Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire day 2

Derbyshire 260

Nottinghamshire 334-7 (Duckett 86, Conners 3-80, Potts 2-39, Thomson 2-49)

Nottinghamshire lead by 74 runs

When four of your attack have less than 50 first-class games between them, losing the one regular bowler of experience after just eight overs of his spell is more than a little unfortunate.

At this rate, we will need to loan a seam bowling attack for the T20, but I think Sam Conners, Nick Potts and Alex Thomson did very well today. They stuck to their task against a strong batting line up and picked up wickets steadily.

They were aided by some high quality catching. Guest held an agile one to dismiss Moores,  Madsen a stunning one to remove Hamid.

Nottinghamshire took the lead late in the day and will hope to push on tomorrow, but we have been far from disgraced here.

This is light years ahead from the equivalent games last year, even with a lot of regulars missing.

I have to say it was especially nice to see five wickets taken by lads from our Academy. 

Good stuff. Let's hope to polish them off tomorrow and then bat better still second time around.