Friday 26th April 2013
pic courtesy Barry Dyke

The Chesterfield Post are delighted to announce that Autoworld Chesterfield are the new sponsors for our expanded coverage this season of newly promoted Derbyshire County Cricket Club.

Having won the LV= County Championship Division 2 title last season, Derbyshire CCC have lots to look forward to in Division 1 this year - along with the Falcons' one day games in the Friends Life T20 and Yorkshire Bank 40 - after a busy Winter recruiting, developing and touring.

Judith Barcroft, Marketing and Communications Manager at Autoworld Chesterfield said, "Autoworld Chesterfield are delighted to be sponsoring The Chesterfield Post's expanded coverage of Derbyshire County Cricket Club for the 2013 season and hope there are plenty of winning reports to come during DCCC's return to the top tier of County Cricket."

There has been a tremendous amount of work behind-the-scenes at DCCC during the last few years, not least over the last 6 months.

New signings (including one of the best batsmen in the world, Shivnarine Chanderpaul), securing many player contracts, new Governance of the club and improvements from grass roots level upwards, mean they are fighting fit for the challenge ahead and brings an added momentum to the club's ambitions.

Sports Journalist Paul Fisher will as always, be covering the Falcon's T20 matches, The Chesterfield Cricket Festival and the pick of the 4 day County and 40 over games, along with his exclusive post-match interviews and stories from behind the scenes.

We are also delighted to welcome local photographer Barry Dyke, who will be bringing us some great images of the cricket action and players to go with Paul's reports, as well as for other sports and news stories, having made a start this week at the Derbys v Notts County Championship Div 1 game at the County ground (below).


Derbyshire CCC Captain Wayne Madsen in action on the way to a 2nd innings 47 on the 3rd day of the LV County Championship Division 1 game against Notts

Barry has been heavily involved with Staveley MWFC for the last few years, both as their official photographer and the clubs Facebook creator/Manager - as well as a keen non-league football fan in general - but has decided to expand his photographic skills to include other sports, starting his new Facebook page, 'Sports Photos By Barry R Dyke'.

A talented Wildlife photographer as well, Barry has kindly agreed to join the team here at The Chesterfield Post and we'll using more of his top-notch images in the future.

We look forward to bringing you our expanded Derbyshire CCC and local cricket news coverage, sponsored by Autoworld Chesterfield, and hope it will encourage you to get behind the boys in their important and exciting season ahead.

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