Derbyshire County Cricket Club

And I think you have to look at those comparisons in other sports because we all know, like I say, I'm sure there would be some objections initially with cricket when they introduced T20s, and that's purely for like broadcasting perspective or spectator's perspective.

And in my work we have a contract with Derby Cricket Club, so I see the attendance figures at a T20 versus a cricket match.

You can't tell me that a different type of cricket player would play T20 than a, than a cricket match.

They're the same players, right? It's, it's still cricket.

Uh, and then this was the kind of the, the, the maybe the fixture which is the most interesting of the last two weeks in Division 2.

It was Derbyshire playing Northamptonshire at Northampton.

Uh, a brilliant cricket wicket, um, runs being scored the whole way through, but still a little bit in, in for the, for the batter, um, for the bowler, sorry.

Um, so Derbyshire started off 372 to Northampton's 310.

So a 62-run lead for Derbyshire.

They're looking in a good place in that game.

They then get bowled out for 286, but again, and a-- usually that is a way, you know, first, last wickets happen.

If you were playing in that fixture, I would be spitting feathers.

No.

And Shoaib Bashir, 24 wickets at 47 for Derbyshire.

So, you know, he's struggling to have an impact at the moment.

But I agree with you, he's got talent.

As for the other three matches, well, they were all either weather impacted or bad light impacted.

So we saw Northamptonshire and Derbyshire play out a draw at the cinch county ground.

Gloucestershire and Middlesex played out a stalemate in Bristol, and Durham and Worcestershire also finished in a draw at the Riverside.

So Charlie, I'll kickstart our county of the week with yourself, mate.

So a lot obviously Kent played well this week.

Um, I'm gonna go with Northants who, yeah, like let's be honest, Northants should have won that game, and it's not through a fault of their own.

Firstly, Derbyshire's over rate in that final session was shocking.

Like it was a really, really bad over rate, that Derbyshire bowl- that Derbyshire bowled, or that Derbyshire had, I should say.