# Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1935

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1935 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire were runners up in the County Championship for the first time, as a prelude to winning the Championship in the 1936 season. They had been playing for sixty four years and it was their thirty-seventh season in the County Championship.

## 1935 season

A. W. Richardson became captain in the 1931 season, and building on foundations of his predecessors forged a team that were runners up in 1935 before going on to take the Championship in the 1936 season. Their record was in fact better in 1935 than in their championship year.
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against the touring South Africans. Denis Smith was top scorer in the County Championships. Tommy Mitchell took 160 wickets in the championship and a further eight to make him top bowler and set a lasting record of most wickets in a season. Against Leicestershire in 1935 he took all ten for 64 in an innings.
Denis Smith also played for England in two Test matches against the South Africans and was Wisden Cricketer of the Year..
Gilbert Hodgkinson, future captain made his debut in the season.

### Matches

List of matches :
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 11 May 1935 | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | D Smith 189; A E Alderman 100; Hedley Verity 5-118 and 5-74 |
| 2 | 15 May 1935 | Surrey Kennington Oval | Won | 9 wickets | T. B. Mitchell 8-78 |
| 3 | 18 May 1935 | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby | Won | 10 wickets | W H Copson 5-37 |
| 4 | 25 May 1935 | Essex Old County Ground, Brentwood | Won | 4 wickets | W H Copson 5-28; T. B. Mitchell 5-56; Eastman 5-36 and 6-60 |
| 5 | 29 May 1935 | South Africans Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Lost | 209 runs | Viljoen 153; Cameron 132; T. B. Mitchell 5-167 |
| 6 | 01 Jun 1935 | Hampshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | Innings and 104 runs | D Smith 225 |
| 7 | 05 Jun 1935 | Worcestershire County Ground, New Road, Worcester | Lost | 9 wickets | Howorth 6-16 |
| 8 | 08 Jun 1935 | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Lost | 6 wickets | Wyatt 5-30 |
| 9 | 15 Jun 1935 | Leicestershire Aylestone Road, Leicester | Drawn | | H Smith 5-51; Geary 5-46; T. B. Mitchell 10-64; Marlow 5-69 |
| 10 | 19 Jun 1935 | Somerset County Ground, Derby | Won | 114 runs | W H Copson 5-15; Derbyshire played one ball in their second innings before declaring |
| 11 | 26 Jun 1935 | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Won | 7 runs | Booth 5-54 |
| 12 | 29 Jun 1935 | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Won | 7 wickets | T S Worthington 126; Voce 5-87 |
| 13 | 03 Jul 1935 | Surrey Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | | Holmes 206; T S Worthington 107; Watts 6-74; A V Pope 5-34 |
| 14 | 06 Jul 1935 | Lancashire Park Road Ground, Buxton | Drawn | | T R Armstrong 5-13; L F Townsend 5-35 |
| 15 | 10 Jul 1935 | Gloucestershire Ashley Down Ground, Bristol | Lost | 68 runs | T. B. Mitchell 6-126; Goddard 6-62; A V Pope 5-48 |
| 16 | 13 Jul 1935 | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Lost | 3 wickets | Gunn 113 |
| 17 | 17 Jul 1935 | Kent Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | Innings and 75 runs | A V Pope 5-37; Todd 6-94; T. B. Mitchell 7-66 |
| 18 | 20 Jul 1935 | Gloucestershire The Town Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Won | 10 wickets | W H Copson 5-31 |
| 19 | 24 Jul 1935 | Sussex Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | 7 wickets | Parks 119 |
| 20 | 27 Jul 1935 | Northamptonshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 10 wickets | T. B. Mitchell 8-67; L F Townsend 5-21 |
| 21 | 31 Jul 1935 | Sussex County Ground, Hove | Won | 5 wickets | Langridge 106; Cornford 7-76; W H Copson 6-42 |
| 22 | 03 Aug 1935 | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby | Won | 77 runs | L F Townsend 103; Santall 113; Hollies 6-75; T. B. Mitchell 5-63 |
| 23 | 07 Aug 1935 | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton | Won | 100 runs | L F Townsend 102; Clark 5-33; T. B. Mitchell 7-73; W H Copson 5-44 |
| 24 | 10 Aug 1935 | Essex Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 21 runs | T. B. Mitchell 7-97; Nichols 8-58 |
| 25 | 14 Aug 1935 | Yorkshire North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough | Lost | 10 wickets | |
| 26 | 17 Aug 1935 | Worcestershire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | | L F Townsend 180 |
| 27 | 21 Aug 1935 | Kent Crabble Athletic Ground, Dover | Drawn | | G H Pope 5-126 |
| 28 | 24 Aug 1935 | Hampshire Dean Park, Bournemouth | Won | 80 runs | A V Pope 5-35 and 5-41 |
| 29 | 28 Aug 1935 | Somerset County Ground, Taunton | Won | 41 runs | T. B. Mitchell 5-58; White 8-36 |

