Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1892

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1892 was the cricket

Cricket

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season when the English club Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

had been playing for twenty one years. Derbyshire's matches were not considered to be first class in this season. The club had lost first class status after 1887 and did not regain it until 1894, the year before they joined the County Championship

County Championship

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. However many of the players competed for the club earlier or subsequently at first-class level.

1892 season

Derbyshire played thirteen games, and all except for Cheshire were against sides that they had played in first class matches before 1888 or that joined the County Championship four years later. Sydney Evershed

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

was in his second year as captain. Harry Bagshaw

Henry Bagshaw

Harry Bagshaw, christened Henry Bagshaw, was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1887 and 1902 and was also a cricket umpire....

was top scorer. George Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

George Arthur Davidson was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1886 and 1898 and for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1888 and 1898. A useful all-rounder, he scored over 5500 runs and took 621 wickets in his first class career.Davidson was born in Brimington, Derbyshire, the son...

scored a century and topped the bowling with 91 wickets. Derbyshire played an interesting turn-around match against Leicestershire. Derbyshire had to follow on at 100 behind and made 423 in the second innings with centuries by Evershed and Davidson. Leicestershire were all out for 98 with Hulme taking five wickets for three runs.

Chatterton played one Test match for England against South Africa earlier in the year. He also played several first class matches during the season, mainly for MCC or Players v Gentlemen. Davidson also played first class matches for MCC.

Matches

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=6 | List of matches
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
!No.
!Date
!V
!Result
!Margin
!Notes
|-
|1
|12 May 1892
|MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

Essex County Cricket Club

Essex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Essex. Its limited overs team is called the Essex Eagles, their team colours this season are blue.The club plays most of its home games...

County Ground, Leyton
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
| 5 wickets
| Kortright 8-58; G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

6-65
|-
|4
|16 Jun 1892
| Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...

County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
| 7 wickets
| Richardson 7-67 and 5-63; G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

5-33
|-
|5
|20 Jun 1892
| Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

Leicestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Leicestershire. It has also been representative of the county of Rutland....

Grace Road, Leicester
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
| 1 wicket
| Warren 138; Pougher 5-56; Woodcock 5-56; G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

George Porter was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire between 1881 and 1896.Porter was born at Kilburn, Derbyshire, the son of John Porter a brickyard worker, and his wife Sarah Brentnall and was apprenticed to his uncle as a chimney sweep...

6-20
|-
|6
| 27 Jun 1892
| Cheshire

Cheshire County Cricket Club

Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Cheshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...

County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
| Innings and 115 runs
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

5-22; G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

6-30
|-
|7
|04 Jul 1892
| Leicestershire

Leicestershire County Cricket Club

County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
| 210 runs
| SH Evershed

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

119; G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

106 and 5-74; Pougher 5-53; J J Hulme 5-3
|-
|8
| 14 Jul 1892
| Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
| 89 runs
| Barton 5-34; Baldwin 5-34; G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

5-13; G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

5-14
|-
|9
|18 Jul 1892
| Cheshire

Cheshire County Cricket Club

Cale Green, Stockport
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
| 5 wickets
| G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

7-39 and 5-32; Bennet 5-65; W Hall

Walter Hall (cricketer)

Walter Hall was an English cricketer who played cricket for Derbyshire from 1882 to 1892Hall was born at Whitfield, Derbyshire. In 1881 he was working at a print works at Glossop...

5-41
|-
|10
|01 Aug 1892
| Essex

Essex County Cricket Club

County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Drawn
|
| G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

5-65; Kortright 8-49
|-
|11
| 08 Aug 1892
| Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

Kennington Oval
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
| 93 runs
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

6-62; Richardson 6-44; G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

6-62; Lockwood 8-27
|-
|12
| 11 Aug 1892
| Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

County Ground, Southampton
|bgcolor="#00FF00"|Won
| 3 wickets
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

5-88; Baldwin 5-62
|-
|13
| 15 Aug 1892
|Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

County Ground, Derby
|bgcolor="#FF0000"|Lost
| 187 runs
| W Hall

Walter Hall (cricketer)

Walter Hall was an English cricketer who played cricket for Derbyshire from 1882 to 1892Hall was born at Whitfield, Derbyshire. In 1881 he was working at a print works at Glossop...

5-65; Smith 6-94
|-

Batting averages

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="70%"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Name !! Matches !! Inns !! Runs !! High score !! Average !!100s
|-
| H Bagshaw

Henry Bagshaw

Harry Bagshaw, christened Henry Bagshaw, was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1887 and 1902 and was also a cricket umpire....

|| 12 || 23 || 552 || 68 || 24.00|| 0
|-
| W Storer

William Storer

William Storer was an English footballer and a cricketer who played six Tests from 1897 to 1899, played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1887 to 1905 and played football for Derby County...

|| 13 || 24 || 442 || 53 || 18.42|| 0
|-
| W Chatterton

William Chatterton

William Chatterton was an English cricketer and footballer. He played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1882 and 1902 and for England in 1891/2. He captained Derbyshire between 1887 and 1889 and scored over 10,000 runs in his first-class career as well as taking over 200 wickets...

|| 12 || 23 || 405 || 56 || 17.61|| 0
|-
| J J Hulme || 8 || 14 || 238 || 51 || 17.00 || 0
|-
| G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

|| 13 || 25 || 424 || 106 || 16.96|| 1
|-
| SH Evershed

Sydney Evershed

Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898....

