Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1969 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
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had been playing for ninety-eight years. They were runners-up in the
Gillette Cup. 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 ...
, they won three matches to finish sixteenth in their sixty-fifth season in the Championship. In the first season of the
John Player League they ended fifteenth after winning five matches.
1969 season
Derbyshire played 24 games in the County Championship, one match against Oxford University, and one against the
touring New Zealanders. They won three first class matches altogether and lost five, the majority of matches ending in a draw. Derbyshire reached the final of the Gillette Cup where they lost to Yorkshire. This was the season in which the Sunday League was introduced and Derbyshire won five matches in the one-day games to finish fifteenth.
Derek Morgan was in his fifth season as captain.
Peter Gibbs scored most runs overall although
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was top scorer in the County Championship.
Harold Rhodes took most wickets.
Matches
First Class
John Player League
Gillette Cup
Statistics
Competition batting averages
Statistics
Competition batting averages
Competition bowling averages
Wicket Keeping
Bob Taylor
::County Championship Catches 49, Stumping 5
::John Player League Catches 19, Stumping 2
::Gillette Cup Catches 9, Stumping 0
See also
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
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1969 English cricket season
The 1969 English cricket season was the 70th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. The ''Sunday League'' (now the National League) began, sponsored by the John Player tobacco company. All matches were played on Sunda ...
References
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1969 in English cricket
Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons