Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1997

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Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1997 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for one hundred and twenty-six years. In the County Championship, they won two matches to finish sixteenth in their ninety fourth season in the Championship. They came fourteenth in the AXA Life League and did not progress from the group in the National Westminster Bank Trophy. They reached the semi-final of the Benson & Hedges Cup.

Derbyshire played seventeen matches in the County Championship, one against Cambridge University, one against the touring Australians and one against the Pakistan A team. They won five first class matches overall but three wins were in the non-championship games leaving only two wins in the championship. They won four and lost nine matches in the Sunday league.

Dean Jones was in his second season as captain. Kim Barnett was top scorer although Chris Adams scored most runs in the one-day game including five centuries. Devon Malcolm took most wickets.

The team set two partnership records during the season - the second wicket partnership of 417 by Kim Barnett and Tim Tweats against Yorkshire and the third wicket partnership of 316* by Adrian Rollins and Kim Barnett against Leicestershire.

Matches

First Class

List of matches
No. Date V Result Margin Notes
1 15 Apr 1997 [1] Cambridge University
FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge
Won Innings and 12 runs
2 23 Apr 1997[2] Kent
St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury
Drawn CJ Adams 108; DE Malcolm 6-74; McCague 5-75; PAJ DeFreitas 7-64
3 7 May 1997[3] Surrey
County Ground, Derby
Drawn
4 14 May 1997[4] Middlesex
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Lost 131 runs DE Malcolm 5-50 and 6-75; PAJ DeFreitas 5-46
5 21 May 1997[5] Nottinghamshire
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Lost 2 wickets Bowen 7-75
6 31 May 1997 [6] Australians
County Ground, Derby
Won 1 wicket Blewit 121; Bevan 104; Warne 7-103
7 04 Jun 1997[7] Hampshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
Lost 7 wickets AS Rollins 210; R Smith 154; KJ Barnett 101; Hayden 136; Renshaw 5-110
8 12 Jun 1997[8] Warwickshire
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Drawn VP Clarke 99; DE Malcolm 5-85
9 18 Jun 1997[9] Sussex
County Ground, Derby
Drawn Prichard 106; Law 157; Ilott 7-59; Such 5-27
10 26 Jun 1997[10] Essex
Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea
Lost Innings and 145 runs
11 05 Jul 1997[11] Pakistan A team in England in 1997
County Ground, Derby
Won 7 wickets MR May 107
12 16 Jul 1997[12] Gloucestershire
College Ground, Cheltenham
Lost Innings and 35 runs Young 237; A Smith 6-47
13 23 Jul 1997[13] Glamorgan
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
Drawn AS Rollins 148; MR May 116; Dale 142
14 31 Jul 1997[14] Durham
Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street
Lost 6 wickets CJ Adams 107; Lewis 160; PAJ DeFreitas 5-37; Brown 5-58
15 15 Aug 1997[15] Lancashire
County Ground, Derby
Won Innings and 37 runs Crawley 133; DE Malcolm 6-23
16 20 Aug 1997[16] Leicestershire
Grace Road, Leicester
Lost 163 runs Wells 190; AS Rollins 171; KJ Barnett 147; PAJ DeFreitas 5-120; Pierson 6-56
17 27 Aug 1997[17] Somerset
County Ground, Derby
Drawn
18 02 Sep 1997[18] Northamptonshire
County Ground, Derby
Lost 9 wickets Davies 5-46
19 10 Sep 1997[19] Worcestershire
County Ground, New Road, Worcester
Lost 10 wickets Weston 188; Moody 101
20 18 Sep 1997[20] Yorkshire
County Ground, Derby
Won 9 wickets KJ Barnett 210; TA Tweats 189; PAJ DeFreitas 6-98

AXA Life League

List of matches
No. Date V Result Margin Notes
1 27 Apr 1997[21] Kent
St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury
Lost 6 wickets
2 4 May 1997[22] Lancashire
County Ground, Derby
Lost 35 runs
3 11 May 1997[23] Surrey
County Ground, Derby
Abandoned
4 18 May 1997[24] Middlesex
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood
Lost 4 wickets
5 25 May 1997[25] Nottinghamshire
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Lost 32 runs Johnson 117; Archer 104; CJ Adams 121
6 08 Jun 1997[26] Hampshire
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
Won 4 wickets
7 15 Jun 1997[27] Warwickshire
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Lost 108 runs
8 22 Jun 1997[28] Sussex
County Ground, Derby
Abandoned
9 29 Jun 1997[29] Essex
Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea
Lost 1 run
10 13 Jul 1997[30] Yorkshire
County Ground, Derby
Won 114 runs CJ Adams 109
11 20 Jul 1997[31] Gloucestershire
College Ground, Cheltenham
Lost 7 wickets KJ Barnett 99
12 27 Jul 1997[32] Glamorgan
Queen's Park, Chesterfield
Won 8 wickets DG Cork 6-21
13 03 Aug 1997[33] Durham
Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street
Lost 5 wickets
14 24 Aug 1997[34] Leicestershire
Grace Road, Leicester
Abandoned
15 31 Aug 1997[35] Somerset
County Ground, Derby
Abandoned
16 07 Sep 1997[36] Northamptonshire
County Ground, Derby
Lost 7 wickets
17 14 Sep 1997[37] Worcestershire
County Ground, New Road, Worcester
Won 5 wickets Moody 112

National Westminster Bank Trophy

List of matches
No. Date V Result Margin Notes
1st Round 24 Jun 1997[38] Lincolnshire
Lindum Sports Club Ground, Lincoln
Won 8 wickets
2nd Round 09 Jul 1997[39] Northamptonshire
County Ground, Derby
Won 144 runs CJ Adams101; KJ Barnett 111; DE Malcolm 7-35
Quarter Final 29 Jul 1997[40] Sussex
County Ground, Derby
Lost 5 wickets CJ Adams 129; Rao 158

Benson and Hedges Cup

List of matches
No. Date V Result Margin Notes
Group A 1 28 Apr 1997[41] Minor Counties cricket team
County Ground, Lakenham
Won 6 wickets CJ Adams 138
Group A 2 30 Apr 1997[42] Lancashire
Old Trafford, Manchester
Won 6 wickets KJ Barnett 112
Group A 3 2 May 1997[43] Yorkshire
County Ground, Derby
Lost Faster rate
Group A 4 5 May 1997[44] Worcestershire
County Ground, Derby
Won 20 runs
Group A 5 12 May 1997[45] Warwickshire
County Ground, Derby
Lost 1 wicket

Statistics

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