Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

I'm sure, like me, that you all wish Ian Morgan, the new chairman of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, the very best for his tenure at the...

2017 marks my fiftieth summer of supporting Derbyshire. In that time I have seen very good and distinctly average sides, enjoyed some wond...

In answer to several emails, yes I am going to be running Fantasy Cricket again this year. Yes, I will almost certainly start with a flour...

It's nearly here, folks. Just over a week until Derbyshire play their first pre-season friendly (weather permitting) and we have made ...

Over the course of the winter, I have been asked many times for my thoughts on team selection for the coming summer. Whether T20, fifty over...

There have been a few requests for my T20 team in recent days and I have to admit that I find this harder than the four-day equivalent. I ...

The name of Matt Henry may not have been high on most people's list, when thoughts turned to our T20 specialist for this year. Most we...

Derbyshire are getting 'one of the world's nice guys and an outstanding cricketer' in Daryn Smit (pictured, taking slip cat...

Whisper it quietly, but I reckon that if we get the rub of the green this summer, Derbyshire could well be in the promotion mix. Last seas...

Last September, in a post entitled 'Smit double century as Seconds draw' I suggested that South African Daryn Smit would be a wort...

As regular readers will know, today's news that we have engaged South African Daryn Smit on a two-year deal very much meets with my ap...

The good times keep coming for Derbyshire supporters, with today's news of Harvey Hosein's contract extension to the end of 2019 a...

'We have irons in the fire' says Derbyshire cricket supremo Kim Barnett and the expectation is that some of them are rather hot... ...

At a time when county cricket clubs are struggling to balance the books, are selling off land to make ends meet and are falling foul of the ...

I had a great chat with Dad last night, in which we talked over our respective memories of our early days of cricket watching together. Th...

Which sounds like the start of a joke akin to the one I was told earlier this week. A lion, a witch and a wardrobe go into a bar and the bar...

That for the first time you can say that the cricket starts next month. Great eh? In days gone by, I would have had my gear down from the ...

'So who do you reckon might interest us now, Peakfan?' said not one, but three emails I got over the weekend. In the interest of tim...

Thanks to Nigel for the prompt for today's piece. He sent an email to me in the week to ask me what my eleven would be for a greatest-ev...

As I fully expected to be the case, Derbyshire have ended their interest in Marlon Samuels, after the article that appeared on Cricinfo yest...