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| Venue | Trent Bridge, Nottingham on 31st August, 1st, 2nd September 1885 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 4 |
| Toss | Nottinghamshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | C Coward, G Panter |
| Close of play day 1 | Derbyshire (1) 10/1 (Wood-Sims 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Derbyshire (2) 87/5 (Cropper 3*, Maynard 3*) |
| Nottinghamshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WH Scotton | c Disney b Slater | 64 | |||||
| A Shrewsbury | c Disney b Cropper | 26 | |||||
| W Barnes | b Walker | 7 | |||||
| W Gunn | c Disney b Walker | 48 | |||||
| W Flowers | run out | 19 | |||||
| HB Daft | b Cropper | 5 | |||||
| J Selby | c Wood-Sims b Walker | 0 | |||||
| W Attewell | b Cropper | 6 | |||||
| W Wright | not out | 7 | |||||
| *A Shaw | b Walker | 10 | |||||
| +M Sherwin | b Walker | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 5 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 154 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-53, 2-68, 3-148, 4-160, 5-175, 6-178, 7-183, 8-190, 9-203, 10-205 (154 ov) | |||||||
| Derbyshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Walker | 60 | 21 | 87 | 5 | - | - | |
| Slater | 35 | 19 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Chatterton | 17 | 8 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cropper | 39 | 26 | 30 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hall | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Derbyshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WW Wood-Sims | c Shaw b Barnes | 9 | |||||
| WS Eadie | b Wright | 4 | |||||
| FH Sugg | b Barnes | 24 | |||||
| W Chatterton | c Gunn b Flowers | 16 | |||||
| LC Docker | c Sherwin b Flowers | 30 | |||||
| W Cropper | c Sherwin b Shaw | 4 | |||||
| *EAJ Maynard | run out | 0 | |||||
| H Slater | c Barnes b Shaw | 11 | |||||
| GG Walker | b Shaw | 14 | |||||
| W Hall | c Sherwin b Shaw | 2 | |||||
| +JJ Disney | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (10 b) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 125 overs) | 125 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10, 2-43, 3-50, 4-84, 5-94, 6-97, 7-101, 8-118, 9-122, 10-125 (125 ov) | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Barnes | 27 | 18 | 26 | 2 | - | - | |
| Attewell | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wright | 8 | 4 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Flowers | 47 | 28 | 34 | 2 | - | - | |
| Shaw | 36 | 19 | 32 | 4 | - | - | |
| Derbyshire second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WW Wood-Sims | b Shaw | 12 | |||||
| LC Docker | c Wright b Shaw | 18 | |||||
| WS Eadie | c and b Barnes | 33 | |||||
| W Chatterton | c Shrewsbury b Barnes | 17 | |||||
| FH Sugg | b Shaw | 1 | |||||
| W Cropper | not out | 11 | |||||
| *EAJ Maynard | c Sherwin b Barnes | 3 | |||||
| GG Walker | st Sherwin b Shaw | 6 | |||||
| H Slater | not out | 0 | |||||
| W Hall | did not bat | ||||||
| +JJ Disney | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 109 overs) | 101 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27, 2-41, 3-70, 4-71, 5-83, 6-87, 7-98 | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Barnes | 27 | 14 | 26 | 3 | - | - | |
| Attewell | 21 | 9 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Flowers | 7 | 2 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Shaw | 54 | 34 | 30 | 4 | - | - | |