Lowerhouse Cricket Club

Lowerhouse Cricket Club
LeagueLancashire League
Personnel
CaptainBenjamin Heap
2nd XI captainJack Simm
Overseas player(s)Ruan de Swardt
Team information
ColoursRoyal blue and yellow
Founded1862
Home groundBrooks Foundation Ground, Liverpool Road, Burnley
History
Lancashire League wins4
Worsley Cup wins5
20/20 Cup wins1
Ron Singleton Colne Trophy wins2
2nd XI League wins3
Lancashire Telegraph Cup wins2
3nd XI League wins2
Official websitelowerhousecc.com

Lowerhouse Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Lancashire League, which plays its home games at The Brooks Foundation Ground on Liverpool Road in Burnley.

In recent years the club has been very successful, winning the Lancashire League in 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2014, the Worsley Cup in 2004, 2012, 2018, 2021 and 2024, and the 20/20 Cup in 2013. The club won the Lancashire League for the first time in 2005, captained by Joe Beneduce, having won the Worsley Cup for the first time the year before, captained by Matt Hope.[1] It has employed professionals, including Matthew Mott, Ryan Harris, Martin van Jaarsveld, Jacques Rudolph and Peter Fulton.[2]

For the 2022 season the captain is Benjamin Heap,[3] and the professional is Stephen Parry.[4]

  1. ^ www.lancashireleague.com. Accessed 9 September 2007.
  2. ^ "Lowerhouse Professionals". lancashireleague.com. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  3. ^ Adam, Hope (25 March 2021). "Club Info - Lowerhouse". lowerhousecc.com. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. ^ Adam, Hope (25 November 2020). "Ex-England international signs 2 year deal!". lowerhousecc.com. Retrieved 25 March 2021.