|| 11 || 21 || 337 || 119 || 16.05|| 1
|-
| LG Wright

Levi Wright

Levi George Wright was an English footballer and cricketer. He played association football for Derby County and Notts County and cricket for Derbyshire from 1883 to 1909 being captain for a season and a half in 1906/1907. He scored over 15,000 runs in his first class career and took 237 catches...

|| 12 || 23 || 356 || 70 || 15.48|| 0
|-
| W Hall

Walter Hall (cricketer)

Walter Hall was an English cricketer who played cricket for Derbyshire from 1882 to 1892Hall was born at Whitfield, Derbyshire. In 1881 he was working at a print works at Glossop...

|| 6 || 9 || 123 || 32 || 13.67|| 0
|-
| S Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1890 and 1895.Malthouse was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of John G. Malthouse, a mason, and his wife Ann...

|| 11 || 20 || 207 || 52 || 10.35 || 0
|-
| H F Wright

Henry FitzHerbert Wright

Henry FitzHerbert Wright was an English cricketer, lawyer and Conservative politician. He was active in local government in Derbyshire and sat in the House of Commons from 1912 to 1918....

||1 || 2 || 17 || 17 || 8.50 || 0
|-
| W S Eadie

William Eadie

William Stewart Eadie was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1885 and 1899.Eadie was born in Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire, the son of James Eadie and his wife Jean. His father, who was from Scotland, had established the James Eadie brewery company at Burton in 1854.Eadie made...

|| 5 || 9 || 75 || 26 || 8.33 || 0
|-
| WB Delacombe

William Delacombe

William Barclay Delacombe was an Ascension Island-born English cricketer. He played for Derbyshire between 1892 and 1900....

|| 1 || 2 || 15 || 15 || 7.50 || 0
|-
| W Sugg

Walter Sugg

Walter Sugg was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire in 1881, and for Derbyshire from 1884 until 1902.-Life and career:...

|| 13 || 25 || 169 || 43 || 6.76|| 0
|-
| R G Tomlinson

Robert George Tomlinson

Robert George Tomlinson was an English brewer and cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1891 and 1893 and was later umpire in first class matches in Scotland....

|| 2 || 4 || 27 || 14 || 6.75 || 0
|-
| J Stubbings

James Stubbings

James Stubbings was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire between 1880 and 1885....

|| 1 || 2 || 12 || 8 || 6.00 || 0
|-
| F Evershed

Frank Evershed

Frank Evershed was an English rugby player who played internationally for England between 1889 and 1893 and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire....

|| 3 || 5 || 23 || 11 || 4.60 || 0
|-
| E Evershed

Edward Evershed

Edward Evershed was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1888 and 1898.Evershed was born in Stapenhill, now part of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire , the son of Sydney Evershed the brewer and MP for Burton...

||1 || 2 || 9 || 8 || 4.50 || 0
|-
| S Thorpe || 1 || 2 || 8 || 8 || 4.00|| 0
|-
| J Cupitt

Joseph Cupitt

Joseph Cupitt was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1905.Cupitt was born in Barrow Hill, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas Cupitt, a coal miner, and his wife Susannah. Cupitt himself became a miner. He played for Derbyshire in the 1892 season and in the 1893 season...

|| 1 || 2 || 8 || 4 || 4.00 || 0
|-
| HC Mosby || 3 || 3 || 11 || 5 || 3.67 || 0
|-
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

|| 12 || 19 || 56 || 19 || 2.95 || 0
|-
| F Eyre || 1 || 2 || 5 || 5 || 2.50 || 0
|-
| M Cropper || 1 || 2 || 4 || 4 || 2.00 || 0
|-
|}

Bowling averages

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="70%"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! Name !! Balls !! Runs !! Wickets !! BB !! Average
|-
| G Davidson

George Davidson (cricketer)

|| 3620||1162||91|| 7-39 ||12.77
|-
| G Porter

George Porter (cricketer)

|| 2576||892||51|| 6-20 ||17.49
|-
| W Sugg

Walter Sugg

Walter Sugg was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire in 1881, and for Derbyshire from 1884 until 1902.-Life and career:...

|| 628||337||18|| 4-57 ||18.72
|-
| J J Hulme || 795||386||15|| 5-3 ||25.73
|-
| W Hall

Walter Hall (cricketer)

Walter Hall was an English cricketer who played cricket for Derbyshire from 1882 to 1892Hall was born at Whitfield, Derbyshire. In 1881 he was working at a print works at Glossop...

|| 540||223||15|| 5-41 ||14.87
|-
| W Chatterton

William Chatterton

||235||94||4|| 2-6 ||23.50
|-
| J Stubbings

James Stubbings

James Stubbings was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire between 1880 and 1885....

|| 55||35||4|| 4-24 ||8.75
|-
| S Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse

Samuel Malthouse was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1890 and 1895.Malthouse was born in Whitwell, Derbyshire, the son of John G. Malthouse, a mason, and his wife Ann...

|| 195||88||3|| 1-17 ||29.33
|-
| M Cropper || 140||56||3|| 3-38 ||18.67
|-
| F Eyre || 85||46||1|| 1-46 ||46.00
|-
| H Bagshaw

Henry Bagshaw

Harry Bagshaw, christened Henry Bagshaw, was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1887 and 1902 and was also a cricket umpire....

|| 40||37||0 || ||
|-
| HC Mosby|| 35||22||0 || ||
|}

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