County season wicket takers — County Championship 1956
DJ Shepherd is the first listed entry with 156 wickets in Redball’s recorded data for the 1956 County Championship. Equal totals are ordered as explained below.
Leading recorded entries
| Player | Wickets | Innings | Matches | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DJ Shepherd | 156 | 46 | 27 | Player overview → |
| B Dooland | 139 | 47 | 28 | Player overview → |
| C Cook | 139 | 46 | 26 | Player overview → |
| MJ Hilton | 128 | 49 | 27 | Player overview → |
| D Shackleton | 126 | 48 | 27 | Player overview → |
| GE Tribe | 122 | 44 | 28 | Player overview → |
| GAR Lock | 117 | 32 | 17 | Player overview → |
| HL Jackson | 114 | 45 | 26 | Player overview → |
| JS Manning | 114 | 49 | 28 | Player overview → |
| BD Wells | 112 | 45 | 25 | Player overview → |
Ordered by season total; equal totals use player identifier for stable ordering. Seasons follow the calendar year of match start. Domestic first-class records exclude Tests. Entries tied at the tenth-row cutoff may not all be shown.
Recorded match dates: 1956-05-02 to 1956-09-01. Date spans do not imply complete coverage. Career aggregates may cover a different set of matches.
Displayed source rows last updated: unavailable. Figures retrieved: 2026-10-01. This is not a live score feed.
Source: Redball’s recorded statistics. Methodology, definitions and coverage.
County seasons are grouped by the calendar year of match start. This is not a live score feed.
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