Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

There were some telling individual performances today, as the county second team easily beat Leicestershire at Uptonsteel Grace Road, in the...

There's an old joke about a cricket match between heaven and hell, with God and Lucifer discussing the prospects  'We're bound t...

Derbyshire 604-7d Northamptonshire 228 and 263 (Bartlett 65*, McSweeney 62, Chappell 4-53, Bashir 3-70)  Derbyshire won by an innings and 11...

Derbyshire 604 Northamptonshire 228 (Harrison 107, McManus 47, Sales 46, Aitchison 4-55, Haydon 3-72,  Bashir 2-47, Chappell 1-17) and 66-2 ...

I was talking to someone today during the excellent century made by Brooke Guest, the eighth of his career with Derbyshire. I mentioned that...

Derbyshire 604-7d (Guest 141, Andersson 106,  Jewell 94, Madsen 59, Conway 3-102) Northamptonshire 98-4 (Harrison 42*, Sales 33*...

Derbyshire 342-3 (Jewell 91*, Came 73, Madsen 57*, Montgomery 54, Reece 39) v Northamptonshire  At the risk of offending any of my readers e...

There's a first for me tonight, even after all this time. I haven't written a blog about Derbyshire while sitting lookin...

I have always enjoyed poetry - GOOD poetry - since my high school days. Studying the poets of The Great War, the Romantic poets and the Meta...

Despite a century from Yusuf Bin Naeem, following that of Amrit Basra yesterday, the second eleven lost to Leicestershire by 48 runs at Belp...

A terrific effort by the Second Eleven has given them an outside chance of a surprise win in the friendly against Leicestershire at Belper. ...

I will be up early tomorrow, possibly rivalling the birds and aiming to be on the road for around 6am. Probably singing, to the tune of the ...

The young and fairly inexperienced Derbyshire second team recorded a first innings deficit of 120 runs at Belper today.  They were all out f...

There was a fairly even day at Belper, as Leicestershire made 294-8 against Derbyshire Seconds. They were indebted to Sheridon Gumbs, who is...

Kent 352 and 335 Derbyshire 304 and 158 (Reece 67, Milne 6-12) Kent won by 225 runs What has gone wrong at Derbyshire? After seven days of t...

Kent 352 and 335 (Benjamin 123, Evison 88, Haydon 5-81) Derbyshire 304 and 19-1 Derbyshire need 365 to win I haven't time for a lengthy ...

Kent 352 and 38-2 (Haydon 2-15) Derbyshire 304 (Reece 84, Andersson 37, Madsen 35, Dudgeon 4-78, Milnes 3-87) Kent lead by 86 runs I stand b...

Kent 352 (Bell-Drummond 129, Benjamin 56, Crawley 44, Haydon 5-82) Derbyshire 24-0 (Came 16*, Jewell 8*) Derbyshire trail by 328 runs On a d...

Despite his recent form, there is no Mitch Wagstaff in the Derbyshire squad of thirteen for tomorrow's red ball four-day game against Ke...

I didn't see any of today's cricket, as I explained a couple of nights back. But I had no real expectation of Derbyshire battling fo...