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 1948 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1948 Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1948 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for seventy-seven years. It was their forty-fourth season in the County Championship and they won eleven matches to finish sixth in the County Championship. Derbyshire played 26 matches in the County Championship and one against the touring Australians. They lost to the Australians and in the County Championship won eleven matches and lost six to finish sixth. Edward Gothard was in his second season as captain and took the wicket of Sir Donald Bradman at Derby.