Derbyshire’s third Metro Bank One-Day Cup game is against Lancashire, on Wednesday 31 July.
Heritage Officer David Griffin previews the match.
Derbyshire have played Lancashire in limited over matches more often than any other county; this will be their 77th scheduled game, Derbyshire winning 21 and Lancashire 45. Three matches were abandoned and eight ended with no result.
These sides have met twice in Lord’s finals, Lancashire winning the NatWest Trophy in 1998, revenge for Derbyshire’s Benson and Hedges Cup win in 1993.
In 1993, Dominic Cork introduced himself to the wider cricketing public with his Gold Award-winning 92 not out which rescued Derbyshire from a perilous 66 for four, before he and his fellow pacemen, Devon Malcolm, Ole Mortensen, Allan Warner and Frank Griffith combined to earn their side a six-run win, Griffith bowling a splendid final over.
Derbyshire’s highest innings total of 288 for five was at Derby in 2008 when the home side won by 100 runs, while Lancashire’s best of 300 for eight was enough to secure a 101-run win on the same ground in 2014.
There have been 13 individual hundreds in these games, Mike Atherton making three for Lancashire, and Kim Barnett two. Barnett’s centuries were scored 15 years apart, in 1982 and 1997, which gives an indication of his remarkable cricketing longevity.
That hundred (111) at Derby in 1982 was Barnett’s first hundred in all formats for Derbyshire, and, though he was a burgeoning talent, few at the time could have expected him to go on and make 66 three figure scores for the county, by some distance, still a record.
Derbyshire’s highest partnership against Lancashire was shared by Steve Stubbings and Chris Rogers who added 150 for the first wicket at Derby in 2008.
Five Derbyshire bowlers have taken five wickets in an innings against Lancashire, Barnett, Cork, Steve Oldham and Tony Palladino, with Mike Hendrick’s five for 30 at Southport in 1976 the best analysis.
For Lancashire, the best figures remain Barry Wood’s five for 12 at Southport in 1976. Wood, of course, subsequently joined Derbyshire, going on to captain their NatWest Trophy-winning side in 1981.
Behind the stumps, Bob Taylor holds the Derbyshire record – which was a world record at the time – for dismissals in a One Day game, taking six catches and completing one stumping in a John Player League match at Old Trafford in 1975.
