Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1925 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for fifty four years. It was their twenty seventh season in the County Championship and they won five matches to finish fourteenth in the County Championship.
1925 season
Guy Jackson was in his fourth season as captain. All the club's twenty-four first class matches were in the County Championship. The team recovered from a poor season in the previous year with five wins, but with fewer draws the high number of losses left the team in fourteenth place. Garnet Lee was top scorer in his first season as a first-class player for Derbyshire. Arthur Morton took most wickets with 63.
The most significant addition to the side was Garnet Lee who was to prove a valuable all-rounder over the next few years. Lee had previously played for Nottinghamshire but had taken two seasons at Derbyshire to work himself into the first team. Other players making their debut were Lionel Blaxland who played intermittently over several years Escott Loney and Wilfred Shardlow who played regularly for three seasons, and Eric Sykes who played three games in the season and re-appeared in 1932.
Matches
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;" |- ! colspan="6"| List of matches |- !No. !Date !V !Result !Margin !Notes
|1 | 9 May 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Northamptonshire 9 May 1925 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 35 runs
|2 |16 May 1925Cricket Archive – Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 16 May 1925 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 10 wickets
|3 |20 May 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Yorkshire 20 May 1925 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | Innings and 160 runs | Holmes 125; Macaulay 7-13
|4 |23 May 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Somerset 23 May 1925 | Somerset County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | W Bestwick 5-22
|5 |30 May 1925Cricket Archive – Warwickshire v Derbyshire 30 May 1925 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Stephens 121; GM Lee 119
|6 |3 Jun 1925Cricket Archive – Worcestershire v Derbyshire 3 Jun 1925 | WorcestershireAmblecote, Stourbridge | style="background:#0f0;"|Won | 212 runs | Rogers 6-69; Root 5-54
|7 |6 Jun 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Gloucestershire 6 Jun 1925 | Gloucestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 3 wickets | Hammond 5-57; J Horsley 6-94; Parker 8-56
|8 |10 Jun 1925Cricket Archive – Essex v Derbyshire 10 Jun 1925 | Essex County Ground, Leyton | style="background:#0f0;"|Won | 9 wickets | A Morton 131; BSH Hill-Wood 6-74; J Horsley 6-66
|9 |13 Jun 1925Cricket Archive – Kent v Derbyshire 13 Jun 1925 | Kent Angel Ground, Tonbridge | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | Innings and 32 runs |Seymour 106; Collins 105*; GR Jackson 127; Freeman 6-35 and 5-94
|10 | 20 Jun 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Worcestershire 20 Jun 1925 | Worcestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | style="background:#0f0;"|Won | 6 wickets | Root 5-92
|11 |27 Jun 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Kent 27 Jun 1925 | Kent County Ground, Derby | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 5 wickets | Hardinge 144; Seymour 119; Cornwallis 5-56; J Horsley 5-36
|12 | 1 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Yorkshire v Derbyshire 1 Jul 1925 | Yorkshire Headingley, Leeds | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | Innings and 159 runs | Rhodes 157;
|13 |4 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Leicestershire 4 Jul 1925 | Leicestershire The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | GR Jackson 110; Skelding 5-54; W Bestwick 7-20
|14 |11 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Leicestershire v Derbyshire 11 Jul 1925 | Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 248 runs | Skelding 5-40; Astill 5-19
