Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

This is my final match preview of 2025 and thanks to all of you for sticking with me throughout another long and sometimes challenging summe...

Sad news to start, as 'Dickie' Bird passed away earlier today.  While he was a Yorkshire man through and through, he was also often ...

Not much cricket to talk of today, but last night I had another interview with Matt Rhodes of North Derbyshire Radio, where we covered a ran...

The news that David Lloyd has retired from first class cricket comes as no real surprise to me.  I had a feeling that David was ...

More overnight rain on an already soaked outfield made the final day of the domestic home season an anticlimax. Attention now switches to Ca...

The third day of Derbyshire's final home game of the season was, pretty much as expected, washed out today.  Heavy overnight rain, follo...

Glamorgan 259 (Carlson 94, Van Der Gugten 37, Harris 31, Reece 4-67, Dal 3-29, Aitchison 2-51) Derbyshire 17-0 Derbyshire trail by 242 runs ...

Doesn't look like I missed much...

It is the last four home days of cricket 2025 at the Central Co-op County Ground, starting tomorrow.  Mickey Arthur has named the predictabl...

Two games, or a theoretical eight days of cricket to go in the 2025 season. Derbyshire are still in third place in the table. Things are so ...

More excellent news to take us into the weekend, as Harry Came is announced as signing a new two-year contract. He is a fine pla...

Derbyshire 283 and 153-4 (Guest 65*, Andersson 31*) Middlesex 298 Match drawn With the rain never far away, the game at Lord's ended in ...

Derbyshire 283 and 33-1 Middlesex 298 Derbyshire lead by 18 runs Not much to say today. The rain took the expected chunk out of the day and ...

Derbyshire 283 and 17-0 Middlesex 298 (du Plooy 105, de Caires 46, Cracknell 43, Aitchison 3-35, Chappell 3-69) Derbyshire lead by two runs ...

Derbyshire 283 (Came 64, Jewell 56, Aitchison 36, Dal 36, Roland-Jones 6-77) Middlesex 12-0 Derbyshire lead by 271 runs I am not going to sp...

Mickey Arthur has named a squad of thirteen for tomorrow's game against Middlesex, at Lord's.  It is anyone's guess who will be ...

I am delighted that Derbyshire have at last concluded the signing of Rory Haydon, for the rest of 2025 and for the next three se...

Another good effort by the second team at Taunton Vale today has them slightly on top after two of the scheduled four days. Derbyshire exten...

Derbyshire Seconds made 239-8 on the first day of a four day game against Somerset at Taunton Vale yesterday. A young Derbyshire side, capta...

Derbyshire under 18s will feel robbed of a win today, when the Plate final against Essex was abandoned as no result.  The rain came after Es...