Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

Well, I called the two T20 semi-finals wrong, with both games going the other way to that predicted by yours truly. Truth be told, both En...

It's back, better and (hopefully) bigger than ever! The Telegraph Fantasy Cricket League has started again and I am once more running ...

So where's your money for the World T20 folks? I still think that New Zealand, as I wrote earlier in the competition, are the best all...

Once again this summer the Peakfan Blog Fantasy Cricket League will be running through the Daily Telegraph. I had hoped to have it up and ...

There was a period of a few weeks in the early new year when all was quiet at Derbyshire County Cricket. When naught was stirring, quite p...

After five years as skipper, Wayne Madsen has decided to step down as Derbyshire captain and will hand over the four-day reins to Billy Godl...

Having been signed off work at the moment and put on a 'no talking' prescription by the doctor, my sign language skills are developi...

A few days laid low by a virus this week has allowed me time to catch up on my cricket news and also to watch a little of the T20 World Cup....

When the Derbyshire squad set off on their pre-season tour a few days ago, the coaching team will have wanted a tour where competitive crick...

While the opposition in today's game might not go down as the best we have faced on tour, it represented another good work out for the p...

Most impressive, Derbyshire. Graeme Welch could barely have scripted today better had he chosen to do so, as Derbyshire cantered to a win ...

Derbyshire had an alternative version of the three W's today - not Worrell, Weekes and Walcott but a win against a Warwickshire and Worc...

The success of the Afghan cricket team in the current World Cup has been complete at the time of writing. They have won all three matches,...

Apologies for the 'bum steer' on Derbyshire's opening game. I had taken the information on the game from the club site, but th...

Round about now, as I type this. Derbyshire will be getting into pre-season action with a fifty-over game against Essex at the Sheikh Zayed ...

As weeks go, this wasn't a bad one. We signed Jimmy Neesham for the T20, Wayne Madsen signed on until the end of 2019 and Tommy Taylor...

Wayne Madsen has signed a new three-year deal at the county, keeping him at the club until the end of 2019, at this stage. It is fantast...

Seam bowlers eh? They're like buses. You wait a long time for one to come along and then they all turn up at once. We went through...

I am thrilled to announce that my second book, produced by Pitch Publishing, will be launched on June 1. 'In Their Own Words: Derbyshi...

"We've signed a new New Zealander" I said to Mrs P, this morning. "Is that not the third?" she replied, showing ...