Derbyshire will be bringing to Bermuda for a six-match tour next month, a club official confirmed yesterday.

The Derbyshire tour clashes with the West Indies home series against Pakistan so Bishop, one of the world's fastest bowlers, is certain to be missing.

However, two of the club's other internationals, England Test and `A' team players Devon Malcolm and Dominic Cork, will be visiting the Island even though their respective tours will have ended just days before Derbyshire leave England.

The `A' team play their final match in Australia on March 17 while the England Test team complete their tour of India and Sri Lanka with a one-day international in Sri Lanka on the March 20.

"Cork and Malcolm will be on the tour and will come with us,'' said chief executive Bob Lark yesterday.

Lark also confirmed that former England batsman John Morris, who had been rumoured to be interested in leaving the club, is also a part of their immediate plans and will be visiting Bermuda. "He just signed a new contract with us until 1996,'' Lark disclosed.

"It's the usual sort of discussions that takes place with a player at this stage of his career.'' Though the club have just signed five youngsters, just the first-team squad will be making the trip, an indication of how serious they will be taking the pre-season trip.

"This is a very serious tour for us because it's a build-up to our new season,'' Lark said. "It's important to get some training and practice. We realise we should be up to the standard of the cricket, so it will be a very intense fortnight, as intense as if we were here for pre-season.'' The weather in England at that time of year is so unpredictable that many counties seek warmer climates for pre-season training. "This is not going to be a holiday,'' said the top official. "This gives us the opportunity to start the season off right. We're looked at as being one of the main contenders and we're supposed to be one of the better one-day sides.'' Derbyshire were fifth in the championship last season, two places down from their third-place finish the previous season. They won the Sunday League in 1990. "We performed badly the subsequent two years,'' Lark admitted.

Derbyshire will be led by captain Kim Barnett, who played four Tests for England before being banned for touring South Africa with the Mike Gatting Rebels. Barnett became the youngest captain of a first-class county in 1983 at the age of 22, and is the longest-serving captain in county cricket.

Derbyshire have three exciting players who should delight the Bermuda crowds.

They are Chris Adams, who is rated as one of the hardest hitters of the ball in the English game, last season's joint top run-getter Peter Bowler, and wicket-keeper Karl Krikken.

Bowler, 29, finished sixth in the national championship averages with 65.93 from 2,044 runs, which made him the joint top scorer with Mike Roseberry of Middlesex. Bowler, a surprise omission from the England `A' tour party after such an exciting season, hit six centuries and 11 half-centuries. His best score was 241 not out.

He was was only the third Derbyshire batsman to score 2,000 first-class runs in a season and the quickest to achieve that feat -- in 35 innings.

Captain Kim Barnett scored 1,270 runs last season in passing 1,000 runs in a season for the 10th consecutive summer, equalling Arnold Hamer's county record.

Dashing young batsman Adams (924 runs with best score of 140 not out), now holds the Derbyshire record for the fastest century, having taken just 57 minutes to reach that milestone against Worcestershire last season. It was three minutes faster than Stan Worthington's previous best in 1933.

Adams, 22, also scored 75 off 38 balls in the Sunday League against Warwickshire the same week.

Derbyshire also have on their books Danish born seamer Ole Mortensen who played for Denmark in the ICC Trophy. He is the only Dane playing first-class cricket in England and plays as an honorary Englishman under EEC regulation, which means that he is not classed as an overseas player.