Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1881
| 1881 season | |||
| Captain | Robert Smith | ||
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| Most runs | Ludford Docker | ||
| Most wickets | William Mycroft | ||
| Most catches | James Disney | ||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1881 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for ten years. The team played nine first class matches and won two of them
By 1881 Derbyshire had become established in the county cricket circuit and played eight county games, two each against Lancashire, Kent, Sussex and Yorkshire. Derbyshire won one game against each of Sussex and Kent. They also had a match against MCC which was lost.
The captain for the year was Robert Smith in his fifth year as captain. Making their debuts were the Docker brothers who founded an important business in Birmingham - Ludford Docker later became captain although Frank Docker only played occasionally for two seasons. James Disney, who was plumber, joined to fill the wicket keeping slot for many years. "G G" Walker, a farmer, began his successful career with the club and George Porter, a chimney sweep, put in an early appearance. Other shorter term arrivals were William Page a boilermaker, and John Clayton, of a tanning company in Chesterfield, who both played for another year. Harry Topham, an Old Reptonian at Cambridge University, made his only appearance in the 1881 season.
Players who made their last appearances were William Rigley who had played his first match in 1873 and retired to become an umpire and coach and John Tye who had first appeared in 1874 and left to run a pub in Yorkshire where he was a notable performer for his local team for many years.
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