Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

There isn't much to report on this weekend.  I spent some of my week watching the CSA T20 and a much smaller part watching the Abu Dhabi...

There were a couple of good interviews on the club site this week, if you missed them. In the first , the club's Head of Science and Med...

I have had a few emails and comments in recent days, asking what I thought of the Jimmy Anderson situation at Lancashire, and whether I thou...

I had a long chat with Tom Skinner this week at Derbyshire County Cricket Club, regarding 'ignorantgate' and how it had been perceiv...

I was fascinated to receive some statistics from a friend this week. He had gone into the records of Derbyshire's recent past to examine...

There's good news to start a Thursday morning, as Derbyshire announce a new one-year, red ball deal for Wayne Madsen. It will be his 19t...

Great news for Nye Donald and Derbyshire today, with his selection for the England squad in a five-match T20 series against Australia next m...

It's been a good week. It started with media news that Shoaib Bashir has been awarded an England central contract, which has yet to be ...

So Simon Hughes is the latest former player to decide to have a pop at Derbyshire, in a column in The Times this weekend. He has made a good...

My final interview of the 2026 cricket season took place last night with James Sadler of North Derbyshire Radio We covered a good few topics...

The winter months allow me a chance to recalibrate and get my breath back after a busy summer.  I'm not sure how I ever found time to wo...

There is mounting pressure on Mickey Arthur at the moment, although he will probably be oblivious to this, being away in Canada at their ten...

I think it is fair to say that there have been times, in the sixty years that I have watched Derbyshire, when Mitch Wagstaff would have beco...

I think a few people will be surprised at the announcement of a new deal for Ross Whiteley. He didn't have a bad Vitality Blast, but nor...

'The players are getting better and better' says Mickey Arthur on a regular (too regular) basis in interviews. So while acknowledgin...

At the start of the summer I wrote that for Derbyshire to challenge, most of the players needed to be at, or close to their best on a regula...

Worcestershire, 214 and 206  Derbyshire 88 and 157 Worcestershire won by 175 runs It seemed almost impossible that the Derbyshire second inn...

Worcestershire 214 and 203-9 (Waite 73*, Abbas 4-63) Derbyshire 88 Worcestershire lead by 329 runs I still know and believe in the quality a...

Oh dear... It all started quite well, but then rapidly went downhill - not for the first time - when it was our turn to bat.  I have followe...

And so, seemingly only five  minutes after the season started, we come to the final game of 2026. I had hoped that the 60th summer of my sup...