Sefton Park Cricket Club

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Sefton Park Cricket Club
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Sefton Park Cricket Club
League Liverpool and District Cricket Competition
Personnel
CaptainPaul Horton. [1]
Team information
ColoursMaroon, green and gold
Founded1860
Home groundCroxteth Drive
Official website Sefton Park CC

Sefton Park Cricket Club in south Liverpool, England was formed as Sefton Cricket Club in 1860. [1] As well as being used for Sefton's senior, women's and junior teams' home fixtures, the club hosts Lancashire age group [2] and junior sides, [3] Liverpool City junior representative games, University of Liverpool cricket [4] and Last Man Stands. [5]

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History

The club's original ground was on Smithdown Road bounded on one side by what is now Langdale Road. With pressure on the land for development, the club moved to its present ground in the north-eastern corner of Sefton Park shortly after the park's opening in 1876. Sefton became Sefton Park Cricket Club in 1998 and in 2003 the club's second ground with its own pavilion was opened adjacent to the main ground by the city's Lord Mayor. [6]

The club is a founder member of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, [1] which became an ECB Premier League [7] in 2000, and currently plays in the Competition's First Division. [8] [9] Since league fixtures were standardised in 1949, Sefton have been L&DCC champions in 1967 and 1972 and have since won the First Division (2000) [1] and Second Division (2013) [10] titles as well as winning the Liverpool Echo Knockout in 1978 and reaching the Lancashire Knockout final in 1999. The club fields six sides in the Competition, five on a Saturday and one on a Sunday plus an occasional Midweek XI. [11] The junior section fields seven sides from Under 9s upwards.

Honours and achievements

2nd XI

3rd XI

4th XI

Sunday XI

Notable players

Prominent overseas players

Lord Gavron Scholarship

Since 2010, Sefton has received young players from Barbados on the Lord Gavron Scholarship, [55] an agreement between the Lancashire Cricket Board and Barbados Cricket Association.

Captains

YearsCaptainYearsCaptainYearsCaptain
1862 - 1863Charles Fry1931 – 1932Rev. John Swift1989 – 1991Charlie Blackburn
1873 – 1874Bryan Roper1933 – 1946Mel Coomer1992 – 1995Steve Phillips
1876Charles Fry1947 – 1952Alan Wilkinson1996 – 1998Stuart Wade
1878 – 1892Edward Roper1953 – 1956Howard Bangs1999David Heyes
1893 – 1902 Charles Jones 1957 – 1959Wilf Johnstone2000 – 2002Stuart Wade
1903 – 1904Gerald Williams1960 – 1961Dick Hayes2003 – 2004 Paul Horton
1905 – 1910Harvey Blease1962Steve Coldwell2005Howard Parker
1911Frank Edwards1963 – 1969Geoff Parker2006 – 2007Ben Moore
1912 – 1914Harvey Blease1970 – 1971Ralph Osborne2008 – 2010Rob Houghton
1915 – 1918War Period1972 – 1975Ted Williams2011Paul Squires
1919 – 1922Freddie Miller1976 – 1979Glyn Parker2012Philip Calrow
1923 – 1928Ernie Clare1980 – 1983Colin Mitchell2013Adam Irwin
1929 – 1930George Miller1984 – 1988John Lonsdale2014 – 2020Richard Forsyth2021 James Dixon

[70]

Club records

1000 runs in a season [71]

Highest individual scores

Best bowling figures

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