# Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1961

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1961 represents cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ninety years. It was their fifty-seventh season in the County Championship and they won ten matches to finish seventh in the County Championship.

## 1961 season

Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against Oxford University, one against the touring Australians and an extra match against Nottinghamshire. They won ten matches altogether Donald Carr was in his seventh season as captain. Laurie Johnson was top scorer and Harold Rhodes took most wickets with 101.
The only new member of the team was Bob Taylor, a future captain and international, who had played in the second XI in the previous year. He was brought in to keep wicket after George Dawkes suffered from knee problems.

### Matches

List of matches :
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 26 Apr 1961 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Drawn | | Not a county championship match |
| 2 | 3 May 1961 | Australians Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | Only 22 overs played |
| 3 | 10 May 1961 | Kent County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | Sayer 5–48; HJ Rhodes 5–59 |
| 4 | 13 May 1961 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Won | 3 wickets | Winfield 109; DB Carr 143 |
| 5 | 17 May 1961 | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath | Won | 3 wickets | Wright 102; DC Morgan 5–40 |
| 6 | 20 May 1961 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Lost | 129 runs | Allen 8–48 and 5–50; HJ Rhodes 5–48; E Smith 5–41 |
| 7 | 24 May 1961 | Worcestershire County Ground, Derby | Lost | Innings and 15 runs | Coldwell 5–44; Gifford 5–17 |
| 8 | 27 May 1961 | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | 14 runs | IR Buxton 6–80 |
| 9 | 3 Jun 1961 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Lost | 109 runs | Grieves 139 |
| 10 | 7 Jun 1961 | Sussex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | IR Buxton 5–52; Thomson 5–54 and 6–46 |
| 11 | 10 Jun 1961 | Essex Hoffman's Sports and Social Club Ground, Chelmsford | Drawn | | G Smith 148; HL Johnson 119; TJP Eyre 5–75 |
| 12 | 17 Jun 1961 | Essex Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Lost | 181 runs | Knight 120; HL Jackson 5–30; Bailey 5–27 |
| 13 | 21 Jun 1961 | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | Innings and 141 runs | HL Jackson 6–15; TJP Eyre 5–40 |
| 14 | 24 Jun 1961 | Oxford University Park Road Ground, Buxton | Drawn | | HJ Rhodes took a hattrick to finish Oxford's second innings |
| 15 | 28 Jun 1961 | Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield | Drawn | | Trueman 6–60 and 5–63 |
| 16 | 1 Jul 1961 | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby | Won | 9 wickets | HL Jackson 5–53; Spencer 5–32 |
| 17 | 5 Jul 1961 | Gloucestershire Wagon Works Ground, Gloucester | Drawn | | HL Johnson 122; A'Court 6–50; Cook 5–41 |
| 18 | 8 Jul 1961 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | Innings and 18 runs | Stott 114 |
| 19 | 12 Jul 1961 | Glamorgan Cardiff Arms Park | Drawn | | HJ Rhodes 5–80; Shepherd5-96 |
| 20 | 19 Jul 1961 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby | Won | 3 wickets | IR Buxton 5–41 and 5–63; Thompson 5–46 and 5–75 |
| 21 | 22 Jul 1961 | Worcestershire Chester Road North Ground, Kidderminster | Lost | 185 runs | Headley 103; Coldwell 8–41 |
| 22 | 26 Jul 1961 | Middlesex Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood | Won | 7 wickets | Parfitt 113; HJ Rhodes 7–74 |
| 23 | 29 Jul 1961 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Drawn | | DB Carr 130 |
| 24 | 2 Aug 1961 | Somerset Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 6 wickets | HL Jackson 5–33; Palmer 6–76 |
| 25 | 5 Aug 1961 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | |
| 26 | 9 Aug 1961 | Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester | Won | 136 runs | HL Johnson 116; Savage 5–81; HJ Rhodes 5–49 |
| 27 | 12 Aug 1961 | Hampshire County Ground, Derby | Lost | 58 runs | Horton 141; Shackleton 6–90 |
| 28 | 19 Aug 1961 | Surrey Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 4 wickets | HL Jackson 6–40 and 5–68; Sydenham 5–102 |
| 29 | 23 Aug 1961 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Drawn | | Stewart 135; Wright 5–68; Bannister 6–30 |
| 30 | 26 Aug 1961 | Sussex Manor Sports Ground, Worthing | Won | 65 runs | WF Oates 148; E Smith 5–76 |
| 31 | 30 Aug 1961 | Hampshire Dean Park, Bournemouth | Lost | 140 runs | HL Johnson 112; Wassell 5–132; Shackleton 6–39 |

