County Championship While this was going on, representatives of the eight leading county clubs held a private meeting to discuss the method by which the county championship should in future be decided. The new competition began in the 1890 season and at first involved just the eight leading clubs: Gloucestershire, Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex and Yorkshire. Subsequently, the championship has been expanded to 18 clubs by the additions at various times of Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Somerset, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. It is difficult to know when the concept of a county championship originated. While early matches were
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,