Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1920 explained

Club:	Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
Season:	1920
Comp1:	County Championship
Comp1 Result:	16
Most Runs:	Leonard Oliver
Most Catches:	Harry Elliott
Prevseason:	1919
Nextseason:	1921

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1920 was the English cricket club Derbyshire's fiftieth season. It was the club's twenty-second season in the County Championship and the most disastrous season ever experienced by any side since the County Championship was established.^[1] Derbyshire lost 17 of the 18 matches played and the other was abandoned without a ball being bowled.

1920 season

John Chapman was captain for the season, having held the post twice before World War I. The team was very unstable. Thirty eight players played for Derbyshire in the season, but only six played in more than half the matches. The club suffered from the absence of devastating bowler Billy Bestwick for all but one match, in which he took seven wickets, while other players such as Thomas Forrester and Arnold Warren were drawing to the end of their career. Leonard Oliver was top scorer and Arthur Morton with 89 wickets did the bulk of the bowling with Samuel Cadman. Oliver and Morton were the only players to score centuries.

Fifteen players made their debut in the season, half of them playing three or fewer matches. The most significant additions to the side were Harry Storer and wicket keeper Harry Elliott both of whom had long careers with the club and were members of the 1936 championship winning team. Newcomers Wilfred Carter, Jim Hutchinson, William Tomlinson, Anthony Jackson and Robert Bestwick played in several subsequent seasons. Those who only appeared in 1920 were Henry Radford, Kenneth Dobson and Douglas Linathan with three appearances, Albert Woodland and Allen Turner with two appearances and Geoffrey Brooke-Taylor, Timothy Boden and John Davis who only played one game each.

