jimbo jones

Hadn't seen this before my previous post...that's good....

Yeah, the batting has been disappointing all season. Hopefully they’ll show up in the pyjama cricket.

At least we won't lose by an innings ?

The first one wasn't easy, you would catch 6 or 7 times out of 10, but the second was a sitter
As I type this, the keeper takes an edge and we have a second wicket.

Drop him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ?

Du Plooy having a nightmare ?‍♂️ 2 dropped catches in the slips

Conners with a wicket first ball and had a edge drop short.
I think it's Guest, but no commentary on the live stream at the moment so I'm not 100%
It would probably help Du Plooy if the sun made an appearance, he's still not comfortable with the conditions when it's grey and horrible, and the ball moves about.

Also, if you bring in Reece for Hughes, that does look a decent team.

That looks more like it!
Wonder if Guest or McDermott is behind the stumps?
Glad to see they're giving Du Plooy the time to come out of his poor run, it's not like we are overrun with top batsmen waiting in the wings!

Debut for McDermott

I can see him going to the Patriots or Titans, probably for a 2nd.
Shame as Julio + Ridley + Pitts + Hurst/Gage + Davis/Paterson would have been epic.

Right, let's all hold fire, it appears there has been a big mistake!
After months of calling us 'Big spending Derby' and pointing out how poorly run we are, it appears that the Daily Fail now believe that we are on a tight budget. 
Amazing how quickly the narrative can be changed when one of the media darling is involved!

Yeah new team takes on the remaining contract. It is possible to renegotiate a new contract at the new team, but it doesn't happen often. Team's aren't going to want to pay more, and players aren't going to want to get paid less, usually.

Saw he said he’d been working on that, definitely paid off ?

He was very impressive, and his run-up and transition into his delivery stride looked very smooth.

Yeah Guest behind the stumps, and Dal in as concussion replacement.

Currently 244-7 off 81.
It took me a lot longer today to freeze to death, but freeze to death I did. Just arrived back home - watching on YouTube and thawing out.

From 71-0 to 72-3, Derbyshire at their finest ?‍♂️

In the absence of any play at Derbyshire today, I watched day 2 of Kent v Glamorgan.
There was an utterly amazing innings by Darren Stevens (played for Derbyshire in the T20s on loan a couple of seasons ago).
Darren came to the wicket with Kent stumbling on 80-5, and wickets continued to tumble regularly until, with the score on 128-8. West Indian seamer Miguel Cummins entered the fray (sort-of).
Stevens and Cummins then added 166 for the 9th wicket - and Cummins's contribution to the partnership was just one single (although truth be told he was only looking to defend, and Stevens farmed the strike pretty well, leaving Cummins with just one or two balls per over to face).
Stevens was absolutely fantastic, smashing 15 4s and 15 6s in a knock of 190 off just 149 balls, and in the process helped Kent to 307 all out. Not bad for a 45 year old.

Over the last few months, it's tended to take at least a week to get a delivery from Beers of Europe. So this morning, before leaving to go to the cricket, I put an order in, thinking that it wouldn't arrive before Tuesday at the earliest.
Just had notification from DHL - it will be delivered tomorrow.
Looks like I'll miss tomorrow's hour of play.

FFS ?‍♂️
we might as well just not bother signing overseas players

Our sports teams sure do find them don't we ?‍♂️
George Thorne, Krystian Bielik, Mitchell Santner, Billy Stanlake ?

Really looking forward to watching the rain and the covers over the next 4 days, with the occasional bright spell involving the rope being run around the outfield and umpires walking out to the square, mournfully shaking their heads and then walking back to the pavilion again.
I've missed it.

No Reece or Stanlake. 
 

he was pre owning Derby, his pockets are a lot emptier now.  People should remember how much of his cash he has put into the club