# Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1903

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1903 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire celebrated its 32nd anniversary. It was their ninth season in the County Championship and they won five matches to come in twelfth.

## 1903 season

Derbyshire played sixteen games in the County Championship, in addition to two matches against W.G. Grace's London County Cricket Club and one against MCC. They won four matches in the Championship and one against London County.
The captain for the year was Albert Lawton in his second season as captain. Levi Wright was top scorer and Billy Bestwick took most wickets.
An addition to the Derbyshire side was Arthur Morton who played for the club until 1926. Other new players in the season were R T Ryder who played his one career first class match against London County, and G Green who also made one appearance against London County but played for Derbyshire intermittently over several seasons.

### Matches

List of matches :
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 11 May 1903 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Lost | 6 wickets | Wass 5-43 |
| 2 | 18 May 1903 | Lancashire County Ground, Derby | Lost | 10 wickets | Barnes 7-25 and 7-34; JJ Hulme 8-52 |
| 3 | 21 May 1903 | MCC Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood | Lost | 9 wickets | Llewellyn 5-65; JJ Hulme 6-60; Thompson 5-30 |
| 4 | 01 Jun 1903 | Hampshire County Ground, Southampton | Lost | 261 runs | Llewellyn 148; Hill 150; JJ Hulme 7-123; Chignell 5-68; Hesketh-Pritchard 7-47 |
| 5 | 08 Jun 1903 | Essex County Ground, Leyton | Drawn | | Perrin 102(rh); Buckenham 6-47; W Bestwick 5-95; Mead 5-77 |
| 6 | 15 Jun 1903 | Surrey Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 111 runs | W Bestwick 7-20; Richardson 5-43 |
| 7 | 18 Jun 1903 | Yorkshire County Ground, Derby | Lost | 7 wickets | JJ Hulme 5-69 |
| 8 | 22 Jun 1903 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Drawn | | LG Wright 133; Field 6-82 and 5-150 |
| 9 | 25 Jun 1903 | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby | Won | 35 runs | Gill 5-93; A Warren 5-69 and 6-112 |
| 10 | 06 Jul 1903 | Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester | Lost | 126 runs | King 167; Odell 6-74 |
| 11 | 09 Jul 1903 | Nottinghamshire County Ground, Derby | Won | 114 runs | SWA Cadman 5-42; A Warren 6-93 |
| 12 | 16 Jul 1903 | London County Cricket Club Crystal Palace Park | Lost | Innings and 31 runs | W Smith 123; Cranfield 7-105 |
| 13 | 20 Jul 1903 | Essex North Road Ground, Glossop | Lost | 232 runs | Mead 5-38 |
| 14 | 03 Aug 1903 | Hampshire County Ground, Derby | Won | Innings and 59 runs | E Needham 131; A Warren 6-43 |
| 15 | 06 Aug 1903 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Lost | 9 wickets | LG Wright 116; Hallows 5-42 |
| 16 | 10 Aug 1903 | Surrey Kennington Oval | Drawn | | Dowson 100* |
| 17 | 13 Aug 1903 | Yorkshire St George's Road, Harrogate | Drawn | | |
| 18 | 17 Aug 1903 | Warwickshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | W Bestwick 5-86; Hargreave 5-55; Santall 5-19 |
| 19 | 20 Aug 1903 | London County Cricket Club County Ground, Derby | Won | 8 wickets | Odell 7-69 |

## Statistics
### County Championship batting averages

| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
| LG Wright | 15 | 27 | 940 | 133 | 37.60 | 2 |
| CA Ollivierre | 16 | 30 | 660 | 72 | 22.75 | 0 |
| W Storer | 15 | 27 | 593 | 89 | 21.96 | 0 |
| E Needham | 14 | 25 | 470 | 131 | 20.43 | 1 |
| AE Lawton | 16 | 27 | 473 | 63 | 18.19 | 0 |
| SWA Cadman | 11 | 18 | 309 | 55 | 17.16 | 0 |
| W Ellis | 4 | 8 | 121 | 44 | 15.12 | 0 |
| EM Ashcroft | 7 | 11 | 142 | 67 | 14.20 | 0 |
| A Warren | 16 | 28 | 382 | 89 | 14.14 | 0 |
| T Forrester | 8 | 16 | 186 | 58 | 12.40 | 0 |
| A Morton | 5 | 10 | 94 | 22 | 10.44 | 0 |
| J Humphries | 16 | 27 | 208 | 24 | 9.45 | 0 |
| GR Gregory | 7 | 11 | 85 | 20* | 9.44 | 0 |
| JJ Hulme | 8 | 15 | 64 | 27* | 5.33 | 0 |
| W Bestwick | 16 | 27 | 68 | 19* | 4.53 | 0 |
| R Else | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2.66 | 0 |
In addition, W Locker played against MCC, CE Middleton and G Curgenven played in the first match against London County, and R T Ryder and G Green played in the second match against London County.

### County Championship bowling averages

| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
| W Bestwick | 3758 | 1599 | 66 | 7-20 | 24.22 |
| A Warren | 2630 | 1395 | 65 | 6-43 | 21.46 |
| JJ Hulme | 1460 | 724 | 36 | 8-52 | 20.11 |
| SWA Cadman | 1295 | 560 | 19 | 5-42 | 29.47 |
| W Storer | 470 | 307 | 13 | 3-29 | 23.61 |
| GR Gregory | 270 | 195 | 10 | 4-70 | 19.50 |
| AE Lawton | 600 | 334 | 9 | 2-31 | 37.11 |
| T Forrester | 489 | 250 | 6 | 4-43 | 41.66 |
| A Morton | 258 | 145 | 2 | 2-32 | 72.50 |
| EM Ashcroft | 24 | 15 | 0 | | |
| CA Ollivierre | 12 | 9 | 0 | | |
| R Else | 12 | 5 | 0 | | |

### County Championship Wicket keeping

* Joe Humphries Catches 23, Stumping 9