On This Day in 2003 Derbyshire CCC began a 4-day game against Yorkshire at Leeds - Luke Sutton made 127 and Dominic Cork 92 - Derbyshire won by 166 runs...

On This Day in 1981 - controversy at Derby during a Benson and Hedges group game between Derbyshire CCC and Yorkshire CCC - Derbyshire lost, despite Colin Tunnicliffe's five for 24...the controversy (see image) was over the new and experimental fielding restrictions...

On This Day in 1984, Geoff Miller took six for 30 on the opening day of a Championship match at Derby between Derbyshire CCC and Glamorgan...

On This Day in 1914, the county championship season began at Derby as Derbyshire CCC played Worcestershire. Derbyshire won by an innings and 158 runs with Archie Slater producing match figures of 33.5-13-43-11; 8 of his wickets were bowled...

On This Day in 2007 - Boyd Rankin made his debut for Derbyshire CCC v Leicestershire at Derby. The Leicestershire side included Tom New, John Sadler Nick Walker & Charl Langeveldt, all of whom had played for or would play for Derbyshire...

On This Day in 1992 @Duanne992 was born - he took 44 all formats wickets at an average of 24 during his 15-match stay Derbyshire CCC in 2018...

On This Day in 1944 Philip Russell was born in Ilkeston.
Russell took 535 all formats wickets for Derbyshire CCC and was coach to the sides which won the 1981 NatWest, 1990 RAL and 1993 Benson & Hedges Cup titles...

‘Cricket Quotes’

'The day was warm and the wicket still so beautiful that the bowlers might well have watered it with tears.'

Neville Cardus

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130 - In the picture for this one - me snapping James Pipe as the latter left the field after scoring a 71-ball hundred against Worcestershire at Chesterfield in 2008...

The Wednesday Griff

The road to nowhere?

The County Ground will play host to the annual Bowling Out Gender Inequality Fixture on Friday 19 July! 🙌

Derbyshire CCC

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On This Day in 1974 Derbyshire CCC began a university game at Oxford which they won by an innings and 136 runs. Oxford's two innings scores were 58 & 130. It must have been fun for the students facing Hendrick and Ward whose combined match figures were 52-21-66-10...

On This Day in 2011 Derbyshire CCC beat Worcestershire by six wickets in a CB40 game at Worcester - Usman Khawaja scoring 89 not out...

On This Day in 1977 Derbyshire CCC beat Northants at Northampton in a JPL game by one wicket; Northants 122-8 off 40 overs, Derbyshire 123-9 with 1 ball remaining. Eddie Barlow took 2-15 and Phil Russell 1-11 - both from 8 overs each...

On This Day in 2002 Derbyshire CCC scored 487-7 on the opening day of their championship game against Northamptonshire at Derby, their 3rd highest total in a day and highest at Derby. Top-scorer with a magnificent 230 was Michael Di Venuto - Northants won the toss...

On 8 May 2003 the European Court of Justice ruled in favour of Maros Kolpak, a Slovenian handball player, and allowed citizens of countries that had free trade treaties with the EU to work in any EU country. This had huge ramifications for county cricket in the UK…

‘Cricket Quotes’

'I have known cricketers who have stood head and shoulders above everybody else at net practice but have rarely done themselves justice in a match.'

Len Hutton (1956)

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129 - April in Paradise - pre-season at Derby in the early 1970s, Bob Taylor, Fred Swarbrook, Ashley Harvey-Walker, Peter Gibbs, Bob Swindell and David (DHK) Smith...

The Tuesday Griff

A pro job…or no job? Careful what you wish for on scheduling…

On This Day in 1991, Derbyshire CCC beat Gloucestershire at Derby in a Benson and Hedges Cup match with the scores level but by virtue of losing fewer wickets. Kim Barnett scored 102 for Derbyshire...