Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Keith Stevenson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Derby, Derbyshire, England | 5 October 1950|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1974–1977 | Derbyshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1978–1983 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source:Cricinfo,28 June 2023 |
Keith Stevenson (born 6 October 1950) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1974 to 1977 and for Hampshire from 1978 to 1984.
Stevenson was born in Derby. His involvement in cricket began when he was scorer for his father's team before he began playing alongside him at his cricket club. [1] In 1968 he was playing for Derbyshire Old Juniors and made the Second XI in 1969. He played for the Derbyshire under 25s in 1972,while appearing for the Second XI. [2] He was meanwhile employed by Rolls-Royce Limited in Derby. [1]
Stevenson played for Derbyshire in the Benson &Hedges Cup and John Player League in May 1974 and made his first-class debut in a match against the Indians in June 1974 in which he scored 25 not out and took 2 for 47. In May 1975 he played in a notable match against Lancashire at Buxton. It started in sweltering heat and Lancashire were able to run up 477 for 5 and take three wickets for 29 runs before the close of play. The next day Derbyshire defeated Glamorgan in the John Player League on the same ground. However on the Monday the ground was covered by 3 inches of snow and play was impossible. The Derbyshire team feared the worst on the Tuesday,for at that time bowlers' run-ups were protected but the wickets themselves were not and they were dismissed for 42 and 87. Stevenson took his first 5 wicket innings later that season with 5-65 against Essex. In 1976 he took 5-47 against both Somerset and Lancashire and in 1977 took 7-68 against Warwickshire in 1977. [2]
In 1978 after considered transferring in the previous season,Stevenson moved to Hampshire who offered him a longer-term contract than his native Derbyshire. [1] Hampshire won the John Player League that summer defeating a Middlesex side containing nine current and future Test players at Bournemouth to take the title by 26 runs. In 1978 he took 6-73 against Sussex and 5-72 against Surrey. He achieved his best bowling performance of 7-22 against Oxford University in 1979 after 5-30 against Glamorgan and before 5-106 against Lancashire and 5-40 against Kent. In 1980 he took 5-66 against Worcestershire and 5-86 against Lancashire. He took 5-32 against Nottinghamshire,5-94 against Glamorgan and 5-49 against his former team Derbyshire in 1981. In 1983 he achieved his last 5 wicket innings with 5-81 against Sussex. [2]
Stevenson was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who took 355 first-class wickets and 117 wickets in One Day competitions. For Derbyshire he took 98 first-class wickets with an average of 30.58 and a best performance of 7 for 68. For Hampshire he took 257 first-class wickets at an average of 29.33 and a best performance of 7 for 22. He was a right-hand batsman and played 167 innings in 146 first-class matches at an average of 9.59 and a top score of 33. [2] He claimed to have made a century once,but in fact this was while acting as a runner for Brian Bolus. [1]
Stevenson left Hampshire in 1984 and followed a career in an estate agency. In 1998 he returned to Derbyshire County Cricket Club when he was appointed Commercial Manager for the club,while remaining in the estate agents business for another ten years. [1] He was also active on behalf of Duffield Cricket Club. [3] Keith retired from the estate agency business in November 2015
The 2005 English cricket season was the 106th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. Before it began,a resurgent England cricket team had won four Test series in a row,going unbeaten through the 2004 calendar year. The start of the international season saw England defeat Bangladesh 2–0 in their two-match series,winning both Tests by an innings. This was followed by a tri-nations one-day tournament that also featured Australia. Australia still started the Test series as favourites but most fans expected England to put up a challenge.
Dominic Gerald Cork is a former English county and international cricketer. Cork was a right-handed lower-order batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium,and was renowned for his swing and seam control. In 1995,he took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut,with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies.
The 2006 English cricket season was the 107th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. It included home international series for England against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England came off a winter with more Test losses than wins,for the first time since 2002-03,but still attained their best series result in India since 1985. The One Day International series against Pakistan and India both ended in losses.
Thomas John Peter Eyre is a former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1959 and 1972.
