Joe Humphries

Joe Humphries
Personal information
Full name
Joseph Humphries
Born(1876-05-19)19 May 1876
Stonebroom, Derbyshire, England
Died7 May 1946(1946-05-07) (aged 69)
Chesterfield, England
BattingRight-handed
RoleWicket-keeper
International information
National side
Test debut1 January 1908 v Australia
Last Test7 February 1908 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
18991914Derbyshire
1904–1914Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 3 302
Runs scored 44 5,464
Batting average 8.80 14.19
100s/50s 0/0 0/0
Top score 16 68
Balls bowled 0 61
Wickets 0 3
Bowling average n/a 14.33
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling n/a 1/5
Catches/stumpings 7/0 564/111
Source: CricketArchive, 26 April 2010

Joseph Humphries (19 May 1876 – 7 May 1946) was an English cricketer who played three Test matches for England in Australia in 1907–08 and played first-class cricket for Derbyshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1899 and 1914.

Humphries was born in Stonebroom, Derbyshire, the son of John Thomas Humphries and his wife Eliza. His father was a coal miner.[1]

Humphries was a wicket-keeper who made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in the 1899 season. However, with William Storer in place, he did not earn a regular place in the Derbyshire side until the 1902 season. Humphries was party to a dramatic finish in the second Test in Melbourne in January 1908, when as tailender he put on 34, and England won by one wicket.[2][3] His career ended with the start of the First World War.

Humphries married Annie Kirk of Nether Langwith at Cuckney in April 1910.[4] He died in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a few days before his 70th birthday.

  1. ^ British Census 1881
  2. ^ BBC – Classic Test Matches
  3. ^ "2nd Test, Melbourne, Jan 1-7 1908, England [Marylebone Cricket Club] tour of Australia". Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. ^ Cricket, 21 April 1910, p. 73.