Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1912

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1912 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for forty one years. It was their eighteenth season in the County Championship and they won two matches to finish tenth in the Championship table.

1912 season Derbyshire played twenty matches, of which eighteen were in the County Championship and the others against touring South Africans and Australians. John Chapman was in his third year as captain. In one of the wettest summers on record, no players scored centuries. Samuel Cadman scored most runs, and had one of the team's two innings in the nineties. Arthur Morton took most wickets.

Significant players who made their debut in the season were Richard Baggallay who went on to captain the side and Geoffrey Jackson whose death in World War I deprived the club of a useful player. New players who had shorter careers were George Burnham and Albert Blount who each played five game in the 1912 season. That was the extent of Burnham's career, but Blount reappeared in one more match fourteen years later.

Matches

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" ! colspan=6 | List of matches |- !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes

|1 |4 May 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v South Africans 4 May 1912 | South Africans County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 7 wickets | A Morton 6–52; Faulkner 5–46

|2 |13 May 1912Cricket Archive – Warwickshire v Derbyshire 13 May 1912 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 22 runs | Field 5–60

|3 |20 May 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Lancashire 20 May 1912 | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn

|4 |23 May 1912Cricket Archive – Sussex v Derbyshire 23 May 1912 | Sussex County Ground, Hove |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 8 wickets | SWA Cadman 95; AG Slater 5–80; Sims 5–39

|5 |27 May 1912Cricket Archive – Essex v Derbyshire 27 May 1912 | Essex County Ground, Leyton |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost |Innings and 27 runs | Perrin 245; McGahey 150

|6 |30 May 1912Cricket Archive – Hampshire v Derbyshire 30 May 1912 | Hampshire County Ground, Southampton |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | L Oliver 94; Barrett 119; A Warren 5–129

|7 |3 Jun 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Sussex 3 Jun 1912 | Sussex County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | A Morton 5–44; Cox 8–24

|8 |6 Jun 1912Cricket Archive – Somerset v Derbyshire 6 Jun 1912 | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Greswell 5–54; A Morton 7–16

|9 |13 Jun 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Hampshire 13 Jun 1912 | Hampshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 54 runs | A Morton 6–59; Kenedy 5–26; Newman 5–30; A Warren 6–59; Brown 6–77

|10 |20 Jun 1912Cricket Archive – Leicestershire v Derbyshire 20 Jun 1912 | LeicestershireBath Grounds, Ashby-de-la-Zouch |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 83 runs | King 6–65; A Warren 7–52

|11 |24 Jun 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Warwickshire 24 Jun 1912 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn

|12 |29 Jun 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Northamptonshire 29 Jun 1912 | Northamptonshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | East 6–58; A Warren 5–31

|13 |4 Jul 1912Cricket Archive – Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 4 Jul 1912 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 147 runs | Wass 5–50 and 5–20

|14 |15 Jul 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Somerset 15 Jul 1912 | SomersetCounty Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 133 runs | Greswell 8–65; A Warren 5–50

|15 |25 Jul 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Leicestershire 25 Jul 1912 | Leicestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | A Morton 5–73

|16 |1 Aug 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Australians 1 Aug 1912 | Australians County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | T Forrester 5–76; Matthews 6–23; A Morton 5–52

|17 |5 Aug 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Essex 5 Aug 1912 | Essex County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn

|18 |8 Aug 1912Cricket Archive – Lancashire v Derbyshire 8 Aug 1912 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 248 runs | Whitehead 100; Makepeace 99; Dean 6–110 and 6–53

|19 |17 Aug 1912Cricket Archive – Northamptonshire v Derbyshire 17 Aug 1912 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 6 wickets | Thompson 5–42; T Forrester 7–18; Smith 6–26

|20 |26 Aug 1912Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 26 Aug 1912 | Nottinghamshire Miners Welfare Ground, Blackwell |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Iremonger 6–38

Statistics County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s SWA Cadman 18 27 673 95 28.04 0 L Oliver 18 28 666 94 25.61 0 A Morton 16 25 533 83 24.22 0 G Beet 3 4 23 8* 23.00 0 J Bowden 8 10 130 32 18.57 0 FA Newton 3 4 16 13* 16.00 0 A Warren 18 26 358 77 14.91 0 T Forrester 16 23 278 84* 14.63 0 J Humphries 15 21 231 42 12.83 0 AJ Wood 8 10 113 25 12.55 0 AG Slater 18 24 256 45 11.13 0 CF Root 15 21 218 55 10.38 0 FC Bracey 10 12 55 22* 9.16 0 J Chapman 8 14 115 56 8.21 0 R Sale 4 6 37 13 6.16 0 GJ Burnham 5 6 30 15 6.00 0 RRC Baggallay 1 2 8 8 4.00 0 A Wickstead 1 2 7 6 3.50 0 E Needham 3 4 14 6 3.50 0 CJ Corbett 4 5 12 6 2.40 0 GL Jackson 1 1 2 2 2.00 0 C Lowe 1 1 2 2 2.00 0 A Blount 4 6 5 5 0.83 0 Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1912

County Championship bowling averages

Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average A Morton 2995 1115 45 7–16 24.77 SWA Cadman 2124 743 40 4–28 18.57 A Warren 1585 791 40 7–52 19.77 T Forrester 1661 449 22 7–18 20.40 FC Bracey 758 336 20 4–43 16.80 AG Slater 943 473 14 5–80 33.78 CF Root 489 267 10 3–23 26.70 A Blount 270 110 5 4–53 22.00 GL Jackson 60 29 1 1–29 29.00 C Lowe 36 20 1 1–20 20.00 L Oliver 30 28 1 1–28 28.00 J Chapman 48 54 0 AJ Wood 24 16 0 R Sale 6 0 0Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1912

Wicket Keepers Joe Humphries Catches 24, Stumping 7 G Beet Catches 3, Stumping 1

See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1912 English cricket season

References