Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1907 represents the

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

season when the English club

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

had been playing for thirty six years. It was their thirteenth season in the

County Championship The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It bec ...

and they finished bottom of the table having won two matches in the season.

1907 season

Derbyshire played 22 games in the County Championship, one match against the touring South Africans and one against MCC. They lost all but three of the played matches, which were two wins and a draw, and ended at the bottom of the Championship table.

Levi Wright Levi George Wright (15 January 1862 – 11 January 1953) was an English footballer and first-class cricketer. He played association football for Derby County and Notts County and cricket for Derbyshire from 1883 to 1909 being captain for a seaso ...

was in his second season as captain and was also top scorer.

Samuel Cadman Samuel William Anthony Cadman (29 January 1877 – 6 May 1952) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire for over quarter of a century between 1900 and 1926. He was an effective all-rounder and scored over 14,000 runs and took over 800 ...

took most wickets with 63. The most outstanding bowling performance was by

Frederick Bracey Frederick Cecil Bracey (20 July 1887 – 28 March 1960) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1906 to 1914 Bracey was born at Glossop, Derbyshire. He made his debut for Derbyshire in the 1906 season, in ...

against Northamptonshire at Derby when he took eleven wickets for a total of 45 runs. Those who made their debut in the 1907 season were Henry Fletcher who also played two games in the following season, FG Peach who played one match and then next appeared in 1920 with occasional appearances to 1925, H Slater who played five matches only in the 1907 season and Charles Fleming and

Charles Sherwin Charles Bakewell Sherwin (9 August 1877 – 8 June 1950) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1907. Sherwin was born in Derby, the son of Samuel Sherwin, a chemist, and his wife Margaret. He played for Derb ...

who each played one career first class match in 1907.

Matches

Statistics

County Championship batting averages

County Championship bowling averages

Wicket Keeper

* J Humphries Catches 36 Stumping 4

References

{{Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1907 in English cricket Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons English cricket seasons in the 20th century