Day one of the County Championship season has been hit by bad weather, with play abandoned for the day at Derbyshire, Durham and Lancashire without a ball being bowled.
Derbyshire’s Division Two game with Gloucestershire was the first to fall after an 11:00 BST pitch inspection.
The Division One games between Durham and Hampshire and Lancashire and Surrey followed in the afternoon.
This is the first of eight consecutive rounds of fixtures.
Derbyshire head groundsman Neil Godrich told BBC Radio Derby: “This has been the wettest pre-season I’ve experienced in 30 years.
“There’s that much water that all we can do is move it from place to place.
“The trouble is we’ve not had three or four dry days together, and when we did, it was too cold to dry anything out. We’ve got puddles that I’ve never seen before.”
The hosts and Glos are looking for a first County Championship victory since 2022 after winless campaigns last year.