Matches

List of matches
No.	Date	V	Result	Margin	Notes
1	15 May 1920 ^[2]	Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield	Lost	Innings and 223 runs	Kilner 206*
2	19 May 1920 ^[3]	Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Lost	Innings and 160 runs	Makepeace 132; A Morton 6-73; Cook 7-8
3	22 May 1920 ^[4]	Warwickshire County Ground, Derby	Lost	8 wickets	Howell 6-25 and 6-39; A Morton 5-44; SWA Cadman 5-36
4	12 Jun 1920 ^[5]	Essex County Ground, Derby	Lost	6 wickets	Douglas 8-39; A Morton 5-94; Reeves 5-61
5	19 Jun 1920 ^[6]	Northamptonshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Lost	114 runs	A Morton 5-61 and 6-35; Murdin 5-29 and 6-39
6	23 Jun 1920 ^[7]	Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester	Lost	Innings and 228 runs	Tyldesley 169 and 5-40; Cook 5-50; Dean 5-26
7	03 Jul 1920 ^[8]	Nottinghamshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Abandoned
8	07 Jul 1920 ^[9]	Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester	Lost	6 wickets	King 8-61 and 5-41;W Bestwick 5-41; A Morton 5-33
9	10 Jul 1920 ^[10]	Yorkshire County Ground, Derby	Lost	Innings and 71 runs	Holmes 104; Robinson 5-20; Rhodes 7-24
10	14 Jul 1920 ^[11]	Sussex County Ground, Hove	Lost	134 runs	A Morton 6-60; Cox 7-8
11	17 Jul 1920 ^[12]	Somerset County Ground, Derby	Lost	5 wickets	A Morton 8-37; Robson 6-20
12	24 Jul 1920 ^[13]	Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton	Lost	80 runs	SWA Cadman 6-34 and 8-70; Wells 6-54
13	31 Jul 1920 ^[14]	Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham	Lost	220 runs	SWA Cadman 5-55; Howell 7-45
14	07 Aug 1920 ^[15]	Sussex Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Lost	Innings and 108 runs	WJV Tomlinson 5-53
15	11 Aug 1920 ^[16]	Leicestershire County Ground, Derby	Lost	Innings and 14 runs	A Morton 105; Astill 5-24
16	14 Aug 1920 ^[17]	Essex Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea	Lost	104 runs	A Morton 5-57; Louden 8-36
17	26 Aug 1920 ^[18]	Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham	Lost	197 runs	Whysall 142; L Oliver 170; Gunn 123
18	01 Sep 1920 ^[19]	Somerset Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare	Lost	10 wickets	Daniell 102; White 7-33 and 5-46
Statistics County Championship batting averages Name Matches Inns Runs High score Average 100s 1 2 34 24* 34.00 0 12 24 546 170 22.75 1 1 2 44 30 22.00 0 17 34 528 47 16.00 0 14 28 299 42* 15.73 0 4 8 109 61 15.57 0 17 34 481 105* 15.51 1 2 4 30 21* 15.00 0 9 18 229 35 12.72 0 8 16 186 61* 12.40 0 4 8 68 26* 9.71 0 JM Hutchinson 5 10 93 44 9.30 0 3 6 50 20 8.33 0 2 4 27 19* 9.00 0 8 16 135 26 8.43 0 14 27 191 27 7.95 0 A Severn 3 6 47 33 7.83 0 2 4 30 20 7.50 0 1 2 14 9 7.00 0 3 6 35 14* 7.00 0 12 24 147 32 6.68 0 5 10 58 15 6.44 0 1 2 12 6 6.00 0 1 2 6 6* 6.00 0 6 12 69 19 5.75 0 3 6 23 14 5.75 0 9 18 92 14 5.11 0 1 2 10 5 5.00 0 2 4 19 8 4.75 0 1 2 9 7 4.50 0 1 2 9 8 4.50 0 2 2 6 6 3.00 0 1 2 6 5* 3.00 0 2 4 9 6 2.25 0 AHM Jackson 2 4 7 5 1.75 0 3 6 6 3 1.50 0 1 2 2 2 1.00 0 2 4 4 1 1.00 0 2 4 4 2 1.00 0^[20] County Championship bowling averages Name Balls Runs Wickets BB Average 4611 1808 89 8-37 20.31 3321 1211 58 8-70 20.87 622 272 14 5-53 19.42 642 350 10 3-23 35.00 288 141 9 4-45 15.66 318 97 7 5-41 13.85 252 138 6 3-66 23.00 318 117 5 2-30 23.40 210 149 4 3-50 37.25 186 86 4 2-18 21.50 132 72 3 3-72 24.00 306 161 2 2-116 80.50 132 99 1 1-25 99.00 JM Hutchinson 138 81 1 1-35 81.00 102 78 1 1-15 78.00 18 7 1 1-7 7.00 102 74 1 1-74 74.00 126 55 0 18 12 0 48 31 0 AHM Jackson 132 93 0 114 69 0 12 8 0 36 17 0 6 11 0 90 69 0 ^[21] Wicket Keeping George Beet - Catches 6, Stumping 2 H Elliott - Catches 17, Stumping 9 See also Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons 1920 English cricket season Imperfect season References

Notes and References

1. http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152965.html W.T. Taylor History of Derbyshire cricket Wisden 1953
2. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9768.html Cricket Archive - Yorkshire v Derbyshire 15 May 1920
3. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9769.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Lancashire 19 May 1920
4. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9776.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Warwickshire 22 May 1920
5. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9820.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Essex 12 Jun 1920
6. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9832.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Northamptonshire 19 Jun 1920
7. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9842.html Cricket Archive - Lancashire v Derbyshire 23 Jun 1920
8. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9863.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 03 Jul 1920
9. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9872.html Cricket Archive - Leicestershire v Derbyshire 07 Jul 1920
10. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9875.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Yorkshire 10 Jul 1920
11. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9883.html Cricket Archive - Sussex v Derbyshire 14 Jul 1920
12. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9885.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Somerset 17 Jul 1920
13. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9904.html Cricket Archive - Northamptonshire v Derbyshire 24 Jul 1920
14. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9916.html Cricket Archive - Warwickshire v Derbyshire 31 Jul 1920
15. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9926.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Sussex 07 Aug 1920
16. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9933.html Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Leicestershire 11 Aug 1920
17. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9938.html Cricket Archive - Essex v Derbyshire 14 Aug 1920
18. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9966.html Cricket Archive - Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 26 Aug 1920
19. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9974.html Cricket Archive - Somerset v Derbyshire 01 Sep 1920
20. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/County_Championship_1920/Derbyshire_Batting.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire batting 1920
21. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/County_Championship_1920/Derbyshire_Bowling.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire bowling in 1920