sentences:  He took 863 first-class wickets at an average of 12.09 with 87 five-wicket innings and 28 ten-wicket matches in his career.His first ten-wicket match in 1875 against Nottinghamshire became the first of six in only nine games that season.He holds the Derbyshire record for most wickets in a single match, with figures of 17–103 against Hampshire at the Antelope Ground, Southampton in July 1876.