DERBYSHIRE County Cricket Club 2021 Year Book Proud to be DERBYSHIRE DERBYSHIRE County Cricket Club 2021 Year Book Club Details Contents Patron His Grace the Duke of Devonshire First Class Season ...................................................................................................... 03 KCVO CBE DL First Class Averages ................................................................................................... 17 President J.G. Wright Twenty20 Season ....................................................................................................... 18 Twenty20 Averages ……….……………………………………………………………….. 22 Vice D. Booth Presidents A.J. Borrington J.D. Brown V.L. Brownett J.R. Cater K. Dean Sir J. Gains C.I. Grant D.A. Griffin M.A. Horton P.J. Kirby H.W. Lund C.N. Middleton I.P. Samways D.R. Skipworth R. Tice 4 9 Mrs J.H. Turner Brigadier C.E. Wilkinson Chairman I. Morgan OBE Chief R. Duckett Executive Head of David Houghton Cricket Supervisory Board 10 15 Legal K. Bidmead Services Director Partners Administration J. Fage Director Principal Partner Official Partners Commercial I. Morgan OBE Director Operations & I. McFarlane Facilities Director Finance H. Punchihewa Director Cricket C. Tunnicliffe Advisory Director Useful Contacts Credits Photography David Griffin / Getty Tickets & Membership Hospitality & Commercial Conference & Events Editor Stephen Martin 01332 388 101 01332 388 121 01332 388 105 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Proud to be 2 DERBYSHIRE derbyshireccc.com DERBYSHIRE County Cricket Club Foreword Foreword by Heritage Officer, David Griffin The 2020 cricket season was like no other before it; a points accumulated Derbyshire finished a very creditable late start, a shortened fixture list, one competition fifth overall out of the 18 counties. removed from the programme altogether, and no spectators. And in Derbyshire’s case, every match The Vitality Blast – complete with music – but still no played away from home. spectators, was not a campaign to reflect on with great affection with just a single victory, at Leicester, from the The use of The Incora County ground as an international ten matches of which two were abandoned. venue for both training and matches meant that Derbyshire were unable to play any cricket within the As a member of the media, and present at all matches, it county for the first time in their history, the upshot of was surreal at times, especially during the Twenty20 which was a relentless two-month travel schedule around games, to be seated in a vast ground like Emerald the northern half of the country. Headingley or Trent Bridge, with thousand upon thousand of unoccupied seats, as traditional rivals took The 14-match County Championship disappeared to be each other on in fixtures which generally attract capacity replaced by a five-match Bob Willis Trophy based on crowds. regional groups of six; the Vitality Blast reverted to the six It was fascinating to be able to hear the vast majority of - team regional groups of old, with everyone playing each the shouted conversations on the2nd field, innings most of which go other twice; and the 50-over Royal London Cup Derbyshire disappeared leaving domestic cricket without a long form unheard, particularly during Twenty20 matches. of one-day cricket for the first time since 1962. The novelty of players racing to the boundary to the hand New phrases entered the cricketing world – matchday sanitizer stations or alternatively twelfth men racing on protocols, Covid questionnaires, temperature checks, with jars of the stuff and firing it into players’ hands wore hand sanitizer breaks – as grounds were essentially off after a while – it actually became a welcome interlude locked-down and sub-divided into bubbles for the home offering an opportunity to put the camera down and check team, away team, officials, medical staff, and media. emails or look at the scores from other games on my phone. Everyone travelled separately and nobody could access a ground without completing a questionnaire and The quality of the cricket didn’t seem to suffer for the lack recording a suitably low enough temperature check. of crowds – maybe it’s easier to take a steepling Once in grounds, there were clear demarcation lines boundary catch at Trent Bridge without 15,000 spectators drawn for all present with vastly reduced capacities in shouting, “drop it!” – which speaks volumes for the media rooms, and one-way systems in place backed up professionalism of all the participants. by lines of plastic tape and directional arrows. Of course, there was coverage for spectators forced to On the field, Derbyshire produced two excellent remain at home via the live streams and BBC radio performances in the Bob Willis Trophy, beating commentaries, and this at least offered spectators an