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The club joined the County Championship with three others – Essex , Hampshire and Warwickshire – in 1895 and were perennially counted among the weaker counties, losing every single match in 1920. In the 1930s, the nucleus of a good team emerged around some doughty batting from Denis Smith , Stan Worthington and George Pope , and the bowling of Pope, his brother Alf , and Bill Copson took the team to their one and so far only Championship victory in 1936. There have been more downs than ups in postwar years, though runs came regularly from Arnold Hamer , the West Indian Laurie Johnson and captain Donald Carr and a series of fast bowlers served England as well as Derbyshire. The list began with Copson and continued with Cliff Gladwin , Les Jackson , Harold Rhodes , Alan Ward and Mike Hendrick . In 2006 the club is in Division Two of both the County Championship and the One Day League . The captain is Graeme Welch and the coach is former Zimbabwe captain David Houghton . The overseas players are the Australians Michael Di Venuto and Travis Birt. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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