Thursday, 9 July 2026

Durham v Derbyshire Vitality Blast preview

Both Derbyshire and Durham have announced unchanged squads for the penultimate Vitality Blast game at The Riverside tomorrow.

The only potential change to the Derbyshire side from that which lost to Somerset last night is whether Ben Aitchison replaces Jack Morley. 

The home side have the following 14 players in their squad for the game: 

Kasey Aldridge, Colin Ackermann, David Bedingham, Brydon Carse, Graham Clark, Shafiqullah Ghafari, Alex Lees, Ben McKinney, Callum Parkinson, Matthew Potts, Ben Raine, Luke Robinson, Ollie Robinson, Nathan Sowter.

Derbyshire do not have the best of records on this ground and I don't expect that to change tomorrow. They have only pride to play for, while the home side need to win and then beat Lancashire in their final game to potentially qualify for the quarter finals.

Brydon Carse, David Bedingham and Ben Raine are back in their squad and again, I expect them to be too strong for Derbyshire on another hot evening.

What do you think? 

4 comments:

  1. IMO you can't play Came and Madsen in the same side. As even when Nye gets you off to a lightening start they can't maintain a sufficient rate to challenge. Whitley is reaching the end of his career. Bin Naeem and Basra should still play. As for the death bowling we have terrible or really terrible to choose from. Jewellery out of form so can't get in ahead of an average overseas pacer .In summary as long as we remain a one man team we are lost. Not sure what more there is to say and really depressing that many think our best player by a mile is the issue when a 2nd Nye is what we need. John life member

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    1. Again, John, I have given him plenty of praise and he is a wonderful entertainer. Is he capable of more? He could entertain AND win matches with a little more discipline. Or maybe that would change his game ethic and we need to build a team around him. I just think a man with his ability should have T20 centuries to his name, by now. If he could do that, there isn't a team in the world wouldn't want him

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  2. DERBYSHIRE supporters are incredibly loyal although we have had so many false dawns. I nearly thought about the N word ie nottingham shire but my doc cured me just in time here's hoping we do well in the one day cup ! We seem to lack the killer instinct. Here's to next season ! Malbar

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  3. Same team as Weds for me. The ground has big pockets with the need to look to run 2s, this should suit our batters.

    MarkB

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