| 1956 season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Captain | Donald Carr | ||
| County Championship | 12 | ||
| Most runs | Charles Lee | ||
| Most wickets | Les Jackson | ||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1956 represents cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for eighty five years. It was their fifty-second season in the County Championship and they won seven matches and lost seven to finish twelfth in the County Championship.
Derbyshire played 28 games in the County Championship, and one match against Oxford University, and one against the touring Australians. They won seven matches altogether, but a large number of matches were drawn. Donald Carr was in his third season as captain. Charles Lee was top scorer and Les Jackson took most wickets with 114.
The club retained a virtually unchanged squad with only one newcomer – Gordon Beet who had played in the second XI in the previous year and made occasional first class appearances subsequently.
| List of matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Date | V | Result | Margin | Notes |
| 1 | 5 May 1956 [1] | Surrey Kennington Oval | Drawn | C Gladwin 5–43 and 8–64 | |
| 2 | 16 May 1956 [2] | Middlesex Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood | Won | 88 runs | JM Kelly 131; HL Jackson 5–68 and 7–48 |
| 3 | 19 May 1956 [3] | Warwickshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | ||
| 4 | 23 May 1956 [4] | Middlesex Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Lost | Innings and 41 runs | Edrich 208; Moss 6–71 and 5–53 |
| 5 | 26 May 1956 [5] | Somerset Johnson Park, Yeovil | Lost | 6 wickets | McMahon 5–45; McCool 5–43 |
| 6 | 30 May 1956 [6] | Kent Bat and Ball Ground, Gravesend | Won | 7 wickets | HL Jackson 6–54 |
| 7 | 2 Jun 1956 [7] | Yorkshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Won | 6 runs | Appleyard 6–37 and 6–69; HL Jackson 5–26; HJ Rhodes 5–52 |
| 8 | 6 Jun 1956 [8] | Lancashire Park Road Ground, Buxton | Drawn | Pullar 104; Tattersall 6–57 | |
| 9 | 9 Jun 1956 [9] | Glamorgan St Helen's, Swansea | Won | 8 wickets | A Hamer 120; E Smith 7–58; Shepherd 7–111 |
| 10 | 13 Jun 1956 [10] | Oxford University The University Parks, Oxford | Drawn | Kentish 5–49 | |
| 11 | 16 Jun 1956 [11] | Glamorgan Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Abandoned | ||
| 12 | 23 Jun 1956 [12] | Yorkshire Headingley, Leeds | Drawn | JM Kelly 104; HL Jackson 7–55 | |
| 13 | 27 Jun 1956 [13] | Northamptonshire County Ground, Derby | Drawn | ||
| 14 | 30 Jun 1956 [14] | Leicestershire Ind Coope Ground, Burton-on-Trent | Won | Innings and 26 runs | C Lee 116 |
| 15 | 4 Jul 1956 [15] | Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester | Drawn | Greenhough 6–64; C Gladwin 5–25 | |
| 16 | 7 Jul 1956 [16] | Leicestershire Bath Grounds, Ashby-de-la-Zouch | Won | 145 runs | DB Carr 123; Palmer 104; HL Jackson 7–41 |
| 17 | 11 Jul 1956 [17] | Sussex County Ground, Derby | Drawn | HL Jackson 6–87 | |
| 18 | 14 Jul 1956 [18] | Hampshire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | ||
