Houghton v Morris

The recent post on 606 that suggested things were better under Dave Houghton set me thinking. Was I wrong? I didn't remember the Houghton era especially favourably, so I had a look back at the statistics of the Championship and T20 under the Zimbabwean and John Morris.



Championship



2004 W1 L6 D9

2005 W1 L8 D7

2006 W4 L4 D8

2007 W1 L3 D2



Houghton left on July 7 2007 with a record of W7 L21 D26



T20



2004 W2 L2

2005 W4 L4

2006 W2 L5

2007 W0 L4



Houghton left with a record of W8 L15



John Morris came in on August 21 2007, since when his record in the Championship is



2007 W0 L2 D1

2008 W4 L9 D5

2009 W2 L3 D11

2010 W2 L5 D2



In the T20 his record is:



2008 W3 L7

2009 W3 L7

2010 W6 L8



In total the results are



Championship



Houghton P54 W7 L21 D26

Morris P44 W8 L18 D18



T20



Houghton W8 L15

Morris W12 L22



I'll be the first to say that neither record is spectacular, but Morris has made Derbyshire a harder side to beat in the Championship and overall his record is better. There's room for improvement for sure, but you can't argue with the facts.