Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

No play The least surprising news of the day came when the umpires fairly quickly called off play for the day at Chesterfield. There is ...

No result I feel sorry for a lot of people tonight. First of all the club, whose hopes of a good attendance at the start of the Chesterf...

You know, this is the first season since I started this blog when we have got into July without recurring cries of 'wholesale changes at...

Chesterfield. From a cricket-watching perspective, there is nothing better. You feel like you are one of the fielders, so close is the act...

Worcestershire 185-7 (Cox 59 not, Hughes (A) 3-23) Derbyshire 188-3 (Madsen 59 not, Hughes 43 not, Rutherford 37, Durston 32) Derbyshi...

Having started so brightly in an admittedly tough group, then lost narrowly to some very good sides, Derbyshire travel to the delights of Wo...

Over the years I have written this blog, as regulars will know, I have always chosen my words carefully when talking about players and their...

Kent 379 and 238-3  Derbyshire 574-9 Match drawn The last day of a game in which Derbyshire acquitted themselves well petered out at t...

Kent 379 and 32-0 Derbyshire 574-9 declared (Madsen 163, Thakor 123) Kent trail by 163 runs It would be a great surprise to me if th...

Kent 379 (Northeast 191, Palladino 4-76, Davis 3-86) Derbyshire 291-3 (Hughes 83, Madsen 73 not, Rutherford 65) Derbyshire trail by 88...

Kent 354-7 (Northeast 173 not, Ball 66, Palladino 3-69, Davis 3-81) v Derbyshire Sam Northeast played a captain's innings for Kent t...

Shiv Thakor is back in the Derbyshire 13 for their game against Kent at Canterbury, starting tomorrow. The following squad has travelled: ...

There's a couple of questions being asked of me in your post comments and personal emails that I would like to take the opportunity to a...

I'm also thrilled to be doing an event with Edwin Smith at Elvaston CC on Friday 15 July. I will be talking about the new book, then...

There will be autograph opportunities a-plenty at the launch of my book on Derbyshire CCC on July 11 at Chesterfield Library, 7pm for 7...

Derbyshire 114 Nottinghamshire 120-3 Nottinghamshire won by 7 wickets Call it a hunch, as Quasimodo may once have said, but I had a vi...

Derbyshire 467-5 Worcestershire 164 and 294-6 (Cotton 2-34, Davis 2-87) Match drawn In the end, as I suggested may be the case last ni...

Derbyshire 467-5 (Godleman 204, Madsen 109, Broom 93) Worcestershire 164 all out (Cox 40, Cotton 4-28, Palladino 4-32) and 24-1 (Cotto...

Derbyshire 319-3 (Godleman 157 not, Madsen 109, Broom 28 not) v Worcestershire Captains Fantastic combined for Derbyshire at the 3aaa ...

No play today - rain. Can't find anything more to say tonight really. We're going to have a good old-fashioned three-day game no...