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The league and its relationship with West Indies professional cricketers is the subject of a 2017 BBC television documentary: Race and Pace: West Indians in the East Lancashire League. [7] The film features original footage of the players, shots of the ground and interviews with Wes Hall, Viv Richards, David Lloyd, and Learie Constantine's ...
The Lancashire League requires that each club plays one professional in each match. [1] Traditionally, clubs in the league have hired a number of international and first-class players. Nelson's first professionals, for the 1892 season, were England Test player, Willis Cuttell and Derbyshire bowler, John Hulme. In 1900, the league rules were ...
The RFL Lancashire League was an annual competition from 1895 to 1970 for professional rugby league teams in Lancashire. Other teams from Cheshire and Cumbria also competed in the league. During the period 1896–1901 the county leagues were played as there was no national league championship during this period.
The club was formed in 1846, [1] going on to become a founding member of the Lancashire League in 1892. [2] It has won the League Championship 8 times and the Worsley Cup 4 times. For the 2024 season, Graeme Sneddon has been announced as captain, [3] whilst 28-year-old South African Jurie Snyman has been announced as the club’s professional ...
Lowerhouse Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at The Brooks Foundation Ground on Liverpool Road in Burnley.. In recent years the club has been very successful, winning the Lancashire League in 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2014, the Worsley Cup in 2004, 2012, 2018, 2021 and 2024, and the 20/20 Cup in 2013.
The 1969 Player's County League was the first competing of what was colloquially known as the Sunday League. The second one-day league in England and Wales, it consisted of the seventeen first-class counties playing each other on Sunday afternoons throughout the season.
In 1948 Colne almost completed a league and cup double, winning the Worsley Cup and finishing second in the league by one point after falling just five runs short of victory in their final league match. Colne's professional in this period was Bill Alley who became the first player to score 1000 runs in a season for Colne, which he did in five ...
Burnley Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League based at Turf Moor in Burnley, Lancashire.. The club was a founder member of the Lancashire League in 1892 and has won the League Championship 19 times, the Worsley Cup 10 times and the 20/20 Cup 3 times.