Derbyshire Cricket

Derbyshire County Cricket Club are one of the 18 first-class county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the county of Derbyshire. The club have played the majority of their home games at the County Cricket Ground in Derby since 1871. The club's limited overs team is named the Derbyshire Falcons. The club have just one County Championship title to their name, coming in 1936, although Derbyshire did win limited overs titles in 1981, 1990 and 1993. 

Founded in 1870, Derbyshire found success hard to come by during their early years. It wasn't until the 1930s that the club began looking like title contenders. With batsmen Denis Smith, Stan Worthington, Les Townsend and George Pope, as well as the bowling talents of leg spinner Tom Mitchell and seam bowler Bill Copson, Derbyshire clinched the 1936 County Championship title. 

The club won 13 of their 28 matches outright under the captaincy of AW Richardson, with Worthington, Townsend, Smith and Alderman recording over 1,000 runs, and Copson and Mitchell taking 100 wickets as the club claimed their one and only County Championship crown. 

The county failed to build on their 1936 title-winning season, however, going without a trophy until their 1981 NatWest Trophy success. From the 1980s, Derbyshire provided England with a number of seam bowlers, including the likes of Cliff Gladwin, Les Jackson, Harold Rhodes, Alan Ward, Mike Hendrick, and more recently Devon Malcolm and Dominic Cork.  

Following limited overs trophies in 1990 and 1993, it wasn't until 2012 that Derbyshire were able to pick up their next title, clinching promotion to Division One after finishing as Division Two champions. Despite Club Captain Wayne Madsen becoming the first batsman to reach 1,000 County Championship runs in 2013, the club's time in Division One lasted just one season before suffering relegation. 

Derbyshire reached their highest ever score, 801 for eight declared, against Somerset at Taunton in 2007, beating their previous highest ever score of 707 for 7, declared also against the same opponent at the same venue back in 2005. Simon Katich scored 221, Ian Harvey 153, Ant Botha 101 and James Pipe 106, and this saw the county recover from losing their first two wickets without scoring.  

Kim Barnett is Derbyshire's all-time leading run-scorer with 23,854 runs scored during his 19-year spell with the club. The club's leading wicket-taker is Les Jackson with 1670 wickets taken from 1947 to 1963. 

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