Derbyshire 215-9 (Madsen 62, Andersson 51, Whiteley 36, Tye 3-36, Hasan Ali 3-39)
Yorkshire 215-8 (Revis 69*, Luxton 46, Ashraf 40, Aitchison 3-46, Sufyan 2-32)
Match tied
Yorkshire needed NINETY-THREE from the last six overs of the game and they got, or were allowed to get, 92 of them, as the game ended in a tie.
It was exciting, I grant you, but when Martin Andersson bowled a 15th over full of wides and full tosses, then Javed lost his radar and went for 14 off the first three balls of the next, I messaged a friend and said 'the discipline has gone'. We were in trouble and collectively the bowlers lost it. You shouldn't lose from there and that Derbyshire has squandered two winning positions in the two matches against Yorkshire is very poor.
I take nothing away from Matthew Revis, who followed on from the example of Faheem Ashraf and hit through the ball, which too often for comfort was put into the slot by the bowlers. The fielders almost got them out of it, as some fine boundary catches were held, but holy moly, there was some bang average bowling in those closing overs.
In contrast, after a vibrant start in which they were rollicking along, Derbyshire added only 10 runs from the last 14 deliveries of their innings. Yorkshire got 43 from the last 18. The home side managed 4 sixes in their innings, while their opponents managed 15. Small margins, but I felt at half way that Derbyshire were 15-20 runs short of impregnable, on a small ground with a lightning fast outfield.
It feels like another loss tonight. Madsen, Andersson and Whiteley batted splendidly earlier, while Naeem played an innings of great promise and later held a fine boundary catch. But Yorkshire were a player down, when George Hill had to leave the field ill and they shouldn't have been allowed to get back into that game.
Revis played a fine hand, as Luxton did earlier as wickets fell around him. For Derbyshire, the jury is still out on Akif, who hasn't yet bowled a yorker to my knowledge and it cried out for it today. Oh my Zaman and my Lockie long ago..
I thought Sufyan bowled intelligently, adjusting his length so batters had to hit to the longer square boundaries, but none of the other bowlers emerged from that game with any credit. And Sufyan followed in the tradition of our overseas spinners by not getting a hand on a catch that went high enough to allow him to start a crossword first.
Hugely disappointing again. I suspect that those will be my 'school report' words on this competition when our involvement finishes. I accept we have bowlers missing, but at the first sign of pressure, the bowlers fold.
Lancashire next, on Wednesday.
Thank goodness we will be on holiday...
This was a repeat of the away game at Yorkshire. Just as bad, if not worse. When did the yorker go out of fashion? I never got my yorker hit for 6 but maybe bowling the ball half way down the track in these death overs is the in thing? So much more could be said but the crux of it is that we are a very decent batting side, but very poor bowling side. That’s why we are where we are. Very disappointing. Grant from Telford
ReplyDeleteI think it's a mentality issue with Derbyshire in this tournament. You should be able to defend 215 with relative ease, but wayward bowling at the death when the pressure was on put paid to that idea. I felt it was the wrong call to give Akif that final over when he had been slapped around in his previous one, Potts would've been my choice but obviously no guarantee he would've done any better. Still undefeated against Yorkshire at Chesterfield so we'll brag about that one still
ReplyDeleteDreadful bowling at the end. Is it a case of mass hysteria? Even though Sufyan bowled pretty well I didn't see the point of signing him when Jack Morley is the leading wicket taker. I dont see the point of signing 2 overseas bowlers, when they can go for big runs just as easily as a homegrown bowler, in fact I think Derbyshire should save there money and not bother with overseas players for the T20 because it's usually the same most years I.e. out early.
ReplyDeleteMichael
Javed is no where near good enough. We’ve brought him over and payed all that money for him and he’s probably no better than our own players. Rory Haydon and Matt Stewart on the sidelines today can’t have done any worse than him.
ReplyDeleteAn exciting game, and I agree the death bowling wasn't great. However, I was amazed that it didn't dawn on the commentators until after the match ended that Derbyshire's lack of runs in the last three overs could - as you say - on such a ground come back to haunt them. With Whiteley and Basra, two specialist batters, at the crease, we could and should have put the game out of reach after the earlier batters did so well.
ReplyDeleteMy word we've thrown some winning positions away this season. This should have been a 30 run victory.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what the answer is. The club seem to do this regardless of competition or who is playing.
I'm baffled.
After posting such a good score, we looked a cert to win, but It all fell apart in the last few overs we bowled.
ReplyDeleteAlso, our batting fizzled out towards the end of our innings. We should have got 230-240. Surprisingly, we only hit four 6s, whereas Yorkshire hit fifteen.
Exciting finish, but very disappointing that we didn't win.
Downthewicket.
Glad you saw it as I did in front of me and didn't sugar coat it. Chucked it away and very disappointed.
ReplyDeleteWe lack a leader who can put their stamp on the game. It appears Donald has been gifted the captaincy because he’s been media trained !
ReplyDeleteIt’s a common saying in post match interviews that ‘we’ll take the positives’ from this ‘we’ll address the learnings’ moving forward. - We never do !!!
I cant add anything to that Steve.
ReplyDeleteI'll take my positives from it. A grand day out with my wife, weather fab, ground looked beautiful, good craic in the crowd and everything off the field incredibly well managed.
We almost gifted the game to our neighbours with what looked like group panic, akin to what appears to be takinvg place at Trent Bridge
Its a leadership and personal responsibility issue.
At least we didn't lose, but that's about it.
