No play in Wales today, and the exciting finish to the cricket season looks like falling victim to the tried and trusted enemy of the cricket enthusiast – rain.
Elsewhere, the big ‘news’ is that a contributor on IMWT suggests a young county bowler of considerable talent may be heading our way, thanks to a tip-off he has had from a reliable media source.
I’m going to say nothing on this one at this stage, for no other reason than the fact that nothing official has been announced. For all I know the deal is being done on a clandestine basis. Putting the information ‘out there’ could alert other counties to his availability and mean we lose out. There may also be nothing in it.
Having said that, I’ll have plenty to say if it transpires…
Meanwhile the close season merry go round continues as Amjad Khan goes to Sussex who yesterday lost Corey Collymore to Middlesex. Steve Kirby has joined Somerset from Gloucestershire and the whole thing looks increasingly like the old playground game of swaps. Maybe we get to trade one Graham Wagg for two others players, while a Rogers is worth three…
Actually, the above business does lend credence to the IMWT story, as it pushes the player concerned further down the pecking order at his current county.
Finally, tonight’s the night for the 100,000 hits figure to be reached, with the last 40,000 having happened since the start of the season in just five months. I’m thrilled to bits and grateful to everyone who checks in on a regular basis for the latest in Derbyshire cricket news.
My son, who is far better than me at all things computing (and does an excellent blog of his own on the greatest of all rock bands Rush) at http://www.demonlobstersawesomerushbootlegs.blogspot.com/ has shown me the usage statistics for this site.
It turns out that the greatest use after the UK is in the USA and Australia, closely followed by Germany, |Denmark and Sweden. There's even been recorded usage from West Africa, which REALLY surprised me, as well as India. Even I didn't think interest in Derbyshire cricket went to all these places!
Thanks to all of you – and here’s to the next 100,000.
On 606 Somerset fans are already saying that their seam bowler Mark Turner is joining us. Generally there is no smoke without fire.
ReplyDeleteStories that Rogers was to join Middlesex and Wagg was to join Glamorgan seem right!
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