Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

If Chris Rogers plans to get back in to the Australian selectors thoughts this winter, he did his chances no harm with an innings of 149 aga...

There's not even any sign of Alfie... Late blog again tonight (this morning?) as I've been at a retiral do of a long time colleague,...

I wrote last night that I'd given up the cricket club captaincy after a nine-year stint and during the course of a fair bit of driving t...

A quiet one today with little to report with regard to the club. A couple of comments on last night's piece. Mastervillain produced figu...

That's three experienced seamers we've signed. That John Morris has persuaded Tim Groenewald, Ian Hunter and Tom Lungley that their ...

News this morning that Tim Groenewald, Ian Hunter and Tom Lungley have all re-signed for 2010, according to the BBC. While not news of new p...

The very title reminds me of one of my favourite cricket stories, from a few years back, when West Indian supporters threatened to boycott a...

Nice to read on the club site that Paul Borrington is off to Perth this winter to play for Midland Guilford, the club where Alec Stewart pla...

So good to me... With apologies to the Mamas and the Papas (and I know it was Monday they sang about!) today was leisurely. Mrs Peakfan and ...

Morning (or afternoon/evening) everyone - depends when you're reading this I suppose... I'm writing on Saturday morning. Sorry ther...

There's a few ideas and comments around the message boards today and I'm duty bound to give you my thoughts on them! First up, there...

Although it has been on the cards for a few weeks, the confirmation that Chris Rogers will be returning to Derbyshire next season is probabl...

There’s been a couple of comments on my lunchtime article earlier today on the return of Steffan Jones. See how dedicated I am? As Whitney H...

There will be few Derbyshire fans that are not pleased at the news, broken in the Bristol Evening Post today, that Steffan Jones is set to s...

Anyone wanting a little heartening news about Derbyshire could do much worse than follow this link to the Bristol Evening Post http://www.th...

Thanks to DCCC Forever for coming up with the name of JP Duminy as an overseas player that Derbyshire should go for in the Twenty/20 competi...

Thanks to all those who responded via the blog and through e mails to my piece on "Being a Fan" the other day. It turns out that D...

The new ECB40 competition draw has been favourable to us, in my humble opinion. As I reported in my "12 minute lunchtime special",...

Breaking news is that we’ve been drawn in Group B of the new ECB40 League that will commence in 2010 The group in full is Derbyshire Essex G...

I have to say I'm impressed by the young Trinidad and Tobago side. Pollard is, as I said the other day, a very clean striker of a ball a...