County Championship in 1895, the wooden spoon for finishing bottom has been 'won' by the teams shown in the table below. Lancashire, Middlesex, and Surrey have never finished bottom. Leicestershire have shared last place twice, with Hampshire and Somerset. Records can be found at Cricket Archive – County Championship Records. A team has scored 800 or more runs in the County Championship on seven occasions, with Yorkshire holding the record for the highest score of 887 all out against Warwickshire in 1896. County Championship The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket
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