Lancashire CCC
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| One-day name: | Lancashire Lightning |
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| Captain: | Steven Croft |
| Coach: | Glen Chapple |
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| Founded: | 1864 |
| Home ground: | Old Trafford |
| Capacity: | 19,000 |
| First-class debut: |
Middlesex in 1865 at Old Trafford |
| Championship wins: | 9 (including 1 shared) |
| Pro40 wins: | 5 (joint record) |
| FP Trophy wins: | 7 (record) |
| Twenty20 Cup wins: | 1 |
| Benson & Hedges Cup wins: | 4 (record) |
| Official website: | Lancashire CCC |
Lancashire County Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire. The club's limited overs team is called Lancashire Lightning.
Founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club, Lancashire have played at Old Trafford since then and has had senior status from inception: i.e., classified by substantial sources as holding important match status from 1865 (first match) to 1894; classified as an official first-class team from 1895 by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the County Championship clubs; classified as a List A team since the beginning of limited overs cricket in 1963; and classified as a senior Twenty20 team since 2003.
Lancashire was widely recognised as the unofficial Champion County four times between 1879 and 1889. When the County Championship was officially founded in December 1889, Lancashire was one of eight clubs to feature in the competition’s first season in 1890. In 1895, Archie MacLaren scored 424 in an innings for Lancashire, which remains the highest score by an Englishman in first-class cricket. Lancashire won their first two County Championship titles in 1897 and 1904. Between 1926 and 1934, Lancashire won the County Championship five times. In 1950, they shared the title with Surrey. Cyril Washbrook became Lancashire’s first professional captain in 1954. Lancashire next won the County Championship in 2011, after a gap of 77 years.
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