Grizzly middles it that's why he was miffed and he was in great form and it was an important game for him to get the selectors looking at him as he was scoring loads of runs but was at an unfashionable county. Here's a nice article by Anton Rippon about the day. There were two articles the same really but with different pics this was sent to me when it came out the other was just a different pic of me bowling you can find it on the Internet.
Paul Aldred hit the winning runs
SHAME that Derbyshire aren’t playing the Australians this summer.
But the tourists are meeting hardly any counties. As cricket shifts towards more internationals and one-day matches, the traditional fixture list is no more.
So I’m going to look back to June 1997, when Paul Aldred hit the winning runs with three balls to spare against the Australians at the County Ground.
Aldred was doing more than seeing the county to a breathtaking victory; it was the first time in 28 attempts, stretching back almost 120 years, that Derbyshire had beaten the Australians – and, for good measure, they had achieved it with their highest-ever fourth innings
On a slow Derby pitch – fast bowler Devon Malcolm had been rested before the Tests – Derbyshire were asked to score 371 off what, ultimately, were 69 overs.
They got them with three balls to spare, after Chris Adams had set up victory with 91 off 76 balls. Adams, in trouble for disputing his first-innings dismissal, had been particularly well supported by Adrian Rollins (66) and Derbyshire’s Australian captain, Dean Jones (57).
But it had been an excellent all-round effort, not least by Aldred and last man Kevin Dean, who had nonchalantly pulled the first ball he received, from Shane Warne (seven for 103) to the boundary.
Derbyshire needed five runs off the last over, bowled by Brendon Julian, and Aldred, playing despite the death of his father the previous week, duly collected them to write a new chapter in the county’s history.
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