|15 |15 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Glamorgan v Derbyshire 15 Jul 1925 | Glamorgan Cardiff Arms Park | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 200 runs | Ryan 5-19 and 8-41
|16 |18 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Somerset v Derbyshire 18 Jul 1925 | Somerset Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare | style="background:#0f0;"|Won | 3 wickets | GM Lee 113; GR Jackson 105
|17 |22 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Gloucestershire v Derbyshire 22 Jul 1925 | Gloucestershire Fry's Ground, Bristol | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | Innings and 32 runs | Parker 5-19 and 6-61
|18 |25 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 25 Jul 1925 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Whysall 140
|19 |29 Jul 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Essex 29 Jul 1925 | Essex County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | Hipkin 5-44
|20 |1 Aug 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Warwickshire 1 Aug 1925 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|21 | 5 Aug 1925Cricket Archive – Northamptonshire v Derbyshire 5 Aug 1925 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton |bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn | | A Morton 5-89
|22 |12 Aug 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Glamorgan 12 Aug 1925 | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield | style="background:#0f0;"|Won | 6 wickets | Ryan 7-70
|23 |15 Aug 1925Cricket Archive – Lancashire v Derbyshire 15 Aug 1925 | Lancashire Seed Hill Ground, Nelson | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | 97 runs | A Morton 7-51
|24 |22 Aug 1925Cricket Archive – Derbyshire v Lancashire 22 Aug 1925 | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | style="background:#f00;"|Lost | Innings and 132 runs | R Tyldesley 8-40; Sibbles 5-30
Statistics County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s GR Jackson 23 42 1199 127 29.97 3 GM Lee 24 46 1238 119 28.13 2 JL Crommelin-Brown 4 7 144 68 24.00 0 J Bowden 23 43 742 62 19.02 0 L F Townsend 24 45 808 59 18.79 0 A Morton 18 27 433 131 17.32 1 BSH Hill-Wood 6 11 187 61 17.00 0 WWH Hill-Wood 5 10 167 35 16.70 0 H Storer 2 3 31 23 15.50 0 J Horsley 17 28 365 47* 15.20 0 G Beet 1 2 30 17 15.00 0 JM Hutchinson 24 41 543 79 14.67 0 SWA Cadman 23 40 513 60 14.65 0 E Sykes 3 6 65 50 13.00 0 FR Heath 1 2 13 13* 13.00 0 H Elliott 24 38 228 33 11.40 0 EF Loney 6 9 89 36 11.12 0 T S Worthington 3 6 49 20 9.80 0 LB Blaxland 3 4 39 25 9.75 0 AHM Jackson 5 7 63 17 9.00 0 W Shardlow 3 3 18 11 9.00 0 JA Cresswell 5 10 28 9 4.66 0 W Bestwick 7 10 26 7* 3.25 0 FG Peach 1 2 6 5 3.00 0 A Ackroyd 7 12 32 9 2.66 0 JS Heath 2 4 10 8 2.50 0Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire – County Championship 1925
All Derbyshire's first class matches were in the County Championship, and so the above table represents first-class statistics as well.
County Championship bowling averages Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average A Morton 3597 1262 63 7–51 20.03 J Horsley 3158 1235 54 6–66 22.87 GM Lee 2408 1084 44 4–36 24.63 SWA Cadman 3517 1043 40 4–29 26.07 W Bestwick 1561 525 35 7–20 15.00 L F Townsend 2075 778 28 4–57 27.78 BSH Hill-Wood 972 573 18 6–74 31.83 A Ackroyd 835 390 11 4–63 35.45 H Storer 546 157 10 4–31 15.70 JA Cresswell 624 323 9 4–65 35.88 EF Loney 864 269 9 4–35 29.88 WWH Hill-Wood 410 252 8 3–20 31.50 JM Hutchinson 300 122 7 2–11 17.42 AHM Jackson 354 159 6 2–19 26.50 T S Worthington 258 99 5 2–21 19.80 JS Heath 120 85 1 1–45 85.00 GR Jackson 60 41 1 1–23 41.00 W Shardlow 354 208 0 G Beet 24 9 0 LB Blaxland 48 17 0 E Sykes 6 2 0 J Bowden 12 3 0 Bowling for Derbyshire – County Championship 1925
All Derbyshire's first class matches were in the County Championship, and so the above table represents first-class statistics as well.
Wicket-keeper
Harry Elliott Catches 41, Stumping 17 Jim Hutchinson Catches 12, Stumping 1
See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1925 English cricket season
References