Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1901 explained

Club:	Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
Season:	1901
Captain:	Samuel Hill Wood
Comp1:	County Championship
Comp1 Result:	15
Most Runs:	Levi Wright
Prevseason:	1900
Nextseason:	1902

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1901 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty years. It was their seventh season in the County Championship and they failed to win a single match, ending bottom of the Championship table.

1901 season

Derbyshire CCC played twenty games in the County Championship in 1901 in addition to matches against W.G. Grace's London County Cricket Club, MCC and the touring South Africans. Derbyshire failed to win any first class match during the season.

The captain for the year was Samuel Hill Wood in his third season as captain. However he only took part in five matches and Albert Lawton filled the role on the pitch. Levi Wright was top scorer making two centuries, one of 193. Billy Bestwick took 71 wickets.

Gilbert Curgenven made his debut for the side as did Robert Else who only played in two seasons. Joseph Burton, Arthur Barton, James Oldknow and Arthur Morton made their only appearances for the side during the 1901 season.

Nudger Needham captained the English football team in 1901.

Matches

List of matches
No.	Date	V	Result	Margin	Notes
1	13 May 1901 ^[1]	London County Cricket Club Crystal Palace Park	Lost	Innings and 119 runs	Not a County Championship match Beldam 125; Fishwick 103; Sinclair 8-32; JJ Hulme 5-61
2	16 May 1901 ^[2]	Surrey Kennington Oval	Lost	Innings and 111 runs	Hayward 158; Jephson 133; W Bestwick 7-97; Lockwood 7-57; Richardson 6-67
3	20 May 1901 ^[3]	Yorkshire Fartown, Huddersfield	Lost	Innings and 282 runs	Tunnicliffe 145; Brown 5-33; Hirst 7-43
4	23 May 1901 ^[4]	MCC Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	Lost	9 wickets	Not a County Championship match Hearne 7-67; Rawlin 5-28
5	27 May 1901 ^[5]	Hampshire County Ground, Southampton	Lost	2 wickets	S Evershed 123; Greig 6-38; Llewellyn 5-76; W Bestwick 6-71
6	30 May 1901 ^[6]	Surrey County Ground, Derby	Lost	5 wickets	Lees 5-47; JJ Hulme 5-71
7	06 Jun 1901 ^[7]	South Africans County Ground, Derby	Lost	5 wickets	Not a County Championship match Bisset 184; Graham 6-84 and 5-47
8	10 Jun 1901 ^[8]	Essex County Ground, Leyton	Drawn		Owen 106; Perrin 101; Reeves 6-46
9	13 Jun 1901 ^[9]	Worcestershire County Ground, New Road, Worcester	Lost	Innings and 49 runs	Wilson 6-55
10	17 Jun 1901 ^[10]	Gloucestershire Ashley Down Ground, Bristol	Drawn		L Wright 155; W Chatterton 169; Langdon 114; Huggins 6-100
11	20 Jun 1901 ^[11]	Warwickshire County Ground, Derby	Drawn		Willie Quaife 117;
12	27 Jun 1901 ^[12]	Yorkshire North Road Ground, Glossop	Lost	245 runs	Wainwright 108; W Bestwick 7-70; Haigh 5-55
13	01 Jul 1901 ^[13]	London County Cricket Club Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Drawn		Not a County Championship match W Storer 5-20
14	15 Jul 1901 ^[14]	Nottinghamshire County Ground, Derby	Drawn		Gunn 273; L Wright 193; Jones 6-93
15	18 Jul 1901 ^[15]	Leicestershire North Road Ground, Glossop	Lost	Innings and 20 runs	King 143; MacDonald 147*; Geeson 104*; Geeson 6-128 and 6-111
16	22 Jul 1901 ^[16]	Gloucestershire County Ground, Derby	Drawn		Paish 6-120
17	29 Jul 1901 ^[17]	Lancashire County Ground, Derby	Lost	Innings and 184 runs	Ward 117; Tyldesley 158; JJ Hulme 6-135; Cuttell 7-19; Webb 5-58
18	05 Aug 1901 ^[18]	Hampshire At County Ground, Derby	Lost	5 wickets	Sprot 130; Llewellyn 5-108; JJ Hulme 5-73; W Bestwick 5-89
19	08 Aug 1901 ^[19]	Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester	Drawn
20	12 Aug 1901 ^[20]	Nottinghamshire Welbeck Abbey Cricket Ground	Lost	Innings and 159 runs	Iremonger 108; Wass 8-17 and 5-23; Gunn 5-14
21	15 Aug 1901 ^[21]	Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham	Lost	Innings and 52 runs	Fishwick 140*; Charlesworth 6-45
22	19 Aug 1901 ^[22]	Worcestershire County Ground, Derby	Lost	Innings and 121 runs	H Foster 152; Bowley 140; R Foster 111; Wilson 6-57; Pearson 5-48
23	22 Aug 1901 ^[23]	Essex Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Lost	9 wickets	Carpenter 144; Russell 100; Mead 6-97; Young 7-48
24	29 Aug 1901 ^[24]	Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester	Drawn		King 5-65 Statistics County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s 1 2 132 123 66.00 1 19 37 1239 193 33.48 2 3 5 93 25* 31.00 0 W Chatterton 20 38 987 169 29.90 1 10 19 514 92* 28.55 0 20 37 921 91 25.58 0 20 38 932 76 25.18 0 4 8 174 59 24.85 0 12 23 458 76 19.91 0 7 12 200 51* 18.18 0 8 15 233 37 17.92 0 14 25 422 72 16.88 0 5 9 133 54* 16.62 0 7 13 125 27* 12.50 0 20 36 297 38* 9.28 0 10 18 120 24 9.23 0 2 4 36 22 9.00 0 2 4 27 9 9.00 0 2 4 33 16 8.25 0 3 6 32 13* 6.40 0 1 2 9 9 4.50 0 17 31 83 11 4.36 0 3 6 24 7 4.00 0 1 2 7 7 3.50 0 3 6 14 10 2.33 0 2 4 7 4* 2.33 0 1 2 3 2 1.50 0 1 2 3 2 1.50 0 1 2 0 0 0.00 0 1 2 0 0 0.00 0 Paul Boissier and Oswald Burton played in the match against MCC, but not in the County Championship. County Championship bowling averages Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average 4159 1947 71 7-70 27.42 4847 2231 53 6-135 42.09 1868 1444 28 4-121 51.57 966 587 10 2-16 58.70 783 408 7 2-11 58.28 894 592 7 3-60 84.57 440 254 5 4-75 50.80 W Chaterton 282 121 4 2-2 30.25 252 162 4 3-123 40.50 324 243 4 2-45 60.75 186 107 3 2-28 35.66 239 100 2 1-6 50.00 78 40 1 1-9 40.00 102 43 1 1-19 43.00 102 55 0 84 61 0 60 18 0 48 14 0 36 12 0 30 9 0 24 19 0 18 14 0 12 12 0 County Championship Wicket keeping W Storer Matches 18 Catches 21, Stumping 3 W Wilmot Matches 3 Catches 8 See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1901 English cricket season References

