Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1951


Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1951 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for eighty years. It was their forty-seventh season in the County Championship and they won five matches and lost seven to finish eleventh in the County Championship.

1951 season

was in his first full year as captain. He had been appointed in the previous year but because of injury was substituted by Pat Vaulkhard for 1950. His appointment ended a period of uncertainty since the end of the Second World War, when apart from Edward Gothard, no one was available to captain for more than one year.
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against the touring South Africans. They won five matches altogether, but a disproportionate number of matches were drawn. Charlie Elliott was top scorer and C Gladwin took most wickets with 123.
The club retained a virtually unchanged squad with only one newcomer - Edwin Smith who played on for 20 years.

Matches

Statistics

County Championship batting averages

Additionally John Eggar appeared in the match against the South Africans.

County Championship bowling averages

Wicket Keepers