# Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1925

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1925 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for fifty four years. It was their twenty seventh season in the County Championship and they won five matches to finish fourteenth in the County Championship.

## 1925 season

Guy Jackson was in his fourth season as captain. All the club's twenty-four first class matches were in the County Championship. The team recovered from a poor season in the previous year with five wins, but with fewer draws the high number of losses left the team in fourteenth place. Garnet Lee was top scorer in his first season as a first-class player for Derbyshire. Arthur Morton took most wickets with 63.
The most significant addition to the side was Garnet Lee who was to prove a valuable all-rounder over the next few years. Lee had previously played for Nottinghamshire but had taken two seasons at Derbyshire to work himself into the first team. Other players making their debut were Lionel Blaxland who played intermittently over several years Escott Loney and Wilfred Shardlow who played regularly for three seasons, and Eric Sykes who played three games in the season and re-appeared in 1932.

### Matches

List of matches :
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 9 May 1925 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby | Lost | 35 runs | |
| 2 | 16 May 1925 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Lost | 10 wickets | |
| 3 | 20 May 1925 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | Innings and 160 runs | Holmes 125; Macaulay 7-13 |
| 4 | 23 May 1925 | Somerset County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | W Bestwick 5-22 |
| 5 | 30 May 1925 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Drawn | | Stephens 121; GM Lee 119 |
| 6 | 3 Jun 1925 | Worcestershire Amblecote, Stourbridge | Won | 212 runs | Rogers 6-69; Root 5-54 |
| 7 | 6 Jun 1925 | Gloucestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | 3 wickets | Hammond 5-57; J Horsley 6-94; Parker 8-56 |
| 8 | 10 Jun 1925 | Essex County Ground, Leyton | Won | 9 wickets | A Morton 131; BSH Hill-Wood 6-74; J Horsley 6-66 |
| 9 | 13 Jun 1925 | Kent Angel Ground, Tonbridge | Lost | Innings and 32 runs | Seymour 106; Collins 105*; GR Jackson 127; Freeman 6-35 and 5-94 |
| 10 | 20 Jun 1925 | Worcestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 6 wickets | Root 5-92 |
| 11 | 27 Jun 1925 | Kent County Ground, Derby | Lost | 5 wickets | Hardinge 144; Seymour 119; Cornwallis 5-56; J Horsley 5-36 |
| 12 | 1 Jul 1925 | Yorkshire Headingley, Leeds | Lost | Innings and 159 runs | Rhodes 157; |
| 13 | 4 Jul 1925 | Leicestershire The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Drawn | | GR Jackson 110; Skelding 5-54; W Bestwick 7-20 |
| 14 | 11 Jul 1925 | Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester | Lost | 248 runs | Skelding 5-40; Astill 5-19 |
| 15 | 15 Jul 1925 | Glamorgan Cardiff Arms Park | Lost | 200 runs | Ryan 5-19 and 8-41 |
| 16 | 18 Jul 1925 | Somerset Clarence Park, Weston-super-Mare | Won | 3 wickets | GM Lee 113; GR Jackson 105 |
| 17 | 22 Jul 1925 | Gloucestershire Fry's Ground, Bristol | Lost | Innings and 32 runs | Parker 5-19 and 6-61 |
| 18 | 25 Jul 1925 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Drawn | | Whysall 140 |
| 19 | 29 Jul 1925 | Essex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | Hipkin 5-44 |
| 20 | 1 Aug 1925 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | |
| 21 | 5 Aug 1925 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Drawn | | A Morton 5-89 |
| 22 | 12 Aug 1925 | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 6 wickets | Ryan 7-70 |
| 23 | 15 Aug 1925 | Lancashire Seed Hill Ground, Nelson | Lost | 97 runs | A Morton 7-51 |
| 24 | 22 Aug 1925 | Lancashire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | Innings and 132 runs | R Tyldesley 8-40; Sibbles 5-30 |

