Dominic Cork reflects on Derbyshire's T20 progress

Up until last September, Derbyshire was the only county never to have reached Finals Day at Edgbaston and had only ever emerged from the group stages twice.

But on a Saturday evening in Bristol, the Falcons erased the bitter memory of a chastening defeat to Hampshire in 2017 by beating a strongly-fancied Gloucestershire side by seven wickets.

Supporters can again savour the victory next Friday (July 10th) when Derbyshire are streaming the Vitality Blast quarter-final on the club's website from 7pm and ahead of that, T20 head coach Dominic Cork looked back on a night to remember.

"It was a massive game because since I've been back, we'd been involved in one quarter-final and unfortunately, whether it was down to nerves or being outplayed by Hampshire or not executing plans, we didn't go through," he said.

"So it was important because a lot of people would have looked at us and, maybe, teams in the quarter-finals mix-up would have wanted us with our record, so the one thing I tried to take away from the guys was stop worrying about whether we've ever done it before, just go out and don't have any fear.

"After the first two overs, there was one little misfield in front of a big Gloucestershire crowd and you just thought then as a coach, would that affect us, would that give us more trepidation?