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Derbyshire County Cricket Club In 1878
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1878 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire played their eighth season. Nottinghamshire played Derbyshire again after a two-year break, joining Yorkshire Hampshire, Lancashire and Kent as the fifth county to play Derbyshire 1878 season In 1878, Derbyshire played two county games each against Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Kent and one match each against MCC and All England XI. Derbyshire won three first class matches altogether and lost eight. They also played a miscellaneous match against Uppingham. The captain for the year was Robert Smith. Of the players who made their debuts, John Richardson, a bricklayer, played intermittently over the next five years and Enoch Cook, lace maker, played eight matches over two seasons. Henry Evans, a railway clerk, appeared occasionally over the next five years. John Cartledge and Thomas Limb, a miner, played their only single career first class matches during the season. ... [...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 until the fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Limb
Thomas Limb (25 February 1850 – 21 February 1901) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1878. Limb was born Eastwood, Nottinghamshire and became a coal miner. He played in one match for Derbyshire in the 1878 season against Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a Historic counties of England, historic county, Ceremonial County, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significa ..., in which he failed to score a run, being bowled out by Enoch Storer and Alexander Watson. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm round-arm bowler. Limb died in Eastwood at the age of 50. References 1850 births 1901 deaths English cricketers Derbyshire cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1850s-stub ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enoch Storer
Enoch Storer (18 May 1838 – 1 July 1880) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire between 1865 and 1878. Storer was born at Clay Cross, Derbyshire. He became a cricket professional at Ashton-under-Lyne in 1861. In 1863 he played for Boughton and in 1864 spent a year at Exeter College, Oxford. At the end of the 1864 season he moved on the Longsight Club at Manchester. He made his debut for Lancashire in the club's second first-class match which was against Middlesex in August 1865. He accompanied three amateurs from Longsight - Edwin Bousfield, Lewis Moorsom and R.Slater He scored 6 not out and 23, and took one wicket for 29 runs. In 1866 he was playing for Kendal and Players of Lancashire. He played two matches for Lancashire in 1867 and one in 1868. In 1869 he umpired two first-class Lancashire matches and was with the Manchester Club. From 1870 to 1875 he was at Bury. In 1877 he was with the Broughton Club at Manchester and started umpiring Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Flint
Joseph Flint (23 April 1840 – 2 November 1912) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1872 and 1879. Flint was born at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, the son of James Flint, a lead miner, and his wife Elizabeth. In 1870 Flint played for a Wirksworth team against an All-England XI with George Frost who followed him to Derbyshire. He debuted for Derbyshire in the 1872 season in a match against Lancashire, when he took two wickets and scored 13 and 19 not out. He played the return match against Lancashire that year, and also played for Derbyshire against the Queen's Club. He played one first-class game against Lancashire in the 1873 season and also appeared for Derbyshire in an additional fixture against Nottinghamshire. He appeared in all four first-class matches played by Derbyshire during the 1874 season and took 18 wickets. He also appeared in the miscellaneous games against Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and United South of England. He also made an appearance f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Young (cricketer)
Charles Robertson Young (2 February 1852 — 12 April 1913) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of D. Young, an assistant superintendent in the Revenue Survey of the Indian Civil Service, Young was born in British India at Dharwar in February 1852. Young made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Kent at Gravesend in 1867. At the time, he was aged 15 years and 131 days, making him the youngest debutant in first-class cricket. His record was eventually surpassed by the Indian cricketer Mohammad Ramzan who was aged 12 years and 247 days on his first-class debut in October 1937. His record did however remain an English first-class record until 2011, when Yorkshire's Barney Gibson debuted aged 15 years and 27 days. During his debut, Young scored 20 not out batting at number 9 and took his maiden wicket, that of Kent opening batsman George Bennett. He made a further two appearances in 1867, both against Kent. As a professional cricketer, he was engaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W G Grace
