Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1936
{{Short description|1936 season of an English cricket team}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2013}}
{{Infobox cricket club season
| club = Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
| season = 1936
| coach =
| captain = A W Richardson
| overseas =
| comp1 = County Championship
| comp1 result = 1
| comp2 =
| comp2 result =
| comp3 =
| comp3 result =
| comp4 =
| comp4 result =
| most runs = Stan Worthington
| most wickets = Bill Copson
| most catches = Harry Elliott
| most dismissals =
| prevseason = 1935
| nextseason = 1937
}}
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1936 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire won the County Championship for the first and only time. They had been playing for sixty five years and it was their thirty-eighth season in the County Championship.
1936 season
Success in the County Championship saw the culmination of five years effort by A. W. Richardson since he became captain in 1931. Derbyshire had actually come second in the championship in 1935 with a better set of results. Middlesex and Yorkshire made strong challenges in the closing weeks of the 1936 season which kept tensions high in the Derbyshire camp. When he heard that the Championship had been settled the Duke of Devonshire, the Derbyshire President, left a shooting party at Bolton Abbey in a hurry to get to Derby and join the public reception given to the players on their return.[http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152965.html W.T. Taylor History of Derbyshire cricket Wisden 1953]
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against Oxford University and one match against the touring Indians. Stan Worthington and Leslie Townsend tied as top scorers in the County Championships, but Worthington's 174 against Oxford University gave him the edge in first class batting positions. Bill Copson's 140 wickets made him top bowler for the county.
Worthington also played for England in Test matches against the Indians.
George Langdale made his debut for Derbyshire and went on to play one first team game in 1937. Samuel Hunt also made his debut, but only played the 1936 season
=Matches=
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="6"| List of matches
|- style="background:#efefef;"
!No.
!Date
!V
!Result
!Margin
!Notes
|-
|1
|Hampshire
At County Ground, Southampton
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|R H Moore 100; C G A Paris 101
|-
|2
|Oxford University
The University Parks, Oxford
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|Innings and 130 runs
|Not a County Championship match
T S Worthington 174; R F H Darwell-Smith 5–134
|-
|3
|13 May 1936[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15742.html Cricket Archive Kent v Derbyshire 13 May 1936]
| Kent
Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend
| style="background:#f00;"|Lost
|10 wickets
|A P Freeman 7–29; W H Copson 5–57; D V P Wright 5–31
|-
|4
| Surrey
County Ground, Derby
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|16 runs
| A R Gover 5–63; W H Copson 5–33 and 7–19; F R Brown 5–53
|-
|5
| Sussex
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|Innings and 25 runs
|L F Townend 182;W H Copson 5–42
|-
|6
| Gloucestershire
Ashley Down Ground, Bristol
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|10 Wickets
|R A Sinfield 7–54; T. B. Mitchell 5–40
|-
|7
|30 May 1936[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15784.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Essex 30 May 1936]
| Essex
County Ground, Derby
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|
|-
|8
| Northamptonshire
County Ground, Northampton
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|7 Wickets
|W H Copson 6–24
|-
|9
| Gloucestershire
County Ground, Derby
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|10 Wickets
| T. B. Mitchell 7–26
|-
|10
| Yorkshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|L F Townsend 101; W E Bowes 5–66; T. B. Mitchell 6–60
|-
|11
| Somerset
Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston
| style="background:#f00;"|Lost
|10 Wickets
|H Hunt 7–49; T. B. Mitchell 5–90
|-
|12
| Warwickshire
Edgbaston, Birmingham
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|Innings and 10 runs
|L F Townsend 5–44 and 7–46; T. B. Mitchell 5–42
|-
|13
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|3 Wickets
|H H I H Gibbons 99; W H Copson 5–34; R T D Perks 5–63
|-
|14
|Lancashire
Park Road Ground, Buxton
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|F S Booth 6–16; A V Pope 5–53
|-
|15
| Worcestershire
County Ground, New Road, Worcester
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|Innings and 123 runs