## Statistics
### County Championship batting averages

| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
| HL Johnson | 25 | 46 | 1594 | 122 | 37.95 | 4 |
| DB Carr | 26 | 47 | 1559 | 143 | 36.25 | 2 |
| WF Oates | 23 | 41 | 1259 | 148* | 34.02 | 1 |
| C Lee | 28 | 53 | 1415 | 91 | 27.74 | 0 |
| I Gibson | 1 | 2 | 49 | 46 | 24.50 | 0 |
| DC Morgan | 26 | 45 | 888 | 83 | 22.76 | 0 |
| GO Dawkes | 11 | 18 | 342 | 50 | 21.37 | 0 |
| IW Hall | 24 | 45 | 899 | 71 | 20.43 | 0 |
| IR Buxton | 24 | 41 | 643 | 50* | 17.86 | 0 |
| TJP Eyre | 8 | 12 | 97 | 33* | 16.16 | 0 |
| E Smith | 20 | 34 | 432 | 48 | 14.89 | 0 |
| HJ Rhodes | 24 | 37 | 321 | 34 | 14.59 | 0 |
| GA Beet | 2 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 14.00 | 0 |
| D Millner | 12 | 24 | 334 | 80 | 13.91 | 0 |
| R Swallow | 6 | 11 | 132 | 34 | 12.00 | 0 |
| RW Taylor | 17 | 24 | 205 | 48 | 11.38 | 0 |
| R Berry | 8 | 10 | 42 | 17 | 7.00 | 0 |
| GW Richardson | 4 | 6 | 35 | 18 | 5.83 | 0 |
| HL Jackson | 19 | 21 | 46 | 11 | 3.06 | 0 |

### County Championship bowling averages

| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
| HJ Rhodes | 5582 | 2024 | 101 | 7–74 | 20.03 |
| IR Buxton | 4350 | 1691 | 79 | 6–80 | 21.40 |
| HL Jackson | 4696 | 1481 | 78 | 6–15 | 18.98 |
| DC Morgan | 4203 | 1744 | 62 | 5–40 | 28.12 |
| E Smith | 3543 | 1412 | 44 | 5–41 | 32.09 |
| TJP Eyre | 1358 | 682 | 29 | 5–40 | 23.51 |
| DB Carr | 1088 | 615 | 18 | 3–37 | 34.16 |
| R Berry | 1344 | 462 | 14 | 3–45 | 33.00 |
| C Lee | 684 | 262 | 11 | 2–9 | 23.81 |
| GW Richardson | 384 | 211 | 4 | 2–55 | 52.75 |
| WF Oates | 138 | 63 | 2 | 1–0 | 31.50 |
| HL Johnson | 24 | 24 | 1 | 1–0 | 24.00 |
| GA Beet | 48 | 42 | 1 | 1–42 | 42.00 |
| D Millner | 24 | 15 | 0 |
| R Swallow | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| I Gibson | 12 | 13 | 0 |
| IW Hall | 18 | 5 | 0 |

## Wicket Keepers

* GO Dawkes Catches 33, Stumping 1 (not in championship)
* Bob Taylor Catches 47, Stumping 6