So it is farewell and thanks to Sir John Gains and Kevin Dean, as both step down from their roles on the Derbyshire CCC Supervisory Board.
Both have filled their roles well, but with the requisites for governance of clubs changing, the club will ensure that the new look Board is fit for purpose and covers all the bases, in so far as ECB requirements are concerned.
What that will mean down the line is anyone's guess, but it is good to see that the club are taking time to get it right and are future-proofing things.
In playing terms, there is little more to report on just now, apart from, at international level, the nose-diving of Australian cricket. For all that the ECB seem to be using the Big Bash as the template for how things should be done, the reality is that their national game is in a very poor state at the moment. Aside from David Warner, Steven Smith and Mitchell Starc, they have no players who opponents would fear and desperately need one or two who have been 'young and promising' for too long to kick on.
South Africa, even without Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, seem to have way too much for them and for a Test side of their standard to be bowled out in just over thirty overs is shocking. With no AB de Villiers either, you couldn't claim this close to a first choice visiting side, but they have some highly talented players coming through who are doing what the Australians aren't - contributing.
Injuries to some seam bowlers haven't helped, but there is no comparison between the current rude health of English cricket, with a lot of young talent emerging, and its Australian counterparts.
There is, it has to be said, a degree of irony in this...
More from me in the week.
Australia are certainly performing poorly against the South Africans and there are few promising replacements making their claim in the Sheffield Shield. Josh Hazlewood - 82 wickets at around 26 - deserves respect and Nathan Lyon still has more Test wickets than all England's spinners combined. Let's hope that England's positive start to the Indian campaign continues so that we'll be ready to defend the Ashes in a year's time. Only one series win in Australia in thirty years and six Test victories in 35 matches but definitely every reason for optimism at this stage.
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