The County Ground, Derby: cricket results and records

The County Ground, Derby appears in 153 recorded matches, the first on 25 June 2009 and the latest on 8 September 2026. The matches are 70 in the County Championship, 61 in franchise Twenty20 leagues, 12 in One Day Internationals and 10 in Twenty20 Internationals. The competitions seen most often are County Championship (36 matches), Vitality Blast (32 matches) and Specsavers County Championship (20 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Derbyshire (131 matches), Leicestershire (18 matches), England (17 matches) and Nottinghamshire (15 matches).

Of the 153 matches, 114 produced a winner, 37 were drawn, 1 were tied and 1 ended without a result.

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

The lowest completed total is 74 by Pakistan against India on 2 July 2017.

In the 81 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 47 (58.0%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are WL Madsen (5,651 runs in 160 innings), LM Reece (3,275 runs in 93 innings), BA Godleman (3,085 runs in 92 innings), BD Guest (2,081 runs in 72 innings) and HRC Came (1,819 runs in 54 innings).

The leading wicket takers are LM Reece (96 wickets), MHA Footitt (83 wickets), AP Palladino (80 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 12 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 248.2 and the side batting second 185.2.

In 10 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 139.6 and the side batting second 117.6.

In 60 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 172.1 and the side batting second 156.4.

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

The toss is recorded in 153 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 100 (65.4%) and to bat in 53.

Among the 114 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 63 times (55.3%).

Batters at the ground hit 9,968 fours and 1,104 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 12.6 balls; 53.2% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 57%, bowled 20%, lbw 15%, run out 4% and stumped 2% of the 3,082 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 59%, bowled 21%, lbw 16%, stumped 2% and caught and bowled 2% of the 2,955 times.

That is 72.4 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2000s (1), 2010s (72) and 2020s (80).

The competitions that have used the ground are County Championship (36 matches), Vitality Blast (32 matches), Specsavers County Championship (20 matches), NatWest T20 Blast (19 matches), LV= County Championship (14 matches), Vitality Blast Men (10 matches), ICC Women's World Cup (7 matches) and West Indies Women tour of England (6 matches).