Derbyshire CCC

**spireitematt** · 15-09-2016, 19:24

Day Four - The 3aaa County Ground, Derby - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Derbyshire 1st innings - 307 ao

Leicestershire 1st innings - 247 ao

Derbyshire 2nd innings - 286-8 Declared

Leicestershire 2nd innings - 301-8

MATCH DRAWN!!!

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 21-09-2016, 00:22 by spireitematt.)

Day One - New Road, Worcester - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Derbyshire won the toss and decided to bowl

Worcestershire 1st innings - 255-6 Close of Play

Derbyshire 1st innings - Yet to bat

Worcestershire

Daryl Mitchell©
Brett D'Oliveira
Tom Fell
Joe Clarke
George Rhodes
Tom Kohler-Cadmore
Ben Cox(wk)
Joe Leach
Ed Barnard
Miguel Cummins
Charlie Morris

Derbyshire

Billy Godleman©
Ben Slater
Alex Hughes
Wayne Madsen
Thomas Wood
Harvey Hosein(wk)
Greg Cork
Tom Milnes
Tony Palladino
Will Davis
Ben Cotton

Umpires: Nigel Cowley, Stephen Gale

**spireitematt** · 21-09-2016, 17:24

Day Two - New Road, Worcester - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Worcestershire 1st innings - 475-7 Declared

Derbyshire 1st innings - 15-0 Close of Play

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 22-09-2016, 20:54 by spireitematt.)

Day Three - New Road, Worcester - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Worcestershire 1st innings - 475-7 Declared

Derbyshire 1st innings - 248 ao

Derbyshire 2nd innings - 15-1 Close of Play

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 23-09-2016, 18:48 by spireitematt.)

Day Four - New Road, Worcester - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Worcestershire 1st innings - 475-7 Declared

Derbyshire 1st innings - 248 ao

Derbyshire 2nd innings - 266 ao

Worcestershire 2nd innings - 43-1

WORCESTERSHIRE WIN BY 9 WICKETS!

Derbyshire finish the season bottom of Division Two winning 0 games 5 losses and 11 draws.

Devongone · 27-09-2016, 11:23

Yesterday I looked at Derbyshire's averages and they told an unusual tale of our failure. Historically Derbyshire produces bowlers, but the averages show how rooted our failure has been in bowling.

Our rivals all had three or four bowlers who had bowled from 290 to 400 + overs in the season. We had Palladino only at 450+ and Cotton our next most turned-to bowler had just 202. No other side had a return anything like that. And poor old Palladino wasn't that successful carrying the burden, as his wickets cost over 30 runs apiece. Every other team had a principal wicket-tacker with a better average. But bowlers need support.

To emphasise the problem we had eight bowlers who bowled between 100-199 overs in the season. Other teams tended to have only one or two turned to so occasionally.

We clearly don't know who are our best bowlers and never give anyone a chance to establish himself as front-line. Therefore it must be pretty impossible to come up with a plan of attack. Successful cricket teams tend to have a pattern to bowl to ....... we obviously don't. Even more disturbingly it would simply be impossible for us ever to develop a spin bowler if he could only expect such limited use. If the first time he concedes runs he's out of the team he just won't develop, true of any young bowler.

In the end it doesn't matter how many batsmen you find to average 45+ if you haven't got regular bowlers, taking wickets at County level you can never win matches ..... and we seem to have provided the perfect proof.

**spireitematt** · 29-09-2016, 17:01

We had a great bowler last year in Mark Footitt but he left to join Surrey, I think it was so he could have a better chance at getting picked for England.

Problem we had this year I think was the rain stopped play for most of the matches and they ended in draws and Graeme Welch resigning half way through the season.

Devongone · 29-09-2016, 18:13

Poor old Footitt got injured at the wrong time and hasn't got his cap yet.

Whether any of that mass of bowlers we've used could make an impact I've no idea, but rain (it always rains in Derbyshire) and a coach leaving don't mean you go for random-select every match. We have a radically different side every game, but not a different result.

I don't know these things as I haven't followed closel,y but I'd be willing to bet the slip fielders and wicketkeeper/s have struggled. You get used to the rhythms and movements of bowlers you play with every week. You know where the ball is likely to come, what height and you are ready. With players you hardly know everything, good and bad, is a surprise. A new bowler can provide a shock to the other side, three of them tends to come as a shock to your own side.

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Day One - The 3aaa County Ground, Derby - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to field

Derbyshire 1st innings - 219-6 Close of Play

Northamptonshire 1st innings - Yet to bat

Derbyshire

Luis Reece
Billy Godleman©
Shiv Thakor
Wayne Madsen
Daryn Smit
Jeevan Mendis
Gary Wilson(wk)
Alex Hughes
Tom Milnes
Tony Palladino
Will Davis

Northamptonshire

Robert Newton
Ben Duckett
Alex Wakely©
Rob Keogh
Adam Rossington(wk)
Richard Levi
Max Holden
Steven Crook
Rory Kleinveldt
Nathan Buck
Ben Sanderson

Umpires: Paul Baldwin, Martin Saggers

**spireitematt** · (This post was last modified: 15-04-2017, 21:56 by spireitematt.)

Day Two - The 3aaa County Ground, Derby - Specsavers County Championship - Division Two

Derbyshire 1st innings - 281 ao

Northamptonshire 1st innings - 291-9 Close of Play

Davis got 4-55 runs.