Wes Durston

The Derbyshire Falcons kept their slim hopes of reaching the T20 Blast quarter-finals alive with a six wicket victory at Derby that dealt a severe blow to Lancashire Lightning's chances of making the last eight.

Billy Godleman has been appointed captain of Derbyshire's County Championship side after Wayne Madsen stepped down

Derbyshire and Leicestershire both could claim to have fallen short of what would have been a famous victory as two struggling side produced a thrilling season's finale at Derby

Derbyshire boosted their quarter-final hopes by thrashing local rivals Leicestershire by six wickets in a one-sided Royal London Cup Group A match at Derby.

Classy hundreds from Steven Davies and Kumar Sangakkara propelled Surrey to a 77-run victory over Derbyshire in a high-scoring Royal London Cup match at Guildford

Yorkshire's fading hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the NatWest T20 Blast were dealt another blow when they lost by four wickets to bottom-of-the-table Derbyshire in the North Group match at Chesterfield

Wes Durston had the Foxes on the run when he demolished Leicestershire's bowling to lead Derbyshire to a 17-run victory in the NatWest Blast T20 North Group at Derby.

Northamptonshire claimed their opening win of the Natwest T20 Blast campaign with a comfortable six-wicket win over Derbyshire at Wantage Road

Derbyshire's pace attack delivered a late twist to another enthralling day to give the home side a slender advantage in their Division Two match against Lancashire

ESPNcricinfo assesses Derbyshire's prospects for 2015

Worcestershire's promotion drive ran into a road block at Derby when an inspired career-best spell of spin bowling from Wes Durston sent them crashing to a 138-run defeat.

A century from Wes Durston spurred visitors Derbyshire to victory over Northamptonshire at the County Ground

Derbyshire bounced back from their miserable Twenty20 campaign by thrashing Hampshire by 136 runs in the opening Group A game of the Royal London Cup

Derbyshire broke their NatWest T20 Blast duck in spectacular fashion when they chased down a target of 190 to beat Warwickshire by three wickets with six balls to spare under the floodlights at Derby

Derbyshire kept themselves in contention for a place in the quarter-finals of the Friends Life t20 after pulling off a 16-run victory over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.

Albie Morkel's advice to sit tight in the face of a bright start was taken on board as Derbyshire wrestled back Leicestershire chase to win comfortably

Essex saw their slim chances of promotion all but wiped out while Derbyshire took another step towards Division One

After a summer disrupted by rain, Yorkshire can plead mitigating factors if they fail in their main objective and are unable to secure promotion from Division Two

Sajid Mahmood had a night to forget as Lancashire lost to Derbyshire by 17 runs via the Duckworth/Lewis method in a Friends Life t20 game played in steady rain under the County Ground floodlights.