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At the start of the month I was writing off Luis Reece’s Derbyshire career.
At the end of the month, he’s signed a 2 year contract extension, scored a double century, a century, and a fifty, named to the championship team of the month, and is miles ahead and almost certain to win the vote for championship player of the week…

A few wins for Derbyshire in the 50 over competition would be nice. Luckily, no clashes so I get to see The Rams too.

At the start of the month I was writing off Luis Reece’s Derbyshire career.
At the end of the month, he’s signed a 2 year contract extension, scored a double century, a century, and a fifty, named to the championship team of the month, and is miles ahead and almost certain to win the vote for championship player of the week…

Wonder who Lloyd comes in for. Not sure on Lamb’s fitness, so could be him, or replace Potts and go with an all of the all rounders approach 🤔

Yeah, there’s not an obvious alternative.
Harry Came continuing his good form with 125 not out against Lincolnshire.

Reading cricket news is priority 👀

Glamorgan 3rd with 1 win. Unbelievable.

Worcestershire beat Gloustershire this evening, meaning we are up to the dizzy heights of sixth.

Heard great things about Eddie Barlow but he was just before my time. Wright and Kirsten were great, but all in all, during the period I have followed Derbyshire, it has to be Michael Holding 😊

Hmm, yeah been very disappointing. Never at any point looked fully fit, and has been one problem after another. The fact we signed him for 2 years, to solely play for us full time, probably makes the end result even more disappointing.
Best? Can you look past Eddie Barlow’s contribution?
All the greats were before my time really. First overseas I remember being excited about were Dean Jones and Michael Slater.
My favourite who I got to watch a lot would probably be Martyn Guptil.

Brooke Guest has been announced as the captain for the One Day cup, with Anuj Dal as the vice captain.

Some interesting words from Mickey Arthur about the pitch when talking to Radio Derby. There’s never any mention of it on the club reports, but I recall Fletch said on commentary that he would pose the question, as it is very much the hot topic of conversation at the moment.
You can tell by how much grass they are leaving on it, that they are trying to get some life into the pitch but it's just not happening. I don't know how that's fixed or how long it takes.
Arthur's comments;
"It's hard to force wins here, there's been one win in four-day cricket since I've been here when we lost to Worcestershire in arguably a game we should have won.
"We have to do something, I thought this wicket was going to do all sorts, it was green and it ended up being incredibly flat. If we want to meet the ambitions we have, we've got to be getting wins at home and we need a bit of help out of the wicket."
 

Yorkshire have finally had their points deduction, so we are off the bottom of the table 🎉🎉

Yorkshire have finally had their points deduction, so we are off the bottom of the table 🎉🎉

Yorkshire have finally had their points deduction, so we are off the bottom of the table 🎉🎉

We just held on 😉

200 for Reece and a club record opening stand of 360, beating the previous record held by Reece and Godleman - and it's time for handshakes.
The pitch situation does need looking at (across the whole country) but we put them into bat because the best time to bowl on these pitches is Day 1, and then bowled like a bunch of puddings. After the first day there’s just nothing there for the bowlers, and unless you give your wickets away like we did yesterday, you shouldn't be in any danger.

Century for Harry Came, second of the season, and second of his career 👏

Make that 200 run partnership…

Second century of the game for Luis Reece 👏
Exciting news (for me at least 😂) the Glamorgan commentator confirmed what I thought, that David Lloyd was a middle order batsman that moved up because they were struggling for an opener, and that Lloyd’s best position is batting at 5 or 6. I'd like us to keep the current openers who are playing well together.

Well played, Luis. Harry tried very hard to run him out an hour ago, but the cover point fielder was asleep.
Not letting the Memsahib go for a wee today until the luncheon interval.

Utter shambles…

Not covered themselves with any glory. I honestly thought that these capitulations were a thing of the past - and now I've run out of beer.

Glamorgan have had a third man in basically all innings who has saved loads of runs. I already like David Lloyd 😄