Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1936

1936 season of an English cricket team

Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons1936 season

Captain| A W Richardson
County Championship| 1
Most runs| Stan Worthington
Most wickets| Bill Copson
Most catches| Harry Elliott
| ← 1935 | 1937 →

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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1936 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire won the County Championship for the first and only time. They had been playing for sixty five years and it was their thirty-eighth season in the County Championship.

## 1936 season

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Success in the County Championship saw the culmination of five years effort by A. W. Richardson since he became captain in 1931. Derbyshire had actually come second in the championship in 1935 with a better set of results. Middlesex and Yorkshire made strong challenges in the closing weeks of the 1936 season which kept tensions high in the Derbyshire camp. When he heard that the Championship had been settled the Duke of Devonshire, the Derbyshire President, left a shooting party at Bolton Abbey in a hurry to get to Derby and join the public reception given to the players on their return.[1]

Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against Oxford University and one match against the touring Indians. Stan Worthington and Leslie Townsend tied as top scorers in the County Championships, but Worthington's 174 against Oxford University gave him the edge in first class batting positions. Bill Copson's 140 wickets made him top bowler for the county.

Worthington also played for England in Test matches against the Indians.

George Langdale made his debut for Derbyshire and went on to play one first team game in 1937. Samuel Hunt also made his debut, but only played the 1936 season

### Matches

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List of matches

No.  | Date  | V  | Result  | Margin  | Notes
1  | 6 May 1936[2] | Hampshire
At County Ground, Southampton  | Drawn  |  | R H Moore 100; C G A Paris 101
2  | 9 May 1936[3] | Oxford University
The University Parks, Oxford | Won  | Innings and 130 runs  | Not a County Championship match
T S Worthington 174; R F H Darwell-Smith 5–134
3  | 13 May 1936[4] | Kent
Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend | Lost  | 10 wickets  | A P Freeman 7–29; W H Copson 5–57; D V P Wright 5–31
4  | 16 May 1936[5] | Surrey
County Ground, Derby | Won  | 16 runs  | A R Gover 5–63; W H Copson 5–33 and 7–19; F R Brown 5–53
5  | 23 May 1936[6] | Sussex
Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won  | Innings and 25 runs  | L F Townend 182;W H Copson 5–42
6  | 27 May 1936[7] | Gloucestershire
Ashley Down Ground, Bristol | Won  | 10 Wickets  | R A Sinfield 7–54; T. B. Mitchell 5–40
7  | 30 May 1936[8] | Essex
County Ground, Derby | Drawn  |  |
8  | 3 Jun 1936[9] | Northamptonshire
County Ground, Northampton | Won  | 7 Wickets  | W H Copson 6–24
9  | 10 Jun 1936[10] | Gloucestershire
County Ground, Derby | Won  | 10 Wickets  |  T. B. Mitchell 7–26
10  | 13 Jun 1936[11] | Yorkshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn  |  | L F Townsend 101; W E Bowes 5–66; T. B. Mitchell 6–60
11  | 17 Jun 1936[12] | Somerset
Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Lost  | 10 Wickets  | H Hunt 7–49; T. B. Mitchell 5–90
12  | 20 Jun 1936[13] | Warwickshire
Edgbaston, Birmingham | Won  | Innings and 10 runs  | L F Townsend 5–44 and 7–46; T. B. Mitchell 5–42
13  | 24 Jun 1936[14] | Worcestershire

Queen's Park, Chesterfield

| Won  | 3 Wickets  | H H I H Gibbons 99; W H Copson 5–34; R T D Perks 5–63
14  | 27 Jun 1936[15] | Lancashire
Park Road Ground, Buxton  | Drawn  |  | F S Booth 6–16; A V Pope 5–53
15  | 1 Jul 1936[16] | Worcestershire
County Ground, New Road, Worcester  | Won  | Innings and 123 runs  | W H Copson 5–38 and 7–16
16  | 4 Jul 1936[17] | Warwickshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won  | Innings and 159 runs  | T S Worthington 163; T. B. Mitchell 5–52
17  | 8 Jul 1936[18] | Hampshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn  |  | L F Townsend 153
18  | 11 Jul 1936[19] | Lancashire
Old Trafford, Manchester  | Drawn  |  | F M Sibbles 7–36
19  | 15 Jul 1936[20] | Kent
The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent  | Won  | 141 Runs  | L F Townsend 115; A V Pope 5–48
20  | 18 Jul 1936[21] | Indians
County Ground, Derby | Drawn  |  | Not a County Championship match
W H Copson 5–44
21  | 22 Jul 1936[22] | Yorkshire
Bramall Lane, Sheffield  | Drawn  |  | T S Worthington 135; A Mitchell 103;W H Copson 6–60
22  | 25 Jul 1936[23] | Nottinghamshire
Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston  | Lost  | 6 Wickets  | T. B. Mitchell 6–87; W Voce 6–43
23  | 1 Aug 1936[24] | Essex
County Ground, Chelmsford  | Won  | 20 runs  | K Farnes 5–20; T P B Smith 5–62; T. B. Mitchell 6–25
24  | 5 Aug 1936[25] | Surrey
Kennington Oval | Drawn  |  | D Smith 106; T. B. Mitchell 5–88
25  | 8 Aug 1936[26] | Leicestershire
County Ground, Derby  | Won  | 9 Wickets  | W H Copson 5–40; T. B. Mitchell 5–57 and 5–42; G Geary 5–39
26  | 15 Aug 1936[27] | Nottinghamshire
Town Ground, Worksop  | Drawn  |  | W W Keaton 100; C B Harris 107
27  | 19 Aug 1936[28] | Sussex
The Saffrons, Eastbourne | Drawn  |  |  J Langridge 126; W H Copson 6–87
28  | 22 Aug 1936[29] | Northamptonshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield  | Drawn  |  |  R J Partridge 5–69; A V Pope 6–129
29  | 26 Aug 1936[30] | Somerset
Rowden Road, Wells  | Lost  | 1 Wicket  | A V Pope 5–35; A W Wellard 5–47; W H Copson 6–81
30  | 29 Aug 1936[31] | Leicestershire
Oakham School Ground | Won  | Innings and 66 runs  | D Smith 169; T S Worthington 102

