiremen, Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe, made 555 for the first wicket against Essex at Leyton in 1932.[2]
Queen's Park, Chesterfield, first used in 1898
The Yorkshire match was Derbyshire's second match at Queen's Park, Chesterfield, the first being earlier in the season against Surrey. The size of the crowd at that game made the experiment well worth while and the ground, described as mre pleasing to the eye than the County Ground, became a regular venue for several matches a season. The game against Surrey was not without incident as superb lob bowling by D. L. A. Jephson, gave him nine Derbyshire wickets for 55 runs in the two innings, Derbyshire supporters were upset by Jephson's lobs, and protested vigorously against them, saying that this was unfair bowling.[2]
The most significant addition to the Derbyshire squad in the season was Billy Bestwick as well known for his antics off the pitch as his demon bowling. William Ellis played the first of several seasons at the club when he played occasional games. Alfred Charlesworth and James Wright also made their debuts and played several matches in the season, although only Wright played in a subsequent season. William Prince, John Bourne and Solomon Hardy each played just one career match for Derbyshire in the season
Matches
List of matches No. Date V Result Margin Notes 1 16 May 1898 [3] Nottinghamshire
Trent Bridge, NottinghamDrawn W Storer 109 2 19 May 1898 [4] Surrey
Kennington OvalAbandoned 3 23 May 1898 [5] Lancashire
County Ground, DerbyLost 65 runs JJ Hulme 6-65; Cuttell 5-30; Briggs 5-34; Mold 5-27 4 30 May 1898 [6] Hampshire
County Ground, SouthamptonWon 10 wickets W Storer 104 5 09 Jun 1898 [7] MCC
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's WoodWon Innings and 1 run G Davidson 6-30 and 6-53; J Hearne 6-66 6 16 Jun 1898 [8] Warwickshire
Edgbaston, BirminghamDrawn Quaife 109; Lilley 112 7 20 Jun 1898 [9] Essex
County Ground, LeytonLost 129 runs G Davidson 7-42 and 8-74 8 27 Jun 1898 [10] Leicestershire
County Ground, DerbyWon Innings and 31 runs Pougher 5-53; F Davidson 6-36; G Davidson 5-31 9 30 Jun 1898 [11] Surrey
Queen's Park, ChesterfieldLost Innings and 43 runs Jephson 6-38 10 04 Jul 1898 [12] Essex
County Ground, DerbyLost Innings and 172 runs Perrin 104 ; McGahey 115; Kortright 5-44; Bull 6-75 11 11 Jul 1898 [13] Nottinghamshire
County Ground, DerbyDrawn F Davidson 6-49 12 25 Jul 1898 [14] Warwickshire
County Ground, DerbyDrawn SH Evershed 153; Field 5-107 13 28 Jul 1898 [15] Yorkshire
St George's Road, HarrogateDrawn H Bagshaw 100; JW Hancock 5-61 14 01 Aug 1898 [16] Hampshire
County Ground, DerbyDrawn LG Wright 134; W Storer 100; W Chatterton 142; G Davidson 108 and 6-42; Poore 121; Quinton 101 and 5-93 15 15 Aug 1898 [17] Leicestershire
Grace Road, LeicesterLost Innings and 103 runs Geeson 6-64 and 7-38 16 18 Aug 1898 [18] Yorkshire
Queen's Park, ChesterfieldLost Innings and 387 runs J Brown 300; J Tunnicliffe 243 17 25 Aug 1898 [19] Lancashire
Old Trafford, ManchesterDrawn J Tyldesley 200; Cuttell 5-48 Statistics
County Championship batting averages
Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s W Storer 15 25 1113 109 50.59 3 SH Evershed 13 23 729 153 33.13 1 W Chatterton 14 23 648 142 30.85 1 H Bagshaw 13 21 481 100* 24.05 1 G Davidson 14 21 457 108 21.76 1 LG Wright 15 26 541 134 21.64 1 EM Ashcroft 4 6 95 60 19.00 0 H Blackwell 3 4 38 15 19.00 0 W Sugg 15 23 323 50 14.68 0 J Wright 5 8 87 53* 12.42 0 A Charlesworth 7 10 92 23 10.22 0 GG Walker 6 9 62 25 7.75 0 W Ellis 3 5 28 16* 7.00 0 F Davidson 8 14 67 19 6.70 0 JJ Hulme 2 3 13 9* 6.50 0 JJ Bourne 1 1 6 6 6.00 0 JW Hancock 11 14 50 19 5.55 0 S Hardy 1 2 10 9 5.00 0 D Bottom 1 2 8 7 4.00 0 GA Marsden 3 5 14 5 2.80 0 W Bestwick 8 11 22 5* 2.75 0 E Evershed 1 1 1 1 1.00 0 SH Wood 1 1 4 4* 0 W Prince 1 1 2 2* 0 [20] County Championship bowling averages
Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average G Davidson 3682 1020 65 8-74 15.69 W Storer 1470 995 28 4-121 35.53 F Davidson 2054 844 32 6-36 26.37 JW Hancock 1511 720 23 5-61 31.30 JJ Hulme 500 152 12 6-65 12.66 GG Walker 965 630 9 4-199 70.00 W Bestwick 765 430 8 4-163 53.75 H Bagshaw 430 241 7 2-5 34.42 W Chatterton 650 255 6 4-32 42.50 W Sugg 345 197 5 3-25 39.40 H Blackwell 175 105 4 2-23 26.25 JJ Bourne 265 103 3 2-63 34.33 D Bottom 123 50 1 1-50 50.00 W Prince 125 38 0 A Charlesworth 60 47 0 EM Ashcroft 50 31 0 J Wright 50 16 0 LG Wright 50 36 0 W Ellis 30 12 0 SH Evershed 30 28 0 [21] Wicket Keeper
- W Storer Catches 24, Stumping 1
- W Chatterton Catches 13, Stumping 1
- LG Wright Catches 10, Stumping 2
See also
- Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
- 1898 English cricket season
References
- ^ Bygone Derbyshire - Run Crazy Derbyshire A Cricket Record
- ^ a b W.T. Taylor History of Derbyshire cricket Wisden 1953
- ^ Cricket Archive - Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 16 May 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Surrey v Derbyshire 19 May 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Lancashire 23 May 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Hampshire v Derbyshire 30 May 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Marylebone Cricket Club v Derbyshire 09 Jun 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Warwickshire v Derbyshire 16 Jun 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Essex v Derbyshire 20 Jun 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Leicestershire 27 Jun 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Surrey 30 Jun 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Essex 04 Jul 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 11 Jul 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Warwickshire 25 Jul 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Yorkshire v Derbyshire 28 Jul 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Hampshire 01 Aug 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Leicestershire v Derbyshire 15 Aug 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Yorkshire 18 Aug 1898
- ^ Cricket Archive - Lancashire v Derbyshire 25 Aug 1898
- ^ Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1898
- ^ Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1898
Categories:- 1898 in cricket
- 1898 in England
- Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
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