Introducing the Coaching Staff at Derbyshire CCC:

John Morris - Head of Cricket

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Former Derbyshire, Durham, Nottinghamshire and England batsman, John Morris, was appointed as the club's Head of Cricket in August 2007.

Morris spent 11 years as a player at The County Ground from 1982 to 1993, amassing 13,489 runs for the club at an average of over 40.

He also played three Test matches and eight one-day internationals for England and received his Derbyshire cap in 1986.

Below: John Morris

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Andy Brown - Assistant Coach

When Andy Brown joined Derbyshire as John Morris's Assistant Coach late in 2007 he began his fourth spell on the county's staff having served them as a player from 1985 to 1987 then again from 1989 to 1992 before returning as Second XI Captain/Coach from 1997 to 2000.

Brown's total of 4901 Second XI runs is more than any player in the club's history and his finest hour in First Class cricket came in 1990 when he scored 139 against a Northamptonshire side which included Curtly Ambrose in full cry.

Below: Andy Brown

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Karl Krikken - Academy Director

Having served the club as an outstanding wicketkeeper for many years, Karl Krikken is now in charge of the Academy setup and coaching the Second XI here at the County Ground.

Scoring 5725 runs and claiming 557 dismissals behind the stumps during his 17 years as a player, Krikken celebrated 20 years with his only county in 2006.

Below: Karl Krikken pictured alongside another former Derbyshire wicketkeeper James Pipe.

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Luke Storey - Strength and Conditioning Coach

Luke Storey joined the Derbyshire County Cricket Club staff ahead off the 2010 season following the departure of Julian Calefato.

Employed as Strength & Conditioning Coach to the Bath Rugby Academy and the English Institute of Sport prior to his arrival at The County Ground, Luke also worked in injury prevention and performance enhancement in the USA with professional basketball and baseball players.

Luke is educated to MSc standard in Sport & Exercise Physioology as well as holding full accreditation from the United Kingdom Strength & Conditioning Association and the National Strength & Conditioning Association, holding both the ASCC and CSCS qualifications respectively.

As a sportsman, Luke has played hockey at county level as well as representing the University of Chichester 1st XI in the country's top university league. He also participates in Olympic Weightlifting at a recreational level.

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James Pipe - Head Physiotherapist

Bradford born Jamie Pipe joined Derbyshire as a wicketkeeper-batsman in 2006 and immediately became an immensely popular member of the team. Capable of electric glovework behind the stumps and brutal cameos with the bat, Pipe combined his cricketing ability with an infectious enthusiasm for the game.

Understudy to Steve Rhodes at Worcestershire for six seasons, Pipe impressed in his first season with Derbyshire, sustaining a batting average of above 30 and claiming 50 dismissals in 14 games with the gloves. His most notable performances with the bat that year were an exhilarating 84 from just 79 balls to help set up the famous home win against Somerset and an incredible cameo of 29 from nine balls in the Twenty20 match against his home county, Yorkshire.

Pipe has added an extra dimension to Derbyshire in the field with his splendid glovework. He took eleven stumpings in all competitions in 2006, many of them off the seamers, the most memorable of which sealed one of the Phantoms finest hours in the C & G Trophy win against Warwickshire.

Pipe then continued his progression in 2007 with more sterling work behind the stumps and consecutive centuries at the start of the LV County Championship season. Pipe scored 577 first-class runs in 2007 at an average of 36.06 as well as claiming 46 dismissals behind the stumps.

The 2008 season promised to be even more successful for Pipe who had scored 504 runs in just nine matches before a finger injury virtually wiped out his second half of the season. By that point, the popular gloveman had already scored two fifties and one century as he averaged over 40 with the bat and passed the 500 run mark for the third successive campaign since joining Derbyshire.

Coming against his former county Worcestershire, Pipe's 71 ball hundred was a special moment and was eventually decided as the winner of the Eddie Barlow Inspirational Performance Award for the year.

Pipe cruelly missed out on the opportunity to score back-to-back first-class hundreds for the second time in his Derbyshire career as a rapid collapse from the tail against Essex left him stranded on 95 not out.

Pipe combined his cricket with working towards a degree in physiotherapy and - having been offered the job as the club's Head Physiotherapist - 2009 proved to be the popular Yorkshireman's last as a player.

He maintained his standards to the end, averaging 37.92 in first-class cricket including three half-centuries as well as taking 36 catches and two stumpings during the course of the campaign.