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Blackpool Cricket Club is a cricket club based in Stanley Park, in Blackpool, Lancashire. Located in western quadrant of the park, the club plays at a 5,000-seater ground, which is regularly used for county cricket matches by Lancashire .
He received the Freedom of the Borough of Blackpool in 1926. [8] A keen sportsman, Parkinson gave the cricket ground at Stanley Park to Blackpool Cricket Club. He arranged his own cricket eleven, which played two first-class matches, one in 1933 against the touring West Indians, and one in 1935 against Leicestershire, both at Stanley Park. [9]
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Blackpool Cricket Club is Blackpool's major cricketing team, playing in the Northern Premier Cricket League, formerly the Northern Cricket League. It has won the league 18 times (once jointly with Preston), making it the most successful side in the competition. [255]
Born in Blackpool, Lancashire, Croft made his debut for the Lancashire Second XI at the age of 16, in May 2001. He made his first-class Lancashire debut in 2005, having previously made his list A debut for the Lancashire Cricket Board in 2002. He spent the winters of 2005–06 and 2006–07 playing club cricket in Australia. [1]
The cricket ground was in place before the development of Stanley Park but was remodelled as part of the plans [3] and was previously known as the Whitegate Park [52] The Whitegate park had encompassed a horse racing track, football field and cricket ground but by the early 1920s the Whitegate site no longer hosted other sports therefore it was ...
Each year in conjunction with the Illuminations the Blackpool Festival of Light, a fusion of art and light events and installations, is staged. In 2007 the Festival started on 31 August with various lighting displays throughout the town with displays by artists and also Blackpool and The Fylde College. These included a mixed media display ...
Alexandra Meadows is the home ground of the East Lancashire Cricket Club in Blackburn. [1] Between 1878 and 1881 the ground was used as the home venue for the Blackburn Rovers football team, following their move from the Pleasington Cricket Ground. [2] The first Rovers match at the Meadows came in 1878 against Partick Thistle. [3]