Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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Derbyshire County Cricket Club

One-day Name:	Derbyshire Phantoms
Coach:	John Morris
Captain:'''	Rikki Clarke
Founded:	1870
Home Ground:	County Cricket Ground
Capacity:	9500
First-class debut:	Lancashire
	- 1871
	- Old Trafford
Championship Wins:	1
National League Wins:	1
FP Trophy Wins:	1
Official Website:	DerbyshireCCC

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire. Its limited overs team is called the Derbyshire Phantoms.

The club is based at the County Cricket Ground, previously known as the Racecourse Ground, in the city of Derby. In 2006, for the first time in eight years, County Cricket returned to Queen's Park, Chesterfield with a County Championship game against Worcester and a One Day League game against Surrey. Other first-class cricket grounds used in the past have included Buxton, Heanor, Ilkeston, Abbeydale Park in Sheffield and Burton upon Trent, which is actually in Staffordshire. One-day contests have been played at Darley Dale and Knypersley (also in Staffordshire).

In 2008 the club will play in Division Two of both the County Championship and the One Day League. The captain is Rikki Clarke and the coach is former England international John Morris.

Honours

County Championships (1) - 1936
FP Trophies^[1] (1) - 1981
National Leagues^[2] (1) - 1990
Benson & Hedges Cups (1) - 1993

Records

For Derbyshire County Cricket Club's first-class records, see .

For Derbyshire County Cricket Club's List A records, see .

Most first-class runs for Derbyshire
Qualification - 15000 runs [1]

Player	Runs
Kim Barnett	23854
Denis Smith	20516
Derek Morgan	17842
Leslie Townsend	17667
Stan Worthington	17000
Arnold Hamer	15277

Most first-class wickets for Derbyshire
Qualification - 1000 wickets [2]

Player	Wickets
Les Jackson	1670
Cliff Gladwin	1536
Billy Bestwick	1452
Tommy Mitchell	1417
Derek Morgan	1216
Edwin Smith	1209
Bill Copson	1033

Earliest cricket

Cricket may not have reached Derbyshire until the 18th century. The earliest reference to cricket in the county is a match in September 1757 between Wirksworth and Sheffield Cricket Club at Brampton Moor, near Chesterfield.

Origin of club

The formation of Derbyshire CCC took place on 4 November 1870 at a meeting in the Guildhall, Derby.

Derbyshire CCC played its initial first-class match versus Lancashire CCC at Old Trafford Cricket Ground on 26 & 27 May 1871 and joined the (then unofficial) County Championship.

Club history

Although the club had some good results in its early seasons, it struggled for the most part and before the 1888 season, following a run of disastrous results, Derbyshire was demoted from first-class status. Derbyshire recovered first-class status in 1894 and rejoined the County Championship in 1895.

Although the county then had a quite strong team due to the bowling of George Davidson, Joseph Hulme and George Porter and the batting of William Storer, William Chatterton and Bagshaw, within three years they had hit rock-bottom, going through 1897 without a win due to their best bowlers losing their powers.

From this point up to 1925, Derbyshire were perennially among the weakest counties, losing every single match in 1920. From 1926, the nucleus of a good team emerged around some doughty batting from Denis Smith, Stan Worthington and George Pope, and the bowling of Pope, his brother Alf, Tom Mitchell and Bill Copson took the team to their one and so far only Championship victory in 1936. They won 13 of their 28 matches outright and 5 on first innings. Worthington, Townsend, Smith and Alderman all passed 1,000 runs and Copson and Mitchell took over 100 wickets, with Alf Pope taking 94. Charlie Elliott, who later became a test umpire and selector, was another member of this team.

There have been more downs than ups in post-war years. Though runs came regularly from Arnold Hamer, the West Indian Laurie Johnson and captain Donald Carr, the batting remained the weak point right up to the beginning of covered pitches in the 1980s. However, a series of fast bowlers served England as well as Derbyshire. The list began with Copson and continued with Cliff Gladwin, Les Jackson, Harold Rhodes, Alan Ward, Mike Hendrick and, most recently Devon Malcolm.

