Burnley Cricket Club
League	Lancashire League
Ground	Turf Moor Turf Moor Turf Moor is a football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire. It is the home ground of Burnley Football Club, which has played there since moving from its Calder Vale ground in 1883. The stadium, which is situated on Harry Potts Way, named so after the club's longest serving Manager, has a capacity of... , Burnley Burnley Burnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun.... , Lancashire Lancashire Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
Professional	Imad Wasim Imad Wasim Syed Imad Wasim, born 18 December 1988 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup for Pakistan and has also played first-class and List A cricket in Pakistan. His batting style is left-handed and his bowling style is slow left-arm orthodox.-References:...  (Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... )
2010 League Position	8th

Burnley Cricket Club, based at Turf Moor

Turf Moor

Turf Moor is a football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire. It is the home ground of Burnley Football Club, which has played there since moving from its Calder Vale ground in 1883. The stadium, which is situated on Harry Potts Way, named so after the club's longest serving Manager, has a capacity of...

 in Burnley

Burnley

Burnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....

, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

, is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club in the Lancashire League.

The club was a founder member of the Lancashire League in 1892. Its captain for the 2011 season is Steve Brunt and its professional is Imad Wasim

Imad Wasim

Syed Imad Wasim, born 18 December 1988 in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, played in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup for Pakistan and has also played first-class and List A cricket in Pakistan. His batting style is left-handed and his bowling style is slow left-arm orthodox.-References:...

. In its history, it has won the league championship 14 times and the cup 6 times.

Honours

• 1st XI League Winners - 14 - 1893, 1897, 1901, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1950, 1956, 1964, 1970, 1978, 1979, 2006
• Worsley Cup Winners - 6 - 1950, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1975, 1984
• 20/20 Cup Winners - 1 - 2009
• Ron Singleton Colne Trophy Winners - 1 - 2007
• 2nd XI League Winners - 8 - 1893, 1903, 1906, 1929, 1931, 1961, 1968, 2002
• 2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 2 - 1984, 2004
• 3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 2006

2008 season

The 2008 season saw Burnley finish in twelfth position in the Lancashire League. Beginning the season with a new skipper in Qasim Ali and new professional Jeeva Kulatunga, life after Jon Harvey (2005-2007 pro), Jonathon Clare and Vishal Tripathi was never going to be easy. Sri Lankan Kulatunga hit 468 runs at 22.3 with a highest score of 68 and he picked up 33 wickets at 20.1 with a best of 6-61. The club's top performer was Bharat Tripathi who became the youngest player to take 50 wickets in a season since Jonathan Fielding in 1991, the 18 year-old left spinner finishing with 54 at 16.0 with a best of 7-35. James Capstick lent good support with 34 wickets at 19.7 and Steve Brunt made the most of the absence of Graham Lalor through injury to take 28 wickets at 17.5 in an unaccustomed role. The all rounder also scored 228 runs at 13.4. Daniel Pickup was the leading run scorer with 395 runs at 20.8 with an epic and career best 115 against being Accrington the highlight. Mohammed Jamal has successful first season with 365 runs at 16.6, Michael Kelly hit 356 at 20.9 and Ben Law made 336 at 16.0. New skipper Ali hit 315 runs at 19.7, resigning before the end of the season to let Kulatunga take over. The team reached the semi final of the Worsley Cup and the final of the 20/20.

2009 season

For the 2009 season, Jeevantha Kulatunga will return taking on the dual role of pro come captain with Steven Brunt deputizing. The club will also see the return of amateur batsman Vishal Tripathi which should provide the batting line-up with a much needed boost. With the new changes, the Turf Moor outfit seem to be well placed for a top six finish and a lengthy run in the Worlsey Cup, considering the already versatile bowling attack.

Noteable Players

• James Anderson
  James Anderson (cricketer)
  James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...
  
  
• David Brown
• Fred Brown
  Fred Brown (virologist)
  Fred Brown was a British virologist and molecular biologist.-Early life:He was born in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire and lived in neighbouring Burnley, where he was educated at Burnley Grammar School and played cricket for Burnley Cricket Club...
  
  
• Michael Brown
  Michael Brown (cricketer)
  -Early life:Brown was born in in Burnley, Lancashire, attending Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in neighbouring Blackburn. Like many of his family, he began playing cricket for Burnley Cricket Club, making his debubt for the adult side at age 15...
  
  
• Jonathan Clare
  Jonathan Clare
  Jonathan Luke Clare is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who currently plays for Derbyshire.-Early Life:...
  
  
• John Kettley
  John Kettley
  John Graham Kettley is a British freelance weatherman.-Biography:Brought up on Commercial Street and educated at Todmorden Grammar School on Ferney Lee Road in Todmorden, he played cricket for Burnley and Todmorden. A geography teacher at his school sparked his interest in weather forecasting...
  
  

External links

• A Brief History of Burnley Cricket Club