Bury Cricket Club

Bury Cricket Club was founded in 1845, initially playing its cricket in the Townside district of the town. However, the arrival of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway required the club to seek pastures new. They then located to Foundry Street in the town, but this land was also required for development, with the building of Barlow's Mill in 1852.

Once again the club had to move and found a site at Buckley Wells, currently the Grammar School's playing fields, where they stayed until 1922.

Bury were founder members of the Central Lancashire Cricket League, and are the only club, with the exception of Todmorden, to have been members of both the CLL and the Lancashire League.

In 1919, Samuel Roberts provided land on Radcliffe Road to provide sporting facilities for the people of Bury following the end of the Great War and it was to here that Bury Cricket Club finally settled. In the 1930s the annual tour to North Wales was begun, which still continues to this day.More recently, in 1996, the club went professional, and in recent years has employed first class players from Pakistan.

Despite a long history in the Manchester and District Cricket Association the club has been limited to minor successes with the 2004 lifting of the JC Worthington Trophy by the 2nd XI being the highlight. However, in the 1990s the club began to develop its junior section which has become one of the largest and most successful in the region. There are currently teams at Under 11, Under 12, Under 13, Under 14, Under 15, Under 16 and Under 18, competing in various local competitions, generally with a great deal of success. The club's continued commitment to junior cricket was recognised by the award of the Sport England ClubMark and the Bury MBC Community Club of the Year in 2005.

External links

* [http://bury.play-cricket.com Official Website]
* [http://mdca.play-cricket.com League Website]