Lancashire County Cricket Club
| Lancashire County Cricket Club | |
|---|---|
| One-day name | Lancashire Lightning |
| founded | 1864 |
| Home stadium | Old Trafford |
| capacity | 19,000 |
| other stages | Stanley Park ( Blackpool ) Trafalgar Road ( Southport ) Aigburth CG ( Liverpool ) |
| Championship wins | 8 + 1 shared |
| One Day Cup victories | FP Trophy : 7 National League : 5 B&H Cup : 5 ECB 40 : 0 RL Cup : 0 |
| T20 Cup victories | 1 |
| website | http://www.lccc.co.uk/ |
| As of October 4, 2018 | |
The Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the traditional county of Lancashire in the national championships of English cricket .
history
The beginnings
Cricket was first played in Lancashire in 1781. The origin of the Lancashire CCC is the Manchester Cricket Club, which was founded in 1816 and moved to Old Trafford in 1857. On January 12, 1864, representatives from 13 clubs formed the County Club with the idea of playing games across the county. The first first-class game took place in July 1865 against Middlesex and was won with 62 runs. In 1867, the first Match of the Roses was played against Yorkshire , which remains the club's main rivalry to this day. In the early years the team had some success when, led by Captain AN Hornby , they were named Champion County by the press in 1879, 1881 and 1882, as was customary at the time (shared twice with Nottinghamshire ). Until 1889, the team could only partially convince before the team shared the championship title with Nottinghamshire and Surrey . In the following years succeeded in 1890 and 1891 each a second place, but no championship title was achieved. In 1898 the club acquired Old Trafford and in 1902 the previously separate approaches of amateurs and professionals to the field were lifted. In 1904 he became undefeated County Champion. No further championship titles were achieved until the First World War .
The golden era
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After the war, Lancashire began to firmly establish itself as the top team. In 1920 the team finished second in the championship and the number of spectators and members rose to a record. With the new Captain Leonard Green , the team succeeded in winning the title hat trick from 1926 , when the championship of 1927 and 1928 was won. In the following years the titles 1930 and 1934 were added before the team had to be rebuilt after the departure of the most important run scorer Ernest Tyldesley in 1935. However, this construction was interrupted by the Second World War.
After the Second World War
Since Lancashire had to record many departures, the championship began slowly. Young players had to be integrated, which was successfully achieved with the split championship in 1950 . Decisive here was the rise of the young fast bowler Brian Statham who complemented the spin bowlers Roy Tattersall and Malcolm Hilton . Despite good performance, the team could not prevail in the following years, as Surrey dominated the championship. With Cyril Washbrook a professional captain was used for the first time in 1954. When he resigned in 1960 , the new captain Bob Barber reached second place with the team, especially the poor performance in the last few games prevented the championship. In the following years, the team performed mostly poorly, which led to a crisis in the club's management, which only came back into calmer waters in 1965 with the appointment of Brian Statham as captain.
One day successes
With the advent of one-day cricket , new opportunities opened up for the team. These were used successfully with the triple win of the Gilette Cup between 1970 and 1972, as well as the Sunday League 1969 and 1970. The first-class team could not build on the successes in one-day cricket during this time. 1975 succeeded in winning the Gilette Cup again before a long dry spell began. It wasn't until 1985 that another title in the Benson & Hedges Cup was achieved . From 1988, the Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram played for the county and won the newly created Refuge Assurance Cup with him. By winning the Sunday League in 1989 and winning both the Gilette Cup and the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1990, they finished the decade with great success. The next few years were characterized by second places before titles in the One-Day Cups could be achieved again from 1995. The last one to date was achieved in 1999 with winning the Sunday League.
Rediscovery of first-class cricket
In the late 1990s, the team again managed to show good results in the County Championship. The team came second in 1998 , 1999 and 2000 . After that, however, it became more difficult for the team to build on their past successes. 2003 succeeded again in second place before the team relegated to the second division the following year . 2005 succeeded the immediate promotion by winning the second division and in the Twenty20 Cup the team only lost in the final against Somerset . In 2006 they achieved a second place in the first-class tournament as well as in the C&G Cup, each behind the champion Sussex . In the following years, the team prevented relegation and established itself in the upper half of the counties in most tournaments. The breakthrough for the club came in 2011. The club got into financial distress, as the condition of Old Trafford meant that the ECB did not threaten to carry out any more tests there. A renovation was challenged in court, but it gave its approval in July of that year. They also won the County Championship that year , which was the first win in this championship after the split win in 1950. However, the team rose again the following year to the second division. A direct relegation was followed by another relegation in 2014 . In 2015 they rose again to the first division and at the same time won the Twenty20 Cup for the first time . In the 2017 season he managed a second place in the County Championship, which was followed by a relegation the following year .
