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| One Day name | Derbyshire Falcons | |||
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| Twenty20 name | Derbyshire Falcons | |||
| Personnel | ||||
| Captain | Wayne Madsen | |||
| One Day captain | TBA | |||
| Coach | Mickey Arthur | |||
| Overseas player | Caleb Jewell | |||
| Team information | ||||
| Founded | 1870; 155 years ago (1870) | |||
| Home ground | The Incora 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 | |||
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteenfirst-classcounty clubs within the domesticcricket structure ofEngland andWales. It represents thehistoric county ofDerbyshire. Its limited overs team is called theDerbyshire Falcons in reference to the famousperegrine falcon which nests on theDerby Cathedral (it was previously called the Derbyshire Scorpions until 2005 and the Phantoms until 2010).[1] Founded in 1870, the club heldfirst-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 theCounty Championship in 1895.[2] Derbyshire is also classified as aList A team since the beginning oflimited overs cricket in 1963;[3] and classified as a seniorTwenty20 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 versusYorkshire at Chesterfield now regularly sells out in advance.
The club is based at theCounty Cricket Ground, previously known as the Racecourse Ground, in the city ofDerby. In 2006, for the first time in eight years, county cricket returned toQueen's Park, Chesterfield with aCounty Championship game against Worcestershire and aone-day league game againstSurrey. Otherfirst-class cricket grounds used in the past have includedBuxton,Saltergate in Chesterfield,Heanor,Ilkeston,Blackwell,Abbeydale Park inSheffield,Wirksworth andBurton upon Trent (3 grounds), which is actually in neighbouring Staffordshire. One-day matches have been played atDarley Dale,Repton School,Trent College,Leek, Staffordshire andKnypersley (also in Staffordshire).
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 andSheffield Cricket Club at Brampton Moor, nearChesterfield.
The formation of Derbyshire County Cricket Club took place on 4 November 1870 at a meeting in the Guildhall, Derby. TheEarl of Chesterfield, who had played for and against All-England, was the first President, G. H. Strutt was vice-president andWalter Boden, who had campaigned for the club's foundation for three years, was secretary. Also present at the meeting was Boden's brother,Henry. 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 matchversusLancashire atOld Trafford Cricket Ground on 26 and 27 May 1871 and joined the (then unofficial) County Championship.
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 ofGeorge Davidson,Joseph Hulme andGeorge Porter and the batting and wicket-keeping ofWilliam 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 ofSam Cadman andArthur Morton, persevering professionals. From 1926, the nucleus of a good team emerged around some doughty batting fromDenis Smith,Stan Worthington andGeorge Pope. Pope's bowling and that of his brotherAlf, leg spinnerTommy Mitchell and seam bowlerBill 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 byAW Richardson.
There have been more downs than ups in post-war years. Though runs came regularly fromArnold Hamer and less consistently from the West IndianLaurie Johnson and captainDonald 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 withCliff Gladwin,Les Jackson,Harold Rhodes,Alan Ward,Mike Hendrick and, most recently,Devon Malcolm andDominic Cork. Spin was in short supply apart from the steady work of Edwin Smith and the underrated all-rounderGeoff Miller, the former national selector of the England team and notedafter-dinner speaker. The signing of Eddie Barlow, the famous South African, in 1976 and the lengthy period under the captaincy ofKim 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 bowlerGraeme Welch[6] was appointed the new Elite Cricket Performance Director in January 2014.
This following table gives details of every venue at which Derbyshire have hosted afirst-class,List A orTwenty20 match:
| Name of ground | Location | Year | FC matches | LA matches | T20 matches | Total |
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| Abbeydale Park | Sheffield | 1946-1947 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Bass Worthington Ground | Burton upon Trent | 1975–1976 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Burton-on-Trent CC Ground | Burton upon Trent | 1914-1937 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| County Ground | Derby | 1871–present | 721 | 293 | 23 | 1037 |
| Derby Road Ground | Wirksworth | 1874 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Highfield | Leek | 1986–2013 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Ind Coope Ground | Burton upon Trent | 1938–1980 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 43 |
| Miners Welfare Ground | Blackwell | 1909-1913 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| North Road Ground | Glossop | 1899-1910 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Park Road Ground | Buxton | 1923–1986 | 45 | 9 | 0 | 54 |
| Queen's Park | Chesterfield | 1898–present | 396 | 82 | 2 | 480 |
| Recreation Ground | Long Eaton | 1887 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Repton School Ground | Repton | 1988 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Rutland Recreation Ground | Ilkeston | 1925–1994 | 93 | 16 | 0 | 109 |
| Saltergate | Chesterfield | 1874-1875 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Station Road | Darley Dale | 1975 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Tean Road Sports Ground | Cheadle | 1973–1987 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Town Ground | Heanor | 1991–1993 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| Trent College | Long Eaton | 1975–1979 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Tunstall Road | Knypersley | 1985–1990 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Uttoxeter Road | Checkley | 1991–1993 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Source:CricketArchive Updated: 28 February 2010 | ||||||
| No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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| Batters | ||||||
| 4 | Harry Came |  England | (1998-08-27)27 August 1998 (age 27) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 22 | Mitch Wagstaff | England | (2003-09-02)2 September 2003 (age 22) | Left-handed | Right-armleg break | |
| 23 | Caleb Jewell |  Australia | (1997-04-21)21 April 1997 (age 28) | Left-handed | — | Overseas player |
| 25 | Yousaf Bin Naeem | England | (2006-07-25)25 July 2006 (age 19) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| 44 | Ross Whiteley | England | (1988-09-13)13 September 1988 (age 37) | Left-handed | Left-armmedium | |
| 62 | Amrit Basra | England | (2002-05-26)26 May 2002 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| 77 | Wayne Madsen* ‡ |  Italy | (1984-01-02)2 January 1984 (age 41) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | Club captain |
| All-rounders | ||||||
| 7 | Joe Hawkins | England | (2007-03-07)7 March 2007 (age 18) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 9 | Martin Andersson | England | (1996-09-06)6 September 1996 (age 29) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| 10 | Luis Reece* | England | (1990-08-04)4 August 1990 (age 35) | Left-handed | Left-armmedium | |
| 21 | Matt Montgomery ‡ |  Germany | (2000-05-10)10 May 2000 (age 25) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 32 | Zak Chappell* | England | (1996-08-21)21 August 1996 (age 29) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 65 | Anuj Dal* | England | (1996-07-08)8 July 1996 (age 29) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 12 | Aneurin Donald |  Wales | (1996-12-20)20 December 1996 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 29 | Brooke Guest* | England | (1997-05-14)14 May 1997 (age 28) | Right-handed | — | |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 14 | Ben Aitchison | England | (1999-07-06)6 July 1999 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 16 | Harry Moore | England | (2007-04-26)26 April 2007 (age 18) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 18 | Jack Morley | England | (2001-06-25)25 June 2001 (age 24) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| 26 | Nick Potts | England | (2002-07-17)17 July 2002 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 36 | Pat Brown ‡ | England | (1998-08-23)23 August 1998 (age 27) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 95 | Rory Haydon | England | (2003-01-26)26 January 2003 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
Most first-class runs for Derbyshire
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Derbyshire recorded their highest ever score, 801 for 8 declared, against Somerset at Taunton in 2007. Their score beat their previous highest ever score of 707 for 7 declared also againstSomerset at Taunton in 2005.Simon Katich scored 221,Ian Harvey 153,Ant Botha 101 andJames Pipe 106. Derbyshire broke the record despite losingPhil Weston andChris Taylor toAndy Caddick in the first over without a run on the board.
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