Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1933

Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons

1933 season
Captain	A W Richardson
County Championship	6
Most runs	Leslie Townsend
Most wickets	Tommy Mitchell
Most catches	Harry Elliott
← 1932 1934 →

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1933 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for sixty two years. It was their thirty-fifth season in the County Championship and they won eleven matches to finish sixth.

1933 season

Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against the touring West Indians. They won eleven of their games in the County Championship and lost eleven to come sixth. This was an advance on tenth place in the previous year and a further step on the road towards winning the championship in 1936. They drew with the West Indians.

A. W. Richardson was in his third season as captain in 1933. Leslie Townsend was top scorer. Tommy Mitchell took most wickets.

George Pope, the second of the three Pope brothers to play for the county, made his debut in the season. He was a useful all-rounder who added strength to the Derbyshire side for many years.^[1]

Matches

List of matches
No.	Date	V	Result	Margin	Notes
1	13 May 1933[2]	Yorkshire The Circle, Hull	Lost	6 wickets	Verity 6-12 and 6-41; L F Townsend 6-38
2	17 May 1933[3]	Somerset Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston	Won	7 wickets	T. B. Mitchell 5-46; MacDonald-Watson 5-27; L F Townsend 5-59
3	20 May 1933[4]	Kent County Ground, Derby	Won	8 wickets	Ames 143; W H Copson 5-38; T. B. Mitchell 8-92
4	24 May 1933[5]	Leicestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Won	Innings and 86 runs	GM Lee 107; T. B. Mitchell 6-40
5	27 May 1933[6]	Hampshire United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth	Drawn		Boyes 6-5; L F Townsend 7-35
6	31 May 1933[7]	Essex County Ground, Derby	Won	8 wickets	H Storer 232; Taylor 134; T. B. Mitchell 5-80
7	03 Jun 1933[8]	Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham	Lost	8 wickets	Wyatt 166; Paine 5-38
8	07 Jun 1933[9]	Worcestershire County Ground, New Road, Worcester	Drawn		Walters 124; Perks 5-50
9	10 Jun 1933[10]	Leicestershire Park Road Ground, Loughborough	Won	Innings and 77 runs	Berry 111; L F Townsend 233; T. B. Mitchell 6-36
10	14 Jun 1933 [11]	West Indies County Ground, Derby	Drawn		Headley 200
11	17 Jun 1933[12]	Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham	Lost	Innings and 121 runs	Carr 137; Staples 7-20
12	21 Jun 1933[13]	Gloucestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Won	71 runs	Goddard 5-49 and 6-52; L F Townsend 6-64 and 8-26
13	24 Jun 1933[14]	Somerset Agricultural Showgrounds, Frome	Lost	89 runs	Ingle 103; T R Armstrong 7-57; Young 6-30
14	28 Jun 1933[15]	Lancashire Park Road Ground, Buxton	Lost	3 wickets	Sibbles 5-49; T. B. Mitchell 6-69
15	01 Jul 1933[16]	Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston	Lost	57 runs	A Staples 113; T S Worthington 108; S Staples 6-103
16	05 Jul 1933[17]	Essex County Ground, Leyton	Drawn		L F Townsend 151; Nichols 135; T Smith 6-112
17	08 Jul 1933[18]	Worcestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Won	Innings and 234 runs	T S Worthington 200*; T. B. Mitchell 5-20 and 6-44
18	15 Jul 1933[19]	Sussex County Ground, Derby	Lost	6 wickets	Parks 122; T. B. Mitchell 5-74; Langridge 5-63
19	22 Jul 1933[20]	Northamptonshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Won	157 runs	L F Townsend 99 and 106; Jupp 6–104; T R Armstrong 7-87
20	26 Jul 1933[21]	Sussex County Ground, Hove	Lost	169 runs	W H Copson 5-59; Cornford 5-26; A V Pope 7-84
21	29 Jul 1933[22]	Middlesex Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Lost	8 wickets	Sims 8-47; T. B. Mitchell 7-86; Hearne 9-61
22	05 Aug 1933[23]	Warwickshire County Ground, Derby	Won	317 runs	L F Townsend 172; Wyatt 102; Paine 5-115
23	09 Aug 1933[24]	Kent St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury	Lost	160 runs	Woolley 161; W H Copson 5-62; Freeman 6-30 and 6-82
24	12 Aug 1933[25]	Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield	Drawn		L F Townsend 100; T. B. Mitchell 6-66
25	16 Aug 1933[26]	Gloucestershire College Ground, Cheltenham	Lost	Innings and 85 runs	Hammond 231; W H Copson 7-62; Parker 7-93;
26	19 Aug 1933[27]	Hampshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston	Drawn		Mead 227; Hill 5-23
27	23 Aug 1933[28]	Middlesex Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood	Won	141 runs	Judge 5-27; W H Copson 5-28; T. B. Mitchell 5-62 and 6-53
28	26 Aug 1933[29]	Northamptonshire County Ground, Northampton	Won	Innings and 184 runs	GM Lee 128; L F Townsend 142; D Smith 129*
29	30 Aug 1933[30]	Lancashire Stanley Park, Blackpool	Drawn		Sibbles 5-62; T. B. Mitchell 8-38

