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Derbyshire begin their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign with a home fixture against Durham at The OurCoop County Ground, Derby.
Heritage Officer David Griffin previews the fixture.
Durham hold the distinction of being the only county to have defeated Derbyshire in a one-day match both as a minor county and as a first-class county.
Seven years before they were admitted to the first-class ranks, Durham beat Derbyshire by seven wickets in a NatWest Trophy game at Derby. Derbyshire were at full strength with a side which included Kim Barnett, Michael Holding, Geoff Miller, John Morris, Ole Mortensen and Allan Warner, but were easily beaten with more than four overs to spare.
John Lister, an opener who had played ten matches for Derbyshire in 1978 and 1979, scored 42 for Durham who never really looked in any danger of losing.
In 1992, when the sides next met, both were first class counties and Derbyshire exacted revenge with a thumping 80-runs win in a Benson and Hedges Cup group game, posting 281 for nine at Jesmond. John Morris scored a memorable 121 with 11 fours and four sixes.
Derbyshire have won 17 of these encounters, the closest by one run in a Friends Provident game at Derby in 2008 and most recently by four wickets at Chester-le-Street in 2024, the last time these sides met.
Durham have won 23 with one no result and one abandoned match, at Chester-le-Street in 2003.
The highest innings totals for both sides came in the contest at Chester-le-Street in 2023 when the home side posted 333 for eight, Derbyshire replying with 306 all out, a match aggregate of 639 runs, the eighth highest in a one day game involving Derbyshire.
Five Derbyshire players have scored hundreds against Durham, Matthew Cassar leading the way with 126 at Derby in 2000. The other centurions are Chris Adams, Morris, Ben Slater and Chris Taylor.
Former Derbyshire opener Michael Di Venuto made the highest individual score for Durham in these games, scoring 138 at Chester-le-Street in 2008. Other Durham centurions include Scott Borthwick, Graeme Fowler, Jimmy Maher and Ryan Pringle.
There have been eight partnerships worth a hundred runs or more for Derbyshire in these contests, the highest of which was when Adams added 135 with Dean Jones for the third wicket at Chesterfield in 1996.
Just two players have taken five wickets in an innings in these games, Dominic Cork with the best figures of five for 43 at Darlington in 1994 and Rob Bailey, who took five for 45 at Chester-le-Street in 2000.