## Statistics
### County Championship batting averages

| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
| D Smith | 23 | 45 | 1697 | 225 | 42.42 | 2 |
| A F Skinner | 10 | 18 | 550 | 81 | 36.66 | 0 |
| L F Townsend | 27 | 47 | 1560 | 180 | 35.45 | 3 |
| T S Worthington | 24 | 40 | 1276 | 126 | 33.57 | 2 |
| H Storer | 13 | 24 | 635 | 79 | 27.60 | 0 |
| A E Alderman | 28 | 50 | 1134 | 100 | 24.65 | 1 |
| E Carrington | 23 | 36 | 812 | 74 | 23.88 | 0 |
| C S Elliott | 2 | 4 | 90 | 52 | 22.50 | 0 |
| G H Pope | 23 | 38 | 685 | 67 | 21.40 | 0 |
| A W Richardson | 21 | 34 | 549 | 59 | 17.70 | 0 |
| LB Blaxland | 3 | 5 | 83 | 28 | 16.60 | 0 |
| H Elliott | 28 | 41 | 432 | 46 | 15.42 | 0 |
| A F Townsend | 6 | 8 | 108 | 47 | 15.42 | 0 |
| A V Pope | 27 | 42 | 490 | 62 | 13.61 | 0 |
| W H Copson | 18 | 23 | 134 | 22* | 9.57 | 0 |
| GR Jackson | 2 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 7.33 | 0 |
| T. B. Mitchell | 25 | 37 | 169 | 29 | 6.03 | 0 |
| WWH Hill-Wood | 2 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3.33 | 0 |
| T R Armstrong | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2.00 | 0 |
| GF Hodgkinson | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1.66 | 0 0 0 |
In addition Thomas Higson played in the match against the South Africans.

### County Championship bowling averages

| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
| T. B. Mitchell | 4883 | 3059 | 160 | 10-64 | 19.11 |
| A V Pope | 4560 | 1639 | 85 | 5-34 | 19.28 |
| W H Copson | 3000 | 1174 | 71 | 6-42 | 16.53 |
| L F Townsend | 3947 | 1398 | 62 | 5-21 | 22.54 |
| G H Pope | 2769 | 1217 | 62 | 5-126 | 19.62 |
| T S Worthington | 1766 | 871 | 23 | 3-19 | 37.86 |
| T R Armstrong | 389 | 58 | 6 | 5-13 | 9.66 |
| D Smith | 132 | 68 | 1 | 1-48 | 68.00 |
| LB Blaxland | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| E Carrington | 36 | 21 | 0 |
| H Elliott | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| W W H Hill-Wood | 72 | 63 | 0 |
| H Storer | 24 | 11 | 0 |
| A E Alderman | 66 | 30 | 0 |
| A F Townsend | 6 | 7 | 0 |

## Wicket Keeper

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