PLANS are in hand for the club to undertake a pre-season tour to the Derbyshire Dales in 2023. A fixture has been arranged on Saturday, April 22, against Chatsworth CC – the club for which former Selkirk skipper John Everitt now plays. The Selkirk party will travel down on the Friday, returning home on the Sunday. Supporters are welcome to join the tour, and anyone interested should give their names to club secretary John Smail. The Chatsworth club is located in the 1,000-acre Chatsworth Park, which attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. It is set alongside the River Derwent and has views of the house, park and 200ft ‘emperor’ fountain. It is believed cricket has been played at Chatsworth, in some form, for nearly 200 years – the first mention of cricket being played at Chatsworth appears in Queen Victoria’s diary, dated October 20th, 1832.