Nottinghamshire by three wickets after a record-breaking opportunity to witness Derbyshire’s season, albeit at run chase on the final day at Trent Bridge. Leus du some distance. Plooy’s 130 in the first innings and Fynn Hudson- All in all, then, a season with a difference and one which Prentice’s 91 not out on day four will linger long in the it is hoped will never be repeated, with the exceptions of memory, while the three-day win at Leicester was the the wins at Nottingham and Leicester, of course. result of a highly professional and confident performance, Derbyshire followers will surely have been heartened by notable for a hundred from Wayne Madsen and a match- the continued consistency of the top four, by confirmation winning performance with the ball by Matt Critchley. that Critchley is a genuine match-winner, and that there Rain hampered progress in the following two matches are aDerbyshire number of young cricketers2nd all innings seeking to make an against Yorkshire and Durham and a heavy defeat to impact after their initial games in 2020. Lancashire at Aigburth was disappointing but based on Proud to be DERBYSHIRE derbyshireccc.com 3 DERBYSHIRE County Cricket Club First Class Season 2020 Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire Derbyshire won by three wickets Trent Bridge, Nottingham Nottinghamshire 1st innings Runs 2nd innings Runs CD Nash lbw b Conners 59 b Conners 0 1 - 4 August 2020 H Hameed lbw b Reece 68 c McKiernan b Aitchison 52 BM Duckett c du Plooy b Aitchison 9 c Hosein b Conners 23 JM Clarke c Hosein b Cohen 8 lbw b Conners 2 *SJ Mullaney c McKiernan b Reece 6 c McKiernan b Reece 48 PD Trego c Hosein b Cohen 1 c Critchley b Aitchison 8 +TJ Moores c Hosein b Hudson-Prentice 15 c Reece b Cohen 7 SR Patel c Madsen b Cohen 63 lbw b Critchley 80 JDM Evison c Godleman b McKiernan 38 c Critchley b Aitchison 31 JT Ball b McKiernan 34 c Hosein b Cohen 22 TE Barber not out 0 not out 0 Extras (10 b, 3 lb, 8 nb, 2 w) 23 (1 b, 4 lb, 1 w) 6 Total (all out, 77.2 overs) 324 (all out 83.2 overs) 279 Fall of wickets (1st innings): 1-111 (Nash, 28.6 ov), 2-124 (Duckett, 35.1 ov), 3-147 (Clarke, 40.3 ov), 4-159 (Hameed, 43.3 ov), 5-160 (Mullaney, 43.5 ov), 6-160 (Trego, 44.2 ov), 7-192 (Moores, 54.6 ov), 8-253 (Patel, 64.3 ov), 9- Fynn Hudson-Prentice 321 (Evison, 75.5 ov), 10-324 (Ball, 77.2 ov) Fall of wickets (2nd innings): 1-0 (Nash, 0.2 ov), 2-39 (Duckett, 12.2 ov), 3-41 (Clarke, 14.6 ov), 4-116 (Mullaney, 35.4 ov), 5-127 (Trego, 40.5 ov), 6-140 (Moores, 49.6 ov), 7-150 (Hameed, 52.5 ov), 8-224 (Evison, 66.4 ov), 9-279 Leus du Plooy and Fynn Hudson-Prentice starred as (Patel, 82.2 ov), 10-279 (Ball, 83.2 ov) 2nd innings Derbyshire began their Bob Willis Trophy campaign Derbyshire with a record-breaking win over Nottinghamshire at 1st innings O M R W Wi Nb O M R W Wi Nb Trent Bridge. Conners 15 3 69 1 - 1 Conners 15 3 63 3 - - Aitchison 18 3 57 1 - 2 Aitchison 23 4 55 3 1 - Despite playing on the ground of their rivals, Derbyshire Reece 15 3 45 2 - - Reece 23 6 61 1 - - TM were officially the home side, as The Incora County Hudson-Prentice 11 2 44 1 1 - Cohen 13.2 2 51 2 - - Ground was being used to support the return of Cohen 9 1 47 3 1 1 Critchley 7 1 31 1 - - international cricket in England. Critchley 8 0 46 0 - - McKiernan 2 0 13 0 - - After a frustrating start, in which they failed to take a Durham 1st innings Runs 2nd innings Runs wicket before lunch, Derbyshire came to life and the new- look bowling attack of Sam Conners, Ben Aitchison and LM Reece c Moores b Ball 0 c Ball b Trego 24 *BA Godleman c Moores b Ball 18 lbw b Evison 86 Michael Cohen all claimed wickets to dismiss WL Madsen c Nash b Ball 0 lbw b Ball 43 Nottinghamshire for 324. JL du Plooy c Evison b Patel 130 lbw b Mullaney 7 MJJ Critchley run out (Mullaney) 45 st Moores b Patel 35 Derbyshire also struggled early-on with the bat, but du +HR Hosein lbw b Evison 1 b Ball 3 Plooy’s stunning 130, and a gritty five not out from Sam FJ Hudson-Prentice lbw b Evison 8 not out 91 MH McKiernan c Hameed b Evison 0 b Ball 20 Conners, in a last-wicket stand of 80, helped them to 239 MAR Cohen b Barber 7 not out 30 all out. BW Aitchison c Mullaney b Barber 8 did not bat S Conners not out 5 did not bat Conners and Aitchison were the key men with the ball in Extras (7 lb, 4 nb, 6 w) 17 (6 b, 12 lb, 2 nb, 6 w) 26 the second innings, claiming three wickets each, as Total (all out, 71 overs) 239 (7 wickets, 120.5 overs) 365 Nottinghamshire set Billy Godleman and the side 365 to Fall of wickets (1st innings): 1-14 (Reece, 6.2 ov), 2-19 (Godleman, 8.4 ov), 3- win, which would be their biggest fourth-innings total 26 (Madsen, 12.1 ov), 4-119 (Critchley, 34.1 ov), 5-120 (Hosein, 35.1 ov), 6- 132 (Hudson-Prentice, 39.5 ov), 7-134 (McKiernan, 41.4 ov), 8-149 (Cohen, against another first-class county.