Wicketkeeping

The tables below set out records for the main categories of individual achievement in the men’s official County Championship starting in 1890.
Names of Sussex-born players are set in italics.

Most dismissals in an innings

Dismisssals Player Match Ground Season
6 (6ct, 0st) H.R.Butt Sussex v Gloucestershire Bristol 1899
6 (6ct, 0st) H.R.Butt Sussex v Hampshire Hove 1901
6 (6ct, 0st) H.R.Butt Sussex v Leicestershire Hove 1909
6 (3ct, 3st) R.T.Webb Sussex v Nottinghamshire Hove 1955
6 (6ct, 0st) J.M.Parks Sussex v Worcestershire Dudley 1959
6 (6ct, 0st) R.T.Webb Sussex v Somerset Hove 1960
6 (6ct, 0st) M.G.Griffith Sussex v Essex Clacton-on-Sea 1964
6 (6ct, 0st) A.J.Hodd Sussex v Hampshire West End 2011
6 (6ct, 0st) B.C.Brown Sussex v Middlesex Hove 2012
6 (6ct, 0st) M.J.Prior Sussex v Warwickshire Hove 2013
6 (6ct, 0st) B.C.Brown Sussex v Warwickshire Horsham 2014
6 (6ct, 0st) B.C.Brown Sussex v Gloucestershire Cheltenham 2018

Notes: The table lists all wicketkeepers making more than five dismissals in an innings: the figures exclude catches taken when players were fielding. Matches in bold denote instances in the second innings.
 
Brown made nine dismissals, all caught, v Somerset, Taunton, 2013 and v Warwickshire, Horsham, 2014, the most for the county in a match. There have been no instances of a Sussex wicketkeeper making more than three stumpings in an innings.

Most dismissals in a season

Pos Player Season Mtch Ct St Total Avge
1 J.M.Parks 1959 28 79 6 85 3.03
2 H.R.Butt 1905 28 65 16 81 2.89
3 G.B.Street 1923 26 60 20 80 3.07
4 W.L.Cornford 1925 31 57 21 78 2.57
5 J.M.Parks 1961 30 73 4 77 2.56
6 W.L.Cornford 1933 29 41 31 72 2.48
7 W.L.Cornford 1932 26 40 30 70 2.64
8 G.B.Street 1914 27 55 14 69 2.55
9 H.R.Butt 1903 23 56 10 66 2.86
10 I.J.Gould 1984 22 60 6 66 3.00
11 W.L.Cornford 1925 28 47 18 65 2.32
12 W.L.Cornford 1935 29 46 19 65 2.24
13 R.T.Webb 1955 28 41 24 65 2.32
 
Notes: The table lists all wicketkeepers making 65 or more dismissals in a season: the figures exclude catches taken when players were fielding. Column eight, headed ‘Avge’, gives the average number of dismissals per match for each player.
 
Parks’ 79 in 1959, and Cornford’s 31 in 1933 are respectively the most catches and most stumpings in a season. Parks was playing his first full season as wicketkeeper in 1959.

Most dismissals in a career

Pos Player Seasons Mtch Ct Stpd Total Avge
1 H.R.Butt 1890-1912 461 809 233 1,042 2.26
2 W.L.Cornford 1921-1939, 1947 443 608 299 907 2.04
3 J.M.Parks 1958-1972 318 688 61 749 2.35
4 P.Moores 1985, 1987-1998 206 430 33 463 2.24
5 R.T.Webb 1948-1960 225 285 110 395 1.75
6 B.C.Brown 2010-2019 129 377 15 392 3.03
7 G.B.Street 1912-1914, 1920-1923 174 272 97 369 2.12
8 I.J.Gould 1981-1988 156 308 32 340 2.17
9 M.J.Prior 2001-2014 104 274 22 296 2.84
10 A.Long 1976-1980 94 207 21 228 2.42
11 S.C.Griffith 1938-1950, 1952-1954 105 165 35 200 1.90