William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely considered one of its greatest players. He played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire, the Gentlemen, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the United South of England Eleven (USEE), and several other teams. Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, Grace dominated the sport during his career. His technical innovations and enormous influence left a lasting legacy. An outstanding all-rounder, he excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and fielding, but it is for his batting that he is most renowned. He is held to have invented modern batsmanship. Usually opening the innings, he was particularly admired for his mastery of all strokes, and his level of expertise was said by contemporary reviewers to be unique. He general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence. In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the laws of cricket, issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC. When the ICC was established in 1909, it was administered by the secretary of the MCC, and the president of MCC automatically assumed the chairmanship of ICC until 1989. For much of the 20th century, commencing with the 1903–04 tour of Australia and ending with the 1976–77 tour of India, MCC organised international tours on behalf of the England cricket team for playing Test matches. On these tours, the England team played under the auspices of MCC in non-international matches. In 1993, its administrativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Emmett
Thomas Emmett (3 September 1841 – 29 June 1904) was an English cricket bowler in the late 1860s, the 1870s and the early 1880s. Cricket career Born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, Emmett first joined Yorkshire when almost 25 as a professional fast left-arm bowler with a near roundarm action, though in his later years he took to bowling slow-medium. Once discovered, however, Emmett climbed almost immediately to the top of the cricketing tree, playing for England against Surrey & Sussex in Tom Lockyer's benefit match at the Oval in 1867, his second season. An even greater bowler, George Freeman, was approaching his best at the same time, and, from 1867 to the end of 1871, they dominated the English bowling scene. After 1871, however, business commitments took Freeman away from first-class cricket, but Emmett stayed on and found another able colleague in the excellent Allen Hill. In later years, Emmett shared the Yorkshire bowling duties with George Ulyett, Billy Bate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Curgenven
William Grafton Curgenven (30 November 1841 – 18 March 1910) was an English surgeon and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1872 and 1878. Biography and career Curgenven was born in Plymouth and became a doctor and was MRCS. In the 1860s he was playing club cricket and for the Gentlement of Devon. He made two appearances in miscellaneous matches as early as 1864, when he played for South Wales Cricket Club against I Zingari, playing amongst W. G. Grace and his brother Edward, and, the following year, for Gentlemen of Devon. Curgenven was one of the parties to the foundation of Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1870. He made his first appearance for Derbyshire in the 1872 season against Lancashire. In the 1873 season he was top scorer in a lean season for Derbyshire with 39. He played one match against Kent in the 1874 season. In the 1875 season he played three matches making his top score of 71 against Kent. He played four matches during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (Derbyshire Cricketer)
John Smith (27 October 1841 — 26 November 1898) was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1871 to 1878. He was a member of the team that played Derbyshire's first match in May 1871. Smith was born in Clifton, Derby and was a solicitor by profession. From 1865 he was playing cricket regularly for Gentlemen of Derbyshire and South Derbyshire. Smith debuted for Derbyshire in the 1871 season in their first match against Lancashire. He was one of five round-arm bowlers of Derbyshire's debut season (the others being James Billyeald, Dove Gregory, William Hickton (cricketer, born 1842), William Hickton, John Platts (cricketer), John Platts, and John Tilson (cricketer), John Tilson). Smith played one first-class match in the Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1872, 1872 season and also played against the Prince's Club. He played no first-class matches in the Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1873, 1873 season but took part in a miscellaneous game against Nottinghams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hickton (cricketer, Born 1842)
William Hickton (14 December 1842 – 27 March 1900) was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire between 1867 and 1871 and for Derbyshire between 1871 and 1878. He was a member of the team that played Derbyshire's first match in May 1871. Hickton was born in Hardstoft, Derbyshire. He first played for the Salford-based Broughton club in 1867 and began his first-class career for Lancashire in the same year. In a match against MCC at Lords, which was so badly interrupted by the weather, that mops and pails were used clear water off the pitch, Hickton took 5 for 69 and 6 for 22. He continued to play in county matches between Lancashire and the small number of registered county sides at the time. In his time as a bowler at Lancashire, he took 144 wickets for 2022 runs, and in 1870 he achieved a clean sweep of 10–46 in a match against Hampshire. In 1871 Hickton decided to move to Derbyshire and join the newly established Derbyshire County Cricket Club in their opening seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
