Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899

1899 season of an English cricket team

Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons1899 season

Captain| Samuel Hill Wood
County Championship| 15
Most runs| Levi Wright
Most wickets| John Hulme
Most catches| William Storer
| ← 1898 | 1900 →

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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

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Derbyshire played eighteen games in the County Championship in 1899, one match against MCC and one match against the touring Australians. They 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 intermittently 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

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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

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### County Championship batting averages

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Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s

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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

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Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average

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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

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* William Storer Catches 16, Stumping 5
* Joe Humphries Catches 14, Stumping 4
* Levi Wright Catches 16, Stumping 1

## See also

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* Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
* 1899 English cricket season

## References

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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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