Accrington Cricket Club
League	Lancashire League
Ground	Thorneyholme Road, Accrington Accrington Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn... , Lancashire Lancashire Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
Professional	Ashar Zaidi Ashar Zaidi Syed Ashar Ahmed Zaidi Urdu: سید اشعر احمد زیدی is a Pakistani first-class cricketer. Ashar was born on July 13, 1981 in Karachi, Pakistan. Ashar is plays for Islamabad Cricket Association and has represented Pakistan A cricket team as a left-handed batsman...  (Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... )
2010 League Position	10th

Accrington Cricket Club are a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club in the Lancashire League, which play their home games at Thorneyholme Road in Accrington. For the 2011 season their captain is Jimmy Hayhurst and their professional is Ashar Zaidi.

The club was formed in 1846 and became a founder member of the Lancashire League in 1892. The club has won the League on five occasions, fielding well known cricketers including David Lloyd

David Lloyd (cricketer)

David Lloyd is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire and Test and One Day International cricket for England. He also played semi-professional football for Accrington Stanley...

, Graeme Fowler

Graeme Fowler

Graeme "Foxy" Fowler is a former English professional cricketer, who played for Lancashire, England, and later for Durham...

, Nathan Astle

Nathan Astle

Nathan John Astle is a former New Zealand cricketer. He was an attacking batsman who liked to play batting shots such as the cover drive and the pull shot. He also scored the world's fastest Test double century in terms of balls faced. This remarkable innings of 222 was scored in just 168 balls...

, Bobby Simpson

Bobby Simpson

Roberta "Bobby" Marshall is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Nicolle Dickson. She was introduced in the pilot episode by executive producer Alan Bateman. Nearly four hundred actresses auditioned to play Bobby, with Dickson taking the role...

, Eddie Barlow

Eddie Barlow

Edgar John Barlow was a South African cricketer . Barlow played first-class cricket for Transvaal and Eastern Province from 1959-60 to 1967-68 before moving to Western Province for the seasons from 1968-69 to 1980-81...

 and Shane Warne

Shane Warne

Shane Keith Warne is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet...

. In the 21st century, however, the club has struggled and in 2007 it was revealed that the club had debts exceeding £10,000 and that its future was at risk. The club have struggled through these problems though and won the double in 2008 and retained the league title against the odds in 2009.

Honours

• 1st XI League Winners - 7 - 1914, 1915, 1916, 1961, 1975, 2008, 2009
• Worsley Cup Winners - 4 - 1936, 1970, 1986, 2008
• 2nd XI League Winners - 1 - 1912
• 2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 3 - 1978, 1979, 2000
• 3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 2001
• Highest 50 overs score - 341-5 v Rawtenstall
  Rawtenstall Cricket Club
  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 2011 season its captain is Vinny Hanson, and its professional is Sri Lankan Malinga Bandara. The club has won the league on seven occasions and won...
  
  , May 6, 2006

External links

• Official website
• Accrington CC at lancashireleague.com