# Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1936

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.
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

List of matches :
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 6 May 1936 | Hampshire At County Ground, Southampton | Drawn | | R H Moore 100; C G A Paris 101 |
| 2 | 9 May 1936 | Oxford University The University Parks, Oxford | 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 | Kent Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend | Lost | 10 wickets | A P Freeman 7–29; W H Copson 5–57; D V P Wright 5–31 |
| 4 | 16 May 1936 | Surrey County Ground, Derby | Won | 16 runs | A R Gover 5–63; W H Copson 5–33 and 7–19; F R Brown 5–53 |
| 5 | 23 May 1936 | Sussex Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | Innings and 25 runs | L F Townend 182;W H Copson 5–42 |
| 6 | 27 May 1936 | Gloucestershire Ashley Down Ground, Bristol | Won | 10 Wickets | R A Sinfield 7–54; T. B. Mitchell 5–40 |
| 7 | 30 May 1936 | Essex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | |
| 8 | 3 Jun 1936 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Won | 7 Wickets | W H Copson 6–24 |
| 9 | 10 Jun 1936 | Gloucestershire County Ground, Derby | Won | 10 Wickets | T. B. Mitchell 7–26 |
| 10 | 13 Jun 1936 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | L F Townsend 101; W E Bowes 5–66; T. B. Mitchell 6–60 |
| 11 | 17 Jun 1936 | Somerset Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Lost | 10 Wickets | H Hunt 7–49; T. B. Mitchell 5–90 |
| 12 | 20 Jun 1936 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Won | Innings and 10 runs | L F Townsend 5–44 and 7–46; T. B. Mitchell 5–42 |
| 13 | 24 Jun 1936 | Worcestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 3 Wickets | H H I H Gibbons 99; W H Copson 5–34; R T D Perks 5–63 |
| 14 | 27 Jun 1936 | Lancashire Park Road Ground, Buxton | Drawn | | F S Booth 6–16; A V Pope 5–53 |
| 15 | 1 Jul 1936 | Worcestershire County Ground, New Road, Worcester | Won | Innings and 123 runs | W H Copson 5–38 and 7–16 |
| 16 | 4 Jul 1936 | Warwickshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | Innings and 159 runs | T S Worthington 163; T. B. Mitchell 5–52 |
| 17 | 8 Jul 1936 | Hampshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | L F Townsend 153 |
| 18 | 11 Jul 1936 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Drawn | | F M Sibbles 7–36 |
| 19 | 15 Jul 1936 | Kent The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Won | 141 Runs | L F Townsend 115; A V Pope 5–48 |
| 20 | 18 Jul 1936 | Indians County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | Not a County Championship match W H Copson 5–44 |
| 21 | 22 Jul 1936 | Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield | Drawn | | T S Worthington 135; A Mitchell 103;W H Copson 6–60 |
| 22 | 25 Jul 1936 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Lost | 6 Wickets | T. B. Mitchell 6–87; W Voce 6–43 |
| 23 | 1 Aug 1936 | Essex County Ground, Chelmsford | Won | 20 runs | K Farnes 5–20; T P B Smith 5–62; T. B. Mitchell 6–25 |
| 24 | 5 Aug 1936 | Surrey Kennington Oval | Drawn | | D Smith 106; T. B. Mitchell 5–88 |
| 25 | 8 Aug 1936 | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby | Won | 9 Wickets | W H Copson 5–40; T. B. Mitchell 5–57 and 5–42; G Geary 5–39 |
| 26 | 15 Aug 1936 | Nottinghamshire Town Ground, Worksop | Drawn | | W W Keaton 100; C B Harris 107 |
| 27 | 19 Aug 1936 | Sussex The Saffrons, Eastbourne | Drawn | | J Langridge 126; W H Copson 6–87 |
| 28 | 22 Aug 1936 | Northamptonshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | R J Partridge 5–69; A V Pope 6–129 |
| 29 | 26 Aug 1936 | Somerset Rowden Road, Wells | Lost | 1 Wicket | A V Pope 5–35; A W Wellard 5–47; W H Copson 6–81 |
| 30 | 29 Aug 1936 | Leicestershire Oakham School Ground | Won | Innings and 66 runs | D Smith 169; T S Worthington 102 |

## Statistics
### County Championship batting averages

| 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 |
In addition, John Gilbert appeared for Derbyshire against Oxford University.

### County Championship bowling averages

| 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 |

### Wicket-keeper

H Elliott Catches 50 Stumping 12