Darwen Cricket Club play in the
Lancashire League and are based at The Brookhouse Aerospace Birch Hall Cricket Ground. in
Darwen
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners".
The A666 road, A666 road passes through Darwen towards Blackburn to the north, Bolton to ...
,
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...
. They are also known as 'The Towers'.
The club has played in the Ribblesdale League and were a founder member of the
Northern Cricket League in 1952, joining the Lancashire League in 2017.
Club captain for the 2025 season is Mark Friend.
History
A Darwen club played for a brief period in the
Central Lancashire League and Ribblesdale League in the late 1800s before disbanding. The current team was founded as Darwen Etrurians Cricket Club in 1901. The club re-joined the Ribblesdale League in 1909, changing their name to Darwen Cricket Club in 1910. After sharing a ground at Barley Bank, the former home of
Darwen FC, the club moved to their present ground at Birch Hall in 1920. They switched to the Northern League for its inaugural season in 1952.
From start of the 2017 season Darwen, along with
Clitheroe
Clitheroe () is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Ribble Valley, Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester. It is near the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for to ...
and Great Harwood, moved to the
Lancashire League. The club had a successful first campaign with the first XI finishing the season as runners-up in the league and winning the Worsley Cup.
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In September 2018 Darwen were crowned the county's club champions after beating Clifton CC in the LCF Knockout Cup.
On 4 September 2022, the club completed the full set of county honours when defeating Greenmount CC by 13 runs to become Lancashire League Champions.
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Honours
''Ribblesdale League''
*1st XI League Winners - 3 - 1922, 1934, 1940 (shared).[
''Northern League''
*1st XI League Winners - 5 - 1966, 1987, 1999, 2002, 2004.][
''Lancashire League''
*1st XI Premier League Winners - 1 - 2022.
*1st XI Holland Cup Winners - 3 - 2017, 2021, 2024.
*T20 Competition Winners - 1 - 2021.
*Worsley Cup Winners - 2 - 2017, 2019.]
Notable players
* Atif Ashraf.[
* Tom Dewdney.][
* Robert Entwistle.][
* Scott Hookey.][
*]Siddhesh Lad
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Lad was the captain of the Western Wolves team in the Toyota ...
.[
*]Ken Rickards
Kenneth Roy Rickards (22 August 1923 – 21 August 1995) was a West Indian international cricketer who played in two Test matches from 1948 to 1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom ...
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*]Keith Semple
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* Ken Snellgrove.][
* David Wiese.
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References
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Lancashire League cricket clubs
Sport in Blackburn with Darwen
1901 establishments in England
Cricket clubs established in 1901