Andy
Agree about our god damn bang average overseas players, why bother anymore?. We may as well play Haydon in Akif's place he would be so much better
ReplyDeleteIn our innings the key was Whiteley getting out when he did, no need to go aerial at that point. Him being in a bit longer would have got us the extra few runs we needed. Tye bowled out really well with low full tosses, hard to hit for 6 a low full toss. If we can learn from this we can still get a few more wins
ReplyDeleteMarkB
How many overseas players really care that much playing for just 2 or 3 games for some county they have probably never heard of. T20 is so much about luck on the day you could probably get a couple of good league players to bowl a few or have a slog and they would normally have pretty much the same result with a tenth of the cost.
ReplyDeletePerfectly summed up Steve. The stuttering conclusion to our innings cost us dear. 220 looked the absolute minimum we would get, 230 to 240 looked more likely.
ReplyDeleteAndersson's poor third over seemed to trigger a bit of panic, and Donald didn't seem to be on top of it. I thought Javed had bowled well, and then unluckily went for 10 off the first two balls of the 18th over - an inside edge past the keeper for 4, and then a top edged 6 over third man. From then on the pressure began to tell and he couldn't execute the required skills in his last over, although at least a decent last ball salvaged a tie.
I thought overall our fielding was superior to theirs, but in a game of such fine margins a needless overthrow was given away, by Wayne of all people, and it turned out to be costly.
Very disappointing, I didn't expect us to progress even if we had won. I certainly don't now.
Yes, we should have won.
ReplyDeleteYes, there were silly mistakes
Yes, it did look like we lost focus.
But there were still positives.
We didn't lose.
We scored over 200 - which was at least a competitive score. Incidentally, of the 5 batters who got double figure scores, Nye Donald had the lowest strike rate. I seriously doubt whether that has happened before.
We incorporated new names into the team, without them looking out of place.
Our bowlers got Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali, 2 of the best white ball batsmen this country has ever produced, out cheaply.
Ben Aitchison passed 50 all format wickets for the season, with half the season still to play.
But still, yes, we should have won and didn't
A wonderful day’s cricket for the neutral but for a Derbyshire supporter that was another frustrating watch. I needed a couple of beers in Ye Royal Oak to recover from that disappointment.
ReplyDeleteThe bowlers must take most of the blame but despite some excellent batting we should have posted in excess of 220 plus. Donald continues to frustrate when he has so much talent but fails to deliver far too often. Couple of cracking boundaries and that’s about it. Why can’t he learn to knock the ball around like Madsen! We ran out of steam at the death when a little nouse may have taken us home.
Apart from Safyan the bowling was poor, as already said, where were the yorkers or a well disguised slower ball.
Some excellent catches in the deep from Basra, Whiteley and t’others but much of the damage had already been done.
We didn’t lose but that’s small comfort!
Nudger
As an aside, I will soon have been married to my dear wife for some 40 years. She's been coming to cricket with for a good few of those, some 'possibly' under quiet and internalised sufferance.
ReplyDeleteToday, mid way through Yorkshire's innings, she opened up a conversation about DLRS.
I stopped for a moment, unsure what I had just heard. I am a little hard of hearing in the ear nearest to her.
When the penny dropped, I turned my head, slowly, towards her, with a bit of side eye, head tilted on one side.
'What?' she asked, then burst out laughing. 'Well, if this is what our future looks like, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
A moment in this cricket fan's life.
And the pint from the Chesterfield CC bar was really good too.
Andy
Love it, Andy! 🤣
DeleteWe are asking 4 day specialist bowlers like Aitchison to finish off T20 games. Would anyone ask Scrimshaw or Brown to finish off a 4 day game? It is what it is. Kris
ReplyDeleteIm not going to repeat all the comments above, most of which are absolute spot on. But my summary would be that game management is abysmal and there seems to be an issue with leadership. On the plus side I think it’s the first time I’ve seen a left arm wrist spinner play for Derbyshire, and he looks promising. But if the end result is that he’s kept Morley out, I’m less confident. I’d certainly prefer Haydon to be playing than not, too. Also, Came and Jewell have to come into contention if things don’t pick up. All in all, I had a great day out with my dad and my son - the annual match when we can all go to chesterfield together- but I was gutted we didn’t win. And now have to come home to West Yorkshire and get ribbed by people at work!
ReplyDeleteAndy T Cleckheaton
I can’t really add much beyond what others have said, particularly Jasper, but what a disappointing outcome. 215 should have been enough to win, even if our innings did finish rather timidly. But what on earth happened to the bowling in the final quarter of the Yorkshire innings baffles me. An uncharacteristic over from Martin Andersson, not helped by the dropped catch, was followed by the wheels truly falling off. Short balls, wide balls, over-pitching. It was as if the bowlers had suddenly been possessed.
ReplyDeleteThere were, of course, some positives to take from the game. Wayne Madsen rolling back the years with his 62, Martin Andersson’s half-century and Sufyan’s first wickets as a Derbyshire player. But in the end it was all in vain.
Although I thought Moqim bowled quite well, I do have to wonder why we're spending what is presumably quite a decent chunk of money on him, for a competition that we're most likely not to progress in? Was he really that much of an upgrade on Jack Morley (who I think has been ill done by)?
ReplyDeleteThe same question might be asked of Akif Javed, I think. Has he done any better than Rory Haydon (or even Matt Stewart) might have done? I get that we wanted a left-arm option but he's hardly smashed it, has he?