Firstly, a special thanks to Alan and Angela at the Red House (Railway Hotel) in Rosegrove for the kind donation of their charity collection to the club. The money will be used to purchase an extra set of covers. This is a very generous donation and all at the club are extremely grateful.

Stan would also like to thank all juniors and their parents that contributed towards the watch bought for his birthday.  It was a very nice surprise!   

Representative Cricket

Congratulations to Patrick Martin on captaining Lancashire. U16’s in their recent match Roses match against Yorkshire. Patrick celebrated by scoring 73 opening the batting.

Max Howells has also been on County duty taking in the under 15s tour of the Midlands and Ben Gorton with the County u 11s tour of the West Country

District Cricket

The District under 15s will play two semi finals next week and the under 11’s are also in district semi final action at Lowerhouse on Tuesday.  

Club Cricket

LHCC 2XI  – 213 -7 (reduced to 197)                                      

East Lancs. 156-4                                                         

Ben Heap 107, Matt Walker 22*, Matt Doughty 17  

Paddy Martin 2-34                                                           

Ben Heap’s magnificent maiden century saw the lads home by 42 in this rain reduced game.

LHCC 2XI – 116-9                                                                         

Church 117-9

Scott Hope 43, Patrick Martin 22, Max Howells 17                                                                        

Patrick Martin 4-50 & Max Howells 2-20.

A last ball loss may well cost the team dear in the fight for the runners up spot The bad weather continues to decimate junior fixtures and the league season will be extended to September 5th.  

Enfield u13 (A) – 65-8                                                 

LHCC u13 Tigers – 66-4 

Gus whitehead 13, Jole Shields 12*, Joe Gray 11Brindley Anderson 3-15, Patrick Mortimer 2-17

Enfield’s championship celebrations put on hold as the B team gave themselves a chance of finishing joint champions. The bowling and fielding was superb in setting up this win. Some great catches especially from Gus Whitehead.

LHCC U11 Bears 72-1                                               Church u11 (A) 47-6

Joe Bayliff 13*, Matt Locke 13                                                                      

Adam Stubbs 3-5 , Matt Wharfe 3-10

A comfortable victory which keeps the A team in the hunt for silverware.  

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The lads enter last chance saloon this weekend as they face a double header against second place Rawtenstall and last Sunday’s opponents Church.

After a mixed weekend last time out there can be no slip ups if our outside title chances are to stay alive.

House are at full strength on Saturday for the game against Rawtenstall at Liverpool Road but Will Driver and Joe Hawke will miss Sunday’s trip to Church.

Rawtenstall have been there or there abouts all season and currently sit in second place just 11 points behind league leaders Accrington.

Nathan McCullum has returned to New Zealand after a succesful stint at Bacup Road yielding 70 wickets.

Kiwi Jarrod Englefield will deputise.  Englefield who represents Central Districts is a right handed batsmen and boasts 3113 first class runs from 97 innings with an average of 35.48 and a best of 172.

Rawtenstall boast 3 of the leagues leading amateur players with skipper Andrew Payne having scored 740 runs at 41.11 and Chris Cook-Martin 684 runs at 34.20.  Veteran Keith Roscoe who enters the final few weeks of his Lancashire League career has taken 58 wickets at 14.91. 

1st XI – Saturday  23rd Aug 08 -  Rawtenstall (Home)

1. Charlie Cottam (Capt)
2. Chris Benbow
3. Joe Beneduce
4. Chris Bleazard
5. Will Driver
6. Jon Finch
7. Joe Hawke
8. Hassan Khan
9. Jack McGregor (Wkt)
10. Jonny Russell
11. Bredan Drew

Same team Sunday Church (Away) – with Stuart Grant and 2nd Teamer replacing Joe Hawke and Will Driver.

  2XI   – Saturday 23rd Aug 08 – Rawtenstall (Away)

1. Paul Stansfield (Capt)
2. Phil Haggerty
3. Matt Doughty (Wkt)
4. Ben Heap
5. Scott Hope
6. Paddy Howley
7. Joe Martin
8. Paddy Martin
9. Toxy Razzaq
10. Kieron Tighe
11. Matt Walker

Reserves – Adam Hope, Michael Lee, Ben Webster, Jonny Whitehead    

 Meet 11:30 prompt  Same team Sunday, Church home plus Michael Lee for 1st Teamer and Matt Marquis for Paul Stansfield.

 3XI  – Monday 25th Aug 08 – Rishton  (Away)

1. Michael Lee
2. Ayaaz Darr
3. Michael Donovan
4. Shaun Heaton
5. Adam Hope A
6. Paddy Howley
7. Maden
8. Lewis Marsden
9. Dean Mottram
10. Colin Quinn
11. Ben Webster

Meet – NOON

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This weekend sees the first of 4 consecutive double header weekends as we enter the final third of the season with it all still to play for.

The squad is at full strength as Stuart Grant is added to the eleven on duty last Sunday. 

On Saturday it’s a visit to East Lancs  who sit just behind House in 5th having played 18 games winning 10 and losing 8.  East Lancs suffered a blow earlier in the season with the news that talented pro Shannan Stewart had to return home.  House won the game at Liverpool Road in June by 93 runs claiming 12 points in the process. East Lancs will again engage a sub professional.

On the amateur front David Pearson leads the way with the bat having notched 260 runs at 18.57 whilst seamer Sid Patel has claimed 31 wickets.

