Ho hum...

Sorry that its all been quiet on the Blog front lately but, in short, there's been little to write about.

The club has a new look web site (nice work Crofty, looks good!) and Chris Rogers continues to score runs a-plenty in Australia.

If I was a journalist, I reckon I could save myself a lot of time each day by the pre-written

"Chris Rogers took advantage of the opposition attack in batting imperiously while scoring XXX"

During the summer, you might even add in a less obvious but often accurate

"Meanwhile his colleagues made hard work of the bowling, with wickets going down at regular intervals to a succession of rash strokes and good catching".

A banker would be

"Charl Langeveldt bowled with great skill and no little hostility in producing figures of x-xx for Derbyshire on a helpful/slow track at Derby"

In the old days of type-face preparation, there were stories that the local press kept certain phrases ready to drop in as required

"Derbyshire collapse"
"Jackson in the wickets again"
"Slow going at Chesterfield"

There was the certainty that came from the often attritional Derbyshire batting, that grafted its way to a total more often than not. Great was the day when the Carrs, Hamers, Johnsons, Worthingtons and Townsends struck form. Less obviously an attraction was it when others (no names, no packdrill) took root at the crease and ground it out.

Never mind. Soon it will be here again. I see that the Pink Panthers (Durham) have signed new Aussie sensation Dave warner for the 20/20. Brave signing - if it goes for them as Pollock and Morkel did last year they'll have few complaints.

So who will we have?