Derbyshire begin their Metro Bank campaign with a trip to Cheltenham to face Gloucestershire, a repeat of their opening fixture in the same competition in 2023.
Heritage Officer David Griffin previews the fixture.
There have been 46 List A matches between Derbyshire and Gloucestershire with Derbyshire winning 27 of them. Their opponents have won 17 and two games were abandoned, at Derby in 1982 and Chesterfield in 1998.
The counties have met at Cheltenham on five occasions with Derbyshire winning three times and Gloucestershire twice.
Cheltenham was the venue when both sides made their highest team totals in the same game – in 2023 – Derbyshire totalling 298 for nine before the hosts lost just four wickets in reaching 299.
Derbyshire’s players have made seven one day hundreds in these games, with a highest of 115 by Kim Barnett at Derby in 1987. Barnett made two other hundreds, at Derby in 1991 and at Bristol in 1994.
The other players who reached three figures are John Morris and Dean Jones, while Wayne Madsen and Hamish Rutherford scored hundreds in the same game, at Bristol in 2015.
Just two Gloucestershire players have scored centuries again Derbyshire, albeit in winning causes; James Franklin made an unbeaten 133 at Bristol in 2010 and Ollie Price 116 not out at Cheltenham in 2023.
Two South Africans are among the five Derbyshire bowlers who have taken five wickets in an innings against Gloucestershire – Chris Wilkins took five for 42 at Bristol in 1971 and Eddie Barlow six for 33 at Bristol in 1978. Phil Russell, Kevin Dean and Graeme Welch are the other bowlers to record a five wicket haul.
The only bowler to take five wickets for Gloucestershire was Tony Brown who took five for 44 at Chesterfield in 1975.
