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BBC News
2 days ago
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All-rounder Reece signs new Derbyshire deal
Derbyshire's leading wicket-taker Luis Reece has signed a two-year contract extension with the County Championship 34-year-old all-rounder, who has taken a Division Two high of 34 wickets so far this season, has been with the East Midlands club since has taken more than 200 wickets and scored more than 8,000 runs across all formats for Derbyshire in his time at the County Ground."Luis is a key member of our experienced core and his quality with bat and ball remains high," Derbyshire head of cricket Mickey Arthur told the club website., external"As a left-armer who swings the ball, he brings a different dimension to our attack and he is an example for our younger players to follow, in how to adapt to different roles and perform."
BBC News
27-05-2025
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Arthur 'hellbent' on success with Derbyshire
Mickey Arthur says he is "hellbent" on delivering success at Derbyshire, but admits the County Championship job has proven harder than he first 57-year-old South African has been head of cricket since 2022 and overseen more wins in the first seven rounds of the Championship this season as he did across the past two East Midlands club finished bottom of Division Two with a solitary victory last term, while they failed to register a win with the red ball in 2023 after managing three for a mid-table finish in his first season at the County Monday, all-rounder Luis Reece helped them secure their second win of the season with a comprehensive victory over Kent that kept them second in the are still unbeaten, having drawn the other five former Australia, South Africa and Pakistan coach Arthur, the strong start to the season came after a winter reflecting on the club's struggles of recent years."I want to win. I'm not failing and I don't fail," Arthur told BBC East Midlands Today."I have beat myself up a bit because you do constantly re-evaluate your style and where you are as a coach." Arthur says what Derbyshire have demanded of him as a coach has been "fantastic" after years spent in charge of national moving to the County Ground, the last time he worked at club level outside of a T20 franchise was at Western Australia in 2011."I've had to self-reflect and change my style a little bit because coaching internationally and coaching domestically has been a little bit different, which I didn't think it would be," he said."I've had to change a lot of the ways I handle the squad and different situations. "In a nutshell it has taken a little bit longer, but it is a process of continually improving. And if you continue to self-improve - that's myself, the coaching staff and the players - you will ultimately achieve what you want to."Even while in charge of Derbyshire, Arthur has stayed in touch with the international game, juggling a short second stint with Pakistan in season he is combining his role at Derbyshire with that of director of cricket at Hundred side Northern landed those other roles despite Derbyshire's struggles of recent years, which last season prompted the club's chief executive Ryan Duckett to come out and back the head coach."I'm here until the club say to me, 'not any more'. That is how hellbent I am on achieving success," Arthur replied, when asked about what his plans for his future at Derbyshire are."I've had the fortune and opportunity to coach a lot of teams, and a lot of good teams and this is one that I'm very passionate about and one that I'm absolutely adoring because it's like taking the underdog to the top."
BBC News
26-05-2025
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Derbyshire wrap up innings win over Kent
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Derby (day four)Derbyshire 587-5 dec: Jewell 232, Madsen 100, Came 89, Lloyd 50, Reece 50Kent 326 & 247 (f/o): Muyeye 55, Compton 49, Stewart 49; Reece 3-21Derbyshire (23 pts) beat Kent (2 pts) by an innings and 14 runsMatch scorecard Luis Reece led Derbyshire's victory charge as they rolled over Kent before lunch on the final day of the County Championship Division Two match at all-rounder picked up two wickets to claim outstanding figures of 3-21 from 10 overs as they beat the visitors by an innings and 14 runsAfter Zak Chappell struck with the first ball of the day, Kent folded in feeble fashion, losing four wickets in eight overs, to slump to 247-9, with the injured Jake Ball unable to was Derbyshire's second win of the season, taking them above Glamorgan to second in the table, while Kent have now lost four matches in a slide to another defeat started when Tawanda Muyeye was caught behind taking on a short ball from clearly thought it had come off his shoulder but given his side were still 104 runs behind with three wickets already down, it was not a great shot for the was a straightforward catch for Brooke Guest but the wicketkeeper took a much sharper one five overs later standing up to Reece when Chris Benjamin pushed forward and edged into his hopes of at least frustrating Derbyshire now rested with Jack Leaning and Harry Finch but the pair were quickly parted with Reece celebrating a second success of the failed to get over a drive and substitute fielder Nick Potts took a good tumbling catch diving forward at deep were now all over the visitors and in the next over, Finch went to turn Anuj Dal off his legs but the ball came off his thigh pad and onto the Parkinson had resisted well as nightwatchman in the first innings but this time he lasted only seven balls before he went half forward to Jack Morley and was Stewart struck some muscular blows, pulling Pat Brown for six, but the end came 15 minutes before the interval when he sliced the fast bowler to third man where Potts pulled off a superb diving Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
