James Horsley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames Horsley
English cricketer
Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1890
Place of Birth: Melbourne, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 13-Feb-1976
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About James Horsley
- James Horsley (4 January 1890 – 13 February 1976) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire in 1913 and for Derbyshire from 1914 to 1925 Horsley was born at Melbourne, Derbyshire.
- He made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire in June 1913 against Yorkshire, when he took 2 wickets in the first innings, but never had the chance to bat.
- He managed three no balls and two wides in the match.
- In his second match against Hampshire he was stumped for a duck, took no wickets, and bowled four wides.
- He played one more match for Nottinghamshire against Middlesex, when he took a wicket but gave away no extras. In 1914 Horsley switched to his native county Derbyshire and played a full pre-war season.
- He managed five five-wicket innings against Somerset, Yorkshire with 6 for 77, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire with a spectacular 6 for 17, and Worcestershire.
- Against Essex he bowled and in return was bowled by Johnny Douglas and in the Leicestershire match had a match haul of 10 wickets.
- Cricket was then interrupted by World War I, but he was back in the 1919 season with three 5 wicket innings, in one of which, he took 6 for 78 for Yorkshire.
- He then took 6 for 55 and 6 for 62, including a hat-trick, in a match against the Australian Imperial Forces XI giving him a match total of 12 wickets.
- This win by 36 runs was the only victory achieved by a county side against the Australians during their tour.
- Horsley was able to capitalise on the absence in the match of Billy Bestwick who had returned to bowl for Derbyshire that season.
- In Derbyshire's low season of 1920 Horsley played just one match and did not play at all in 1921 and 1922 when he played some games in the Lancashire League for Burnley.
- In the 1923 season he was back with Derbyshire and for the remainder of the career he was sharing the bowling with two of Derbyshire's best bowlers, Bestwick and Arthur Morton.
- His best season was 1923 with seven 5-wicket innings and an average of 16.17.
- He took 7 for 48 in the initial game against Warwickshire, 6 for 29 against Northamptonshire – a 10 wicket match, 5 for 40 and 5 for 48 in a match against Somerset, 5 for 58 against Glamorgan, 5 for 69 against Yorkshire and 6 for49 against Leicestershire.
- In the 1924 season he took 6 for 42 against Yorkshire.
- In his last season of 1925 he took 6 for 94 against Gloucestershire, 6 for 66 against Essex and 5 for 36 against Kent. Horsley was a right-arm fast-medium bowler and took 287 wickets at an average of 20.26 and a best performance of 7–48 with nineteen 5-wicket innings and three 10-wicket matches.
- He was a right-hand batsman and played 132 innings in 87 first-class matches with an average of 13.67 and a top score of 66.Horsley returned to Lancashire League cricket and then spent two summers with Aberdeenshire.
- He became a professional for several clubs in Northern Ireland until the Second World War.Horsley died at Derby at the age of 86. Horsley married May Straw at Nottingham in 1911.
- He was related to J H Young who played for Derbyshire between 1899 and 1901.
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