East Lancashire Cricket Club is a

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club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at

Alexandra Meadows Alexandra Meadows is the home ground of the East Lancashire Cricket Club in Blackburn. 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. ...

Blackburn Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...

. For the 2015 season its captain was Mark Bolton and its professional was

Juan de Villiers Juan Pierre de Villiers (born 5 April 1989) is a South African first-class cricketer who plays for the Titans cricket team The Titans (known as the Multiply Titans for sponsorship reasons) are the northernmost top-level cricket franchise in ...

. The club has been very successful, winning the League on 14 occasions, the Worsley Cup on 18 (more than any other club), the Inter League Club Challenge Trophy twice in its ten-year history, and has won a greater percentage of its games than any other club. It has employed professionals including

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and

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.East Lancs professionals
at lancashireleague.com

Honours

*1st XI League Winners - 14 - 1919, 1942, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1963, 1966, 1972, 1973, 1980, 1984, 1990, 2003 *1st XI League Runners Up - 17 - 1896, 1901, 1913, 1916, 1943 (shared), 1944, 1945, 1946, 1969, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 *Worsley Cup Winners - 18 - 1925, 1929, 1933, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1961, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2007 *Inter League Club Challenge Trophy Winners - 2 - 2004, 2006 *20/20 Cup Winners - 1 - 2008 *Ron Singleton Colne Trophy Winners - 3 - 1999, 2004 (shared), 2008 *2nd XI League Winners - 13 - 1894, 1925 (shared), 1947, 1949, 1963 (shared), 1967, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1983, 1987, 1994, 2004 *2nd XI League Runners Up - 5 - 1981, 1982, 1985, 1998, 2014 *2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 6 - 1974, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1997, 2014 *3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 1997 *3rd XI League Runners Up - 3 - 2000, 2001, 2014

Team and player achievements

*Highest League Time Cricket Score - 289 v

Rawtenstall Rawtenstall () is a town in the borough of Rossendale, Lancashire, England. The town lies 15 miles/24 km north of Manchester, 22 miles/35 km east of Preston and 45 miles/70 km south east of the county town of Lancaster. The town is at the cen ...

at Rawtenstall on 6 August 1906 *Highest League Limited Overs Score - 326-4 v

Todmorden Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax, West Yorkshire, Hal ...

at East Lancs on 12 June 2005 *Highest Worsley Cup Time Cricket Score - 396 v

Accrington Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to ...

at East Lancs on 28 June 1923 *Highest Worsley Cup Limited Overs Score - 327-4 v

Bacup Bacup ( , ) is a town in the Rossendale Borough in Lancashire, England, in the South Pennines close to Lancashire's boundaries with West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. The town is in the Rossendale Valley and the upper Irwell Valley, east of ...

at East Lancs on 28 May 2005 *Highest Inter League Club Challenge Trophy Score - 311-4 v

Enfield Enfield may refer to: Places Australia * Enfield, New South Wales * Enfield, South Australia ** Electoral district of Enfield, a state electoral district in South Australia, corresponding to the suburb ** Enfield High School (South Australia) ...

at East Lancs on 28 August 2006 *Highest 20/20 Cup Score - 169-4 v

Rishton Rishton is a town in the Hyndburn district of Lancashire, England, about west of Clayton-le-Moors and north east of Blackburn. It was an urban district from about 1894 to 1974. The population at the census of 2011 was 6,625. History Its ...

at Rishton on 26 June 2009 *Highest Individual League Score (Professional) - 151 - Quinton Friend v

Church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

at Church on 1 August 2004 *Highest Individual Worsley Cup Score (Professional) - 179* - Allan Border v

at Rawtenstall on 18 June 1978 *Highest Individual League Score (Amateur) - 139 - David Pearson v

Nelson Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...

at Nelson on 9 May 2010 *Highest Individual Worsley Cup Score (Amateur) - 177* - Paul Turner v

at East Lancs on 28 May 2005 *Highest Individual 20/20 Cup Score (Professional) - 109* -

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at Rishton on 26 June 2009 *Highest Individual 20/20 Cup Score (Amateur) - 99 - Paul Turner v

Haslingden Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is north of Manchester. The name means 'valley of the hazels' or 'valley growing with hazels'. At the time of the 2011 census the town (including Helmshore) had a population of 15,96 ...

at Haslingden on 17 June 2005 *Best Bowling Figures (Professional) - 9-22 - Loots Bosman v

Colne Colne () is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. Located northeast of Nelson, north-east of Burnley, east of Preston and west of Leeds. The town should not be confused with the unrelated Colne Val ...

at Colne on 1 May 2005 and Freddie Bull v

at East Lancs on 8 May 1907 *Best Bowling Figures (Amateurs) - 9-19 - Jonathan Brooks v

at Accrington on 23 September 1916 *Best 20/20 Bowling Figures (Professional) - 4-11 -

Ockert Erasmus Ockert Johannes Erasmus (born 20 January 1988) is a South African professional cricketer who currently plays for Boland. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls right-arm off break. Erasmus made his first-class debut for Boland in December 2009 ...

at East Lancs on 31 May 2013 *Best 20/20 Bowling Figures (Amateur) - 6-20 - Minhaj Bhada v

at Rawtenstall on 26 June 2015 *Amateur Batsmen with over 1,000 runs in a season - David Pearson - 1994, Paul Turner - 2003 *Professional Batsmen with over 1,000 runs in a season -

Kerry O'Keeffe Kerry James O'Keeffe (born 25 November 1949) is a former Australian cricketer and a current cricket commentator for Fox Sports. O'Keeffe played 24 Test matches and two One Day Internationals between 1971 and 1977. Playing career He was a spin ...

- 1975,

- 1978, Johann Louw - 2003, Shanan Stewart - 2007 *Amateur Bowlers with over 100 wickets in a season - Jonathan Brooks - 1916, J. Coulthurst - 1919 *Professional Bowlers with over 100 wickets in a season - Billy Mitchell - 1902, Freddie Bull - 1907, Victor Norbury - 1912, 1913, Bill Merritt - 1934, 1935,

Bruce Dooland Bruce Dooland (1 November 1923 – 8 September 1980) was an Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches for the Australian national cricket team during the late 1940s. During the war Dooland was in an Australian Commando unit servin ...

- 1949,

- 1959, Ray Strauss - 1960,

- 1990,

Claude Henderson Claude William Henderson (born 14 June 1972) is a South African former cricketer who bowled left-arm spin and played in seven Test matches and four One Day Internationals in 2001 to 2002. Domestic cricket Henderson played domestically for B ...

- 1999

References

External links

East Lancs CC
at lancashireleague.com {{Blackburn with Darwen culture Lancashire League cricket clubs Sport in Blackburn