Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

Gloucestershire 251-6 (Klinger 93 not, Taylor 58 not, Taylor 3-64) At 159-6 this afternoon, Billy Godleman's decision to bowl was thor...

Well, that's our games against the division winners (for so shall they be) Lancashire out of the way for the summer. Now, in game six of...

Well, I was wrong and am happy to admit so. Derbyshire showed last night that they CAN play T20. The trick now is for them to replicate th...

Lancashire 127-9 (Davies 41, White 3-21, Palladino 2-22, Cotton 2-26) Derbyshire 128-5 (Amla 51, Dilshan 38) Derbyshire won by 5 wickets ...

There's a home debut for Tillakaratne Dilshan and the only home T20 appearance for Hashim Amla tomorrow as Derbyshire entertain Lancashi...

Derbyshire 370 and 166 Lancashire 551 Lancashire won by an innings and 15 runs Not much time chez Peakfan tonight, as we celebrate, alb...

Derbyshire 370 and 123-3 (Slater 58, Hughes 41) Lancashire 551 (Prince 230, Taylor 4-113, Critchley 3-50) Derbyshire trail by 58 runs T...

Derbyshire 370 Lancashire 348-4 (Prince 156 not, Petersen 113, Taylor 3-87 Lancashire trail by 22 runs 'Much will depend on Messrs ...

Derbyshire 335-9 (Godleman 75, Slater 69, Amla 69) v Lancashire The old cricketing adage of 'runs on the board' is perhaps most ...

If you never saw Barry Richards bat, you missed a treat. I've watched the finest of games for 48 summers now and would bracket the tal...

It occurred to me today, thinking about tonight's blog while spending several hours working in the garden, that there are strong paralle...

Derbyshire 163-6 (C. Hughes 59, Godleman 38 not) Leicestershire 164-3 (O'Brien 47 not) Leicestershire won by seven wickets I wrote ...

There have been a few grumbles in recent days after Derbyshire's loss to Yorkshire in their opening T20 game of the summer. All the ol...

Sorry about the quiet few days, but I have been very busy on the work front and also on the domestic one. Three successive 9 to 8 shifts a...

A few weeks ago, 'Old Supporter' asked when the interview that I did with Edwin Smith would appear on the blog. The short answer...

Thank you for your comments following last night's game. which was the first 'downer' of the season so far. I do think that we...

Derbyshire 128 (Amla 29, Hughes (C) 27, Poynton 27) Yorkshire 131-3 (Cotton 2-19) Yorkshire won by seven wickets I'm not going to b...

Can Derbyshire have a better T20 campaign than last year? Well, I hope so. We won one out of fourteen last year and struggled to master th...

At the end of it all it was a noble effort against a team that was in the top tier last season, but Derbyshire's young side narrowly fai...

Safely returned to the bosom of my family, it was a pleasure to catch up with events at the 3aaa County Ground today and find that Derbysh...