Telegraph
15-05-2025
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An ambidextrous is spinner taking county cricket by storm
Glamorgan were seeking the final Derbyshire wicket in the very last over of their Championship match earlier this month, after four days of hard graft. With spinner Ben Kellaway bowling, the Glamorgan captain Sam Northeast, one of many fielders crowding the batsman Luis Reece, signalled to his bowler that he should try something different: swapping his right-arm off-spin for left-arm orthodox. Kellaway obliged – informing the umpire first, of course. The plan did not work, with Derbyshire surviving for a draw. 'There was a bit of rough outside the left-hander's off-stump and we thought we'd give it a go,' he said. 'With two balls left there was nothing to lose, it might have shot through or bounced. Unfortunately I did not execute it to perfection.' Perhaps not that delivery, but Kellaway has got a lot right. In that innings, he registered his maiden first-class five-wicket haul and a week later, he had his maiden first-class hundred, 181 not out as a resurgent Glamorgan romped to their first win of the season. To avenge the draw against Derbyshire, it was fitting that Kellaway picked up the final two wickets against Kent. Kellaway made headlines last summer for his ambidextrous spin bowling, emerging as a cricketing curiosity. But that ball against Derbyshire is, so far, his only left-arm delivery of the new season, during which he has proved he is not a mere novelty act, but a 21-year-old all-rounder of real substance, with many arrows in his quiver. From No 6, he is averaging 64 with the bat and whether as a primary (behind Shoaib Bashir and perhaps soon the fit-again Mason Crane) or secondary spinner, 25 with the ball. With a former England spinner, Richard Dawson, now coaching Glamorgan, Kellaway has kicked on hugely. The first of many 💯 Relive the moment Ben Kellaway got his first-ever County Championship hundred 👏 WATCH LIVE: #KENTvGLAM #OhGlammyGlammy — Glamorgan Cricket 🏆 (@GlamCricket) May 10, 2025 'My main skills have always been being a middle order batter and bowling off-spin. I want and need them to be as strong as possible,' he tells Telegraph Sport. 'The both arms thing is talked about a lot, and has taken over a bit. If the left-arm stuff can be used effectively, then great but those two main skills will always be my main focus.' Bowling left-arm spin was a happy byproduct of lockdown boredom for Kellaway, who was born in Newport, learnt the game at Chepstow Cricket Club, and educated at Clifton College. 'It was a complete mess about,' he explains. 'Everyone obviously had so much time on their hands during Covid and my younger brother and I were both teenagers into cricket, so we just played in the backyard, messing around with swing balls and tennis balls. I then parked it for a while, and got it out occasionally in the nets at school. I never took it seriously.' Grant Bradburn, the former Glamorgan coach, saw Kellaway bowl left-arm in the nets, and encouraged him to practise 'to stand out'. Over the last 18 months, he has bowled more with his left arm in the nets, to the point that it accounts for about 30% of his bowling practice. 'I'll do my main training as right arm, then when I have some extra time practise with the left,' he says. 'At first my whole left side was weaker and I got very sore. But it's getting stronger and my action is getting better. I've still got loads of work to do, but it's moving in the right direction.' For now, Kellaway sees his party trick as primarily for white-ball to nullify match-ups. Last July, he became the first bowler in county cricket to take a wicket with each arm in the same innings, since Kent's Charles Rowe in 1980. Such skill remains very rare, with Sri Lanka's Kamindu Mendis – now one of the world's best batsmen – occasionally doing it, too. 'That was baffling,' he said. 'I didn't think much of it at the time. I'd just been told to give it a crack and it worked. The whole spell I bowled 50/50. To get a wicket was surreal, and the reaction in the days that followed made me realise how unusual it was. It's different and I'm quite excited by where I can take it. 'It needs some more work to bowl longer spells in Championship cricket, but I do find that when I bowl longer spells in the nets, I find it easier, and get some rhythm. Just dropping in for a ball here or there is hard.' One of the bizarre aspects of this tale is how Kellaway can do little else with his left hand. From a family with no link to cricket, he played rugby as a kid, and could 'just about pass off my left hand, but nowhere near as strong as my right'. 'People find that very funny,' he says. 'I am totally right hand dominant but weirdly this comes quite naturally. I have tried throwing a cricket ball with my left hand and it's terrible. It's quite common to bowl with one arm and throw with another, Tymal Mills and Jack Leach do that. But that's not me at all.' Kellaway points out that when Glamorgan have been at their strongest, such as when they last won the Championship in 1997, they had a strong core of Welsh players. 'That's a proud thing for the club, and we are striving for more Welsh representation. The way the pathway is set up, I think we will see more coming through. My family weren't into cricket, but some mates just took me down to the club in Chepstow and I loved it. Hopefully we can inspire more Welsh kids to get into the game.'