On Sunday we entertain Church at Liverpool Road, the first time the two sides have met this season.  Church currently sit in 9th place in the league table having played 19 games, winning 8 and losing 10 with 1 no result. Last weekend they beat Todmorden comfortably at Centre Vale thanks to an outstanding all round performance from sub professional Jean Symes. Their regular pro Niel Bredenkamp is expected to play this weekend. Bredenkamp is a 20 year-old South African who bats right handed and bowls right arm medium pace.  Back home he plays for North West.  In first class cricket he scored 829 runs at 39.5. In the league this season he has 484 runs at 30.25 with a best of 94 and 41 wickets at 19.41 with a season’s best of 6-28.

On the amateur front leading bowler is Andrew Bentley with an impressive 45 wickets at 20.80 whilst veteran Alec Holt leads the way with the bat having notched 461 runs at 30.73.

1st XI – Saturday 16th Aug 08  - East Lancs (Away)

From:-

1. Charlie Cottam (Capt)
2. Chris Benbow
3. Joe Beneduce
4. Chris Bleazard
5. Will Driver
6. Jon Finch
7. Stuart Grant
8. Joe Hawke
9. Hassan Khan
10. Jack McGregor (Wkt)
11. Jonny Russell
12. Brendan Drew

 Same sqaud Sunday, Church (Home)  

2nd XI - Saturday 16th Aug 08 – East Lancs (Home)   

1. Paul Stansfield (Capt)
2. Phil Haggerty
3. First Teamer
4. Matt Doughty (Wkt)
5. Ben Heap
6. Scott Hope
7. Max Howells
8. Joe Martin
9. Paddy Martin
10. Kieron Tighe
11. Matt Walker

 Reserves – Paddy Howley, Matthew Stansfield, Chris Swift

 Same team Sunday Church (Away) plus Matt Marquis    

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DISTRICT CRICKET

West Lancashire District U 15 – 25 all out                    

Fergus Bailey (LHCC) 7-4

Declan Bailey (LHCC) 2-14

Burnley District u 15 – 26-0

An incredible bowling performance restricting West Lancs. to a lowest ever District score 

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Hyndburn District U15 127-9                                        

Declan Bailey 3-27

Fergus Bailey 2- 13 

Burnley District u 15 -129-7

Max Howells (LHCC) 65

Jonny Whitehead (LHCC) 17

Tauqeer Razzaq (LHCC) 10

A 5th wicket stand of 60 from Max Howells and Adam Delooze (BCC) saw the team through a sticky batting patch.

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Blackpool District U15 157-8                                       

Tauqeer Razzaq 2- 29

Burnley District u15 -159-3

Joe Martin (LHCC) 70

Matt Walker (LHCC) 58*

Jonny Whitehead (LHCC) 12

A 4th victory for the locals in the District League to see them finish top.  The lads will now play Bury in the semi final stage

CLUB CRICKET

SECOND XI

Rishton 53 all out                                                        

Patrick Martin 5-14

Matt Marquis 5 -15                                                                   

LHCC 55-2                                                                                

Patrick Martin 20*

Scott Hope 14*

Ben Heap 10

Phil Haggerty 11

Lowerhouse made short work of Rishton who collapsed from 35-1 to 53 all out.  The runs were knocked off in 12 overs.

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Longridge U11 (B) 77-7                                               

Shannon Jackson 4-6                                                            

LHCC U11 Koalas 50-5

Shannon Jackson 11*

Drew Holden 9

Not for the first time this season the boys and girls got themselves into a winning position but lost wickets and lost the game. A fine all round performance from County Girl Shannon Jackson.

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Reigning Lancashire League Champions Rishton dealt a blow to our outside title hopes on a wet day at Liverpool Road.

After much mopping up play began at 3.30 in a 31 overs per side contest.  Charlie won the toss and decided to field.  However, the lads slipped to a 11 run defeat.  Veteran John Seedle (44), Sam Hacking (25) and Tiarnan Hamill (21 not out) were the main players as Rishton’s posted 127-6 from their 31 overs. Chris Benbow collected 3-36 for House.

The House innings got off to a slow start as Rishton pro Saeed Anwar Jr found the conditions to his liking and proved difficult to score off. He finished with figures of 6-32 as House fell 11 runs short being dismissed for 116. Barry Hamilton collected 3-75.

In truth House were struggling to make inroads into the total with only Hassan Khan scoring fluently making 26.  However some big overs from Chris Benbow who top scored with 27, and the skipper Charlie Cottam (19) gave House hope and with 2 overs remaining 12 runs were needed with two wickets left.  Jack McGregor was run out the first ball of the penultimate over and Chris Benbow took the strike.  Benbow was dismissed with the final ball of the over caught at 3rd man by John Seedle to leave House 11 runs short.

All is not lost however as league leaders Accrington suffered an heavy defeat against in form Nelson meaning our 4 bonus points actually took us closer to the leaders with 8 games to play.  Rawtenstall secured 10 points against Ramsbottom and Haslingden were beaten by Bacup making the hunt for the league title a four horse race.  Next weekend the lads face a double header against East Lancs and Church.

Remaining Fixtures

16 Aug – East Lancs (Away)

17 Aug – Church (Home)

23 Aug  – Rawtenstall (Home)

24 Aug  – Church (Away)

30 Aug – Bacup (Away)

31 Aug – Ramsbottom (Home)

6 Sep – Nelson (Home)

7 Sep – Accrington (Away)

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