Rawtenstall Cricket Club
League	Lancashire League
Ground	Worswick Memorial Ground, Rawtenstall Rawtenstall Rawtenstall is a town at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, in Lancashire, England. It is the seat for the Borough of Rossendale, in which it is located. The town lies 18 miles north of Manchester, 22 miles east of the county town of Preston and 45 miles south east of Lancaster... , 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	Malinga Bandara Malinga Bandara Herath Mudiyanselage Charitha Malinga Bandara , commonly known as Malinga Bandara, is a Sri Lankan Test and one-day international cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and also bowls legbreaks. Malinga Bandara was earmarked from an early age as a legspinner of great potential...  (Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the... )
2010 League Position	7th

Rawtenstall Cricket Club 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, which plays its home games at the Worswick Memorial Ground in Rawtenstall

Rawtenstall

Rawtenstall is a town at the centre of the Rossendale Valley, in Lancashire, England. It is the seat for the Borough of Rossendale, in which it is located. The town lies 18 miles north of Manchester, 22 miles east of the county town of Preston and 45 miles south east of Lancaster...

. For the 2011 season its captain is Vinny Hanson, and its professional is Sri Lankan Malinga Bandara. The club has won the league on seven occasions and won the cup three times. It has employed professionals including Colin Miller

Colin Miller (cricketer)

Colin Reid Miller is a former Australian cricketer. Known for his ever-changing hair colour; he played with blue hair in a test match against the West Indies in 2001. His hair apparently made West Indies captain Courtney Walsh laugh.Miller began as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, but changed to...

, Sydney Barnes

Sydney Barnes

Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the sport's history...

, Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan

Michael Gwyl Bevan is a former Australian left-handed cricket batsman and a slow left arm chinaman bowler. He played 232 ODI matches for Australia, and was a part of the 1999 and 2003 teams that won the World Cup...

 and Andrew Hall

Andrew Hall

Andrew James Hall is a South African cricketer and a former member of the South African cricket team . He is an all-rounder who bowls fast-medium pace, and has been used as both an opening batsman and in the lower order. Prior to making it on the South African first class cricket scene he played...

. After finishing 2nd in the league in 2007 they will compete in the LCB Knockout Cup in 2008 for the first time being drawn against East Lancs in the First Round who they lost 3-2 to on a bowl out.

Honours

• 1st XI League Winners - 7 - 1894, 1904, 1922, 1926, 1976, 1981, 1982
• Worsley Cup Winners - 4 - 1976, 1985, 1990, 2003
• Ron Singleton Colne Trophy Winners - 1 - 2004 (shared)
• 2nd XI League Winners - 11 - 1907, 1922, 1924, 1946, 1959, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1999
• 2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 1 - 1981
• 3rd XI League Winners - 1 - 2002

External links

• Official site
• Rawtenstall CC at lancashireleague.com