# Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1929

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1929 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for fifty eight years. It was their thirty-first season in the County Championship and they came seventh in the competition after winning ten matches in the championship.

## 1929 season

Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against Oxford University and one match against the touring South Africans. They won eleven matches altogether.
Guy Jackson was in his eighth year as captain. Harry Storer was top scorer with four centuries, two of them scored in the same match against Sussex. Storer and Joseph Bowden achieved a 1st wicket partnership of 322 against Essex, which remains a Derbyshire record. Tommy Mitchell took 104 wickets.
Thomas Armstrong made his debut in 1929 and went on to play many seasons for Derbyshire. Charles Clarke also made his debut and played for four seasons. Horace Wass a footballer played in just one match for Derbyshire during 1929.

### Matches

List of matches :
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 8 May 1929 | Lancashire County Ground, Derby | Lost | 7 wickets | Dick Tyldesley 6–48 and 6–33 including a hattrick; Tommy Mitchell 5–34 |
| 2 | 11 May 1929 | Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester | Drawn | | |
| 3 | 15 May 1929 | Hampshire United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth | Won | 5 wickets | Tommy Mitchell 6–42; Kennedy 9–46 |
| 4 | 18 May 1929 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Won | 147 runs | Bob Wyatt 104; Tommy Mitchell 5–46 and 6–83 |
| 5 | 22 May 1929 | Northamptonshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Drawn | | |
| 6 | 25 May 1929 | Sussex County Ground, Derby | Won | 135 runs | Harry Storer 119 and 100; T S Worthington 8–29 |
| 7 | 29 May 1929 | Hampshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | Innings and 99 runs | Tommy Mitchell 5–20; GM Lee 134; AG Slater 5–50 |
| 8 | 1 Jun 1929 | Somerset The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Won | Innings and 8 runs | JM Hutchinson 138; Wellard 5–96; Tommy Mitchell 6–64 |
| 9 | 5 Jun 1929 | South Africans County Ground, Derby f12457 | Drawn | | |
| 10 | 8 Jun 1929 | Worcestershire Amblecote, Stourbridge | Won | 116 runs | T S Worthington 5–21 |
| 11 | 15 Jun 1929 | Oxford University The University Parks, Oxford | Won | 7 wickets | Garthwaite 5–74 NM Ford and CKH Hill-Wood played for the university instead of Derbyshire |
| 12 | 22 Jun 1929 | Kent Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | Innings and 117 runs | Hardinge 115; Wolley 155; Freeman 7–117 and 7–63; |
| 13 | 29 Jun 1929 | Essex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | Harry Storer 209;J Bowden 120; Eastman 161; Russell 102 |
| 14 | 3 Jul 1929 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | T S Worthington 5–72; Robinson 5–64 |
| 15 | 6 Jul 1929 | Worcestershire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Won | 8 wickets | AG Slater 5–27 |
| 16 | 10 Jul 1929 | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath | Won | 132 runs | GM Lee 118; White 5–23 |
| 17 | 13 Jul 1929 | Glamorgan Cardiff Arms Park | Drawn | | Bell 100; Arnott 5–72 |
| 18 | 17 Jul 1929 | Leicestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | 49 runs | Armstrong 128; Geary 6–27 |
| 19 | 20 Jul 1929 | Middlesex Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood | Lost | 8 wickets | Durston 7–50 |
| 20 | 24 Jul 1929 | Sussex County Ground, Hove | Lost | Innings and 36 runs | Ted Bowley 9–114; Harold Gilligan 143; Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji 118 |
| 21 | 27 Jul 1929 | Middlesex County Ground, Derby | Lost | 78 runs | T S Worthington 5–83; |
| 22 | 31 Jul 1929 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Drawn | | |
| 23 | 3 Aug 1929 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | Mayer 5–21 |
| 24 | 7 Aug 1929 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Won | 42 runs | Jupp 5–31; AG Slater 6–54; L F Townsend 5–59 |
| 25 | 10 Aug 1929 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Drawn | | Harry Storer 176; GM Lee 5–111 |
| 26 | 14 Aug 1929 | Yorkshire Bramall Lane, Sheffield | Drawn | | Macaulay 5–62 |
| 27 | 17 Aug 1929 | Kent Crabble Athletic Ground, Dover | Drawn | | Legge 113; Bryan 124; Wright 5–82 |
| 28 | 21 Aug 1929 | Essex Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea | Won | 8 wickets | GM Lee 113; T S Worthington 7–68 |
| 29 | 24 Aug 1929 | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | AG Slater 5–36 |
| 30 | 31 Aug 1929 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Drawn | | |

## Statistics
### County Championship batting averages

| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
| H Storer | 27 | 46 | 1532 | 209 | 36.47 | 4 |
| GM Lee | 24 | 42 | 1205 | 134 | 31.71 | 3 |
| A W Richardson | 6 | 10 | 169 | 60* | 28.16 | 0 |
| J Bowden | 13 | 21 | 544 | 120 | 27.20 | 1 |
| A E Alderman | 13 | 15 | 276 | 53* | 25.09 | 0 |
| L F Townsend | 27 | 35 | 801 | 63 | 25.03 | 0 |
| AG Slater | 27 | 38 | 876 | 95 | 25.02 | 0 |
| GR Jackson | 28 | 45 | 941 | 70 | 24.76 | 0 |
| T S Worthington | 28 | 45 | 999 | 72 | 23.23 | 0 |
| CKH Hill-Wood | 8 | 10 | 206 | 72 | 22.88 | 0 |
| JM Hutchinson | 28 | 40 | 783 | 138 | 22.37 | 1 |
| D Smith | 15 | 22 | 264 | 43 | 13.89 | 0 |
| CC Clarke | 4 | 4 | 55 | 33 | 13.75 | 0 |
| H Elliott | 28 | 36 | 280 | 47 | 12.72 | 0 |
| NM Ford | 3 | 6 | 57 | 27 | 9.50 | 0 |
| H Wass | 1 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 9.00 | 0 |
| T. B. Mitchell | 26 | 31 | 144 | 23 | 6.26 | 0 |
| T R Armstrong | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1* | 2.00 | 0 |
| DJCH Hill-Wood | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |

### County Championship bowling averages

| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
| T. B. Mitchell | 4858 | 1968 | 103 | 6–42 | 19.10 |
| L F Townsend | 6342 | 1868 | 91 | 5–59 | 20.52 |
| T S Worthington | 5337 | 2012 | 83 | 8–29 | 24.24 |
| AG Slater | 5544 | 1690 | 81 | 6–54 | 20.86 |
| GM Lee | 2036 | 755 | 29 | 5–111 | 26.03 |
| CKH Hill-Wood | 1241 | 412 | 12 | 2–34 | 34.33 |
| H Storer | 700 | 384 | 5 | 2–35 | 76.80 |
| D Smith | 288 | 119 | 4 | 2–35 | 29.75 |
| A E Alderman | 96 | 37 | 3 | 3–37 | 12.33 |
| T R Armstrong | 126 | 30 | 0 | | |
| J Bowden | 12 | 4 | 0 | | |
| NM Ford | 5 | 9 | 0 | | |
| JM Hutchinson | 120 | 58 | 0 | | |
| GR Jackson | 6 | 5 | 0 | | |

## Wicket-keeper

* H Elliott Catches 47 Stumping 17