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.

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.

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.

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

Wicketkeeping

Most dismissals in an innings^#

Most dismissals in a season^#

Most dismissals in a career^#

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