Neston Cricket Club
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Neston Cricket Club is a club based in Parkgate, Cheshire who play in the ECB Cheshire Premier League[1]. The club was founded in 1881 and play their games at the Parkgate Cricket Ground.
Neston Cricket Club have produced a number of players who have gone on to County and International standard, their most famous being Kenneth Cranston who went on to captain England [2][3]. The main function room in their Parkgate Clubhouse is named after Kenneth Cranston.
The club emblem is a pair of shrimps due to the shrimping industry in Parkgate[4]
History[edit]
- 1881 - Neston District Cricket 1st played at Parkgate at Reginald Haigh’s house, Leighton Banastre, Parkgate. Reginald Haigh was a Cotton Broker and married into the Grenfell Family, who owned Mostyn House and land where the present Club is situated.
- 1894 - Neston C.C. Founded by Dr Harry Martingale Speechly on 5 September 1894. Speechly was a friend of Dr Wilfred Grenfell and was the school doctor.
- 1895 - First cricket game played at present ground and Reginald Haigh became the first President and Harry Speechley was the first Neston Cricket 1st Team Captain.
- 1897 - 1st Cricket Pavilion was built and the 1st century was made by J.F. Grundy, 105 not out.
- 1900 - Neston Cricket 2nd XI was formed Captained by Hugh Coventry.
- 1904 - G.L. Vosper scores a Club record 219 v Wallasey
- 1908 - Neston Cricket joined The Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Competition. Later in 1969 The ECB Premier League Trophy was donated by Neston member John Tristram.
- 1913 - 1st Groundsman employed by the club - a H.Hall from Nottingham.
- 1914 - Outbreak of World War 1. Neston Cricket Team was reduced to 8 players, so play was abandoned and the ground was let to a farmer for grazing sheep
- 1919 - Neston Cricket restarted with Frank Kirby Captaining the new side.
- 1924 - Henry Beausire takes all 10 wickets against Ormskirk for 22 runs off 13 overs, a club and district record, to this day. The other Bowler was called J.W.Bowler and he also had 13 overs with 6 maidens and only 12 runs, but no wickets.
- 1925 - Cricket professional Watson Nutter became the first professional employed by the club.
- 1932 - Eddie Bates, became Neston C.C's 2nd Cricket professional, he had played cricket for Yorkshire and Glamorgan as well as football for Leeds United.[5] He scored 5 centuries in 1933 and that year scored 1136 at an average of 47.30. He took 111 wickets in 1935
- 1936 - Alan Pennington, who played cricket for Neston, was also a Great Britain sprinter and ran in the 100m semi-final against Jesse Owens who went on to win 4 Gold medals in Berlin.[6]
- 1937 - Arthur Ashwell from Kent becomes the 3rd Cricket professional and remained at the club for decades coaching the youngsters.
- 1946 - Ken Cranston Captains Neston Cricket and they win The Liverpool District for the 1st time, although this competition was not officially recognised until 1949
- 1947 - Neston Cricket's Ken Cranston, Captains Lancashire and then Captains England in the Winter tour of The West Indies. Cranston was appointed as captain of Lancashire in 1947. He was immediately successful in first-class cricket, and made his Test cricket debut in the Third Test against South Africa at Old Trafford on 5 July 1947, less than eight weeks after his first-class debut. In the Fourth Test at Headingley, he took four wickets in six balls (w.w.ww) to end the South African second innings. He Captained England once in the West Indies Tour of 1947/48, because Gubby Allen was injured, they drew that match but lost the series. He was selected for the Fourth Test in the Ashes series against the Invincibles, in which the tourists scored 404 on the final day to win the match. This was his last Test as he had to concentrate on his Dentistry practice.
- 1957 - Neston Cricket won under the Captaincy of Ken Cranston their 1st official Liverpool and District Competition
- 1965 - Neston Cricket win their 2nd Liverpool and District Competitions under the Captaincy of Donald Hughes. We were runners-up the following year in 1966.
- 1969 - Neston Cricket win their 2nd Liverpool and District Competitions under the Captaincy of Brian Ennion
- 1970 - Neston Cricket achieve back to back Liverpool and District Competitions under the Captaincy of Brian Ennion again. These two years Neston went unbeaten!
- 1983 - Neston Cricket win The Cheshire Cup, under the Captaincy of Norman Halsall.
- 1985 - Neston Cricket win The Cheshire Cup under the Captaincy Norman Halsal again.
- 1992 - Neston Cricket win their 5th Liverpool and District Competitions under the Captaincy of Phil Davis. They also win the Liverpool Echo Cup and George Rowland Cup.
- 2001 - Neston Cricket switch from the Liverpool & District Competition to The Cheshire Premier League
- 2007 - Neston Cricket 1st XI are Runners-Up, under the Captaincy of Stan Clifford, in The Cheshire Premier Competition
- 2012 - Neston Cricket win the T20 under the Captaincy of David Hurst.
- 2013 - Neston Cricket 1st XI are Runners-Up in The Cheshire Premier Competition, under the Captaincy of David Hurst.
- 2017 - Neston Cricket won the Cheshire T20 Cup beating Didsbury by 4 wickets
References[edit]
- ↑ "Cheshire County Cricket League". cheshirecountycl.play-cricket.com. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ↑ Wilson, Andy (2007-03-13). "Obituary: Ken Cranston". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ↑ "Ken Cranston". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ↑ "Parkgate Tours - Hidden Wirral Myths & Legends". www.hiddenwirral.org. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
- ↑ "Yorkshire receives rare artefact from a bygone age". Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
- ↑ Prentice, David (2012-04-17). "Merseyside's 100 Olympians: Wallasey lad Alan Pennington who took on Jessie Owens". liverpoolecho. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
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