Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1961 represents cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ninety years. It was their fifty-seventh season in the County Championship and they won ten matches to finish seventh in the County Championship.
1961 season
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against Oxford University, one against the touring Australians and an extra match against Nottinghamshire. They won ten matches altogether Donald Carr was in his seventh season as captain. Laurie Johnson was top scorer and Harold Rhodes took most wickets with 101.
The only new member of the team was Bob Taylor, a future captain and international, who had played in the second XI in the previous year. He was brought in to keep wicket after George Dawkes suffered from knee problems.
Matches
{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! colspan=6 | List of matches |- !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes
|1 |26 Apr 1961 Cricket ArchiveNottinghamshire v Derbyshire 26 Apr 1961 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Not a county championship match
|2 |3 May 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Australians 3 May 1961 |Australians Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Only 22 overs played
|3 |10 May 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Kent 10 May 1961 | Kent County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Sayer 5–48; HJ Rhodes 5–59
|4 |13 May 1961 Cricket Archive Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 13 May 1961 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |3 wickets | Winfield 109; DB Carr 143
|5 |17 May 1961 Cricket Archive Somerset v Derbyshire 17 May 1961 | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |3 wickets | Wright 102; DC Morgan 5–40
|6 |20 May 1961 Cricket Archive Northamptonshire v Derbyshire 20 May 1961 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |129 runs | Allen 8–48 and 5–50; HJ Rhodes 5–48; E Smith 5–41
|7 |24 May 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Worcestershire 24 May 1961 | Worcestershire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |Innings and 15 runs | Coldwell 5–44; Gifford 5–17
|8 |27 May 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Glamorgan 27 May 1961 | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |14 runs | IR Buxton 6–80
|9 |3 Jun 1961 Cricket Archive Lancashire v Derbyshire 3 Jun 1961 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |109 runs | Grieves 139
|10 |7 Jun 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Sussex 7 Jun 1961 | Sussex County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | IR Buxton 5–52; Thomson 5–54 and 6–46
|11 |10 Jun 1961 Cricket Archive Essex v Derbyshire 10 Jun 1961 | Essex Hoffman's Sports and Social Club Ground, Chelmsford |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | G Smith 148; HL Johnson 119; TJP Eyre 5–75
|12 |17 Jun 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Essex 17 Jun 1961 | Essex Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |181 runs | Knight 120; HL Jackson 5–30; Bailey 5–27
|13 |21 Jun 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Lancashire 21 Jun 1961 | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |Innings and 141 runs | HL Jackson 6–15; TJP Eyre 5–40
|14 |24 Jun 1961 Cricket ArchiveDerbyshire v Oxford University 24 Jun 1961 |Oxford University Park Road Ground, Buxton |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | HJ Rhodes took a hattrick to finish Oxford's second innings
|15 |28 Jun 1961 Cricket Archive Yorkshire v Derbyshire 28 Jun 1961 | Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Trueman 6–60 and 5–63
|16 |1 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Leicestershire 1 Jul 1961 | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |9 wickets | HL Jackson 5–53; Spencer 5–32
|17 |5 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Gloucestershire v Derbyshire 5 Jul 1961 | Gloucestershire Wagon Works Ground, Gloucester |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | HL Johnson 122; A'Court 6–50; Cook 5–41
|18 |8 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Yorkshire 8 Jul 1961 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |Innings and 18 runs | Stott 114
|19 |12 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Glamorgan v Derbyshire 12 Jul 1961 | Glamorgan Cardiff Arms Park |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | HJ Rhodes 5–80; Shepherd5-96
|20 |19 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Warwickshire 19 Jul 1961 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |3 wickets | IR Buxton 5–41 and 5–63; Thompson 5–46 and 5–75
|21 |22 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Worcestershire v Derbyshire 22 Jul 1961 | Worcestershire Chester Road North Ground, Kidderminster |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |185 runs | Headley 103; Coldwell 8–41
|22 |26 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Middlesex v Derbyshire 26 Jul 1961 |Middlesex Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |7 wickets | Parfitt 113; HJ Rhodes 7–74
|23 |29 Jul 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 29 Jul 1961 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | DB Carr 130
|24 |2 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Somerset 2 Aug 1961 | Somerset Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |6 wickets | HL Jackson 5–33; Palmer 6–76
|25 |5 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Northamptonshire 5 Aug 1961 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|26 |9 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Leicestershire v Derbyshire 9 Aug 1961 | Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |136 runs | HL Johnson 116; Savage 5–81; HJ Rhodes 5–49
|27 |12 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Hampshire 12 Aug 1961 | Hampshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |58 runs | Horton 141; Shackleton 6–90
|28 |19 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Surrey 19 Aug 1961 | Surrey Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |4 wickets | HL Jackson 6–40 and 5–68; Sydenham 5–102
|29 |23 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Warwickshire v Derbyshire 23 Aug 1961 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Stewart 135; Wright 5–68; Bannister 6–30
|30 |26 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Sussex v Derbyshire 26 Aug 1961 | Sussex Manor Sports Ground, Worthing |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won |65 runs | WF Oates 148; E Smith 5–76
|31 |30 Aug 1961 Cricket Archive Hampshire v Derbyshire 30 Aug 1961 | Hampshire Dean Park, Bournemouth |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |140 runs | HL Johnson 112; Wassell 5–132; Shackleton 6–39
Statistics
County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100sHL Johnson 25 46 1594 122 37.95 4 DB Carr 26 47 1559 143 36.25 2 WF Oates 23 41 1259 148* 34.02 1 C Lee 28 53 1415 91 27.74 0 I Gibson 1 2 49 46 24.50 0 DC Morgan 26 45 888 83 22.76 0 GO Dawkes 11 18 342 50 21.37 0 IW Hall 24 45 899 71 20.43 0 IR Buxton 24 41 643 50* 17.86 0 TJP Eyre 8 12 97 33* 16.16 0 E Smith 20 34 432 48 14.89 0 HJ Rhodes 24 37 321 34 14.59 0 GA Beet 2 3 28 17 14.00 0 D Millner 12 24 334 80 13.91 0 R Swallow 6 11 132 34 12.00 0 RW Taylor 17 24 205 48 11.38 0 R Berry 8 10 42 17 7.00 0 GW Richardson 4 6 35 18 5.83 0 HL Jackson 19 21 46 11 3.06 0Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1961
County Championship bowling averages Name Balls Runs Wickets BB AverageHJ Rhodes 5582 2024 101 7–74 20.03 IR Buxton 4350 1691 79 6–80 21.40 HL Jackson 4696 1481 78 6–15 18.98 DC Morgan 4203 1744 62 5–40 28.12 E Smith 3543 1412 44 5–41 32.09 TJP Eyre 1358 682 29 5–40 23.51 DB Carr 1088 615 18 3–37 34.16 R Berry 1344 462 14 3–45 33.00 C Lee 684 262 11 2–9 23.81 GW Richardson 384 211 4 2–55 52.75 WF Oates 138 63 2 1–0 31.50 HL Johnson 24 24 1 1–0 24.00 GA Beet 48 42 1 1–42 42.00 D Millner 24 15 0 R Swallow 6 0 0 I Gibson 12 13 0 IW Hall 18 5 0Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1961
Wicket Keepers GO Dawkes Catches 33, Stumping 1 (not in championship) Bob Taylor Catches 47, Stumping 6
See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1961 English cricket season
References