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- Updated: September 23, 2016
Worcestershire 475 for 7 dec (Clarke 194, Leach 107*, Mitchell 67) and 40 for 1 beat Derbyshire 248 (Hosein 108, Leach 5-60) and 266 (Madsen 100, Hosein 59) by nine wicketsScorecard
For the first time in 92 years Derbyshire finished a County Championship season without a single victory after losing to Worcestershire by nine wickets in their final Specsavers Division Two fixture at New Road.
Having started the last day at 15 for 1, still 212 behind, they held off the home side for five hours until they were dug out for 266. Worcestershire had to make 40 and lost Brett D’Oliveira before securing third place behind Essex and Kent.
At least the division’s bottom county went down on a note of defiance thanks to Wayne Madsen’s sixth championship century of the season and Harvey Hosein’s achievement in becoming only the fourth Derbyshire wicketkeeper to make a hundred and a fifty in a match.
The last Derbyshire player to score six hundreds was Chris Rogers in 2009, and there was another milestone for Madsen in …