Notes and References

1. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5619.html Cricket Archive London County v Derbyshire 13 May 1901
2. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5627.html Cricket Archive Surrey v Derbyshire 16 May 1901
3. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5636.html Cricket Archive Yorkshire v Derbyshire20 May 1901
4. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5640.html Cricket Archive MCC v Derbyshire 23 May 1901
5. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5645.html Cricket Archive Hampshire v Derbyshire 27 May 1901
6. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5653.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Surrey 30 May 1901
7. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5667.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v South Africans 06 Jun 1901
8. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5675.html Cricket Archive Essex v Derbyshire10 Jun 1901
9. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5686.html Cricket Archive Worcestershire v Derbyshire 13 Jun 1901
10. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5687.html Cricket Archive Gloucestershire v Derbyshire 17 Jun 1901
11. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5694.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Warwickshire 20 Jun 1901
12. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5706.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Yorkshire 27 Jun 1901
13. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5713.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v London County 01 Jul 1901
14. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5733.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 15 Jul 1901
15. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5741.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Leicestershire 18 Jul 1901
16. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5747.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Gloucestershire 22 Jul 1901
17. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5760.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Lancashire 29 Jul 1901
18. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5769.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Hampshire 05 Aug 1901
19. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5780.html Cricket Archive Lancashire v Derbyshire 08 Aug 1901
20. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5786.html Cricket Archive Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 12 Aug 1901
21. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5796.html Cricket Archive Warwickshire v Derbyshire 15 Aug 1901
22. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5797.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Worcestershire 19 Aug 1901
23. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5803.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Essex 22 Aug 1901
24. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5818.html Cricket Archive Leicestershire v Derbyshire 29 Aug 1901