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Derbyshire County Cricket Club In 1882
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1882 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for eleven years. The team played eight first class matches and won one of them 1882 season Derbyshire played six county games, two each against Lancashire, Sussex and Yorkshire. They also played a first-class match against MCC and a match against the touring Australians Derbyshire won one game against Sussex and lost seven. They did not play any additional matches. The captain for the year was Robert Smith in his sixth year as captain. The most significant new arrival was William Chatterton who was to score over 10000 runs for the club. William Cropper made his debut and was regular top bowler for the club until a football accident in 1889. Other long term players who debuted were W Hall, a print worker who played until 1892 and Henry Slater a miner who played occasional matches over several seasons. Players who only performed for the club in the 1882 season we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derbyshire County Cricket Club Seasons
This is a list of seasons played by Derbyshire County Cricket Club in English cricket, from the club's formation in 1870. Early years 1871–1887 Derbyshire played their first matches in 1871. For the first three years their only opponents were Lancashire. When Kent joined in 1874, by a quirk of scoring which was based on games lost, they were County Champion. The club was bedevilled by financial problems, and in 1888 the sporting press decided no longer to accord them first class status. Wilderness years 1888–1893 From 1888 Derbyshire's matches were not accorded first class status. However the club continued to play first class counties and most of the players carried on with the club. In 1891 the County Championship was established and four years later Derbyshire were invited to join. First Class and County Championships 1894–1962 In 1894 Derbyshire's matches were accorded first class status. However the club did not compete in the County Championship The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Slater (cricketer, Born 1855)
Henry Slater (23 February 1855 – 20 November 1916) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1882 and 1887. Slater was born at Heanor, Derbyshire the son of James Slater and his wife Elizabeth Baimbridge. He became a coal miner. He made his cricket debut for Derbyshire in the 1882 season in June against Lancashire in which he took a wicket but scored no runs. His next game was against Nottinghamshire in the 1885 season when again he took a wicket. In the 1886 season he played against MCC and took two catches. He played two first-class games in the 1887 season and took a wicket against Lancashire. He also played two non-status matches that season in one of which he scored 54, a contrast to the low single figures he managed in most of his games Slater was a right-hand batsman and played 9 innings in five first-class matches with a top score of 21 and an average of 5.57. He was a right-arm medium pace bowler and took 3 wickets with an average of 61.66. Slat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Watson (cricketer, Born 1844)
Alexander Watson (4 November 1844 – 26 October 1920) was a Scottish first-class cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club. He was one Lancashire's first long-serving professionals, and in his prime formed part of a strong bowling attack with A. G. Steel, Dick Barlow and John Crossland that lifted Lancashire to success in the 1881 and 1882 seasons when they won 22 and lost only one of 29 inter-county matches.Wynne-Thomas, Peter; ''The Rigby A–Z of Cricket Records''; p. 54 Career Watson learned his cricket in his native Scotland for the Drumpelier and Edinburgh Clubs as a fast bowler, but attracted no attention until he moved to Rusholme in 1869 where he was discovered by Lancashire as a slow bowler in the contemporary round-arm style; however, Watson had an unusually deceptive flight for his time and could vary his stock off-break with a ball that turned the other way to great effect. Moreover, Watson was an exceptionally accurate bowler and his short stature a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Fothergill
Arnold James Fothergill (26 August 1854 – 1 August 1932) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and the MCC in a career which spanned from 1870 until 1892. A left-arm fast-medium pace bowler, he appeared for England in two Test matches in 1889. Fothergill began his career as a club professional in the north east of England. He joined Somerset as one of their first professionals in 1880, but was forced to miss most of 1881 while he qualified for the county. He was the most productive bowler for the county in their first two years of first-class cricket, but the emergence of E. W. Bastard, and later Ted Tyler and Sammy Woods, limited his opportunities with the club. He joined the ground staff at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1882, and played for the MCC until 1892, also appearing at Lord's for representative sides. In the English winter of 1888–89, he was chosen to tour South Africa with the MCC, and played in two matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Midwinter
William Evans Midwinter (19 June 1851 – 3 December 1890) was a cricketer who played four Test cricket, Test matches for English cricket team, England, sandwiched in between eight Tests that he played for Australian cricket team, Australia. Midwinter holds a unique place in cricket history as the only cricketer to have played for both Australia and England in Test Matches against each other. Professional career Midwinter made his Test debut in the first ever Test match in 1877, playing for Australia, where he had emigrated aged nine, against the country of his birth. He took five wickets in the first innings against England in Melbourne. Billy played in the 2nd test of the 1876–1877 Series. The match started on 31 March 1877. Australia won the toss and elected to bat. Billy played at No: 6. He came out when Australia were 60 for 4 to join debut man Thomas Kelly. Billy batted with all 3 test debutants, Thomas Kelly, Frederick Spofforth and Billy Murdoch. He scored 31, his top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Docker
