2017 County Championship Plate Stadium. Due to changes to the County Championship format (more detail of this below) four new teams were added to the competition, with Hampshire (winners) and Staffordshire (runners up) coming up due to reaching the final of the 2016 County Championship Shield, while Warwickshire and Cumbria were also promoted by virtue of their performances in the competition during the past two seasons. The changes also meant that there were no teams relegated into the division. Leicestershire and Hampshire won their respective groups to qualify for the Twickenham final, with Leicestershire being the more impressive with three easy victories. The first
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2011 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2011 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 2011 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and forty years. There were in the second division in the County Championship, where they finished fifth. Derbyshire was in Group A in the Clydesdale Bank 40 and in the North Group of the Friends Provident t20 and did not progress to the knockout stage in either competition. In the 2011 County Championship, Derbyshire were in Division 2 and finished in fifth position. Of their sixteen games, they won five and lost six,