Todmorden Cricket Club is a

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

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ran through the centre of the ground.

History

In October 1890, Todmorden Cricket Club (Todmorden CC) were founder members of the Lancashire League (then called the North East Lancashire Cricket League), but resigned in February 1891 without playing a game. In 1891, Todmorden CC was a founder member of the South East Lancashire Cricket League, which changed to the

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in 1893. The club won this league in 1896, before rejoining the Lancashire League for the 1897 season. The club has won the Lancashire League on five occasions and won the Worsley Cup eight times.

2011 season

For the 2011 season, captain was Simon Newbitt, and its professional was

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.Todmorden CC
at lancashireleague.com

Current players

In the 2017 season, the club professional is the South African

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Former players

Professionals

Todmorden has employed one or two professionals each season since at least 1897.

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players who have played professionally for the club include

Fred Root Charles Frederick Root (16 April 1890 – 20 January 1954) was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 and 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932. Early career Root was born in Somercote ...

Brian Close Dennis Brian Close, (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, ...

Frank Tyson Frank Holmes Tyson (6 June 1930 – 27 September 2015) was an England international cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "T ...

and

Paul Allott Paul John Walter Allott (born 14 September 1956) is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire, Minor Counties cricket for Staffordshire and first-class cricket in New Zealand for Wellington, as well as thirteen Test ma ...

. A number of other international cricketers have been employed by Todmorden including Ashton Turner, Jim Burke, and

Matt Nicholson Matthew James Nicholson (born 2 October 1974) is an Australian former cricketer who played in one Test match in 1998 and over 100 first-class games for New South Wales, Western Australia, Northamptonshire and Surrey. A native of the Sydney su ...

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); Mohsin Khan, Aftab Baloch,

and

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Fanie de Villiers Petrus Stephanus "Fanie" de Villiers (born 13 October 1964), is a retired cricketer who played 18 Test matches and 83 One Day Internationals for South Africa as a right arm fast-medium bowler and right hand batsman between 1992 and 1998. He ...

Morné van Wyk Morné Nico van Wyk (born 20 March 1979) is a South African professional cricketer who has played in 17 One Day Internationals for South Africa. He is also the brother of fellow cricketer Divan van Wyk. Domestic career In October 2018, he was ...

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, Gulam Bodi and

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and

Chinthaka Jayasinghe Chinthaka Umesh Jayasinghe (born 19 May 1978) is a former Sri Lankan T20I cricketer. He is a past student of Dharmapala College, Pannipitiya. Early life He commenced his cricketing career as a school boy, playing at the Under 13, 15, 17 and 1 ...

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and

Vasbert Drakes Vasbert Conniel Drakes (born 5 August 1969 in Springhead, Saint Andrew, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer, who played Tests and ODIs. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and handy right-hand lower order batsman. Drakes featured fo ...

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cricketer and long-time cricket administrator

Neil Dansie Hampton Neil Dansie (born 2 July 1928) is a former first-class cricketer and long-term administrator for South Australia. Early life Nicknamed "Nodder" due to his habit of nodding in agreement when in conversation, Dansie was born in Nuriootp ...

played for Todmorden in the 1955 and 1956 season, scoring 1513 runs and taking 111 wickets over the two seasons."Neil Dansie", ''CKCricket Heritage'' Accessed 12 January 2009

Amateurs

Former Todmorden amateur players include Harold Dawson,

Dick Horsfall Richard Horsfall (26 June 1920 – 25 August 1981) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Essex between 1947 and 1955, and then played for a single season for Glamorgan in 1956. He was a right-handed middle-order batsman. ...

and Derek Shackleton.
at lancashireleague.com Television weatherman

John Kettley John Graham Kettley (born 11 July 1952 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an English freelance weather forecaster. Early life He was educated at Todmorden Grammar School, he played cricket for Burnley and Todmorden. A geography teacher at his school ...

played for Todmorden Second and Third Eleven, he was once selected for the First Eleven.

Honours

*1st League Winners - 5 - 1927, 1933, 1938, 1954, 1957 *Worsley Cup Winners - 8 - 1935, 1937, 1938, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1982, 2000 *Ron Singleton Colne Trophy - 1 - 2009 *2nd XI League Winners - 6 - 1897, 1899, 1902, 1908, 1920, 2016 *2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 1 - 1980

Records

In April 2017, South African professional Kelly Smuts made the highest total in the history of the Lancashire League for Todmorden, scoring 211; a record previously held by future

Captain Michael Clarke with 200 for

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in 2002.

References

External links

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