Sandiacre Town increased their lead at the top of the Beechwood MG Derbyshire Premier League despite being held to a draw by Chesterfield. Sandiacre were in the ascendency at Longmoor Lane but not so Swarkestone at Matlock. Matlock’s 225 for 6 was enough to secure a winning-draw and Swarkestone were limited to just nine points. Ockbrook & Borrowash consolidated third spot with 17pts from a draw at Denby and Lullington Park put last weekend’s dismal showing behind them to thrash Eckington who drop to bottom place as a consequence. Ticknall came off second-best in a drawn game against Dunstall in spite of Zain Abbas’s fine unbeaten century and A & B got off the mark in 2013 with a win over Spondon.

Marehay have a 13pt advantage at the top of Play Straight Cricket Division One thanks to victory over Elvaston and Alfreton move back up to second place courtesy of a six-wicket win over Sawley & Long Eaton Park. Biggest movers on the day were Duffield who thrashed Rolls Royce Leisure to move up three places to third. Clifton and Ilkeston Rutland got the better of draws against Quarndon and Ambergate respectively and Rolleston picked up their first win of the season at the expense of Stainsby Hall.

In ‘the follow on’ Division Two Staveley Welfare climbed back into top spot following an easy win over former-leaders Cutthorpe and Langley Mill Utd slip to third following defeat at home to South Wingfield. In Technical Turf Division Three West Hallam WR still lead the way after claiming the major spoils from a draw with Walton, a result that allowed Alrewas, who drew against Heanor Town, to nudge up in to second place.

All the latest news can be found right here with results added to the site as they come in, so the league tables will be updated immediately and Premier League scorecards will be available straight after each game. With several other clubs now using TCS, expect to see more and more games with full details on a Saturday night followed by reports on Sunday

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The Derbyshire Premier and County League site has now reached 2.5 million hits since we set the site up in 2002 - the busiest site on the whole network!

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Regular site line-up during the season:
Saturday night: Results summary, searchable results/tables
Sunday: Chris Oades's Premier round-up and County League Division 1, 2 and 3 reports
Monday thru Thursday: Scorecards and stats updated

We have now passed 2.5 million page impressions since we started in March 2002, the first play-cricket site to reach this landmark, and May 2011 set yet another record of 77258 hits. 2011 was another record-breaking year, with 400,000 hits recorded - the first site ever to reach that landmark; by the end of 2012 we might even be within reach of 3 million hits!

All League forms for 2012 and updated League rules are now available in Community>Library. If you run out of a form, just download a spare!

If you spot any discrepancies in the Tables, please tell me.

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