Regrets? Arthur has two as he looks back on season

DERBYSHIRE head of cricket Mickey Arthur highlighted “two disappointments” as he looked back on the 2025 Rothesay County Championship campaign.

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They finished third in Division Two after crushing Kent by an innings and 229 runs in their final match at Canterbury - five points behind promoted Glamorgan.

“I look at two results in particular,” said Arthur.

“We ended up five points behind Glamorgan and we needed 66 off 60 balls in that fourth innings run chase at Cardiff, that was a 16-point swing in the season for us.

“Then we had the same at Bristol, where we had the game won in the fourth innings chase and just didn’t manage to get over the line, so we ended up drawing both those games.

“Those are the two disappointments because if we had got over the line in one of them, we'd be talking about Division One next year.