Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1914
| 1914 season | |||
| Captain | Richard Baggallay | ||
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| County Championship | 12 | ||
| Most runs | Arthur Morton | ||
| Most wickets | Tom Forrester | ||
| Most catches | Joe Humphries | ||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1914 represents the last cricket season before World War I and was when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for forty three years. It was the club's twentieth season in the County Championship and the team won five matches, ending twelfth in the Championship table.
Derbyshire CCC played twenty games in the County Championship in 1914 and no other matches. The captain for the year was Richard Baggallay in his second season as captain. Arthur Morton was top scorer. Tom Forrester took most wickets with 70.
Players who made their debut in 1914 and continued playing for Derbyshire after the war were Walter Reader-Blackton, Geoffrey Bell and James Horsley who had previously played for Nottinghamshire. Joseph Gladwin made his debut in 1914 playing two matches and played one match in 1818. Colin Hurt only played his three first class matches in 1914.
First class cricket and the County Championship were suspended during the Great War and did not resume again until the 1919 season.
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