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News and views on Derbyshire County Cricket Club from a supporter of 60 years standing. Follow me on X/Twitter @Peakfanblog

Thursday, 30 March 2017

No complaints about the new board

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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...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Pre-season preview: the four day game

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2017 marks my fiftieth summer of supporting Derbyshire. In that time I have seen very good and distinctly average sides, enjoyed some wond...
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Sunday, 26 March 2017

The return of Fantasy Cricket

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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...
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Friday, 24 March 2017

A week to go!

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It's nearly here, folks. Just over a week until Derbyshire play their first pre-season friendly (weather permitting) and we have made ...
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Sunday, 19 March 2017

The question mark in team selection

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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...
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Friday, 17 March 2017

T20 side has good possibilities

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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 ...
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Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Matt Henry signs as T20 specialist

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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...
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Tuesday, 14 March 2017

The Ramsbottom view of Daryn Smit

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

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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...
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Smit deal an inspired signing

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

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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...
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Monday, 13 March 2017

New deal for Harvey Hosein

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The good times keep coming for Derbyshire supporters, with today's news of Harvey Hosein's contract extension to the end of 2019 a...
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Saturday, 11 March 2017

Irons in the fire

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'We have irons in the fire' says Derbyshire cricket supremo Kim Barnett and the expectation is that some of them are rather hot... ...
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Tuesday, 7 March 2017

Sixth successive annual profit a credit to all

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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 ...
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Golden memories

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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...
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Monday, 6 March 2017

A nice outground, a classy spinner and a T20 biffer...

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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...
Thursday, 2 March 2017

March means...

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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 ...
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Sunday, 26 February 2017

What next for Derbyshire?

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'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...
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Greatest Derbyshire overseas eleven

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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...
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Friday, 24 February 2017

No Marlon at the 3aaa County Ground

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As I fully expected to be the case, Derbyshire have ended their interest in Marlon Samuels, after the article that appeared on Cricinfo yest...
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I've been a fan of Derbyshire since 1967, experiencing the highs and lows in that time. Please get in touch if you need a speaker for a cricket dinner or society meeting. Contact me at peakfan36@yahoo.co,uk or through X/Twitter @Peakfanblog
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