1958 English cricket season 1958 English cricket season 1958 was the 59th season of County Championship cricket in England. Surrey captain Peter May topped the batting averages for the third time and his team won a record seventh successive title. England defeated the touring New Zealand side 4–0 in a Test match series. England defeated New Zealand 4–0 with one match drawn in a five match Test series. The County Championship was won by Surrey County Cricket Club, the last of seven consecutive Championships for the county. Hampshire were runners-up. Peter May topped the averages with 2,231 runs scored at a batting average of
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1923 who played 21 matches over four seasons, and Richard Pratt who played five matches in two seasons. Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1923 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1923 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for fifty-two years. It was their twenty-fifth season in the County Championship and they won four matches to finish tenth. Derbyshire played twenty two games in the County Championship and one against the touring West Indies. They won four games altogether and finished tenth in the Championship table. Guy Jackson was in his second year as captain. Wilfred Hill-Wood