Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen will extend his stay at the club into a 19th season after signing a one-year red-ball contract. The 42-year-old South Africa-born right-handed batter has scored more than 24,000 all-format runs for the county, including 52 centuries. He retired from domestic T20 cricket in July, but will lead Derbyshire in their 2027
Eyeing a victory to stay ahead of promotion rivals Kent, Guthrie set the tone early for the Steelbacks. Bowling with a noticeable pace, he proved a constant threat, finding movement and deploying the short ball to good effect. He was backed up well by his fellow seamers with Ben Sanderson and Harry Conway both taking
Given its premise — a post-stroke retiree derives sexual pleasure from his daughter-in-law — the perverse qualities of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s classic “Diary of a Mad Old Man” are plentiful. But by the standards of contemporary mores, the 1961 novel isn’t particularly explicit; in his first feature since 2019, Wayne Wang initially takes a different approach,
Wayne Madsen, Derbyshire Falcons’ all-time leading T20 run-scorer, will retire from domestic T20 cricket. The 42-year-old will play his final T20 Blast match on Sunday when the Falcons host Leicestershire, but will still feature in the County Championship and One-Day Cup. Madsen is the fourth highest run-scorer in Blast history and has amassed 5,108 runs,
