Derbyshire Cricket - Peakfan's blog

Derbyshire begin the post-Masood era with a trip to Wales, to play promotion rivals Glamorgan, over the next 4 days. Promotion would now app...

With a few minutes to spare during our trip to Berwick upon Tweed, I decided to take a look at the future tours calendar of the ICC for 2023...

I had a lovely chat this morning with the cricket writer, Ashley Gray. His book on the West Indian 'rebel' tourists who ...

'A slump from an average of 615,000 viewers per match last summer to just over 500,000 this term will worry the ECB' Those words, fr...

Derbyshire 306 and 214-9 Durham 223 and 176-5 (Trevaskis 42, Maddinson 32, Watt 2-37 Match drawn Derbyshire fought hard on the final day but...

Derbyshire, 306 and 185-7 (Madsen 58, Godleman 43, Reece 39, Raine 3-24, Trevaskis 3-71) Durham 223 (Conners 4-55) Derbyshire lead by 268 ru...

Derbyshire 306 Durham 222-9 (Jones 87, Conners 3-54, Aitchison 2-49, Dal 2-18) Derbyshire lead by 84 runs While they were not at their best ...

Derbyshire 306 all out (du Plooy 82, Came 78, Dal 52, Rushworth 3-60, Raine 3-61) v Durham I don't think that Derbyshire will be at all ...

We are now coming up to the business end of the summer and it is hard to think that only three/four weeks remain of the cricket season. I am...

Wayne Madsen, Leus du Plooy and George Scrimshaw return to proper cricket tomorrow after their sojourns to the new competition, as Derbyshir...

I always enjoy it when a follower asks if they can write something for the blog. It takes a lot of pressure from me and highlights the intel...

And so we enter the closing weeks of the summer, having written off sizeable chunks of it with no play to watch. For all that Derbyshire did...

Northamptonshire 311-7 (McManus 107, Taylor 75,  Zaib 62, Aitchison 2-43) Derbyshire 312-2 (Reece 106, Godleman 87, Masood 53*, Came 43*) De...

Was there ever a greater, longer-lasting or more influential spin pairing than Jim Laker and Tony Lock? The longevity of their c...

Mickey Arthur has announced an unchanged squad for the final fixture of a somewhat disappointing Royal London Cup campaign,  against Northam...

Derbyshire 109 (Came 19, McKiernan 17) Yorkshire 110-9 (Waite 23, Hill 21, Conners 5-28, Aitchison 3-33) Yorkshire won by one wicket While t...

Mark Watt returns to the Derbyshire squad for tomorrow's game against Yorkshire at Chesterfield. The Scots left-arm spinner has a good r...

Once again the worst of Derbyshire support appears to have surfaced on social media after yesterday's announcement of the departure of S...

The news that Shan Masood will leave Derbyshire at the end of the summer is disappointing,  yet inevitable. Despite the county making what I...

No balls were bowled at Derby today, as the overnight rain had proved to be too much for the outfield to absorb, the umpires calling it off ...