Frank Dudley Docker (26 August 1862 – 8 July 1944) was an English businessman and financier. He also played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1881 and 1882. Biography Family background, early life and education Docker was born at Paxton House, Smethwick, Staffordshire, the son of Ralph Docker and his second wife, Sarah Maria (1830-1890), daughter of horse dealer Richard Sankey. His first wife was Sarah's elder sister, Mary Ann (1826-1849), with whom he had three daughters. Following some years as a widower, Ralph married Sarah, with whom he had five sons and four daughters. Ralph Docker was a solicitor in practice at Birmingham and Smethwick who took on a large number of public appointments, including Coroner for North Worcestershire; at the time of his retirement, two days before his death in 1887, Ralph Docker was the oldest and longest-serving Coroner in England.''Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior'', R. P. T. Davenport-Hines, Cambridge University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Evans (English Cricketer)
Henry Evans (8 July 1857 – 30 July 1920) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1878 and 1882. Evans was born in Stoneyford (near Heanor), Derbyshire the son of Thomas Evans, a farmer. He became a clerk with the Midland Railway. Evans made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in the 1878 season against Yorkshire. He next played three matches during the 1881 season. In the 1882 season he played one further first-class match, against the touring Australian team. Evans was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and took 19 wickets at an average of 13.26 and had a best performance of 7-47. He was a right-handed middle order batsman and played 10 innings in 5 matches. His top score was 10 and his average 4.10. In 1888 Evans moved to Glasgow, as an assistant traffic manager for a railway company. He died in Spondon Spondon is a ward of the city of Derby. Originally a small village, Spondon dates back to the Domesday Book and it became heavily industri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Page (cricketer)
William Page (29 April 1847 – 27 September 1904) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1881 and 1882. Page was born in Caverswall, Staffordshire the son of Samuel Page, a platelayer, and his wife Phoebe. He was a boilermaker and in 1881 was widowed with two children. He first played for Derbyshire in the 1881 season in June against Lancashire opening in the first innings but being out for a duck. He moved down the batting order in the second innings and made 9 which was the second highest score in the innings. In the 1882 season he made 19 in a match against Marylebone Cricket Club which Derbyshire lost by a large margin. In his next and final match against Yorkshire he was out for a duck in the first innings but was joint-highest scorer in the second innings with 14 before being bowled by England Test cricketer Billy Bates. Page was a right-handed batsman who played 6 innings in 3 matches at an average of 8.33 and a top score of 19. Page's cricketing career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Jackson
Leonard Jackson (8 April 1848 – 21 March 1887) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1877 to 1882. Jackson was born at Holme Hurst in Norton Woodseats, on the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire. He first played cricket professionally in 1869, for the Breckfield Club in Liverpool. He then went to live in Sheffield where he was a metal-grinder and was playing at Wakefield in 1872 and 1873. In 1874 he appeared for Grimsby against an All England XI and then started playing for Hull Town Club. In 1875, he appeared in a first-class North of England/South of England fixture which took place at the Hull ground, as a last-minute replacement for McIntyre. He later moved to Hull where he was landlord of the Land of Green Ginger Hotel. Later he took Crown and Cushion Hotel. Jackson's debut for Derbyshire came in the 1877 season, when he played for Derbyshire against Marylebone Cricket Club. He made two more County appearances for Derbyshire that year. In 1878 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Forman
Arthur Francis Emilius Forman (26 July 1850 – 13 February 1905) was an English schoolmaster and cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1877 and 1882. Forman was the son of Richard Forman of Gibraltar and his wife Mary Heath, daughter of Rev. Joseph Heath, Rector of Wigmore. He was born in Gibraltar and was baptised in the garrison chapel there. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1874, he was awarded BA and became a master at Repton School. He took holy orders and was awarded MA in 1876. Forman made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1877 season against Hampshire, in an innings victory for Derbyshire. He played one further match in that year, a draw against Yorkshire and a single match in the 1878 season, an innings victory over Lancashire. In the 1879 season Forman took part in a game against Nottinghamshire in which he was one of seven players who scored no runs, and Derbyshire set their lowest first-class single innings total of 16. His next game was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Shuker
Abraham Shuker (6 July 1848 – 11 February 1909) was an English schoolmaster and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1874 and 1882. Shuker was born in Stockton, Shropshire, the son of John Shuker, a bailiff, and his wife Charlotte. He was educated at Brewood School, Staffordshire, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1872 and MA in 1879. On leaving university he became a master at Trent College. Shuker played for Staffordshire in 1873 and joined Derbyshire in the 1874 season where he made his first-class debut In his first match he opened the batting to score 41 runs, in a win against Lancashire. His second first-class game was the return match against Lancashire and he also played in a scratch side against Nottinghamshire. He played two first-class matches a season without making much impression in 1875, 1876 and 1877. He played three first-class matches in the 1878 season and again in the 1879 season when he played an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Sugden
Henry Emanuel Sugden (16 July 1859 – 4 September 1935) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1882. Sugden was born in Southgate, Middlesex and moved to Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire where he was a brewer. Sugden made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1882 season in June against a team of touring Australians. The team consisted of eleven past and future Australia Test cricketers, including Frederick Spofforth and Alec Bannerman. Australia won the match by an innings margin, while Sugden made little impression from the opening order, being bowled in the first innings and being out hit wicket off the bowling of Harry Boyle in the second. Sugden made just one further first-class appearance, against Lancashire two weeks later, scoring a duck in his first innings and dropping down the order in the second. Sugden was a right-handed batsman and played four innings in two first-class matches, with a top score of 9 and an average of 3.25. Sugden died in Chilworth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