| 19 | 18 Jul 1956 [19] | Essex Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester | Drawn | HL Jackson 5–69 | |
| 20 | 21 Jul 1956 [20] | Somerset County Ground, Derby | Won | 111 runs | A Hamer 104; C Gladwin 7–57; E Smith 6–52 |
| 21 | 25 Jul 1956 [21] | Worcestershire Tipton Road, Dudley | Lost | 10 wickets | Kenyon 147; Jenkins 5–62 and 6–50 |
| 22 | 28 Jul 1956 [22] | Nottinghamshire Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston | Drawn | A Hamer 119; Jepson 6–42 | |
| 23 | 1 Aug 1956 [23] | Worcestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | 8 overs played | |
| 24 | 4 Aug 1956 [24] | Warwickshire Edgbaston, Birmingham | Lost | 133 runs | Hollies 7–40 |
| 25 | 8 Aug 1956 [25] | Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham | Lost | 4 wickets | Goonesena 5–52 and 6–49; DC Morgan 5–50 |
| 26 | 11 Aug 1956 [26] | Australians County Ground, Derby | Lost | 57 runs | Lindwall 7–40; Miller 5–29 |
| 27 | 15 Aug 1956 [27] | Northamptonshire Wellingborough School Ground | Drawn | Tyson 7–46 | |
| 28 | 18 Aug 1956 [28] | Sussex The Saffrons, Eastbourne | Lost | 6 wickets | C Gladwin 6–74; Oakman 6–36 |
| 29 | 22 Aug 1956 [29] | Surrey County Ground, Derby | Drawn | Stewart 100; Loader 6–70 | |
| 30 | 25 Aug 1956 County [30] | Gloucestershire Queen's Park, Chesterfield | Drawn | C Gladwin 5–42 | |
| Name | Matches | Inns | Runs | High score | Average | 100s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C Lee | 27 | 47 | 1407 | 116 | 32.72 | 1 |
| A Hamer | 25 | 43 | 1271 | 120 | 31.77 | 3 |
| GO Dawkes | 27 | 40 | 857 | 81 | 26.78 | 0 |
| JM Kelly | 25 | 40 | 1016 | 131 | 27.45 | 2 |
| DB Carr | 23 | 36 | 887 | 123 | 26.08 | 1 |
| AC Revill | 21 | 37 | 740 | 72 | 23.12 | 0 |
| HL Johnson | 25 | 36 | 685 | 83 | 20.75 | 0 |
| DC Morgan | 23 | 31 | 469 | 51 | 19.54 | 0 |
| GL Willatt | 4 | 6 | 97 | 49 | 19.40 | 0 |
| C Gladwin | 27 | 32 | 303 | 31 | 12.62 | 0 |
| E Smith | 27 | 37 | 330 | 41 | 11.37 | 0 |
| HJ Rhodes | 3 | 5 | 47 | 19 | 9.40 | 0 |
| DJ Green | 2 | 4 | 27 | 11 | 6.75 | 0 |
| HL Jackson | 27 | 29 | 106 | 23* | 5.04 | 0 |
| GA Beet | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4.00 | 0 |
| JB Furniss | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2.33 | 0 |
| D Hall | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3* | 0.75 | 0 [31] |
| Name | Balls | Runs | Wickets | BB | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HL Jackson | 5188 | 2000 | 114 | 7–41 | 17.54 |
| C Gladwin | 5299 | 1941 | 101 | 8–64 | 19.21 |
| E Smith | 3431 | 1475 | 54 | 7–58 | 27.31 |
| DC Morgan | 2556 | 1030 | 35 | 5–50 | 29.42 |
| DB Carr | 1243 | 681 | 21 | 3–28 | 32.42 |
| HJ Rhodes | 449 | 165 | 10 | 5–52 | 16.50 |
| D Hall | 680 | 323 | 8 | 3–61 | 40.37 |
| JB Furniss | 162 | 102 | 4 | 3–52 | 25.50 |
| A Hamer | 222 | 80 | 1 | 1–5 | 80.00 |
| GA Beet | 96 | 58 | 1 | 1–58 | 58.00 |
| GL Willatt | 6 | 5 | 0 | ||
| HL Johnson | 6 | 4 | 0 | ||
| JM Kelly | 18 | 9 | 0 | ||
| C Lee | 12 | 4 | 0 | ||
| AC Revill | 48 | 47 | 0 | ||
| GO Dawkes | 10 | 6 | 0 [32] |