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Our meetings take place in the pavilion at the Queen's Park cricket ground unless members are informed otherwise. Membership costs £5. Visitors are welcome for a small fee which will be refunded if the visitor becomes a member on the evening.

Meetings begin at 7.45 p.m. and are held monthly from October to March. The evenings vary from Monday to Thursday.

Founded in 1963, we are the "senior" of the three societies in Derbyshire.

Society Objectives

1. To provide a source of contact between cricket enthusiasts everywhere and to promote, arrange and conduct meetings, social gatherings and other functions in order to enable members of the Society to meet one another and to encourage and facilitate the exchange of views and information concerning cricket.
2. To provide such facilities for playing cricket as may be in the interest of members and of the game as a whole.
3. To extend and explain the knowledge, appreciation and love of cricket amongst persons of all ages and all countries and to assist in any possible way towards the benefit of cricket players and all who are interested in the game.

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Chesterfield Cricket Lovers' Secretary, John Cook, pictured with John Carr.
Photo: Mike Taylor

Mr. Carr ran through his Cricket career with us. Middlesex had some superb players in its ranks whilst he was there - Gatting and Fraser, for example, but he felt that the County was projected to its greatest successes by its three English Test spinners, Emburey, Edmonds and Tuffnell.

John briefly left the Game to enter Banking, with Barclays but then returned for a second spell at Middlesex, before finally retiring in order to take up an Administrative Post at Lord`s. For the best part of the last two decades he has held important positions within the ECB, latterly as Director of England Cricket Operations. Over the years his duties have encompassed such diverse subjects as the organization of Contracts within the Game, the setting up of the various County Premier Leagues (thereby bringing professional cricket little closer to the recreational Game) and the planning of overseas Test tours to, and by England, thereby enabling him to undertake some travel, which he much enjoys.

In Questions & Answers our guest handled with much thought and honesty a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the Recreational and the Professional Games; the DRS Review System in its various forms, the comings and goings on short term Contracts of overseas players in the County Game and finance.

A great evening, conducted by a thoughtful and thoroughly pleasant and likeable man, in front of another bumper audience. At the end of the meeting Mr. Carr thanked The Society for being the first ever Cricket Organisation to have ever invited him back for an encore - surely not true and just a joke!

Reports from Previous Meetings

2013/2014 Season

2012/2013 Season

2011/2012 Season

2010/2011 Season

Gallery

David Marshall & James Pipe	John Barclay & Edwin Smith	David Marshall & John Barclay	Trevor Bowring, Davdi Marshall & Bob Wood	John Barclay meeting,134 people enjoy a superb meal
John Morris & David Marshall	Trevor Bowring, Jim Parks & Jim Brailsford	Matthew Maynard & David Marshall	Niven Roper & Chris Kelly	Ray East & Mike Taylor
Chris Read & David Marshall	Steve Garratt & Niven Roper	Steve Franks & Alan West	Steve Kirby & David Marshall	Keith Loring & Mike Taylor

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