I'm heading down to God's own county this weekend, and if the weather is semi respectable I hope to be along for a bit of the play at the County Ground on Sunday, when Derbyshire entertain Loughborough UCCE. The forecast doesn't look great though, so it may all come to naught.
Anyway, it will be good to see the season back in full swing and we at least know that our squad is now complete. Essex have now lost Yusuf Pathan from their plans, while Somerset have engaged the almost-Derbyshire seamer Damien Wright, a colleague of Chris Rogers in Victoria. He's had a fine winter and will do a good job for them.
I was pleased to see the results of this week's poll, with 28% of respondents fancying us for promotion and 40% thinking we will go pretty close. Only 14% thought it would be a poor season and most of these votes came before the signing of Loots Bosman.
Here's this week's poll - in the light of the Bosman signing and others over the winter, do you think we'll do better in the T20 this season?
That's likely to be it from me until Tuesday - enjoy your Easter weekend and remember - this time next week the real thing begins!
Been down to the county ground today and waited 3 hours for nothing!
ReplyDeleteStill, great to see Rogers and Peiterson on the nets where Wagg and Footitt seemed to be getting some pace up with the ball. Some worrying aspects though, the new drainage system obviously is not that good, could not find the new 2000 seaster stand or this new marque! The floodlights have not been moved yet and there are trenches all over and someone has stuck a scoreboard in from the the DCCC name and badge on the main pavilion!
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Bit worrying DCCF, but I'm sure they'll have it all in hand! There's a good team at Derbyshire these days.
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