Since Anderson ended his Test career with 704 wickets, an England record and more than any other pace bowler, he has worked as a bowling consultant with the national team and unsuccessfully attempted to be picked up in the Indian Premier League and The Hundred. In April, he was knighted in former prime minister Rishi...
Glamorgan were 213 ahead at the start of play and lost night-watchman Andy Gorvin for six, lobbing a catch to short-leg off the ferocious Blair Tickner. Kellaway survived an extraordinary near play-on to Zak Chappell on 19 as he and Cooke defended assiduously to ensure some degree of safety for Glamorgan, who took the first...
Resuming on 336-6, Reece and Thomson extended their eighth-wicket stand to 105 with relatively few alarms and got to within 15 of saving the follow-on. The new ball saw Timm van der Gugten account for Thomson, but Zak Chappell helped Reece past the target of 282 before Gorvin bowled him to claim his fifth wicket....
Resuming on 336-6, it was honours even for the first session as Glamorgan added 95 more runs for the loss of their last four wickets. Colin Ingram fell for 81 in the first over, hooking Blair Tickner straight to fine leg, but a stand of 86 between van der Gugten and Gorvin (39) occupied most...
Tribe, playing his first match of the season in place of Eddie Byrom, drove classically in a perky half-century off 65 balls including 10 fours, as he gave the impetus to the opening stand of 93. Tickner was the tightest of the Derbyshire seamers, bowling to the grassier end of the pitch, but it was...
Wicketkeeper Brooke Guest has signed a new two-year deal to stay with Derbyshire until the end of the 2027 season. The 27-year-old has scored 4,665 runs and claimed 225 dismissals across all formats for the East Midlands side since first arriving on loan from Lancashire in 2020. He was Derbyshire’s second top scorer in the...
Ryan Higgins found his form at just the right time to save Middlesex from defeat on the final day of the County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at Derby. Higgins scored 56, his first 50 of the season, sharing a seventh wicket stand of 75 from 155 balls with Zahar Gohar who was unbeaten...
Zak Chappell tightened Derbyshire’s grip on the County Championship Division Two match as Middlesex were forced to follow on at Derby. The fast bowler took 4-55 with the visitors bowled out for 315, eight short of the follow-on target, despite half-centuries from Leus du Plooy, Ben Geddes and Jack Davies. Middlesex then lost Nathan Fernandes...
Martin Andersson gave his former team-mates a reminder of his qualities with a career-best century to put Derbyshire firmly in control of the County Championship Division Two match against Middlesex at Derby. The ex-Middlesex all-rounder scored 107 and shared a county record sixth-wicket stand of 148 with Luis Reece, who made 60, to lift Derbyshire...
David Pittam BBC News, Derby BBC Elliott says he thinks fossils look “cool” A budding palaeontologist has dug up fossils in his garden dating back 140 million years. Elliott, seven, moved into his new home in Matlock, Derbyshire, three months ago. During work in the front garden, he dug limestone rocks out of the ground...
No play was possible on the final day of the County Championship game between Derbyshire and Northamptonshire because of rain. The match at Derby was abandoned as a draw in early afternoon, with the home side waiting to resume their second innings on 202-3, a slender lead of nine runs. Captain Wayne Madsen was left...
A career-best century for Luke Procter backed up by a blistering hundred from Saif Zaib gave Northamptonshire the upper hand on day three of the County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at Derby. Procter’s 150 from 272 balls provided the launching pad for Zaib who hit three sixes to race to a second century...
Northamptonshire skipper Luke Procter led from the front as his team fought back on the second day of their County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at Derby. Procter made an unbeaten 97 and shared an opening stand of 143 with Ricardo Vasconcelos, who passed 50 for the first time this season, scoring 82 off...
Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen continued his prolific start to the season by leading an impressive fightback on the opening day of the County Championship Division Two match against Northamptonshire at Derby. The 41-year-old followed a century in the first game against Gloucestershire and 96 at Leicester on Monday with 89 out of a fourth wicket...
Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen has signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at the County Ground beyond his 42nd birthday. The South Africa-born batter joined the East Midlands club in 2009, and is the county’s second-highest scorer across all formats, with more than 22,500 runs to his name. Madsen, who skippered Derbyshire to...