v Derbyshire
County Championship Division Two
Friday 17 May 2024
close on Day One
Played at Derby
“Yes, come in me Duck.”
Said the Derbyshire Steward as I sheepishly (you could have tried “Ram-ishly” there Phil) offered my Yorkshire Membership to allow me in free under reciprocal arrangements.
Straight ahead Two Can day. It can be a bit of a challenge buying #CricketCans these days. Lazy County Championship days are neither the time nor the place for tucking into something at the high Craft end. What you need is some supermarket tins.
But, what comes out at you from the shelves?
Your Camden Hells, your Meantime Pales, your Beavertown this that others. Your “hang on, where are they really brewed nowadays” Brooklyn & Sierra Nevada. Your Craft-a-Likes, mate, that's Greene King.
And - Brewdog. Given how far they've become the beer company they shouldn't have, I'm not having those fuckers leap off the Waitrose shelves at me.
In the end. Siren. A mixed pale four pack. Beautiful. Put them in the cool bag. Make the Carrier Bag Firm pick them out without looking. Beer Bagatelle. Comes in within budget at £6.75.
I thought I might be able to shave summat off that by using my myWaitrose loyalty card (on my phone). Scanned it.
“Sorry, you'll have to try again, that hasn't worked.”
“Sorry, same again, it's not working, I'm not sure why, maybe try again.”
I stepped back and assessed the situation in its entirety.
“Oh no. Of course it's not working. I'm using my Morrisons More card. Both green logos you see …”
Have I mentioned I'm 65?
Siren Craft Brew (Wokingham), Yu Lu, Pale Ale from a Tin at 3.6%
Got some Earl Grey tea and Lemon Zest in it. They're very much background flavours. Trying, but not entirely succeeding, to enhance rather than overtake. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Although I found “the tea” came and went a bit. There in some slurps. Not in others. Needs mashing for longer!!!
Siren Craft Brew, Mesmerist, Pale Ale from a Tin at 3.4%
Moreish and very soft pale ale. Got a nice bitter hit in the finish.
Three phases at the ball hitting. Northants batted after winning the toss. Huuuuge appeal off the first ball. Not the last either. Edges running through the slips, or flying past Third, all day. But Ricardo Vasconcelos and Emilio Gay weathered it. And pushed on a bit once the opening bowlers had gone for a rest. Vasconcelos got to his fifty. But was out straight away. That was 99 for 1. And phase one.
That became 121 for 4. As the Derbyshire bowlers pushed into phase two. Karun Nair was fourth gone for just 6 off 34. I'm always intrigued by Nair. In 2019, I saw him make 303 Not Out for India in a Test in Chennai against England.
I was in a box. And I remember leaving it for Row Z in the stand as Nair neared three hundred.
“If I'm going to clap him through 300, no good me doing it in the box, he won't be able to fucking hear me.”
That was his first ever Test century. In just his third Test. And he went on to 300. But, he only ended up playing six Tests in all.
Anyway. Northants. 121 for 4. George Bartlett & Rob Keogh put on 124 runs in phase 3. Bartlett went at 245 for 5. And they ticked along nicely to the close.
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