Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

There have been times - and plenty of them over the years - when I would have laughed, or at least grinned sheepishly, at the suggestion tha...

Thakor completed an excellent fifty at a run-a-ball and looked a player of high class in doing so. Should we win here, it would be a new c...

Derbyshire began their innings chasing over 300, a total achieved only four times against first-class sides in our history and never in a ru...

The second half of the innings saw the reintroduction of Tom Milnes. The seamer must have thought Christmas had come early, when Keogh, afte...

Once again this morning, the opening Derbyshire bowlers gave the opposition far too much width to free their hands and pick their spot. The ...

With Tony Palladino unfit. Tom Taylor comes into the Derbyshire eleven for the first home one-day game of the season. Otherwise, the side is...

A thirteen man squad for Derbyshire for this one, as follows Billy Godleman Luis Reece Ben Slater Shiv Thakor Wayne Madsen Daryn Smit...

At Durham yesterday, I watched as Derbyshire leaked far too many early runs against the home side. Tom Milnes was the culprit and his lack o...

 Durham 194-2  v Derbyshire. No result Watching the game unfold today, I was left with one big thought. Hardus, Hardus. Wherefore ar...

In old Peakfan's house today, it is like the night before Christmas. The bags are packed (well, both of them, I don't travel like ...

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Let me clear up two things straight away. I don't think for a minute that Derbyshire haven't improved from last summer. We have an...

Kent 259 and 308 (Stevens 90, Rouse 95, Davis 3-48) Derbyshire 159 and 239 (Wilson 97, Madsen 32) Kent won by 169 runs Notwithstanding...

Kent 259 and 142-7 (Stevens 53 not) Derbyshire 159 (Madsen 56, Stevens 6-47) Kent lead by 242 runs It was the Darren Stevens show at C...

Kent 238-8 (Reece 3-38, Davis 3-59)  v Derbyshire Earlier today, in my pre-match write up, I suggested that someone needed to put their ...

Every season there are sides whose early performances suggest a season of toil and struggle. This season, Glamorgan, Leicestershire and Warw...

Well, we lost an opening game of the season, not for the first time. Yet in that loss, there was more than a suggestion that this could be...

Derbyshire 281 and 351-1 (Reece 168, Godleman 156 not) Northamptonshire 307 and 330-7 (Levi 99, Newton 98, Mendis 3-84) Northamptonshire...

While all three results are possible today, the thinking man or woman's money would be on the draw. From our perspective, we are 116 r...

Derbyshire 281 and 142-0 (Reece 69 not, Godleman 63 not) Northamptonshire 307 Derbyshire lead by116 runs It is hard to think a positiv...