|W H Copson 5–38 and 7–16
|-
|16
| Warwickshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|Innings and 159 runs
|T S Worthington 163; T. B. Mitchell 5–52
|-
|17
| Hampshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|L F Townsend 153
|-
|18
|Lancashire
Old Trafford, Manchester
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|F M Sibbles 7–36
|-
|19
|15 Jul 1936[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15902.html Cricket Archive Derbyshire v Kent 15 Jul 1936 ]
| Kent
The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|141 Runs
|L F Townsend 115; A V Pope 5–48
|-
|20
| Indians
County Ground, Derby
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|Not a County Championship match
W H Copson 5–44
|-
|21
| Yorkshire
Bramall Lane, Sheffield
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|T S Worthington 135; A Mitchell 103;W H Copson 6–60
|-
|22
| Nottinghamshire
Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston
| style="background:#f00;"|Lost
|6 Wickets
| T. B. Mitchell 6–87; W Voce 6–43
|-
|23
| Essex
County Ground, Chelmsford
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|20 runs
|K Farnes 5–20; T P B Smith 5–62; T. B. Mitchell 6–25
|-
|24
| Surrey
Kennington Oval
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|D Smith 106; T. B. Mitchell 5–88
|-
|25
| Leicestershire
County Ground, Derby
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|9 Wickets
|W H Copson 5–40; T. B. Mitchell 5–57 and 5–42; G Geary 5–39
|-
|26
| Nottinghamshire
Town Ground, Worksop
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
|W W Keaton 100; C B Harris 107
|-
|27
| Sussex
The Saffrons, Eastbourne
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
| J Langridge 126; W H Copson 6–87
|-
|28
| Northamptonshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
| style="background:#fc0;"|Drawn
|
| R J Partridge 5–69; A V Pope 6–129
|-
|29
| Somerset
Rowden Road, Wells
| style="background:#f00;"|Lost
|1 Wicket
|A V Pope 5–35; A W Wellard 5–47; W H Copson 6–81
|-
|30
| Leicestershire
Oakham School Ground
| style="background:#0f0;"|Won
|Innings and 66 runs
|D Smith 169; T S Worthington 102
|-
{{s-end}}
Statistics
=County Championship batting averages=
| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:70%;" | ||||||
| style="background:#efefef;"
! Name !! Matches !! Inns !! Runs !! High score !! Average !! 100s | ||||||
| |T S Worthington | 26 | 40 | 1322 | 163 | 35.72 | 3 |
| L F Townsend | 28 | 43 | 1322 | 182* | 33.89 | 4 |
| D Smith | 28 | 46 | 1256 | 169 | 30.63 | 2 |
| A E Alderman | 28 | 46 | 1074 | 79 | 25.57 | 0 |
| W W H Hill-Wood | 1 | 2 | 48 | 38 | 24.00 | 0 |
| A F Skinner | 12 | 20 | 441 | 62 | 22.05 | 0 |
| H Elliott | 28 | 41 | 639 | 79* | 19.96 | 0 |
| C S Elliott | 18 | 26 | 426 | 97 | 18.52 | 0 |
| H Storer | 9 | 13 | 205 | 62 | 15.76 | 0 |
| E Carrington | 7 | 11 | 157 | 72 | 14.27 | 0 |
| A V Pope | 28 | 38 | 441 | 40 | 13.78 | 0 |
| G R Langdale | 3 | 5 | 064 | 29 | 12.80 | 0 |
| A W Richardson | 26 | 34 | 378 | 50 | 12.60 | 0 |
| T. B. Mitchell | 26 | 32 | 267 | 45 | 10.68 | 0 |
| N A M Walker | 1 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 10.00 | 0 |
| S W Hunt | 5 | 5 | 48 | 17 | 9.60 | 0 |
| G H Pope | 4 | 6 | 50 | 14 | 8.33 | 0 |
| T R Armstrong | 2 | 3 | 16 | 8* | 8.00 | 0 |
| A F Townsend | 2 | 3 | 23 | 21 | 7.66 | 0 |
| W H Copson | 26 | 29 | 89 | 17 | 5.56 | 0[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/County_Championship_1936/Derbyshire_Batting.html Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire County Championship 1936] |
In addition, John Gilbert appeared for Derbyshire against Oxford University.
=County Championship bowling averages=
| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:70%;" | |||||
| style="background:#efefef;"
! Name !! Balls !! Runs !! Wickets !! BB !! Average | |||||
| W H Copson | 4731 | 1792 | 140 | 7–16 | 12.80 |
| T. B. Mitchell | 3842 | 2373 | 116 | 7–26 | 20.45 |
| A V Pope | 5071 | 1666 | 94 | 6–129 | 17.72 |
| L F Townsend | 3111 | 1062 | 54 | 7–46 | 19.66 |
| T S Worthington | 1337 | 584 | 19 | 4–31 | 30.73 |
| G H Pope | 337 | 128 | 5 | 2–35 | 25.60 |
| |T R Armstrong | 198 | 95 | 4 | 2–2 | 23.75 |
| D Smith | 18 | 13 | 1 | 1–13 | 13.00 |
| G R Langdale | 156 | 95 | 0 | ||
| A F Townsend | 36 | 23 | 0 | ||
| A F Skinner | 18 | 15 | 0 | ||
| N A M Walker | 12 | 10 | 0 | ||
| C S Elliott | 12 | 9 | 0 | ||
| S W Hunt | 6 | 3 | 0[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/County_Championship_1936/Derbyshire_Bowling.html Bowling for Derbyshire County Championship 1936] |
=Wicket-keeper=
H Elliott Catches 50 Stumping 12
See also
References
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{{Derbyshire County Cricket Club}}
Category:1936 in English cricket