Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

As I walked out of the ground this evening, there was much to reflect upon from an absorbing opening day's cricket. On it, I thought D...

After the largely positive experience that was the Royal London One Day Trophy, Derbyshire return to county championship action tomorrow aga...

Great news this morning that Ben Cotton (centre, left)  has signed a two-year professional deal with the club. The potential in the gian...

The news that Tom Poynton is recovering well from the injuries sustained in an early season car accident is about the best that Derbyshire f...

The last few weeks have been manically busy, so a few minutes this evening gives me a chance to respond to a few of the more common question...

This one went the way that most people expected, although for a good part of the day Derbyshire competed well. Indeed, the early spells by...

It was the weekend that kept on giving... We signed Cheteshwar Pujara, Derby County won, then we signed Wayne White and now I managed to g...

It's all happening at the County Ground... News breaks this morning that Wayne White is returning to the County Ground on loan for the...

So the news that I picked up earlier on Cheteshwar Pujara turned out to be accurate. The Indian batsman has signed for the remainder of th...

Indian news source Rediff reports this afternoon that batsman Cheteshwar Pujara has signed a deal to play for Derbyshire for the rest of t...

Nathan Buck. Shiv Thakor and Moin Ashraf. All names I have seen linked with a move to Derbyshire today. The Telegraph reports that we ha...

There's such a feel-good factor around at present that you would swear Christmas was coming... Such is the difference that a win makes...

  Derbyshire 271-7 (Godleman 96, Madsen 57, Elstone 37) Gloucestershire 218 (Footitt 2-39, Wainwright 3-45) Derbyshire won by 53 runs ...

Tomorrow night, at the end of the big match between Derbyshire and Gloucestershire, I hope I am able to repeat the words of the immortal Cli...

So, we're on Sky this Thursday - going to be a biggie, huh? It may be against a Gloucestershire side short of Will Gidman, which would...

I wasn't too surprised to see Azeem Rafiq released by Yorkshire today, but can see a decent-sized queue forming for his signature. A...

We got back home this evening after a lovely stay in Scarborough. Cricket aside, the weather was better than we expected and we enjoyed the ...

It was David v Goliath all over again at North Marine Road today, but this time Goliath came mob-handed... Truth be told, Derbyshire were ...

Biggest game of the season? Yeah, I'd say so, at least so far. If we win this one then there may well be bigger ones to come, but a ...

It's a few years since we had a family trip to Scarborough. There's been a lot of work done in the intervening period. We're s...