Friends Of Queens Park (Chesterfield) Cricket

A tremendous first meeting of the close season last night at Chesterfield Cricket Lovers' Society. Five new members joined and there was a full house to hear Peter Willey talk about his 49 years as a cricketer and umpire - and more. Very much on the front foot, he was informative, entertaining, forthright and amusing...and he smiled for the photograph!

On This Day in 1991 @DerbyshireCCC began a match against Yorkshire at Chesterfield which they won by 40 runs to finish third in the County Championship, their best position since 1954. @grizz598 made 112 before Kim Barnett collected the cheque...

On This Day in 1969 @DerbyshireCCC played in their first Gillette Cup semi-final, against Sussex at Queen's Park, Chesterfield, winning by 87 runs. Peter Eyre took six for 18. The official attendance was 10,582, paying gate receipts of £3,520...

On This Day in 1983 Kim Barnett and Iain Anderson added 158 for the first wkt of the game against Kent at Chesterfield. In the second innings they added 109 for the first wicket. This was only the second instance of two century opening partnerships in a match for @DerbyshireCCC There have now been three occurrences @ACScricket

On This Day in 1977 @DerbyshireCCC began a three day game against Warwickshire at Chesterfield, Harry Cartwright scoring 141* and Keith Stevenson taking seven for 68 as Derbyshire won by seven wickets. Both were career-best performances...

On This Day in 1983 Michael Holding made his first class debut for @DerbyshireCCC against Kent at Chesterfield. He played 66 first class games for the county taking 224 wickets at an average of 24.57 with a best of seven for...

On This Day in 1933 @DerbyshireCCC began a three day game against Worcestershire at Chesterfield which they won by an innings and 234 runs, largely thanks to Stan Worthington's 200 not out and Tommy Mitchell's match figures of 11-64

On This Day in 2017 @DerbyshireCCC beat Yorkshire by three runs in a T20 game at Chesterfield - @ImranTahirSAenjoyed the day, taking three for 18…

On This Day in 1965 Umpire Syd Buller called Harold Rhodes for throwing during the tour game between @DerbyshireCCC and South Africa at Chesterfield. The best account of the story is still this book...

Queen's Park, Chesterfield from the air early this morning - drone shot from 120 metres... Later, this place will be packed with all tickets sold for @DerbyshireCCC v @YorkshireCCC in the T20 Blast @FriendsQPC @Chesterfield_CC @ChesterfieldBC @VitalityBlast #soldout #countycricket

On This Day in 2010 @aLeadingEdge1 made his first class debut for @DerbyshireCCC against Surrey at Chesterfield. Durston played 75 first class matches for the county scoring 3,620 runs and taking 95 wickets. He made five 100s and 19 50s and took five wickets in an innings four times...

On This Day in 2010 @DerbyshireCCC began a four day game against Surrey at Chesterfield during which @waynemadders77 scored a hundred in each innings. Madsen remains the only Derbyshire player to perform this feat at Chesterfield...

On This Day in 2010 Surrey's Mark Ramprakash was bowled by @DerbyshireCCC Tim Groenewald at Chesterfield. Prior to the ball being bowled, Ramprakash's score was shown as 100 on the scoreboard but as he returned to the pavilion, the board wound his score back (correctly) to 99...

Huge thanks to @EssexCricket CEO Dan Feist for showing me around the Essex Cricket Museum at Chelmsford yesterday (and for the book!). It also gave me a chance to see, for the first time, the bat with which Percy Perrin scored 343 for Essex at Chesterfield in 1904, a game Essex lost to @DerbyshireCCC Thanks again @FriendsQPC @Chesterfield_CC @ACScricket

'Archive Rarities @DerbyshireCCC 1 to 365 in 2026' 127 - Derbyshire won their sole County Championship title in 1936 - here's that side walking onto the field at Chesterfield that summer...

On This Day in 1898 the half timbered pavilion was officially opened at Chesterfield @Chesterfield_CC – the cost was £499. It was renovated in 1921 and extended in 1936 with more work carried out in the 1970s and more recently - @DerbyshireCCC have played over 500 matches here... @ACScricket @FriendsQPC @Chesterfield_CC

'Archive Rarities @DerbyshireCCC 1 to 365 in 2026' 85 - One of the earliest photographs of Queen's Park, Chesterfield - this is 1904 and the players are leaving the field after Derbyshire had defeated Essex by nine wickets...something of an upset after the visitors had scored 597 in their first innings... @ACScricket