Even for someone as fit as he is, there was a certain inevitability that at some point Brooke Guest would sustain an injury. The thinking money was perhaps on a finger injury, but a groin strain now rules him out for an as yet unspecified period of time.

But as I said pre season, there are plenty of good wicket keepers around the county circuit, not able to force their way into their county’s first eleven.

So it is that Mickey Arthur has moved quickly and been able to acquire the services of Hampshire wicketkeeper bat Aneurin Donald.

I saw him a few years back playing for Glamorgan second eleven against Derbyshire at Belper and he looked a player of Incredible talent. He scored a century that day and the ball disappeared to all parts. It was the equal best century I have seen in a county second team game, matched only by one scored by Ian Blackwell against Yorkshire at Chesterfield, going back way too many years to count!

He has produced some powerful hitting over the years. People always reference the double century he made against us in 2016, but there have been others of equal power. 173 from 144 balls for Hampshire in the Royal London Cup of 2019 was special, so too 76 from just 36 balls against Yorkshire the same year.

He then missed two years of cricket after a freak accident and surgery on his anterior cruciate ligament. At 26, this move works well for player and clubs. He has a year remaining on his Hampshire contract and an opportunity to show what he can do, with or without the gloves, is not one to turn down.

In the short term, he offers Derbyshire additional power in the middle order and he looks likely to play in the second team double header against Lancashire today, before doing so against the same opposition on Saturday.

Like everyone else, I look forward to seeing what he brings to Derbyshire and thank him for coming to God’s own county for a little while.

Here he is in action last season