Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

As pointed out by Alan below yesterday's post, warm congratulations go to Peter Burgoyne tonight for an outstanding century for the Rock...

Derbyshire's young guns continue to impress in overseas cricket, with more fine performances in recent matches. Ben Slater scored 89 o...

It's late October and cricket seems a long way off right now. The cold, wet and miserable weather doesn't help, but we're well...

Paul Nixon was a cricketer who earned the grudging respect of opposing fans, most of who respected his total commitment to the cause, wheth...

Peter Burgoyne, Alex Hughes, Ben Slater, Matt Higginbottom, Johnny Marsden. Some of those names are likely to become fixtures in the Derbysh...

Thanks for your comments below yesterday's piece, which are welcome.  I'm not sure that I necessarily need entertained Mark, but tha...

All quiet on the county cricket front over recent days, though in the close season that should hardly come as a surprise. We've been spo...

With the exception of Ian Botham, Trevor Bailey was the greatest all-rounder in English cricket after World War Two. Younger fans may state ...

Close season eh? The gift that keeps on giving... The period since the end of the season has been like a giant advent calendar. Every day ...

Yes, I'll admit I got that one wrong... I didn't think that there would be an immediate rush for Wayne Madsen to sign an extended ...

More good news this morning in that Derbyshire skipper Wayne Madsen has signed a new three-year deal with the county. Just the sort of new...

If, as they would have you believe, the proposed structure of the first-class game from 2014 is the result of the online surveys that 25,000...

What a terrific player is Azhar Mahmood! I got home tonight in time to catch the wickets he took for Auckland against the Kolkata Knight R...

As regular readers will know, I have written a lot over recent months about T20 batting and my thoughts on Usman Khawaja in the format. Fo...

Good efforts once again from Ben Slater and Peter Burgoyne in Zimbabwe. Playing for the Southern Rocks against the Mid West Rhinos in a Tw...

To some extent the signing of Billy Godleman, announced today by Derbyshire, is a gamble. The player left Middlesex, home to a number of ...

I totally agree with Alan tonight in his comment below my earlier Dan Redfern article. The slow "drip" of information about the ...

More good news for Derbyshire fans this morning as the club announced a new deal for Dan Redfern. The player is now out in Australia at th...

Hats off to the West Indies for a fine win in the T20 World Cup. It was a tournament where no one seemed to give them real consideration as ...

It is always a delight to read a book by Stephen Chalke and this biography of Micky Stewart, one that has been a labour of love for the auth...