Ian William Hall is an English former first-class cricketer and professional footballer. He played cricket for Derbyshire between 1959 and 1972,and played football for Derby County F.C. from 1959 to 1962 and for Mansfield Town F.C. from 1962 to 1968.
John Joseph Hulme was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1887 and 1903.
Derek Clifton Morgan was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1950 and 1969,captaining the side between 1965 and 1969. An all-rounder,he is the only Derbyshire cricketer besides Leslie Townsend to have achieved the double of 10,000 runs and 1,000 wickets.
William Mycroft was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and MCC between 1873 and 1886. He was a left-arm fast bowler with a great deal of spin and a dangerous yorker that was often believed to be unfair –which may explain why he was not considered for the earliest Test Matches despite being in his prime. He took 863 first-class wickets at an average of 12.09 with 87 five-wicket innings and 28 ten-wicket matches in his career. His first ten-wicket match in 1875 against Nottinghamshire became the first of six in only nine games that season. He holds the Derbyshire record for most wickets in a single match,with figures of 17–103 against Hampshire at the Antelope Ground,Southampton in July 1876. This is one of only two times a player has taken seventeen wickets in a match and finished on the losing side –the other,by Walter Mead in 1895 was also against Hampshire. Mycroft had no pretensions as a right-handed tail end batsman:he scored only 791 first-class runs at an average of 5.34 and prior to Alf Hall and Father Marriott remained the last significant cricketer who took more wickets than he scored runs.
William Hickton was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire between 1867 and 1871 and for Derbyshire between 1871 and 1878. He was a member of the team that played Derbyshire's first match in May 1871.
Francis 'Frank' Peter Ryan was an English first-class cricketer. After serving in the First World War with the Royal Flying Corps,Ryan played as a professional for Hampshire from 1919 to 1920. A heavy-drinker who was known for having a short-temper,he fell out with Hampshire and walked out on the club,subsequently joining Glamorgan as their professional between 1923 and 1931. He made over 200 appearances for the Welsh county,taking over 900 wickets as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Following the end of his career,he would play club cricket in the Lancashire and South Wales League,as well as in Yorkshire.
Garnet Morley Lee was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire between 1910 and 1922 and for Derbyshire between 1925 and 1933. He scored nearly 15,000 runs in his first-class career.
James Horsley was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1913 and for Derbyshire from 1914 to 1925
Thomas Forrester,also known as Thomas Forester,was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire from 1896 to 1899 and for Derbyshire from 1902 to 1920.
Albert Ennion Groucott Rhodes,universally known as "Dusty" Rhodes,was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1937 and 1954 and was also a Test match umpire.
Hubert Laurence Johnson was a Barbados-born cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1949 and 1966,scoring more than 14,000 runs.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1990 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire won the Refuge Assurance League winning twelve of their sixteen matches. The club had been playing for one hundred and nineteen years. In the County Championship,they won six matches to finish twelfth in their eighty-sixth season in the Championship. They were eliminated in round 2 of the National Westminster Bank Trophy and at group level in the Benson &Hedges Cup.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1958 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing eighty-seven years. It was their fifty-fourth season in the County Championship and they won nine matches in the County Championship to finish fifth.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1880 was the tenth season of the English cricket club Derbyshire.
Andrew Watson Speed was a Scottish-born county cricketer who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire across the 1927 and 1928 seasons as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. After playing for West of Scotland Cricket Club in 1921,during which time he turned out against a touring Australian cricket team,Speed joined Warwickshire in 1927. He made eight first-class appearances,taking 29 wickets,before his career came abruptly to an end despite several career-best performances in his final matches.
The 2020 Bob Willis Trophy was a first-class cricket tournament held in the 2020 English cricket season,and the inaugural edition of the Bob Willis Trophy. It was separate from the County Championship,which was not held in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. The eighteen county cricket teams were split into three regional groups of six,with the two group winners with the most points advancing to a final held at Lord's. The maximum number of overs bowled in a day was reduced from 96 to 90,and the team's first innings could be no longer than 120 overs.