Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

Six weeks to go… Those winter days spent shovelling snow and clearing ice seem but a distant memory as the bulbs are poking through the e...

First terrestrial opportunity to see Martin Guptill put bat to ball on BBC2 tonight on the World Cup highlights. Our new overseas player s...

Here we are again, another week gone by and another week nearer the season. Only 48 days to go now... Like most of you, I was encouraged t...

There was a very promising innings of 130 from Martin Guptill today as New Zealand posted a score of 311-6 against Ireland in a World Cup wa...

There’s less news emanating from the County Ground in recent days than is normally generated by a recluse's newsletter, so I’ve not been...

Thought I'd just stop by to say hello and let you know that I'm still around. Like most people around these parts, I've been s...

There’s only one contender for the G-Man. I’ll admit that Peter Gibbs was one of the more aesthetically pleasing batsmen of my formative ...

There’s an interesting comment under yesterday’s post from ‘Needham 4 England’ where he expresses concern over the fact that Jake is the onl...

You can tell it was a quiet weekend for cricket news, especially for any pertaining to Derbyshire cricket, when the highlight was Dominic Co...

Thanks to 'Anon; for asking two questions - where do Usman Khawaja and Martin Guptill fit into the batting line up and what will be the ...

So, not just Khawaja, but Guptill. There’ll be some serious power down Derby way for the T20 and it should put a few extra derrieres on seat...

Amid all the conjecture regarding overseas players this winter I have seen Martin Guptill’s name mentioned once or twice. Such has been the ...

I got up early this morning to watch Usman Khawaja bat for New South Wales against Victoria in the Big Bash and was not disappointed. Khaw...

Peakfan  - Finally Eddie was largely responsible for the overhaul of Bangladesh cricket that saw them granted Test status in 2000. That must...

There’s an interesting piece this morning from BBC Hereford and Worcester, with Steve Rhodes claiming that player demands are not as excessi...

It has been quite heartening today to read the positive comments around the web about the signing of Usman Khawaja from New South Wales. Gra...

While dozens of names have been banded about this winter, that of Usman Khawaja, who has joined Derbyshire from the start of the season unti...

Peakfan  - I've always felt that Derbyshire missed an opportunity to have Eddie as a coach. Was that offer ever on the table for him? ...

The return of Andrew Harris to Derbyshire is not likely to be the most high profile move of the winter but could turn out to be the most imp...

There’s conjecture a-plenty around the boards regarding our overseas targets for 2011, with all sorts of names being bandied about. In answe...