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8 unusual facts about Lancashire County Cricket Club


Colin Stansfield Smith

His county cricket was played for Lancashire, who capped him in 1957, but he also appeared for Cambridge University (for whom he gained his blue) among a number of other teams.

Donny Davies

He was lured to Lancashire and spent the 1924 and 1925 seasons there as an amateur.

Francis Birley

He did however play for Lancashire, making his first appearance in a first class match against Hampshire on 21 July 1870 when he took three wickets, helping Lancashire to win by ten wickets.

Garrison A Cricket Ground

The second and final List-A match at the ground came in the 1972 John Player League when Essex played Lancashire.

History of Test cricket from 1884 to 1889

Lancashire County Cricket Club, the ground authority, originally selected their captain A N Hornby to captain England.

The first representative match of the 1884 season was held at Lancashire's ground, Old Trafford, making it the first such match played there.

Percy de Paravicini

He made his first class debut for Middlesex on 15 August 1881 at Old Trafford, Manchester in the County Tournament against Lancashire.

Thomas McGhee

He later spent two years at the Stretford Technical College, opposite Lancashire County Cricket Club's ground and about half a mile from Old Trafford.


Albert Payne

He made four further first-class appearances, the last of which came against Lancashire at Whitegate Park, Blackpool.

Alexander Cadell

Cadell's great-uncle Vernon Royle represented Lancashire, Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class cricket.

Arthur Mold

In his second year, a successful match against the Free Foresters, an amateur team, impressed two Lancashire cricketers who played against him.

Cec Parkin

Cecil Harry "Cec" Parkin (18 February 1886, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham – 15 June 1943, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, Lancashire) was an English cricketer who played in 10 Tests from 1920 to 1924 and 157 games for Lancashire County Cricket Club.

Charles Frederick Lyttelton

His maiden first-class wicket, that of Jack Sharp, had to wait until his next game, for Cambridge against Lancashire in May 1907.

Charles Marriott

Charles ("Father") Stowell Marriott (14 September 1895, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Lancashire – 13 October 1966, Dollis Hill, Middlesex) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent.

Cyril Hawker

Hawker made a single first-class appearance for Essex during the 1937 season, playing against Lancashire in an innings defeat highlighted by a double-century from Eddie Paynter.

Daisy Hill F.C.

They then joined the Westhoughton League winning a number of honours in the 1920s and 1930s and during this time, Lancashire County Cricket Club cricketers Dick Pollard and Bill Farrimond both played football for Daisy Hill.

Debbie Abrahams

She married John Abrahams, a former captain of Lancashire County cricket team, in the late 1980s.

Eric Rowan

But he remained dogged by controversy: in the match against Lancashire, Rowan and wicket-keeper John Waite were barracked for slow scoring, and responded by sitting down on the pitch until there was quiet.

Ernest Suckling

On his Worcestershire debut, against Lancashire, he took 4-71, the only first-class wickets of his career, including those of Test players Jack Sharp and Cecil Parkin.

Ernest Tyldesley

Ernest's elder brother JT named the Tyldesley family home in Worsley, Lancashire "Aigburth" to commemorate his younger brother's Lancashire debut at the Liverpool ground where Lancashire County Cricket Club occasionally play their matches.

Estaban Nino

Argentina were promoted at the end of the campaign into Division Two, despite losing their first fixture, a last-ball game against an Italian team including former Lancashire all-rounder Joe Scuderi.

Fahad Alhashmi

In March 2008, he played for the UAE in matches against English county sides Essex, Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Gareth White

White represented Leicestershire Second XI in two fixtures in 1997, against Northamptonshire Second XI at Grace Road in August and against Lancashire Second XI at Aigburth in September.

George Dews

He made his Worcestershire debut on 29 May 1946 against Lancashire, but was out for a king pair, being dismissed in each innings by slow left-armer Eric Price.

Gordon Wilcock

He retained his place for the County Championship game against Lancashire that followed, in which he achieved his first stumping, accounting for Farokh Engineer off the bowling of Norman Gifford.

Gurman Randhawa

On the 24 April 2013, during a 2nd XI game against for Yorkshire at North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough, Lancashire batsman Jordan Clark, hit 6 sixes in one over off his bowling.

Henry Tinsley

Born in Welham Grange, Malton, Yorkshire, England, Tinsley was a right arm fast bowler, who took four first-class wickets at 14.25, with a best of 3 for 15 against Lancashire.

Jim Allenby

On 15 June 2008, Allenby became the first player in Twenty20 Cup history to achieve four wickets with four consecutive balls, when he removed Lancashire Lightning players Kyle Hogg, Steven Croft, Dominic Cork and Sajid Mahmood.

John Santall

Santall was never a conspicuous success with the county: in 13 innings he only thrice reached double figures (his best being the unbeaten 36 he hit against Lancashire), and with the ball he never added to the 2–29 he took in the first innings of his debut against Essex; the first of his two victims was Stan Nichols and the other Joe Hipkin.

Lancashire County Cricket Club in 2005

Lancashire recorded an innings victory at Stanley Park in Blackpool against Worcestershire to go second in the Division Two table of the County Championship.

Leicestershire County Cricket Club in 2005

Leicestershire hosted the International 20:20 Club Championship in the middle of September, and after progressing to the semi-finals thanks to a win over Somerset Sabres, they were defeated by nine runs by Chilaw Marians, before rounding off the season with a rare Championship win over Lancashire and a League win over Kent.

Myles N. Kenyon Cup

The Myles N. Kenyon Cup, popularly known as the Kenyon Cup is an amateur football cup competition held for teams playing in Amateur Leagues in and around Bury, England and is named after former Lancashire captain and batsman and High Sheriff of Lancashire, Myles Noel Kenyon.

Nathan McCullum

McCullum is building a reputation as a travelling Twenty 20 player, having played in Twenty 20 tournaments since 2010 for Lancashire, Pune Warriors India, Sydney Sixers and Glamorgan as well as still turning out for his native side Otago.

Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

In the next match, he scored 36 and 76 not out on a turning pitch against Lancashire at Old Trafford in Manchester, putting on an unbroken century partnership with Ron Hamence in the second innings as the match ended in a draw.

Paul Pridgeon

At the time, this was the second-best return for Worcestershire in a List A game (behind Jack Flavell's 6/14 against Lancashire in 1963).

Raymond Swann

His elder son Alec has also represented Bedfordshire and played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire and Lancashire.

Rock Steady Group

In England they are responsible for Stewarding at the V Festival in Staffordshire, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Manchester and Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield.

Roe Green

The brothers J.T. and Ernest Tyldesley played cricket for Lancashire and England in the early years of the 20th century.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.


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