Rawtenstall Cricket Club

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Rawtenstall Cricket Club
LeagueLancashire League
GroundWorswick Memorial Ground, Rawtenstall, Lancashire
ProfessionalBrett Pelser (South Africa)
2013 League Position11th

Rawtenstall Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at the Worswick Memorial Ground in Rawtenstall. For the 2013 season its captain is Vinny Hanson, and its professional is South African Brett Pelser.[1] The club has won the league on seven occasions and won the cup three times.[2] It has employed professionals including Colin Miller, Matthew Mott, Sydney Barnes, Michael Bevan and Andrew Hall. After finishing 2nd in the league in 2007 they will compete in the LCB Knockout Cup in 2008 for the first time being drawn against East Lancs in the First Round who they lost 3-2 to on a bowl out.[3] The chairman of Rawtenstall Cricket Clun is Brian Payne

Honours

  • 1st XI League Winners - 7 - 1894, 1904, 1922, 1926, 1976, 1981, 1982
  • Worsley Cup Winners - 4 - 1976, 1985, 1990, 2003
  • Ron Singleton Colne Trophy Winners - 1 - 2004 (shared)
  • 2nd XI League Winners - 11 - 1907, 1922, 1924, 1946, 1959, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1999
  • 2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 1 - 1981
  • 3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 2002

References

  1. Rawtenstall CC at lancashireleague.com
  2. League records at lancashireleague.com
  3. Rawtenstall professionals at lancashireleague.com


External links

Lancashire League clubs – 2010
Accrington | Bacup | Burnley | Church | Colne | East Lancashire | Enfield | Haslingden | Lowerhouse | Nelson | Ramsbottom | Rawtenstall | Rishton | Todmorden


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