Burnley Cricket Club is a
cricket
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club in the
Lancashire League based at
Turf Moor
Turf Moor is an association football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire, England, which has been the home of Burnley F.C. since 1883. This unbroken service makes Turf Moor the second-longest continuously used ground in English professional football ...
in
Burnley
Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Bru ...
,
Lancashire
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.
The club was a founder member of the Lancashire League in 1892 and has won the
League Championship 17 times, the
Worsley Cup 10 times and the
20/20 Cup three times.
The club has seen huge success in recent years including becoming the first Club to win the Worsley Cup four years in a row in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, as well as enjoying a record breaking season in 2015 in which they won all four senior trophies; the league, the Worsley Cup, the 20/20 Competition, and the
Ron Singleton Colne Trophy. In addition the club also won the
2nd XI League and finished as runners-up in the Third XI League.
In 2019, they again finished the season in first place. For the 2021 season the captain is Daniel Pickup, and the Club Professional is
Ockert Erasmus
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Erasmus made his first-class debut for Boland in December 2009 ...
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History
During the
Middle Ages
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Turf Moor was one of Burnley's
commons
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and the inhabitants likely cut
turf
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here for fuel.
Burnley Cricket Club has its origin in a side called the Trafalgar Club, known to have played a match in the Bull Croft (near
the town hall) in 1828. Over the next few years they played matches at
Stoneyholme and Healey Heights, before taking the name Burnley Cricket Club by 1833. A field near Red Lion Street then became their home until in 1843 they moved to Turf Moor. After two years here, the team played for another two near Duke Bar before making Turf Moor their permanent home. In 1857 the team was disestablished, and between 1859 and 1863 a team organised by the
Burnley Militia, called the Burnley Wellington Club, played at the ground. In 1864 Burnley Cricket Club was re-formed and was soon making progress, fielding three teams.
Notable matches in the period before a league was organised include: A three-day visit from the
All-England Eleven
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(then headed by
George Parr) in 1868; matches against an Australian eleven, featuring
Fred Spofforth
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and
Billy Murdoch
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, in 1878 and 1880, of which Burnley won the first; and an 1890-match between two visiting ladies' teams which attracted thousands of spectators.
[Bennett (1951), pp. 223-224.]
The cricket club sponsored the formation of
Burnley Football Club, and in January 1883, they leased seven
acre
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s of land for the team, situated between the cricket field and
Bee Hole Colliery to the east.
[Bennett (1951), p. 227.] They also made a donation of £65 (the equivalent of £ as of ) toward the setup costs.
In 1885, a dispute broke out as the cricketers complained that the footballers left the shared
dressing room
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uncleaned and did not pay toward repairs. In 1889, after more disputes, Burnley F.C. separated from the cricket club and agreed to pay £77 per year (the equivalent of £ as of ) to rent the stadium.
In the early years of the Lancashire League, Burnley were one of the dominant teams, champions six times by 1913, including three-in-a-row from 1906.
Honours
*1st XI League Winners - 17 - 1893, 1897, 1901, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1950, 1956, 1964, 1970, 1978, 1979, 2006, 2015, 2019, 2021
*Worsley Cup Winners - 10 - 1950, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1975, 1984, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
*20/20 Cup Winners - 3 - 2009, 2015, 2018
*Ron Singleton Colne Trophy Winners - 3 - 2007, 2015, 2021
*2nd XI League Winners - 10 - 1893, 1903, 1906, 1929, 1931, 1961, 1968, 2002, 2015, 2022
*2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 2 - 1984, 2004
*3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 2006
Notable players
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Sydney Barnes
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for Burnley.
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Richard Boys
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David Brown
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Fred Brown
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Michael Brown
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Jonathan Clare
Jonathan Luke Clare (born 14 June 1986) is an English cricketer who formerly played for Derbyshire. An all-rounder, he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.
Early life
Clare was born in Burnley, Lancashire. He attended ...
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Billy Cook
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Henry Cudworth
Henry Cudworth (6 December 1873 – 5 April 1914) was an English cricketer active in 1900 who played for Lancashire. He was born and died in Burnley. He appeared in one first-class match
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Tw ...
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Jerry Dawson
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John Kettley
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Early life
He was educated at Todmorden Grammar School, he played cricket for Burnley and Todmorden. A geography teacher at his school ...
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Tommy Lawton
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Born in Fa ...
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Hal Pickthall
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Elisha Rawlinson
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Frank Sugg
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Walter Sugg
Walter Sugg (21 May 1860 – 21 May 1933) was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire in 1881, and for Derbyshire from 1884 until 1902.
Life and career
Sugg was born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, the son of a Sheffield ...
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Vishal Tripathi
Vishal Tripathi (born 3 March 1988, Burnley, Lancashire) is an English professional cricketer
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each ...
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Thomas Wardall
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See also
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Lowerhouse Cricket Club
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 league in 2011, 2012 an ...
- another Lancashire League team from Burnley
References
Notes
Citations
External links
A Brief History of Burnley Cricket Club
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Lancashire League cricket clubs
Sport in Burnley
1833 establishments in England
Cricket clubs established in 1833