Todmorden Cricket Club
Centre Vale
|
|
| League | Lancashire League |
|---|---|
| Personnel | |
| Captain | Andrew Sutcliffe |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1837 |
| Home ground | Centre Vale |
| History | |
| Lancashire League wins | 5 |
| Worsley Cup wins | 8 |
| Ron Singleton Colne Trophy wins | 1 |
| 2nd XI League wins | 6 |
| Lancashire Telegraph Cup wins | 1 |
| Notable players | Peter Lever |
Todmorden Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at Centre Vale in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Until the administrative border was changed in 1974, the historic boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire ran through the centre of the ground.
The club has won the Lancashire League on five occasions and won the Worsley Cup eight times.
For the 2011 season, captain was Simon Newbitt, and its professional was Qaiser Abbas.
In the 2017 season, the club professional is the South African Kelly Smuts.
Todmorden has employed one or two professionals each season since at least 1897.England players who have played professionally for the club include Fred Root,Brian Close,Frank Tyson and Paul Allott.
A number of other internationals have been employed by Todmorden including Ashton Turner, Jim Burke and Matt Nicholson (Australia);Mohsin Khan, Aftab Baloch, Qaiser Abbas and Bilawal Bhatti (Pakistan);Fanie de Villiers, Morné van Wyk, Francois du Plessis, Gulam Bodi and David Wiese (South Africa);Ravi Ratnayeke and Chinthaka Jayasinghe (Sri Lanka);Brendan Nash and Vasbert Drakes (West Indies); and Gyanendra Pandey (India).
...
Wikipedia