Just wanted to rub our Yorkshire members noses in a bit lol. We beat Yorkshire by 6 wickets in the 1-dayer @ Queen’s Park, @ Chesterfield today. Yorks batted first and were 109-2 in the 21st over, but collapsed to 234-7 at the end of the innings. Derbyshire didn’t start well 2 runs in the first two overs. By the end of the 9th over we were 89-0. We stuggled a bit then, but ended up 235-4 after about 28/9 overs with Martin Guptill 100 not out. Bloody superb performance to say we are the perrenial whipping boys of English cricket. Now we face a very tough test starting Wednesday, with a 4 day test match against Northamptonshire, who are top of the league. If we win that we could be in the promotion places. Even if we don’t we’ll definately not finish bottom this year, so a damn good improvement over the last 140 years lol. Stefan
Come on Derbyshire! Dublin lost to Tipperary today in All-Ireland hurling semifinal after epic battle, but it was the first time since 1938 Dublin made it so far.
my brother loves the cricket . he plays for the british dominion here in so cal the team is mostly brits and indians . i think he even had one game for ireland years ago /
@Allan & @jpsks thank you lads, I notice @ermtony and @snuffhead are being quiet ;-). @Allan, I’ve never watched Irish sports but would like to. They don’t show it on English Sky/normal telly. I know a few Irish folk and they love Hurling and Gaelic sports, but to be honest I’ve got to do research on what the sports actually involve. I’ve been to a few Manx Gaelic games but forgot the names, and sport. Was a good afternoon out, I believe that was a Manx version of Hurling, it was between Laxey and I believe Peel, who as places go don’t like each other much lol, was entertaining. The closest I’ve ever got to Ireland is the IOM, but would like to go to Ireland if it wasn’t so expensive. The landlady at my local is Irish, and went back just before Xmas and then even the cheapest beer was over £4 a pint. I mean ffs when you need £75 for a night out it is time to pack up. I believe they went to County Cork. Stefan
There’s part of me that wants to learn what the rules of cricket are. Then there’s another part that thinks it’s an inside joke for the UK and Commonwealth countries where they just make up the rules as they go, and watch the rest of the world scratch their heads in confusion.
@ Sefan, ermtony is away on holiday, and I’m to busy on here declining bots trying to join this site to advertises porn. LOL!
Now, now John we all know you are crying into your beer lol ;-). Stefan
Stefan…the last time I Watched the game was in the days of Lydsly Asset, Richy Benno, Lock & Lacker. And ofcouse Freedy Trueman.
Some excellent players there John, wish I could’ve seen them in the flesh. Tony, gone anywhere nice? Hope he’s having better weather than we are here, its peeing it down @tm. Stefan
I think it was Brian Close on TV last night. said: too many coarches. In his day just a manager.
Love the sports talk, even when I have no idea what you all are going on about. But competitive sports in genereal–so clean, in that there are rules, and a contest, and then a winner. Then another contest and perhaps a different winner. So unlike so much else in “life”. One can’t bs one’s way to victory in sports (unlike politics, business, the arts . . . .) That’s why cheating (ie.doping) is so effed-up. Someday, perhaps, I’ll take the time to get to learn the rules of cricket. Sir Mick likes it, I know that. (These OT comments written by an American artist)
I prefer grasshoppers…
@ Stefan - I’ve been in Cornwall, the usual school holiday looking after the grandkids routine. As for the cricket, it has never interested me. Football neither for that matter.
@Tony ah right, hope you had a good time. Went to Day 1 of the test match today vs Northants. They were 267 all out and at close of play we were 116-4. Looks pretty intresting at the minute you couldn’t put a fag paper between them. Stefan
@ermtony: Amen, brother. Never “got” sports. I wish more men would admit to that, but it seems to be a masculinity complex issue. Although I do love cylcling, but never had interest in racing. (I will admit to having taken an interest in Celtic sports but more from a cultural aspect; also curling in the Olympics gave some inspiration last year.) Most athletics dervive from military tactics, which as you know, is far more interesting.
Day 2 @ Queen’s Park: DISASTER!!! We started off on 116-4, all I’ll say is we collapsed and were all out for 190, in 21 overs ffs! That meant that Northants were 77 in front. They batted for the rest of the day and at close of play it was 285-6. Which means they have a 362 run lead and still 4 wickets to go. All we can hope for now is for 2 days of rain so we get a draw. If not we will be thrashed, plain and simple. Not good :-(. Stefan
Hilarious, Stefan – I have no idea what any of it means, but I think I’m understanding that Derbyshire is on the ropes? (I’m now a Derbyshire fan, btw. Pronounced “Darbyshire”, right?)
Good to see a cricket fan Stefan. Don’t get to go as much as I used to, but I’m a pretty keen cricketer (Lancashire being my county), and play for my local team. I prefer to watch the test cricket though, the England vs India match has been a very good match from an English point of view!
In the name of everything that’s holy everybody do a rain dance! Top and bottom of it is that we need 205 runs to win, and only have 2 wickets left. Oh dear! @least_weasel to say we are on the ropes is an understatement lol, and yes Derbyshire is pronounced “Darbyshire”. @dan the series with India has been brilliant, India despite statistics were no way the best team in the world, we’ve made them look like amateurs. Either that or it just shows how absolutely BRILLIANT we are! Stefan
I know I would like sports if my close friend was on the team. This doesn’t happen so to me most sports are just boring.