Todmorden Cricket Club
League	Lancashire League
Ground	Centre Vale, Todmorden Todmorden Todmorden is a market town and civil parish, located 17 miles from Manchester, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Upper Calder Valley and has a total population of 14,941.... , Yorkshire Yorkshire Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
Professional	Qaiser Abbas Qaiser Abbas Qaiser Abbas is a Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 2000.He also played for Rajshahi Rangers in the NCL T20 Bangladesh...  (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	4th

Todmorden 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 Centre Vale in Todmorden

Todmorden

Todmorden is a market town and civil parish, located 17 miles from Manchester, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Upper Calder Valley and has a total population of 14,941....

, West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. For the 2011 season its captain is Simon Newbitt, and its professional is Qaiser Abbas

Qaiser Abbas

Qaiser Abbas is a Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 2000.He also played for Rajshahi Rangers in the NCL T20 Bangladesh...

. The club has won the league on five occasions and won the cup eight times. It has employed professionals including Frank Tyson

Frank Tyson

Frank Holmes Tyson is an England cricketer of the 1950s who became a journalist and cricket commentator after he emigrated to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon Tyson" by the press he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket and took 76 wickets in...

, Brian Close

Brian Close

Dennis Brian Close , usually known as Brian Close, is a former cricketer who is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked for the Test team to play against New Zealand, in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England,...

 and Paul Allott

Paul Allott

Paul John Walter Allott is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Lancashire, Minor Counties cricket for Staffordshire and first-class cricket in New Zealand for Wellington, as well as thirteen Test match appearances and thirteen One Day International appearances for England.He...

, and former amateur players include Dick Horsfall

Dick Horsfall

Richard Horsfall, born at Todmorden, Yorkshire on 26 June 1920 and died at Halifax, Yorkshire on 25 August 1981, played first-class cricket for Essex between 1947 and 1955, and then played for a single season for Glamorgan in 1956...

, Derek Shackleton

Derek Shackleton

Derek Shackleton was a Hampshire and England bowler. He took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket, but only played in seven Tests for England. As of 2007, he has the seventh-highest tally of first-class wickets, and the most first-class wickets of any player who...

and Jon Henderson.

Honours

• 1st League Winners - 5 - 1927, 1933, 1938, 1954, 1957
• Worsley Cup Winners - 8 - 1935, 1937, 1938, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1982, 2000
• Ron Singleton Colne Trophy - 1 - 2009
• 2nd XI League Winners - 5 - 1897, 1899, 1902, 1908, 1920
• 2nd XI (Lancashire Telegraph) Cup Winners - 1 - 1980

External links

• Todmorden CC at lancashireleague.com