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Derbyshire County Cricket Club

One-day name	Derbyshire Falcons
Personnel
Captain	FC/LA Billy Godleman t20 Vacant
Coach	Head of Cricket Dave Houghton
Team information
Founded	1870
Home ground	County Ground, Derby
Capacity	4,999
History
First-class debut	Lancashire in 1871 at Old Trafford
Championship Division One wins	1
Championship Division Two wins	1
Pro40 wins	1
FP Trophy wins	1
B&H Cup wins	1
Official website:	www.derbyshireccc.com
First-class One-day T20

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Derbyshire. Its limited overs team is called the Derbyshire Falcons in reference to the famous peregrine falcon which nests on the Derby Cathedral (it was previously called the Derbyshire Scorpions until 2005 and the Phantoms until 2010).^[1] Founded in 1870, the club held first-class status from its first match in 1871 until 1887. Because of poor performances and lack of fixtures in some seasons, Derbyshire then lost its status for seven seasons until it was invited into the County Championship in 1895.^[2] Derbyshire is also classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963;^[3] and classified as a senior Twenty20 team since 2003.^[4] In recent years the club has enjoyed record attendances with over 24,000 people watching their home Twenty20 fixtures in 2017 – a record for a single campaign. The local derby versus Yorkshire at Chesterfield now regularly sells out in advance.

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 Worcestershire and a one-day league game against Surrey. Other first-class cricket grounds used in the past have included Buxton, Saltergate in Chesterfield, Heanor, Ilkeston, Blackwell, Abbeydale Park in Sheffield, Wirksworth and Burton upon Trent (3 grounds), which is actually in Staffordshire. One-day contests have been played at Darley Dale, Repton School, Trent College, Leek, Staffordshire and Knypersley (also in Staffordshire).

Honours

• 
  County Championship (1) – 1936

Division Two (1) – 2012

• 
  Sunday/Pro 40/National League (1) – 1990


• 
  Gillette/NatWest/C&G/Friends Provident Trophy (1) – 1981


• 
  Benson & Hedges Cup (1) – 1993

History

Earliest cricket in Derbyshire

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 County Cricket Club took place on 4 November 1870 at a meeting in the Guildhall, Derby. The Earl of Chesterfield, who had played for and against All-England, was the first President, G. H. Strutt was Vice-President and Walter Boden, who had campaigned for the club's foundation for three years, was secretary. When Chesterfield died the following year, William Jervis became President.^[5]

Derbyshire's opening season was 1871 when the club played its initial first-class match versus Lancashire at Old Trafford Cricket Ground on 26 and 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, which was then based on the number of matches against other teams of similar standing. 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 and wicket-keeping 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 despite the efforts of Sam Cadman and Arthur Morton, persevering professionals. From 1926, the nucleus of a good team emerged around some doughty batting from Denis Smith, Stan Worthington and George Pope. Pope's bowling and that of his brother Alf, leg spinner Tommy Mitchell and seam bowler 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 five on first innings. Worthington, Les 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 which was captained by AW Richardson.

There have been more downs than ups in post-war years. Though runs came regularly from Arnold Hamer and less consistently from 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 seam 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 and Dominic Cork. Spin was in short supply apart from the steady work of Edwin Smith and the under-rated all-rounder Geoff Miller, the current national selector of the England team and noted after-dinner speaker. The signing of Eddie Barlow, the famous South African, in 1976 and the lengthy period under the captaincy of Kim Barnett, starting in 1983, meant the side were rarely uncompetitive.

Derbyshire were crowned County Championship Division Two champions in 2012 after securing a 6-wicket victory over Hampshire on the final day of the season at the County Ground, as Karl Krikken's side won promotion after securing more wins over the course of the season than Yorkshire who also finished the campaign on 194 points.

After the conclusion of the 2013 season, Derbyshire announced a new Elite Cricket Performance model in the next phase of the Club’s quest for sustainable on-field success across all three domestic competitions, combined with the desire to produce England cricketers. Former Derbyshire bowler Graeme Welch ^[6] was appointed the new Elite Cricket Performance Director in January 2014.

Ground history

This following table gives details of every venue at which Derbyshire have hosted a first-class, List A or Twenty20 match:

The County Ground, Derby, Derbyshire's regular home venue since 1871.

Queen's Park, Chesterfield, Derbyshire's most used outground.

Players

Current squad

• No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.


• 
  denotes players with international caps.


• 
   *  denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
1	Billy Godleman*	England	(1989-02-11) 11 February 1989 (age 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Captain (first-class/List A)
11	Daryn Smit	South Africa	(1984-01-28) 28 January 1984 (age 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	UK passport Occasional wicket-keeper
65	Anuj Dal	England	(1996-07-08) 8 July 1996 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
77	Wayne Madsen*	South Africa	(1984-01-02) 2 January 1984 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	UK passport
—	Tom Lace	England	(1998-05-27) 27 May 1998 (age 20)	Right-handed	—	On loan from Middlesex Occasional wicket-keeper
All-rounders
10	Luis Reece	England	(1990-08-04) 4 August 1990 (age 28)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium
18	Alex Hughes*	England	(1991-09-29) 29 September 1991 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
20	Matthew Critchley	England	(1996-08-13) 13 August 1996 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
37	Logan van Beek	Netherlands	(1990-09-07) 7 September 1990 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Overseas player
Wicket-keepers
16	Harvey Hosein	England	(1996-08-12) 12 August 1996 (age 22)	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
7	Hardus Viljoen	South Africa	(1989-03-06) 6 March 1989 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Kolpak registration
17	Alfie Gleadall	England	(2000-05-28) 28 May 2000 (age 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
21	Mattie McKiernan	England	(1994-06-14) 14 June 1994 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
28	Tony Palladino*	England	(1983-06-29) 29 June 1983 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
32	James Taylor	England	(2001-01-19) 19 January 2001 (age 17)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
41	Ravi Rampaul	West Indies	(1984-10-15) 15 October 1984 (age 34)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Kolpak registration
59	Sam Conners	England	(1999-02-13) 13 February 1999 (age 19)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
75	Hamidullah Qadri	England	(2000-12-05) 5 December 2000 (age 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break

Records

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 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.

References

Further reading

• 
  H S Altham, 'A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914)', George Allen & Unwin, 1962.


• 
  Derek Birley, 'A Social History of English Cricket', Aurum, 1999.


• 
  Rowland Bowen, 'Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development', Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970.


• 
  Roy Webber, 'The Playfair Book of Cricket Records', Playfair Books, 1951.


• 
  Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions.


• 
  Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions.

External links

• Official Derbyshire County Cricket Club website


• CricInfo's Derbyshire section