Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

It must have been another entertaining day at the 3AAA County Ground today, with enough of the Indian batting line up getting going to enter...

It was a fairly encouraging day for Derbyshire today against a lengthy and varied attack, none of who were especially demanding on a lovely ...

I really hope that the people of Derbyshire - especially the local Indian community - gets behind this game over the next few days. The am...

Well, that was fairly horrible. Thank goodness for Alex Hughes, the only batsman in our innings who showed a modicum of common sense on a ...

Apologies for the lateness of the blog tonight, but I was working till 6.30pm and after dinner simply had to see the scorching set of Robert...

News today that Stephen Moore, Peter Burgoyne and Richard Johnson are leaving Derbyshire with immediate effect. Of the three, that of Moor...

Praise be, we won one! Chasing 9.5 an over, and losing Chesney Hughes to the first ball of our innings, I reckon there's few Derbysh...

Those of a certain vintage, like me, will recall when the cricketers of India were a delightful ingredient of the English summer. Farokh...

No Eddie Barlow Inspirational Performance then, but a battling effort by Alex Hughes and David Wainwright restored a degree of pride and at ...

Good literary references in the heading there, as news breaks today of a pitch panel being convened at the end of this game, also known as m...

An evening of cricket coaching tonight was blessed relief from another awful day for Derbyshire. After the encouragement of yesterday, our b...

A wonderful spell of seam bowling in the finest Derbyshire traditions by Tony Palladino enabled us to shade the first day at Canterbury, des...

Another day, another special innings from Tom Knight today, as he put Chesterfield to the sword with a century from just 62 balls, as Swarke...

An unchanged Derbyshire side heads to Canterbury from the defeat against Surrey at the County Ground, something that cannot come as a surpri...

I didn't preview this game for two reasons. The main one was that I had no time last night, attending the school prize-giving at which o...

So it is adieu to Tim Groenewald, as he heads to Taunton and a new career in the west country for the remainder of this summer and the thr...

The denouement of today's game was swift and as expected, with Derbyshire's players back in the middle for practice after a lengthy ...

Derbyshire 153 and 288 (Wainwright 56 not, Elstone 47, Borrington 38); Surrey 421 Surrey need 21 to win There's not much to say toni...

Derbyshire 153; Surrey 392-8 (Ansari 105, Davies 124, Footitt 3-55) I don't think there's any doubt that we are going to lose this...

  Derbyshire 153 all out (North 44, Cross 27) Surrey 44-1 (Amla 25 not out) There's not a great deal to be said  about today at the Co...