Darwen Cricket Club is a
cricket
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 end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
club in the
Lancashire League based at the Ainsworth Lord Estates Ground in
Darwen
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners".
The A666 road passes through Darwen towards Blackburn to the north, Bolton to the s ...
,
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
. They are also known as 'The Towers'.
The club has played in the Ribblesdale League and were a founder member of the
Northern Cricket League in 1952, joining the Lancashire League in 2017.
For the 2022 season the captain is Scott Friend.
History
A Darwen club played for a brief period in the
Central Lancashire League
The Central Lancashire Cricket League (CLCL) was a fifteen team cricket league, traditionally based in Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was then based in Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. The league ran competitions at Fir ...
and Ribblesdale League in the late 1800s before disbanding. The current team was founded as Darwen Etrurians Cricket Club in 1901. The club re-joined the Ribblesdale League in 1909, changing their name to Darwen Cricket Club in 1910. After sharing a ground at Barley Bank, the former home of
Darwen FC
Darwen Football Club is a association football, football club from Darwen, Lancashire, England. The club was formed in 2009 as A.F.C. Darwen, a successor to the original Darwen F.C. (1870), Darwen club, which had been wound up. They currently ...
, the club moved to their present ground at Birch Hall in 1920. They switched to the Northern League for its inaugural season in 1952.
From start of the 2017 season Darwen, along with
Clitheroe
Clitheroe () is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester. It is near the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists visiting the area. In 2018, the Cl ...
and Great Harwood, moved to the
Lancashire League. The club had a successful first campaign with the first XI finishing the season as runners-up in the league and winning the Worsley Cup.
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In September 2018 Darwen were crowned the county's club champions after beating Clifton CC in the LCF Knockout Cup.
On 4th September 2022, the club completed the full set of county honours when defeating Greenmount CC by 13 runs to become Lancashire League Champions.
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Honours
''Ribblesdale League''
*1st XI League Winners - 3 - 1922, 1934, 1940 (shared).[
''Northern League''
*1st XI League Winners - 5 - 1966, 1987, 1999, 2002, 2004.][
''Lancashire League''
*1st XI League Winners - 1 - 2022.
*1st XI Holland Cup Winners - 2 - 2017, 2021.
*T20 Competition Winners - 1 - 2021.
*Worsley Cup Winners - 2 - 2017, 2019.]
Notable players
*Atif Ashraf
Atif Ashraf (born 26 May 1980) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer who played for Islamabad cricket team.
References
External links
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1980 births
Living people
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Islamabad cricketers
Cricketers from Islamabad
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*]Tom Dewdney
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After only two first-class matches for Jamaica in 1954–55 in which he took 3 wickets, Tom D ...
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* Robert Entwistle.][
*]Scott Hookey
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*]Siddhesh Lad
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Lad was the captain of the Western Wolves team in the Toyota University ...
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*]Ken Rickards
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Events January–February
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*]Keith Semple
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* Ken Snellgrove.][
*]David Wiese
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.
References
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Lancashire League cricket clubs
Sport in Blackburn with Darwen
1901 establishments in England
Cricket clubs established in 1901