Captains
To date, a total of 33 players have captained the Lancashire County Cricket Club.
| No. | Surname | Period |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edmund Butler Rowley | 1866-1879 |
| 2 | TO Hornby | 1879-1898 |
| 3 | Archie MacLaren | 1894-1906 |
| 4th | Albert Henry Hornby | 1908-1914 |
| 5 | Myles Noel Kenyon | 1919-1922 |
| 6th | Jack Sharp | 1923-1925 |
| 7th | Leonard Green | 1926-1928 |
| 8th | Peter Eckersley | 1929-1935 |
| 9 | Lionel Lister | 1936-1939 |
| 10 * | Jack Iddon | 1946 |
| 11 | Jack Fallows | 1946 |
| 12 | Ken Cranston | 1947-1948 |
| 13 | Nigel Howard | 1949-1953 |
| 14th | Cyril Washbrook | 1954-1959 |
| 15th | Bob Barber | 1960-1961 |
| 16 | Joe Blackledge | 1962 |
| 17th | Ken Grieves | 1963-1964 |
| 18th | Brian Statham | 1965-1967 |
| 19th | Jack Bond | 1968-1972 |
| 20th | David Lloyd | 1973-1977 |
| 21st | Frank Hayes | 1979-1980 |
| 22nd | Clive Lloyd | 1981-1986 |
| 23 | John Abrahams | 1984-1985 |
| 24 | David Hughes | 1987-1991 |
| 25th | Neil Fairbrother | 1992-1993 |
| 26th | Mike Watkinson | 1994-1997 |
| 27 | Wasim Akram | 1998 |
| 28 | John Crawley | 1999-2001 |
| 29 | Warren Hegg | 2002-2004 |
| 30th | Mark Chilton | 2005-2007 |
| 31 | Stuart Law | 2008 |
| 32 | Glen Chapple | 2009-2014 |
| 33 | Tom Smith | 2015 |
| 34 | Steven Croft | 2016– |
* Jack Iddon was elected captain in 1946 and died in a car accident prior to the start of the season.
Stages
The main stadium is the Old Trafford Cricket Ground in Manchester , where the club hosts most of its home games. In addition, individual games will also take place in Stanley Park in Blackpool , Trafalgar Road in Southport and the Aigburth Cricket Ground in Liverpool .
successes
County cricket
The winning County Championship (8 + 1 share): 1897 , 1904 , 1926 , 1927 , 1928 , 1930 , 1934 , 1950 (shared), 2011
Second division (2) win: 2005 , 2013
One-day cricket
Gilette / NatWest / C & G Trophy / FP Trophy (1963-2009) (7): 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1990, 1996, 1998
Sunday / National / Pro40 League (1988-2009) (5): 1969, 1970, 1989, 1998, 1999
Benson & Hedges Cup (1972-2002) (4): 1984, 1990, 1995, 1996
ECB 40 / Clydesdale Bank / Yorkshire Bank 40 (2010-2013) (0): -
Royal London One-Day Cup (2014-present) (0): -
Twenty20
Twenty20 Cup / Friends Life t20 / NatWest t20 Blast (0): 2015
statistics
Runs
Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:
| player | Playing times | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Ernest Tyldesley | 1909-1936 | 34,222 |
| John Tyldesley | 1895-1923 | 31,949 |
| Cyril Washbrook | 1933-1959 | 27,863 |
| Harry Makepeace | 1906-1930 | 25.207 |
| Frank Watson | 1920-1937 | 22,833 |
Wickets
Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:
| player | Playing times | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Statham | 1950-1968 | 1,816 |
| John Briggs | 1879-1900 | 1,696 |
| Arthur Mold | 1889-1901 | 1,541 |
| Richard Tyldesley | 1919-1931 | 1,449 |
| Alexander Watson | 1871-1893 | 1,309 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Early Years 1864-1883. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lancashire v Middlesex at Manchester, 20-22 Jul 1865. Cricinfo, accessed March 1, 2015 .
- ^ Yorkshire v Lancashire at Blackburn, June 20-22, 1867. Cricinfo, accessed March 1, 2015 .
- ^ A b The Growth of Lancashire Cricket 1884-1914. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lancashire's Golden Era 1919-1925. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 7, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hat-Trick of Championships 1926–1939. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Post War Years 1946-1953. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b The Statham Era 1954–1968. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ One Day Wonders 1969–1989. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on August 28, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Team of the Nineties 1990–1999. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Into the New Millennium 2000-2003. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Title Agony Continues 2004–2008. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stephen Brenkley: Biggest day in Old Trafford's rich history as ground is saved. Independent, July 5, 2011, accessed March 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Champions At Last 2009-2011. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on June 27, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Relegation and Promotion 2012–2014. (No longer available online.) Lancashire CCC, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ George Dobell: Lancashire end long wait for Twenty20 title ( English ) Cricinfo. August 29, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ↑ The time period refers to the corresponding cricket season in which the first or last game of the time as captain took place
- ^ Most runs for Lancashire. Cricket Archive, accessed February 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Most wickets for Lancashire. Cricket Archive, accessed February 28, 2015 .
