Women's County Championship successful county in the history of the Championship with seven titles as of June 2018. Sussex and Yorkshire have both won six titles. The inaugural Women's County Championship took place in 1997, with 16 teams competing in three divisions. This first tournament was organised and run by the Women's Cricket Association, which voted to merge with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on 29 March 1998. As such, the ECB has administered the competition since 1998. The 36 teams that make up the Championship are split into three divisions, with the bottom division split into five groups. The top
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1899 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for twenty-eight years. It was their fifth season in the County Championship and they won three matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table. Derbyshire played eighteen games in the County Championship in 1899, one match against MCC and one match against the touring Australians. The only won two matches in the County Championship which left them at the bottom of the table. The early death of George Davidson from pneumonia in February had deprived Derbyshire