Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 were in the second division of both the County Championship and the totesport League. At 6–1 odds to win the Second Division of the County Championship, they were likely to struggle again – as they had done since they won the First Division championship in 2001. They started the County Championship poorly, being on the wrong end of a draw with Essex. One day after they went to the Oval for their first game in the totesport League, and won a high-scoring thriller. The second Championship game, however,
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