Ahead of our first one-day game of the season, it is good to see a further restructure of the Derbyshire coaching staff, with the return of one of the club's favourite sons in Steve Stubbings. 'Stubbo' takes over as second team coach, wi...

Thanks to Andy for pointing out by e-mail that I had omitted David Wainwright from my one-day sides in the last piece on the blog.I did, but for no other reason than I'd heard he still had a back niggle. This may or may not be true, but ...

We've played over a month of cricket by the time our first one-day match of the summer begins on Sunday. It hasn't been the best of starts, for reasons that are well documented, certainly on this blog.Is this the summer when Derbyshire r...

Tim Quelch's account of post-war English Test cricket to the end of the 1950s is a fascinating description of the players, the series and the performances of the era. Part cricket book, part social history, it balances first hand comme...

I didn't blog last night because of family commitments, but had said pretty much all that needed to be said earlier in the day, anyway. A Bank Holiday off gives me a chance to reply to a few e mails and to put the rest if this game into ...

There was a certain predictability about the morning's cricket at Derby today, as New Zealand's seamers worked their way systematically through a Derbyshire batting line-up that is largely bereft of confidence at the moment.The honourabl...

On a day where Derbyshire fielded a first-choice batting line-up with their reserve attack, the only thing we learned was that Mark Footitt is ready for a call-up to the senior side whenever required.There were four wickets today for the...

My second Cricinfo piece is now up on the site and can be seen hereFeel free to add comments as they're always appreciated!

Whoooo-wee. There were a lot of comments yesterday after what history will record as the Debacle of Headingley. It will take its place alongside the Treaty of Versailles, The Defenestration of Prague and many other major events. It may ...

In answer to Mark, who comments below yesterday's piece, I am not going to 'dress this up'. I always try to accentuate the positives and to look for encouraging signs in our team, but that is very hard to do after a last day performance ...