Lancashire County Cricket Club

Nickname: Lancashire Lightning
Team Country: England
Team City: Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
Founded (Year): 1864
Home Ground: Old Trafford Cricket Ground
Coach: Glen Chapple
Captain: TBA
Forms of Cricket: First-Class Limited Overs Twenty20
Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club: competitions

Lancashire County Cricket Club: First-Class Cricket Competitions

Logo Tournament Wins Years
County Championship 9 1897, 1904, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1934, 2011

Lancashire County Cricket Club: Limited Overs Cricket Competitions

Logo Tournament Wins Years Royal London One-Day Cup Royal London One-Day Cup 7 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1990, 1996, 1998
Benson & Hedges Cup 4 1984, 1990, 1995, 1996
NatWest Pro40 League 5 1969, 1970, 1989, 1998, 1999

Lancashire County Cricket Club: Twenty20 Cricket Competitions

Logo Tournament Wins Years
Twenty20 Cup 1 2015

Lancashire County Cricket Club: an overview of the English cricket team

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

The Lancashire County Cricket Club, founded in 1864, represents the county of the same name. It is based at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground. During its existence, the club has won the county Championship nine times, the last one in 2011. The team representing Lancashire in the OD is called Lancashire Lightning.

According to historical chronicles, the first cricket matches were held in Lancashire in the second half of the XVIII century. The prototype of the future club was Manchester Cricket Club, whose main rivals were cricketers from Nottingham and Sheffield. In the middle of the XIX century, Sheffield and Manchester held the first official match, which was immediately dubbed the “match of Roses”, meaning the famous confrontation of the Scarlet and White Roses. Subsequently, the conflict will be one of the most well-known in English cricket and force Manchester residents to change the club’s name to a modern one.

Lancashire played their first-class debut in 1856, beating Middlesex. However, the fact that at first, they relied on amateurs could not affect the game’s quality. Betting to attract bright names, the club attracted professionals Alex Watson and Dick Barlow and several other outstanding players, including Johnny Briggs. He was the first to record 10,000 runs and take a thousand wickets in matches for Lancashire. The club’s popularity grew rapidly: for example, a three-day game against Gloucestershire was watched by a record 28 thousand spectators.

Lancashire County Cricket Club history

The first serious success came to the Lancashire in 1879, when they won the local championship, sharing this triumph with the Nottinghamians. Their next title (1881) became a solo one, but in 1882 history repeated itself.

Lancashire acted as one of the founders of the County Championship in 1890. For two years in a row, the club made its way to the finals of new competitions but took the trophy only in 1897, thanks to the joint efforts of Briggs, Cattell, Hallam and Mold, who took 420 wickets for four.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, LCC residents experimented, allowing both amateurs and professionals to compete. As a result, they won the 1904 championship without suffering a single defeat (this season is still considered exemplary).

Unfortunately, LCC soon had to face financial problems. Because of the growing popularity of other mass sports, the attendance of matches fell, and the competitions were put on pause altogether during the First World War: the sports complex was given over to the needs of the Red Cross during these years.

The arrival of new outstanding players in the 20s was the beginning of the golden era of Lancashire. The team’s performances attracted more and more public attention, the club itself grew, and the Lancashire team became champions three times under the leadership of Leonard Green from 1926 to 1928. He was replaced as captain by Peter Eckersley.

The first post-war years turned out to be difficult for Lancashire residents. After the death of the team chief in a car accident, they had to look for a suitable replacement, and their position in the game table leveled off by the beginning of the 50s. But not for long: despite the involvement of some professionals, one of whom was Cyril Washbrook, who led them, the club is seriously losing ground soon.

The situation changed in the early 70s when LCC came out on top in the competition with limited overs. Having taken four Gillette Cups and won the Sunday league, the club held the leading position for a while, but it didn’t last long: after the championship squad broke up, the Lancashire team had to forget about trophies until the mid-80s.

Lancashire won the Nat West Trophy for the first time in county history in 1990 and then the Benson and Hedges Cup. Repeating the winning double six years later, by the beginning of the next decade, the club came in a state close to crisis. Nevertheless, the renewal of the squad went to the Lancashire side, and they won the County Championship in 2011 for the first time in a long time.

Lancashire County Cricket Club: Awards

Awards Winner Finalist
County Championship 8 3
NatWest T20 Blast 1
Gillette/NatWest/C&G/FP Trophy 7
Sunday/National/Pro40 League 5
Benson & Hedges Cup 4

Lancashire County Cricket Club: records

Lancashire County Cricket Club: records

  1. The highest-scoring bowler in the history of the Lancashire County Cricket Club is Ted McDonald, who took 198 wickets in the 1928 season.
  2. The most effective batsmen (in descending order) are Archie McLaren, Neil Fairbrother and Eddie Painter.
  3. Ernest Tyldesley scored the most runs in first-class matches (34,222).

Lancashire County Cricket Club: legends of the club

The first real star of the Lancashire County Cricket Club was Johnny Briggs, who played for over 20 years, starting in 1879. Archie McLaren still holds the all-time record for innings (424) in the championship.

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