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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 .
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 ...
At the AGM of the Ribblesdale League, held in Whalley on 10 November 1951, the motion was proposed to form West and East sections with the West section comprising Blackpool, Chorley, Darwen, Fleetwood, Lancaster, Leyland, Morecambe, and St Annes, plus two new clubs Furness and Kendal (both from the North Lancashire Cricket League) along with ...
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]
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]
In his youth he was a useful cricketer, playing in the same Blackpool CC team as his future fellow international, Jimmy Armfield. [3] Eastham junior first played for Northern Irish club Ards, where his father was player-manager, and the two played together on the pitch.
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Each League side in Lancashire was permitted to pay only one professional. During the 1950s and early 1960s, in the summer at any one time there were more than 150,000 holidaymakers in Blackpool, and there were very large crowds indeed paying at the turnstiles of Blackpool Cricket Club. Every season, moreover, the Blackpool pro was given a ...