Gunning for Success: A Derbyshire Story...

[Hoggy31]

Ok, I'll be writing my first ICC 2005 story, I am playing with Derbyshire and am currently 3 games into the season, here is summary of the season up to this point:

Derbyshire sign young leg-spinner Michael Birch on a $16,000 2 year contract, The club is hoping he will be a beacon of light for the future

1st game:
Derbyshire 144 a.o
Worcestershire 290 a.o
Derbys 154 a.o
Worcs 10/0

Worcs won by ten wickets

Pretty poor first up performance, Only postives to take away are Michael Birch taking 6/129 in his debut innings and young batsman James Chapman making a pretty gutsy 23 in the second innings.

2nd game:
Derbys 135 a.o
Kent 139/3

Pretty poor game really

3rd game:
Derbys 164/9
Sussex 165/4

Good innings from young Chapman (63 not out) was the only real positive here

Well thats the season so far, more updates soon

 

[Kweek]

Good luck on that! its not easy to play with Derby's

 

[_Ed_]

Good luck indeed...Derbys are pretty awful

Can tell you that Lungley has done pretty well for them in my Surrey game though (30 wickets in FC @ 20.97 so far this season).

 

[Hoggy31]

Lungley is tripe for me, Kevin Dean carries the whole attack..

 

[Hoggy31]

Northants were dismissed for 333 in their first innings, Travis Friend was on a hattrick before Di Venuto grassed the easy catch at first slip off the hattrick ball..

 

[Hoggy31]

Better performance, probably could've got the draw easily but went all out for the win. Looking foward to the next game

 

[Hoggy31]

Pretty disappointing effort, lucky to get where we did from 61/7, Top order batting needs to be looked at..

Dean 10-2-16-2 was fantastic

 

[Neil Pickup]

Looks like it's got Derby's talent level about right...

 

[Hoggy31]

Disappointed once again, Not many signs of improvement so far..

 

[superkingdave]

a bit of a dissapointing performance by Lancashire there

 

[steds]

a bit of a dissapointing performance by Lancashire there

I agree. Shoud have won by at least 2 innings

 

[superkingdave]

I agree. Shoud have won by at least 2 innings

i was more concerned about the fact that no one other than Hodge was prepared to knuckle down and make a big score, and the fact they let Travis Friend score a fifty

 

[Jamee999]

On the demo I played as Lancashire. 955 we made in that game. Hodge 297 and Cork 180* we were 2 wickets away from the win.

 

[Hoggy31]

Probably could've won the match if we had a decent second innings but the top order just failed to do the job again

 

[Robertinho]

Uh, you had a first innings deficit of 98 runs

 

[Hoggy31]

Got off to a good start with both the bat and ball but yet again could not carry on the pressure, Was 70/1 going along at 7 an over at one stage..

 

[Hoggy31]

Uh, you had a first innings deficit of 98 runs

Yeah but if i made 270ish it would've set em around 180 to get batting last

 

[Hoggy31]

Derbyshire WIN a game!!

Finally a win!!

 

[superkingdave]

ha ha, i don't see it Hoggy, is it in your mind?

 

[_Ed_]

Good win there, great second innings batting effort. Good stuff, hope you can get some momentum now.