Statistics

County Championship batting averages

Name	Matches	Inns	Runs	High score	Average	100s
L F Townsend	27	49	1954	233	44.40	6
H Storer	15	26	1109	232	44.36	1
T S Worthington	27	47	1221	200*	29.78	2
A W Richardson	9	15	304	65*	27.63	0
A F Skinner	15	26	696	85	26.76	0
A E Alderman	21	38	930	83*	25.83	0
GR Jackson	5	8	206	96	25.75	0
GM Lee	25	44	979	128	23.30	2
D Smith	26	46	859	129*	20.45	1
A V Pope	24	38	697	72	19.36	0
H Elliott	28	44	651	94	19.14	0
TA Higson	4	8	146	51	18.25	0
GH Pope	2	3	44	32	14.66	0
LB Blaxland	8	14	193	64	13.78	0
C S Elliott	2	3	38	38	12.66	0
CC Clarke	7	11	137	31	12.45	0
T. B. Mitchell	25	35	245	37	11.13	0
W H Copson	26	33	172	43	6.61	0
T R Armstrong	12	20	62	18*	4.42	0 [31]

County Championship bowling averages

Name	Balls	Runs	Wickets	BB	Average
T. B. Mitchell	6711	2568	136	8-38	18.88
W H Copson	4908	1921	90	7-62	21.34
L F Townsend	4615	1472	87	8-26	16.91
T S Worthington	3076	1351	50	4-48	27.02
T R Armstrong	2106	832	32	7-57	26.00
A V Pope	2323	886	23	7-84	38.52
GM Lee	1158	527	13	2-30	40.53
A F Skinner	203	136	6	2-12	22.66
H Storer	420	232	4	1-14	58.00
C S Elliott	84	45	1	1-45	45.00
D Smith	31	24	0
A E Alderman	6	7 0			[32]

Wicket Keeper

• Harry Elliott Catches 64 Stumping 17

See also

• Derbyshire County Cricket Club seasons
• 1933 English cricket season

References

1. W.T. Taylor History of Derbyshire cricket Wisden 1953
2. Cricket Archive - Yorkshire v Derbyshire 13 May 1933
3. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Somerset 17 May 1933
4. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Kent 20 May 1933
5. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Leicestershire 24 May 1933
6. Cricket Archive - Hampshire v Derbyshire 27 May 1933
7. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Essex 31 May 1933
8. Cricket Archive - Warwickshire v Derbyshire 03 Jun 1933
9. Cricket Archive - Worcestershire v Derbyshire 07 Jun 1933
10. Cricket Archive - Leicestershire v Derbyshire 10 Jun 1933
11. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v West Indians 14 Jun 1933
12. Cricket Archive - Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire 17 Jun 1933
13. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Gloucestershire 21 Jun 1933
14. Cricket Archive - Somerset v Derbyshire 24 Jun 1933
15. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Lancashire 28 Jun 1933
16. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire 01 Jul 1933
17. Cricket Archive - Essex v Derbyshire 05 Jul 1933
18. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Worcestershire 08 Jul 1933
19. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Sussex 15 Jul 1933
20. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Northamptonshire 22 Jul 1933
21. Cricket Archive - Sussex v Derbyshire 26 Jul 1933
22. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Middlesex 29 Jul 1933
23. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Warwickshire 05 Aug 1933
24. Cricket Archive - Kent v Derbyshire 09 Aug 1933
25. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Yorkshire 12 Aug 1933
26. Cricket Archive - Gloucestershire v Derbyshire 16 Aug 1933
27. Cricket Archive - Derbyshire v Hampshire 19 Aug 1933
28. Cricket Archive - Middlesex v Derbyshire 23 Aug 1933
29. Cricket Archive - Northamptonshire v Derbyshire 26 Aug 1933
30. Cricket Archive - Lancashire v Derbyshire 30 Aug 1933
31. Batting and Fielding for Derbyshire
32. Bowling for Derbyshire