## Statistics
### County Championship batting averages

| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
| GR Jackson | 23 | 42 | 1199 | 127 | 29.97 | 3 |
| GM Lee | 24 | 46 | 1238 | 119 | 28.13 | 2 |
| JL Crommelin-Brown | 4 | 7 | 144 | 68 | 24.00 | 0 |
| J Bowden | 23 | 43 | 742 | 62 | 19.02 | 0 |
| L F Townsend | 24 | 45 | 808 | 59 | 18.79 | 0 |
| A Morton | 18 | 27 | 433 | 131 | 17.32 | 1 |
| BSH Hill-Wood | 6 | 11 | 187 | 61 | 17.00 | 0 |
| WWH Hill-Wood | 5 | 10 | 167 | 35 | 16.70 | 0 |
| H Storer | 2 | 3 | 31 | 23 | 15.50 | 0 |
| J Horsley | 17 | 28 | 365 | 47* | 15.20 | 0 |
| G Beet | 1 | 2 | 30 | 17 | 15.00 | 0 |
| JM Hutchinson | 24 | 41 | 543 | 79 | 14.67 | 0 |
| SWA Cadman | 23 | 40 | 513 | 60 | 14.65 | 0 |
| E Sykes | 3 | 6 | 65 | 50 | 13.00 | 0 |
| FR Heath | 1 | 2 | 13 | 13* | 13.00 | 0 |
| H Elliott | 24 | 38 | 228 | 33 | 11.40 | 0 |
| EF Loney | 6 | 9 | 89 | 36 | 11.12 | 0 |
| T S Worthington | 3 | 6 | 49 | 20 | 9.80 | 0 |
| LB Blaxland | 3 | 4 | 39 | 25 | 9.75 | 0 |
| AHM Jackson | 5 | 7 | 63 | 17 | 9.00 | 0 |
| W Shardlow | 3 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 9.00 | 0 |
| JA Cresswell | 5 | 10 | 28 | 9 | 4.66 | 0 |
| W Bestwick | 7 | 10 | 26 | 7* | 3.25 | 0 |
| FG Peach | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3.00 | 0 |
| A Ackroyd | 7 | 12 | 32 | 9 | 2.66 | 0 |
| JS Heath | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 2.50 | 0 |
All Derbyshire's first class matches were in the County Championship, and so the above table represents first-class statistics as well.

### County Championship bowling averages

| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
| A Morton | 3597 | 1262 | 63 | 7–51 | 20.03 |
| J Horsley | 3158 | 1235 | 54 | 6–66 | 22.87 |
| GM Lee | 2408 | 1084 | 44 | 4–36 | 24.63 |
| SWA Cadman | 3517 | 1043 | 40 | 4–29 | 26.07 |
| W Bestwick | 1561 | 525 | 35 | 7–20 | 15.00 |
| L F Townsend | 2075 | 778 | 28 | 4–57 | 27.78 |
| BSH Hill-Wood | 972 | 573 | 18 | 6–74 | 31.83 |
| A Ackroyd | 835 | 390 | 11 | 4–63 | 35.45 |
| H Storer | 546 | 157 | 10 | 4–31 | 15.70 |
| JA Cresswell | 624 | 323 | 9 | 4–65 | 35.88 |
| EF Loney | 864 | 269 | 9 | 4–35 | 29.88 |
| WWH Hill-Wood | 410 | 252 | 8 | 3–20 | 31.50 |
| JM Hutchinson | 300 | 122 | 7 | 2–11 | 17.42 |
| AHM Jackson | 354 | 159 | 6 | 2–19 | 26.50 |
| T S Worthington | 258 | 99 | 5 | 2–21 | 19.80 |
| JS Heath | 120 | 85 | 1 | 1–45 | 85.00 |
| GR Jackson | 60 | 41 | 1 | 1–23 | 41.00 |
| W Shardlow | 354 | 208 | 0 | | |
| G Beet | 24 | 9 | 0 | | |
| LB Blaxland | 48 | 17 | 0 | | |
| E Sykes | 6 | 2 | 0 | | |
| J Bowden | 12 | 3 | 0 | | |
All Derbyshire's first class matches were in the County Championship, and so the above table represents first-class statistics as well.

## Wicket-keeper

* Harry Elliott Catches 41, Stumping 17
* Jim Hutchinson Catches 12, Stumping 1