Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1967
1967 season of an English cricket team
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1967 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ninety-six years. It was their sixty-third season in the County Championship and they won five championship matches and lost five to finish sixth in the County Championship. In the Gillette Cup, Derbyshire were knocked out in their first match which was in the second round of the competition.
1967 season
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, one match against the touring Indians and one match against Cambridge University. They won six first class matches, lost six matches and drew eighteen matches. They lost their only match in the Gillette Cup. Derek Morgan was captain. David Smith scored most runs. Harold Rhodes took most wickets for the club.
There were two new players in the Derbyshire team. GR Stephenson played for two years before moving to Hampshire and CP Marks occasional matches over two years.
Matches
First Class
| List of matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 29 Apr 1967[1] | Leicestershire County Ground, Derby |
Won | 9 wickets | |
| 2 | 6 May 1967[2] | Middlesex Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood |
Lost | 9 wickets | Hooker 5-51 |
| 3 | 17 May 1967[3] | Hampshire County Ground, Southampton |
Drawn | Shackleton 5-52 | |
| 4 | 20 May 1967[4] | Surrey Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
Drawn | ||
| 5 | 24 May 1967[5] | Sussex County Ground, Derby |
Drawn | ||
| 6 | 27 May 1967[6] | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
Drawn | Smedley 102 | |
| 7 | 31 May 1967[7] | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
Drawn | HJ Rhodes 6-28 | |
| 8 | 3 Jun 1967[8] | Somerset Recreation Ground, Bath |
Won | 9 wickets | Langford 5-54; E Smith 5-57 |
| 9 | 7 Jun 1967[9] | Worcestershire County Ground, Derby |
Drawn | Flavell 5-31 | |
| 10 | 10 Jun 1967[10] | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester |
Drawn | JR Eyre 106 | |
| 11 | 17 Jun 1967[11] | Lancashire Park Road Ground, Buxton |
Drawn | AB Jackson 5-39 | |
| 12 | 21 Jun 1967[12] | Somerset Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
Drawn | MH Page 99; Langford 5-45 | |
| 13 | 24 Jun 1967[13] | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham |
Lost | 59 runs | HJ Rhodes 5-27; Bannister 7-52; AB Jackson 7-22; Cartwright 5-7 |
| 14 | 28 Jun 1967[14] | India County Ground, Derby |
Lost | 66 runs | Chandrasekhar 7-59; Prasanna 6-64 |
| 15 | 1 Jul 1967[15] | Cambridge University Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |
Won | 9 wickets | DHK Smith 103 |
| 16 | 5 Jul 1967[16] | Sussex County Ground, Hove |
Lost | 10 wickets | Buss 7-63; Parks 107 |
| 17 | 8 Jul 1967[17] | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
Drawn | HJ Rhodes 5-57 | |
| 18 | 12 Jul 1967[18] | Gloucestershire Wagon Works Ground, Gloucester |
Lost | 93 runs | DC Morgan 5-36; Mortimore 6-35 |
| 19 | 15 Jul 1967[19] | Worcestershire County Ground, New Road, Worcester |
Drawn | Coldwell 5-36 | |
| 20 | 22 Jul 1967[20] | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston |
Drawn | IR Buxton 105; | |
| 21 | 26 Jul 1967[21] | Essex Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
Won | Innings and 227 runs | DHK Smith 114; DC Morgan 6-26 and 5-41 |
| 22 | 29 Jul 1967[22] | Glamorgan Sophia Gardens, Cardiff |
Won | Innings and 3 runs | DC Morgan 6-17 and 5-38 |
| 23 | 2 Aug 1967[23] | Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester |
Lost | 5 wickets | Lock 6-57 |
| 24 | 5 Aug 1967[24] | Middlesex County Ground, Derby |
Drawn | ||
| 25 | 9 Aug 1967[25] | Surrey Kennington Oval |
Drawn | Pocock 5-73 | |
| 26 | 12 Aug 1967[26] | Yorkshire Park Avenue Cricket Ground, Bradford |