2008 squad

The Derbyshire squad for the 2008 season consists of (this section could change as players are released or signed, international players in bold):

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Daniel Birch	LHB	RMF
John Sadler	LHB	OS	New signing, October 2007
Steve Stubbings	LHB	OS
Phil Weston	LHB	LM
All-rounders
Rikki Clarke	RHB	RFM	Confirmed as new club captain during October 2007
Greg Smith	RHB	RM
Graham Wagg	RHB	LFM
Wayne White	RHB	RMF
Wicket-keepers
James Pipe	RHB
Bowlers
Jonathan Clare	RHB	RM	Signed 1 year contract for 2008 having played for the 2nd XI
Kevin Dean	LHB	LFM
Nayan Doshi	RHB	SLA	Now qualified as an English player
Ian Hunter	RHB	RMF
Tom Lungley	LHB	RM
Chris Paget	RHB	OS
Jake Needham	RHB	OS

Derbyshire Facts and Feats

Derbyshire recorded their highest ever score, 801 for eight declared, against Somerset at Taunton in 2007. Their score beat their previous highest ever score, of 707 for 7 declared also against Somerset also at Taunton in 2005. Simon Katich scored 221, Ian Harvey 153, Ant Botha 101 and James Pipe 106. Derbyshire broke the record despite losing Phil Weston and Chris Taylor to Andy Caddick in the first over without a run on the board.

Notes

1. ^ Formerly known as the Gillette Cup (1963-1980), NatWest Trophy (1981-2000) and C&G Trophy (2001-2006)
2. ^ Formerly known as the Sunday League (1969-1998)

References

Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records by Peter Wynne-Thomas
Playfair Cricket Annual
Scores & Biographies by Arthur Haygarth
Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual)

External links

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Personal information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 3 8
Runs scored 71 167

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England
Personal information
Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium (RFM)

Career statistics
Tests ODIs
Matches 2 20

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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
1867 1868 1869 - 1870 - 1871 1872 1873

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Location: Derby
Established: 1863
Seating Capacity: 9,500
First ODI v , June 18, 1983
Last ODI v , May 28, 1999
Stands Lund Pavilion, Don Amott The County Cricket Ground, usually shortened to County Ground
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Lancashire County Cricket Club

One-day Name: Lancashire Lightning

Coach: Mike Watkinson
Captain:''' Mark Chilton

Overseas Player: Brad Hodge

Founded: 1864
Home Ground: Old Trafford
Capacity: 15,000

First-class debut: Middlesex
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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s
1868 1869 1870 - 1871 - 1872 1873 1874

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Location: Manchester
Established: 1857
Seating Capacity: 19,000
First Test v , July 10-12, 1884
Last Test v West Indies, June 7-11, 2007
First ODI v , August 24, 1972
Last ODI v , August 30, 2007
Stands
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The historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England.^[1] They were used for various functions for several hundred years^[2] and continue to form, albeit with considerably altered boundaries, the basis of modern local government.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.^[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch.
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Derbyshire (pronounced "dar-bee-sher" /ˈdɑːbɪʃə/, as opposed to "dar-bee-shire") is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire.
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Derby (pronounced "dar-bee" /dˈɑːbɪ/) is a city in the East Midlands of England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent and is surrounded by the shire county of Derbyshire.
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Queen's Park, Chesterfield, lies within a park in the centre of the town established for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897 and is among the most attractive cricket grounds in the world.
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The County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in the United Kingdom, mainly in England. All but one of the teams are named after, and were originally representatives of, historic English counties, the exception being Glamorgan, which is a Welsh county.
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The National League, currently sponsored as the NatWest Pro40 League, is the one-day cricket league for first class cricket counties in England and Wales. It was inaugurated in 1999, but was essentially the old Sunday League
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Surrey

Geography
Status Ceremonial & Non-metropolitan county
Origin Historic
Region South East England
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