Yahoo
06-04-2025
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Jewell sparkles on debut with two 50s for Derbyshire
Tasmanian batter Caleb Jewell has become an instant hit on the county cricket scene, marking his Derbyshire debut with a second quickfire half-century to guide them to a season-opening county championship triumph over Gloucestershire. In front of his appreciative new audience at Derby's County Ground, the 27-year-old left-hander had made an ideal first impression in his first innings, as he raced to 61 off 48 balls to help them breeze past the visitors' first innings total. And asked to mop up the victory on Sunday's penultimate day after Luis Reece's match haul of 10 wickets had left Derbyshire needing just 91 to win, Jewell wasted no time to ensure they got to their target within 20 overs for the loss of just one wicket as he flayed six boundaries in his unbeaten 48-ball 51. 𝘾𝘼𝙇𝙀𝘽'𝙎 𝙊𝙉 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙀 🔥Watch LIVE ⤵ — Derbyshire CCC (@DerbyshireCCC) April 6, 2025 Another Australian newcomer to the championship Fergus O'Neill, the Sheffield Shield's player of the season, has an opportunity to complete an eye-opening county debut of his own when he seeks to bowl Nottinghamshire to victory over Durham on Monday's final day. O'Neill, who'd taken 5-81 in the first innings, struck twice in three balls early in Durham's second innings as they sought to wipe out a 201-run deficit following Nottinghamshire's compilation of a massive 579, which featured a ton from allrounder Lyndon James. 📹 What a start to the second innings for our man from are 30-2, trailing by 171.#NOTvDUR | 📺 — Nottinghamshire CCC (@TrentBridge) April 6, 2025 The Victoria quick's new-ball spell in the evening session left Durham tottering on 2-29 as, first, he trapped skipper Alex Lees lbw and then dismissed Emilio Gay for a duck for the second time in the match, this time by sending his off-stump cartwheeling. He ended the day with figures of 2-29 off his eight overs as Durham finished on 3-114, still 87 in arrears. Darren Lehmann's bow as Northamptonshire coach ended in a comprehensive 145-run defeat by Kent at Northampton, with his side skittled out for just 114 in 35.4 overs. Liam Guthrie made a good impression on debut for Northants, though, the Aussie with a UK passport having bowled England opener Zak Crawley on the first day and ending up with three wickets in the match. ⚠️ RECORD BREAKER ⚠️#SOMvWOR#WeAreSomerset — Somerset Cricket (@SomersetCCC) April 6, 2025 The most extraordinary feat in the opening round of matches has come from Somerset's Tom Banton, who registered the fifth highest score in the history of the county championship when he was dismissed for 371 against Worcestershire at Taunton. Unbeaten on 344 overnight, having beaten Justin Langer's county record of 342, the 26-year-old England white-ball international ended up with 56 fours and two sixes off 403 balls before his wicket prompted Somerset to declare their first innings on 7-670, leading by 516. Worcestershire battled to 5-280 by the close, but were still 236 behind. Leicestershire, under their Australian skipper Peter Handscomb, sealed a comfortable three-day, 10-wicket win despite a century from Glamorgan's Kiran Carlson.