## 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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T S Worthington | 26 | 40 | 1322 | 163 | 35.72 | 3
L F Townsend | 28 | 43 | 1322 | 182* | 33.89 | 4
D Smith | 28 | 46 | 1256 | 169 | 30.63 | 2
A E Alderman | 28 | 46 | 1074 | 79 | 25.57 | 0
W W H Hill-Wood | 1 | 2 | 48 | 38 | 24.00 | 0
A F Skinner | 12 | 20 | 441 | 62 | 22.05 | 0
H Elliott | 28 | 41 | 639 | 79* | 19.96 | 0
C S Elliott | 18 | 26 | 426 | 97 | 18.52 | 0
H Storer | 9 | 13 | 205 | 62 | 15.76 | 0
E Carrington | 7 | 11 | 157 | 72 | 14.27 | 0
A V Pope | 28 | 38 | 441 | 40 | 13.78 | 0
G R Langdale | 3 | 5 | 064 | 29 | 12.80 | 0
A W Richardson | 26 | 34 | 378 | 50 | 12.60 | 0
T. B. Mitchell | 26 | 32 | 267 | 45 | 10.68 | 0
N A M Walker | 1 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 10.00 | 0
S W Hunt | 5 | 5 | 48 | 17 | 9.60 | 0
G H Pope | 4 | 6 | 50 | 14 | 8.33 | 0
T R Armstrong | 2 | 3 | 16 | 8* | 8.00 | 0
A F Townsend | 2 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 7.66 | 0
W H Copson | 26 | 29 | 89 | 17 | 5.56 | 0[32]

In addition, John Gilbert appeared for Derbyshire against Oxford University.

### County Championship bowling averages

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Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average

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W H Copson | 4731 | 1792 | 140 | 7–16 | 12.80
T. B. Mitchell | 3842 | 2373 | 116 | 7–26 | 20.45
A V Pope | 5071 | 1666 | 94 | 6–129 | 17.72
L F Townsend | 3111 | 1062 | 54 | 7–46 | 19.66
T S Worthington | 1337 | 584 | 19 | 4–31 | 30.73
G H Pope | 337 | 128 | 5 | 2–35 | 25.60
T R Armstrong | 198 | 95 | 4 | 2–2 | 23.75
D Smith | 18 | 13 | 1 | 1–13 | 13.00
G R Langdale | 156 | 95 | 0
A F Townsend | 36 | 23 | 0
A F Skinner | 18 | 15 | 0
N A M Walker | 12 | 10 | 0
C S Elliott | 12 | 9 | 0
S W Hunt | 6 | 3 | 0[33]

### Wicket-keeper

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H Elliott Catches 50 Stumping 12

## See also

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* Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
* 1936 English cricket season

## References

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1. ^ W.T. Taylor History of Derbyshire cricket Wisden 1953
2. ^ Cricket Archive Hampshire v Derbyshire 6 May 1936
3. ^ Cricket Archive Oxford University v Derbyshire 9 May 1936
4. ^ Cricket Archive Kent v Derbyshire 13 May 1936
5. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Surrey 16 May 1936
6. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Sussex 23 May 1936
7. ^ Cricket Archive Gloucestershire v Derbyshire 27 May 1936
8. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Essex 30 May 1936
9. ^ Cricket Archive Northamptonshire v Derbyshire 3 Jun 1936
10. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Gloucestershire 10 Jun 1936
11. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Yorkshire 13 Jun 1936
12. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Somerset 17 Jun 1936
13. ^ Cricket Archive Warwickshire v Derbyshire 20 Jun 1936
14. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Worcestershire 24 Jun 1936
15. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Lancashire 27 Jun 1936
16. ^ Cricket Archive Worcestershire v Derbyshire 1 Jul 1936
17. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Warwickshire 4 Jul 1936
18. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Hampshire 8 Jul 1936
19. ^ Cricket Archive Lancashire v Derbyshire 11 Jul 1936
20. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Kent 15 Jul 1936
21. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Indians 18 Jul 1936
22. ^ Cricket Archive Yorkshire v Derbyshire 22 Jul 1936
23. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 25 Jul 1936
24. ^ Cricket Archive Essex v Derbyshire 1 Aug 1936
25. ^ Cricket Archive Surrey v Derbyshire 5 Aug 1936
26. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Leicestershire 8 Aug 1936
27. ^ Cricket Archive Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 15 Aug 1936
28. ^ Cricket Archive Sussex v Derbyshire 19 Aug 1936
29. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Northamptonshire 22 Aug 1936
30. ^ Cricket Archive Somerset v Derbyshire 26 Aug 1936
31. ^ Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Leicestershire 29 Aug 1936
32. ^ Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1936
33. ^ Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1936

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