I've had a call from a pal at our village club tonight who saw the information on Robin Peterson on cricinfo earlier today. He's a South African himself and is regularly jetting between the two countries and keeping abreast of information on South African cricket.
He told me that the Peterson deal may not be accurate and that the newspaper concerned has a reputation for getting things wrong. If one newspaper prints something, the feed goes out through agencies and all of a sudden, rightly or wrongly, there's a factual story.
Maybe there's no smoke without fire, but for now I've pulled my Peterson piece. There'll be plenty of time for that when the news is OFFICIALLY announced through the club site, but until then I'm going to err on the side of caution, just in case this is a poor piece of journalism.
Good news, however from Perth, where Paul Borrington is playing for Midland Guildford in Western Australia. Last weekend, in the first innings of a 2 day match that continues this weekend, he batted at number three and was last man out for 70 in a score of 140 all out. For a young man on different tracks in a country a long way from home that is an impressive debut. An early example of what you can do takes a lot of pressure off a new player at any club and Paul will benefit from this excellent start.
More to the point, if he comes back from Australia with his confidence high and his reputation enhanced, so will we.
Look on the bright side. Only 137 sleeps until April...
Hi Peakfan,
ReplyDeleteI understand your reasons for 'pulling' your Peterson piece.
I thought you may want to know that the official South Africa cricket website has reported the news too:
http://www.cricket.co.za/gibbs-called-up-for-tour-match.html
Guessing we just have to wait for the news from the official Derbyshire website before we can start getting excited about the 'signing' and the shaping of our 2010 squad!!
Anyway, keep up the good work with the blog!! I really appreciate your efforts.
Thanks
Pickle
I am sure that Peterson will be coming. We have needed a a spinner and a big hitter for the one dayers and Peterson is both and quality with it. I know that he is over 30 and financially with the ECB payments we might be worse off. We have to strike a balance here though because if we just field a team of kids we will lose every game and no one will watch us and our better players will slope off because we would have no ambition. I am sure that Morris knows what he is doing!
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