Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

I suspect that it may be at least the end of next week before Derbyshire announce their new Head of Cricket, possibly even longer. The reaso...

There has always been, at least for your correspondent, a strong likelihood of Matt Critchley leaving this winter. He is an intelligent, tal...

I have taken a great deal of pride in watching the Scottish cricket team at this World Cup. If you like cricket and live in the country, you...

Sad news from Derbyshire this morning, with the announcement of the enforced retirement of Harvey Hosein. Four recent concussions have seen ...

I would like to thank a regular contributor to this blog for an interesting question that I received by email today. ' You said you had ...

I had several messages yesterday about Grant Bradburn, regarding his resignation from his post with the Pakistan Cricket Board.  I had seen ...

As we wait for the communication, be it puffs of smoke, semaphore or tweet, that announces the new Head of Cricket at Derbyshire, news comes...

Enjoying a nice day off yesterday, I spent a pleasant few hours watching Scotland play Papua New Guinea in a T20 in Dubai. Earlier I had wat...

Well done to Neil Jones, who is the winner of the first sponsors draw for a cricket book over the winter. A signed copy of Luke Sutton's...

I always like it when a question posed in an email generates thoughts worthy of an article. So it is that today I give you my fantasy five-m...

 Been a busy old week chez Peakfan, with my birthday among other things that have kept me busy. It is also a landmark weekend, with the blog...

I didn't have time earlier in the week to comment on the contracts awarded at Derbyshire, but I have a few minutes now. I have no real i...

I have had a few people drop me emails with regard to the Head of Cricket role and I thought I would respond to those questions on the blog,...

With due respect to all involved, I have never been so disillusioned as I was this year in watching Derbyshire. While there were green shoot...

Derbyshire 465 and 23-1 Sussex 300 and 187 (Rawlins 58, Madsen 2-8, Dal 2-17, Moulton 2-24, Melton 2-40) Derbyshire won by nine wickets Derb...

Derbyshire 465 (Dal 49*) Sussex 255-6 (Brown 150*, Carter 51, Aitchison 3-60, Melton 3-47) Derbyshire lead by 210 runs A superb century by B...

Derbyshire 371-5 (Madsen 111, Critchley 85, Godleman 52, Came 45, Guest 30*) v Sussex Relatively speaking, there haven't been too many d...

The last match preview of the summer and the last of Dave Houghton's tenure as Head of Cricket. A brief one, too. Yours truly has done a...

Thank you to all of you who have so far kindly sponsored the blog and the writing I do for it. That support is much appreciated and makes th...

A few spare minutes before we set off on our latest 'expedition' around Berwick upon Tweed  to give thoughts on the latest defeat fo...