Match Review: Nottinghamshire vs Derbyshire, Day 2

Not too much to write about today, as Derbyshire limped to 306-6 on a severely shortened day, where the Trent Bridge climatic microcosm behaved as it sometimes does and offered greater swing.

The stand developments at Trent Bridge cause the ball to move around when the temperature and breeze is right, and Andre Adams and Harry Gurney took out the remainder of our top six to leave us on 306-6 at the close.

I can’t see how a positive result can be achieved in this game, looking at the forecast and with only half an innings completed. Derbyshire might bat on tomorrow to get to 350 and another batting point, but it is hard to see how a result can come unless it effectively becomes a one innings match. That might be worth a gamble, especially if there was a chance of similar swing, but as with any gamble, there’s an element of risk – and loss.

Off the field the club are asking fans to vote for their favourite T20 eleven, which I find very difficult as, without being cruel, I find it hard to come up with eleven players who were actually good at the format. That is why we’ve been a very average side in the competition over the years.

I can come up with Martin Guptill, Steffan Jones and James Pipe, then I am struggling. You may stick in the qualified success that was Loots Bosman as second overseas, Wayne Madsen as someone who improvises well and Wes Durston who has produced some good displays, but then…Ant Botha maybe, Greg Smith on occasion (but not often), then I’m stuck.

Perhaps I am missing someone – feel free to let me know – but we have not covered ourselves in glory in this competition and I really hope that this year we do, for the first time in a long while.

More tomorrow.