County Ground, Derby: cricket results and records

County Ground, Derby appears in 108 recorded matches, the first on 20 April 2014 and the latest on 8 September 2026. The matches are 70 in the County Championship, 30 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 4 in One Day Internationals and 4 in Twenty20 Internationals. The competitions seen most often are County Championship (36 matches), Specsavers County Championship (20 matches) and Vitality Blast (20 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Derbyshire (100 matches), Leicestershire (13 matches), Northamptonshire (10 matches) and Glamorgan (9 matches).

Of the 108 matches, 70 produced a winner, 37 were drawn, 1 were tied.

The highest innings total in the records is 625/8 by Derbyshire against Worcestershire on 3 April 2026.

The lowest completed total is 84 by Derbyshire against Durham on 20 August 2026.

In the 37 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 18 (48.6%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are WL Madsen (4,873 runs in 133 innings), LM Reece (2,939 runs in 82 innings), BA Godleman (2,734 runs in 77 innings), BD Guest (2,081 runs in 71 innings) and HRC Came (1,798 runs in 53 innings).

The leading wicket takers are LM Reece (94 wickets), MHA Footitt (80 wickets), AP Palladino (76 wickets), BW Aitchison (71 wickets) and ZJ Chappell (67 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 250 by EC Joyce against Derbyshire on 8 May 2016, 243 by TJ Haines against Derbyshire on 14 April 2022 and 241 by BM Duckett against Derbyshire on 19 July 2022.

The best bowling figures are 7 for 20 by LM Reece against Gloucestershire on 24 September 2018, 7 for 71 by MHA Footitt against Leicestershire on 22 September 2015 and 7 for 93 by Rehan Ahmed against Derbyshire on 22 July 2025.

In 30 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 185.5 and the side batting second 164.4.

The first innings of 69 the County Championship matches here averaged 325.2 runs.

The toss is recorded in 108 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 75 (69.4%) and to bat in 33.

Among the 70 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 38 times (54.3%).

Batters at the ground hit 8,715 fours and 815 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 13.3 balls; 53.7% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 57%, bowled 20%, lbw 17%, run out 2% and caught and bowled 2% of the 2,469 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 59%, bowled 21%, lbw 17%, caught and bowled 2% and stumped 1% of the 2,409 times.

That is 88.2 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (34) and 2020s (74).

The competitions that have used the ground are County Championship (36 matches), Specsavers County Championship (20 matches), Vitality Blast (20 matches), LV= County Championship (14 matches), Vitality Blast Men (10 matches), New Zealand Women tour of England (2 matches), South Africa Women tour of England (1 matches) and India Women tour of England (1 matches).