1960 English cricket season discontent about throwing and "dragging" that had caused controversy for the previous two years. England defeated South Africa 3–0 in a five match Test series. Yorkshire won the County Championship for the second successive year. Lancashire were runners-up. Raman Subba Row topped the batting averages with 1,503 runs scored at an average of 55.66. Brian Statham topped the bowling averages with 135 wickets taken at 12.31 runs per wicket. 1960 English cricket season 1960 was the 61st season of County Championship cricket in England. The County Championship was won by Yorkshire for the second successive year. South Africa toured England,
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1946 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1946 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1946 represents the first cricket season after a six-year break from first class cricket during World War II. The English club Derbyshire had been playing for seventy five years. It was their forty-second season in the County Championship and they won five matches and lost thirteen to finish fifteenth (two from bottom) in the County Championship. On the resumption of county cricket after the second world war in 1946 the main problem affecting Derbyshire was that of finding a regular captain. The convention was that the captain be an