Captain Donald Carr Most runs Charles Lee | County Championship 12 Most wickets Les Jackson | |
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.
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1956 season
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.