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 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

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

|1 | 4 May 1899Cricket Archive – Surrey v Derbyshire 1899 | Surrey Kennington Oval |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 10 wickets | Brockwell 102; Jephson 5–51

|2 |15 May 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Warwickshire 1899 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Dickens 5–22 and 6–23; JJ Hulme 7–58

|3 |18 May 1899Cricket Archive – Marylebone Cricket Club v Derbyshire 1899 | MCC Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 2 wickets | Martin 5–13 and 6–76

|4 |22 May 1899Cricket Archive – Hampshire v Derbyshire 1899 | Hampshire County Ground, Southampton |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 7 wickets | JJ Hulme 5–60; Baldwin 6–113

|5 | 25 May 1899Cricket Archive – Leicestershire v Derbyshire 1899 | Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | de Trafford 117; JJ Hulme 5–35

|6 |5 Jun 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Surrey 1899 | Surrey Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 164 runs | Jephson 5–12

|7 |8 Jun 1899Cricket Archive – Yorkshire v Derbyshire 1899 | Yorkshire Dewsbury and Savile Ground |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 9 wickets | JA Berwick 5–82; Rhodes 5–65; Hirst 5–57

|8 |12 Jun 1899Cricket Archive – Lancashire v Derbyshire1899 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 8 wickets | Cutell 120; Hallows 5–31

|9 |19 Jun 1899Cricket Archive – Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 1899 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 180 runs | Wass 5–42; Bottom 5–34; H Bagshaw 5–18

|10 | 22 Jun 1899Cricket Archive – Essex v Derbyshire 1899 | Essex County Ground, Leyton |bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won | 98 runs | Mead 6–54 and 5–51; JJ Hulme 6–52 and 6–29

|11 |26 Jun 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Australians 1899 | Australia County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 249 runs | Trumble 100; Noble 156; Darling 134*; McLeod 6–89

|12 | 3 Jul 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Yorkshire 1899 | Yorkshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 160 runs | Brown 192; JJ Hulme 7–124; Wainwright 7–38

|13 |13 Jul 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Lancashire 1899 | Lancashire North Road Ground, Glossop |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 269 runs | JJ Hulme 6–50; Mold 7–19; W Storer 5–59; A Ward 6–29

|14 | 20 Jul 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Leicestershire 1899 | Leicestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | W Storer 216

|15 |24 Jul 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Essex 1899 | Essex County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Perrin 196; Bull 5–71

|16 |31 Jul 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Worcestershire 1899 | Worcestershire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Arnold 121; W Sugg 107; W Bestwick 5–86

|17 |7 Aug 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Hampshire 1899 | Hampshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | 9 wickets | LG Wright 138; Heseltine 7–106; JJ Hulme 6–108

|18 |17 Aug 1899Cricket Archive – Worcestershire v Derbyshire 1899 | Worcestershire County Ground, New Road, Worcester |bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost | Innings and 218 runs | G Bromley-Martin 129; H Foster 162; Lowe 102; Burrows 5–37; Wilson 5–45

|19 |21 Aug 1899Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 1899 | Nottinghamshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | LG Wright 115; A Jones 5–140

|20 | 28 Aug 1899Cricket Archive – Warwickshire v Derbyshire 1899 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn

Statistics County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s 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 0Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1899

County Championship bowling averages

Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average 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 Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1899

Wicket-keeper

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

See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1899 English cricket season

References