Back-To-Back Victories Boost Derbyshire's Promotion Push
18.05.26, 17:02 Updated 19.05.26, 10:36 4 Minute Read
Matthew Rhodes
In many ways, this was an even better performance than the one that crushed Northamptonshire a week before at The Central Co-op County Ground. Chiefly, because Derbyshire found themselves in a similar scenario to the one away at Lancashire back in April. The manner of that defeat to the red rose county clearly affected Derbyshire in their following couple of games, almost like a hangover. At that point, after a painful 225 run defeat away to an out-of-form Kent, it looked for many that the club’s promotion hopes had already been extinguished. Fast forward to May 18, and the push for promotion is well and truly back on after Derbyshire banished the ghosts of Emirates Old Trafford and swept aside Middlesex at the home of cricket.
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Matthew Rhodes Matthew is a freelance sports broadcaster, commentator and journalist. He provides live audio commentaries and on the whistle written match reports on football games for Flashscore. He also spent four years as North Derbyshire Radio's senior sports editor. Matthew was born in Chesterfield and grew up in the town.