Drawn | Nicholson 5-24 | |
| 27 | 16 Aug 1967[27] | Kent Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent |
Drawn | Shepherd 6-71 | |
| 28 | 19 Aug 1967[28] | Warwickshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
Drawn | PJK Gibbs 124; Ibadulla 7-22; TJP Eyre 5-42 | |
| 29 | 23 Aug 1967[29] | Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton |
Won | 4 runs | |
| 30 | 26 Aug 1967[30] | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby |
Drawn | Prideaux 102; PJK Gibbs 106; Kettle 5-69 | |
Gillette Cup
Statistics
Competition batting averages
| Name | County Championship | Gillette Cup | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | I | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | M | I | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | |
| IR Buxton | 25 | 38 | 992 | 105 | 32.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
| JR Eyre | 8 | 11 | 198 | 106 | 18.00 | 1 | ||||||
| TJP Eyre | 27 | 34 | 521 | 56 | 16.28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 27 | 27.00 | 0 |
| PJK Gibbs | 21 | 37 | 916 | 124 | 26.94 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 0 |
| IW Hall | 10 | 17 | 319 | 64 | 21.26 | 0 | ||||||
| JF Harvey | 18 | 32 | 537 | 47 | 18.51 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2.00 | 0 |
| M Hill | 7 | 8 | 83 | 23 | 11.85 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 |
| AB Jackson | 24 | 24 | 62 | 9 | 7.75 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
| CP Marks | 1 | 2 | 17 | 16 | 8.50 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12.00 | 0 |
| DC Morgan | 28 | 42 | 1062 | 95 | 31.23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 27 | 27.00 | 0 |
| MH Page | 20 | 33 | 751 | 99 | 25.89 | 0 | ||||||
| HJ Rhodes | 28 | 32 | 158 | 33 | 6.07 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
| PE Russell | 3 | 5 | 104 | 54 | 20.80 | 0 | ||||||
| DHK Smith | 28 | 50 | 1124 | 114 | 24.43 | 1 | ||||||
| E Smith | 28 | 37 | 524 | 63* | 16.37 | 0 | ||||||
| GR Stephenson | 7 | 10 | 174 | 64 | 17.40 | 0 | ||||||
| RW Taylor | 21 | 28 | 423 | 42 | 19.22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 0 |
| A Ward | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5* | 2.33 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0* | 0 | |
Competition bowling averages
| Name | County Championship | Gillette Cup | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balls | Runs | Wkts | Best | Ave | Balls | Runs | Wkts | Best | Ave | |
| IR Buxton | 462 | 135 | 7 | 2-23 | 19.28 | 42 | 29 | 0 | ||
| JR Eyre | 57 | 33 | 0 | |||||||
| TJP Eyre | 2788 | 1088 | 51 | 5-42 | 21.33 | 30 | 25 | 0 | ||
| PJK Gibbs | 217 | 108 | 1 | 1-22 | 108.00 | |||||
| JF Harvey | 35 | 4 | 1 | 1-0 | 4.00 | |||||
| M Hill | 12 | 6 | 0 | |||||||
| AB Jackson | 3478 | 1057 | 63 | 7-22 | 16.77 | 72 | 36 | 1 | 1-36 | 36.00 |
| DC Morgan | 4447 | 1471 | 76 | 6-17 | 19.35 | 72 | 49 | 1 | 1-49 | 49.00 |
| MH Page | 18 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
| HJ Rhodes | 4673 | 1484 | 94 | 6-28 | 15.78 | 72 | 56 | 1 | 1-56 | 56.00 |
| PE Russell | 438 | 144 | 5 | 3-17 | 28.80 | |||||
| DHK Smith | 24 | 20 | 0 | |||||||
| E Smith | 4487 | 1653 | 72 | 5-57 | 22.95 | |||||
| RW Taylor | 18 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
| A Ward | 348 | 188 | 8 | 3-26 | 23.50 | 72 | 59 | 1 | 1-59 | 59.00 |
| Leading ListA bowlers for Derbyshire by wickets taken | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave |
| AB Jackson | 72 | 36 | 1 | 1-36 | 36.00 |
| DC Morgan | 72 | 49 | 1 | 1-49 | 49.00 |
| HJ Rhodes | 72 | 56 | 1 | 1-56 | 56.00 |
| A Ward | 72 | 59 | 1 | 1-59 | 59.00 |
Wicket Keeping
- County Championship Catches 56, Stumping 4
- Gillette Cup Catches 0, Stumping 0
- County Championship Catches 7, Stumping 2