Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club: competitions
Derbyshire County Cricket Club: First-Class Cricket Competitions
Logo Tournament Wins YearsDerbyshire County Cricket Club: Limited Overs Cricket Competitions
Logo Tournament Wins Years
Royal London One-Day Cup
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1981
Derbyshire County Cricket Club: Twenty20 Cricket Competitions
Logo Tournament Wins YearsDerbyshire County Cricket Club: overview
Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs in the structure of cricket in England and Wales. Historically represents the county of Derbyshire. The team playing in the limited-overs format is called the Derbyshire Falcons. The official emblem of Derbyshire County Cricket Club is a teardrop-shaped white shield with blue edging, which depicts a five-petalled golden flower topped with a crown. The home ground is The Incora County Ground.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club: origins
Derbyshire County Cricket Club was founded in 1870. At the same time, the sport itself appeared in the county relatively late – only in the eighteenth century. In particular, news has been preserved about a match that took place in September 1757 near Chesterfield.
On November 4, 1870, an official meeting was held at the Guildhall, Derby. A fateful decision was made to find Derbyshire County Cricket Club, the first president of which was the Earl of Chesterfield, who himself was an enthusiastic cricketer. Unfortunately, the Earl soon passed away, and William Jervis replaced him in this position.
The following year, the club opened the season by playing a first-class debut match against Lancashire at the Old Trafford Cricket ground. Despite a generally good start, Derbyshire County Cricket Club failed to keep the bar taken and lost its status, which it was able to return only in 1894.
Paradoxically, despite the presence of three strong bowlers – George Porter, Joseph Hulme and George Davison – the club has not been able to break into the top of the standings for a long time. So, for example, in 1897, it did not win a single victory, and with the team’s backbone’s retirement, things went very badly.
Until the mid-20s of the last century, the club remained one of the weakest representatives of the championship. Even the station wagons Sam Cadman and Arthur Morton did not help to correct the situation, although both were quite effective and could boast of good statistics. Only after the arrival of George Pope, Stan Worthington and Denis Smith at Derbyshire County Cricket Club did the club gradually regain its lost positions. With the arrival of Pope’s brother Alf (who, by the way, worked in coal mining for some time) and several other gifted bowlers in the team, its backbone was finally formed.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club nowadays
The 1936 season was particularly successful for Derbyshire when they won the County Championship for the first time. The team has won 13 games out of 28 in a row, with five of them in the first inning. Worthington, Les Townsend, Smith and Alderman scored a thousand runs, while Mitchell and Copson took over a hundred wickets. Interestingly, Charlie Elliott was an important part of this club, who later became a test referee and sports selector.
Alas, this trophy remained the only one at the County Championship level in the club’s history. In the post-war years, Derbyshire County Cricket Club had far more downturns than upturns, mainly due to the unbalanced composition. First of all, this concerned the batsmen, although Arnold Hamer, representative of the West Indies Laurie Johnson and captain Donald Carr performed well here at various times.
Things were much better with bowlers: it was during this period that Cliff Gladwin, Les Jackson, Harold Rhodes, Alan Ward and Mike Hendrick came on the scene, who Devon Malcolm and Dominic Cork later replaced. In the 70s, one of the main stars of Derbyshire County Cricket Club was South African Eddie Barlow, so despite the lack of major trophies, the team looked very nice.
In 2012, Derbyshire became champions of the second division, defeating Hampshire by six wickets on the last day of the season. A year later, the club officially announced a new concept of Elite Cricket Performance. It is planned to reach a qualitatively new level at all three home championships and improve the youth training system to provide the national team with fresh personnel.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club: trophies and interesting facts
Derbyshire County Cricket Club has won the County Championship only once – in 1936. The club also has one victory in the following competitions:
- Gillette/NatWest/C&G/Friends Provident Trophy – 1981;
- Sunday/Pro 40/ National League – 1990;
- Benson & Hedges Cup – 1993.
Kim Barnett was recognized as the best batsman of the team with 23,854 runs, Les Jackson was recognized as the best bowler (1,670 wickets).
