Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

Don't know about all of you, but I couldn't be more excited tonight if I had met Santa coming down the chimney of my house with the ...

I have been doing a season preview for Derbyshire County Cricket Club since 2009, but I have never before written it at the end of July. Com...

It has been quite a week for Derbyshire supporters. Following on from the deals for Tom Wood and Ben Aitchison, we heard that Matt Critchley...

Hot on the heels of this week's short-term contracts for Tom Wood and Ben Aitchison, today's news of a new deal for Matt Critchley...

I have been very reassured in the past few days, especially with the return of county cricket in the very near future. Today came news t...

After the success of hosting the Pakistan touring squad at Derby in recent weeks, Derbyshire announced today that the England Ladies squad w...

An interesting question came in the week from long-term blog follower and supporter Mark. He asked if I thought that the decision to allow...

I got to the end of this book with one thought in my mind. That it is in the top half dozen cricket books of the thousands that I have r...

There have been times, certainly in the years that I have watched Derbyshire, when the recruitment of players in their late thirties has reb...

So Tim Bresnan didn't end up at Derbyshire, which seemed unlikely all along and has instead got himself a contract at Warwickshire, wher...

Whisper it quietly but we might yet see some county cricket this summer... With county friendlies being announced around the country at th...

In the course of my interviews with the late Walter Goodyear for my second book, the legendary former groundsman told me that he had got t...

Arthur Morton, from Mellor in the High Peak SOUNDED like a Derbyshire player. It was his unfortunate lot to be born and become one at a ti...

I was first drawn to the name of William Storer because he was born at Ripley, like me. As a youngster I recall my Dad taking me to see his ...

Using the same selection criteria as Stephen Malkin, whose idea it was, here is the best county eleven of my time watching Derbyshire. Kim...

A nice idea came this week from Stephen Malkin, who wrote as follows: Hi Peakfan, How about asking your readers to pick a Derbyshire ...

Today's title comes courtesy of Ray Davies and the wonderful Kinks. My feelings on the absence of cricket are amply illustrated in t...

Will Taylor was the secretary of Derbyshire CCC for 51 years, between 1908 and 1959. In his later days - and he lived until 1976 - he was ha...

L.G (Levi) Wright was one of the first early names of Derbyshire cricket that I became aware of, perhaps because he had the same name as m...

It was a shame to hear from a blog regular the other day that Les Bradbury had passed away.  It wasn't at that time confirmed, and it ...