Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1896 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty five years. It was their second season in the County Championship and they came seventh.
1896 season
Derbyshire played 16 games in the County Championship, one match against MCC and one against the touring Australians. They won five matches in the County Championship and six matches altogether. Brewer's son Sydney Evershed was in his sixth season as captain. William Storer was top scorer, as well as keeping wicket and bowling to take 15 wickets. John Hulme took most wickets with 77 in the County Championship.
In a season marked by a number of high scores, with centuries both for and against Derbyshire Storer and George Davidson produced notable batting performances during the season. Davidson made 274 against Lancashire at Manchester which remains the Derbyshire individual batting record. In the same innings Chatterton and Storer also scored centuries. Against Yorkshire Storer hit centuries in each innings—a feat performed previously only by W. G. Grace, A. E. Stoddart and George Brann, giving him a season's batting average of over 57. Bagshaw added a third century against Yorkshire in the same match.
Of those who made their debuts in the season, Thomas Gould and Henry Curgenven also played in 1897. John Purdy and Charles Middleton played more seasons, but only occasionally. Walter Butterfield played only two matches in 1896 and Frank Bingham just one.
Matches
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! colspan=6 | List of matches |- !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes |- |1 |14 May 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Surrey 14 May 1896 |SurreyAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |Innings and 15 runs | Hayward 229 |- |2 |18 May 1896 Cricket Archive Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 18 May 1896 |NottinghamshireAt Trent Bridge |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |7 wickets | Gunn 135 |- |3 |25 May 1896 Cricket Archive Hampshire v Derbyshire 25 May 1896 |HampshireAt County Ground, Southampton |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |7 wickets | Ward 113 |- |4 |28 May 1896 Cricket Archive Marylebone Cricket Club v Derbyshire 28 May 1896 |MCCAt Lord's |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |1 wicket | W Attewell 5-38; G Porter 5-50 |- |5 |04 Jun 1896 Cricket Archive Surrey v Derbyshire 04 Jun 1896 |SurreyAt Kennington Oval |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |Innings and 57 runs | R Abel 109; G Lohmann 6-51 |- |6 |08 Jun 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Lancashire 08 Jun 1896 |LancashireAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |37 runs | JJ Hulme 6-57; A Mold 5-58 and 7-46; G Davidson 5-49 |- |7 |15 Jun 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 15 Jun 1896 |NottinghamshireAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Gunn 207*; Hardstaffe 8-53 |- |8 |25 Jun 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Yorkshire 25 Jun 1896 |YorkshireAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | W Storer 100 and 100*; H Bagshaw 115 |- |9 |29 Jun 1896 Cricket Archive Leicestershire v Derbyshire 29 Jun 1896 |LeicestershireAt Grace Road, Leicestershire |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |Innings and 147 runs | W Storer 142; G Davidson 6-53 |- |10 |02 Jul 1896 Cricket ArchiveYorkshire v Derbyshire 02 Jul 1896 |Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |9 wickets | Denton 113; W Storer 122; JJ Hulme 5-80; S Haigh 6-45 and 6-70 |- |11 |06 Jul 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Leicestershire 06 Jul 1896 |LeicestershireAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | H Bagshaw 121; Pougher 114 |- |12 |13 Jul 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Warwickshire 13 Jul 1896 |WarwickshireAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |10 wickets | R Lilley 132 and 6-46; G Davidson 5-62; JJ Hulme 7-44 |- |13 |20 Jul 1896 Cricket ArchiveDerbyshire v Australians 20 Jul 1896 |Australians At County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Trott 141; Donnan 167; Hill 130; G Giffen 5-123 |- |14 |23 Jul 1896 Cricket Archive Essex v Derbyshire 23 Jul 1896 |Essex At County Ground, Leyton |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | W Chatterton 111 |- |15 |03 Aug 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Hampshire 03 Aug 1896 |HampshireAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |8 wickets | Kitchener 6-59 |- |16 |10 Aug 1896 Cricket Archive Lancashire v Derbyshire 10 Aug 1896 |LancashireAt Old Trafford, Manchester |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | |W Chatterton 104; G Davidson 274; W Storer 116; J Briggs 6–185; JJ Hulme 5-94 |- |17 |17 Aug 1896 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Essex County 17 Aug 1896 |EssexAt County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |201 runs | JJ Hulme 6-98; Bull 5-68 |- |18 |24 Aug 1896 Cricket Archive Warwickshire v Derbyshire 24 Aug 1896 |WarwickshireAt Edgbaston |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | G Davidson 8-70
Statistics County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s W Storer 15 22 1091 142* 57.42 5 G Davidson 16 24 953 274 43.31 1 W Chatterton 16 26 890 111 40.45 2 H Bagshaw 13 20 628 121 34.88 2 SH Evershed 13 19 637 88 33.52 0 LG Wright 15 23 580 94 25.21 0 W Sugg 16 25 486 88 20.25 0 T Gould 2 1 16 16 16.00 0 GA Marsden 14 19 237 37 15.80 0 JJ Hulme 16 22 237 51* 11.85 0 W S Eadie 2 3 31 18 10.33 0 HG Curgenven 5 5 45 19 9.00 0 G Porter 14 20 112 55 7.00 0 JW Bennett 4 6 30 18 5.00 0 WB Delacombe 2 3 9 7 4.50 0 JH Purdy 5 6 13 10* 3.25 0 J Brooks 2 4 6 6 3.00 0 W Butterfield 2 4 11 7 2.75 0 J Goodall 1 1 2 2 2.00 0 GG Walker 2 3 8 8* – 0 JP Hall 1 1 0 0 – 0 Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1896
Additionally C Middleton and FM Bingham played in the non County Championship match against MCC. Middleton failed to score, but Bingham made seventeen runs in what was his only match for the club.
County Championship bowling averages Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average JJ Hulme 4555 1690 77 7-44 21.94 G Davidson 4721 1502 68 8-70 22.08 G Porter 2568 1029 29 4-56 35.48 W Storer 681 408 15 4-48 27.20 JH Purdy462 203 8 3-53 25.37 JW Bennett 535 236 6 2-37 39.33 W Chatterton 205 107 3 2-16 35.66 W Sugg 355 274 3 2-19 91.33 H Bagshaw 360 177 3 2-38 59.00 HG Curgenven 220 119 2 1-16 59.50 W Butterfield 35 20 1 1-10 20.00 JP Hall 85 39 1 1-21 39.00 GG Walker 160 96 2 1-30 48.00 J Brooks 157 127 1 1-88 127.00 T Gould 55 20 0 LG Wright 5 1 0Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1896
Wicket Keeping
Name Matches Catches Stumpings William Storer 15 26 3 Levi Wright 7 1
See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1896 English cricket season
References