List of Derbyshire County Cricket Club grounds

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The County Ground in Derby was first used in 1871 and has staged the vast majority of Derbyshire's games. Photo from Racecourse end.JPG
The County Ground in Derby was first used in 1871 and has staged the vast majority of Derbyshire's games.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English County Championship, representing the historic county of Derbyshire. The club was established on 4 November 1870 and has competed in first-class cricket since 1871, List A cricket since 1963 and Twenty20 cricket since 2003. [1] [2] [3] [A] Unlike most professional sports, in which a team usually has a single fixed home ground, county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" has diminished since the 1980s. [4] [5] The Derbyshire team have played first class, List A, or Twenty20 home matches at twenty-five different grounds. This includes grounds in Burton upon Trent, Knypersley, Leek, Cheadle and Checkley, all of which are not actually located in Derbyshire, but in the adjoining county of Staffordshire. [6] [7]

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The county's debut home game in first-class cricket was played at the County Ground in Derby against Lancashire. [8] The venue has also been known as the Racecourse Ground, as it had previously been used for horse racing, [9] and also served as the original home ground of Derby County Football Club, which was formed as an offshoot of the cricket club in 1884. [10] The County Ground has remained the cricket club's primary ground, hosting the majority of home matches, and also played host to the club's first home fixture in Twenty20 cricket against Nottinghamshire in 2003. [3] Queen's Park in Chesterfield, however, staged the club's first home game in List A cricket against Essex in 1964. [1] Queen's Park was first used by the county in 1898 and has continued to be a regular venue for Derbyshire matches, staging over 400 first-class games.

Between the Second World War and 2019, the county only used four new venues for first-class matches. In the late 1940s Abbeydale Park in Dore, a suburb of Sheffield, hosted two matches. Dore had been part of Derbyshire until 1934 but due to boundary changes was actually in the county of Yorkshire by the time Derbyshire played there, [11] and the ground has subsequently hosted Yorkshire CCC home matches. [4] Derbyshire played two first-class matches at the Bass Worthington Ground in Burton upon Trent in the 1970s and one at the Town Ground in Heanor in 1987. Several other grounds have been used for matches in the shorter forms of cricket since the 1980s, including Highfield in Leek. In 2020, a number of designated home games [12] were played at the opponents' grounds during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, as the County Ground was being used as an ECB biosecure training camp for the touring Pakistan team. [13]

Grounds

Below is a complete list of grounds used by Derbyshire County Cricket Club for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. Statistics are complete through to the end of the 2020 season. Only matches played by Derbyshire CCC at the grounds are recorded in the table. Matches abandoned without any play occurring are not included.

NameLocation First-class List A Twenty20
FirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatchesFirstLastMatches
County Ground [9] Derby 17 August 1871
v Lancashire 		14 September 2020
v Middlesex 		793 [14] 18 May 1969
v Essex 		23 June 2019
v Australia A 		334 [15] 19 June 2003
v Nottinghamshire 		23 August 2019
v Northamptonshire 		75 [16]
The Recreation Ground [17] Wirksworth 13 July 1874
v Kent 		no other matches to date1 [18] ––0––0
Saltergate [19] Chesterfield 3 August 1874
v Lancashire 		30 August 1875
v United North of England Eleven 		2 [20] ––0––0
Recreation Ground [21] Long Eaton 7 July 1887
v Lancashire 		no other matches to date1 [22] ––0––0
Queen's Park [23] Chesterfield 30 June 1898
v Surrey 		14 June 2020
v Worcestershire 		406 [24] 21 May 1966
v Essex 		12 June 2016
v Yorkshire 		82 [25] 15 June 2008
v Yorkshire 		20 July 2019
v Yorkshire		13 [26]
North Road [27] Glossop 13 July 1899
v Lancashire 		12 May 1910
v Lancashire		14 [28] ––0––0
Miners Welfare Ground [29] Blackwell 21 June 1909
v Hampshire 		21 June 1913
v Northamptonshire 		7 [30] ––0––0
The Town Ground [31] Burton upon Trent 7 August 1914
v Leicestershire 		2 June 1937
v Lancashire 		13 [32] ––0––0
The Park [33] Buxton 20 June 1923
v West Indians 		9 August 1986
v Lancashire 		45 [34] 17 August 1969
v Somerset 		10 August 1986
v Lancashire 		9 [35] ––0
Rutland Recreation Ground [36] Ilkeston 25 July 1925
v Nottinghamshire 		26 May 1994
v Nottinghamshire		93 [37] 10 June 1970
v Hampshire 		29 May 1994
v Nottinghamshire 		16 [38] ––0
Ind Coope Ground [39] Burton upon Trent 18 June 1938
v Gloucestershire 		2 July 1980
v Leicestershire 		38 [40] 6 July 1969
v Gloucestershire 		5 September 1976
v Worcestershire 		5 [41] ––0
Abbeydale Park [42] Sheffield 20 July 1946
v Sussex 		5 July 1947
v Kent 		2 [43] ––0––0
Bass Worthington Ground [44] Burton upon Trent 28 June 1975
v Oxford University 		23 June 1976
v Cambridge University 		2 [45] ––0––0
Trent College Ground [46] Long Eaton ––06 July 1975
v Kent 		1 July 1979
v Northamptonshire 		5 [47] ––0
Station Road [48] Darley Dale ––07 September 1975
v Hampshire 		no other matches to date1 [49] ––0
Town Ground [50] Heanor 4 July 1987
v Hampshire 		no other matches to date1 [51] 11 July 1976
v Somerset 		3 July 1989
v Glamorgan 		8 [52] [B] ––0
Tunstall Road [53] Knypersley ––07 July 1985
v Worcestershire 		15 July 1990
v Leicestershire 		3 [54] ––0
Highfield [55] Leek ––018 May 1986
v Warwickshire 		9 June 2013
v Essex 		5 [56] 26 June 2011
v Warwickshire 		no other matches to date1 [57]
Tean Road Sports Ground [58] Cheadle ––012 July 1987
v Glamorgan 		no other matches to date1 [59] [C] ––0
Repton School Ground [60] Repton ––03 July 1988
v Middlesex 		no other matches to date1 [61] ––0
Four Trees [62] Checkley ––018 August 1991
v Glamorgan 		no other matches to date1 [63] ––0
Trent Bridge [D] Nottingham 1 August 2020
v Nottinghamshire 		no other matches to date1 [12] ––013 September 2020
v Nottinghamshire 		no other matches to date1 [64]
Riverside Ground [D] Chester-le-Street 22 August 2020
v Durham 		no other matches to date1 [12] ––0––0
Headingley Stadium [D] Leeds ––0––031 August 2020
v Lancashire 		20 September 2020
v Yorkshire 		2 [65] [66]

Notes

A. ^ First-class cricket matches are designed to be contested over multiple days, with each team permitted two innings with no limit to the number of overs in an innings. List A matches are intended to be completed in a single day and restrict each team to a single innings of between 40 and 60 overs, depending on the specific competition. Twenty20 matches restrict each team to a single innings of 20 overs.

B. ^ The Derbyshire Cricket Board played one List A match at the Town Ground in 2000. The Derbyshire Cricket Board is a separate organisation from Derbyshire County Cricket Club and its matches are not included in the totals. [52]

C. ^ Minor Counties North played one List A match at Tean Road in 1973. The match was against Derbyshire, but Minor Counties North were officially the home team. Only the List A match played at the ground by Derbyshire in which they were the home team is recorded in the table. [59]

D. ^ Derbyshire played a number of designated home games at opponents' grounds in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as their home ground was being used for international matches. [13]

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