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The Club was formed on 4 November 1870 at a meeting in the Guildhall, Derby, by Club Secretary, who had campaigned for the Club’s foundation for three years, Walter Boden.
Walter Boden
Horse racing takes place for the first time on the Derby Racecourse, giving rise to the cricket ground being known as The Racecourse Ground in the future.
1848Derbyshire CCC was founded by Walter Boden at a meeting in the Guidlhall in Derby.
1870Derbyshire's first ever match, against Lancashire at Old Trafford
1871George Davidson makes Derbyshire’s highest individual first-class score – 274 v Lancashire at Old Trafford
1896
First-class cricket played at Queen’s Park, Chesterfield for the first time
1898Bill Bestwick records Derbyshire’s best bowling figures of 10-40 v Glamorgan at Cardiff Arms Park
1921Derbyshire win the County Championship under the captaincy of Arthur Richardson
1936
Crowds in excess of 10,000 attend each day of the tourist match at Derby against the Australian ‘Invincibles’
1948Les Jackson retires after taking a record 1,670 first class wickets for Derbyshire
1963Derbyshire defeat Northamptonshire to win the NatWest Trophy at Lord’s under the captaincy of Barry Wood
1981
Derbyshire defeat Essex at Derby to secure the Refuge Assurance Sunday League title under the captaincy of Kim Barnett in front of 11,000 spectators
1990
Derbyshire defeat Lancashire in the Benson and Hedges Final at Lord’s under the captaincy of Kim Barnett. Dominic Cork wins the Gold Award for his unbeaten 92
1993
Kim Barnett leaves Derbyshire, setting multiple records - 23,854 f/c runs and 53 centuries, 12,358 one day runs and 13 centuries
1998
First floodlit game played at The County Ground, Derby
2000Simon Katich – 2007 averaged 75.52 in scoring 1284 runs – the highest average by a Derbyshire player scoring over 1000 runs in a season
2007Derbyshire win the County Championship Division Two title under the captaincy of Wayne Madsen
2012
Harvey Hosein completes a world record 11 dismissals on his first class debut against Surrey at The Oval
2014
