Lancashire League Handbook 2016

151 Lowerhouse won the Worsley Cup for the first time in their history in front of a record gate of £4951.50 at Liverpool Rd in 2004. The Club became the last team to achieve the Senior League Championship in 2005. Vishal Tripathi became the youngest player on record at 17 years 3 months, 23 days to score a century against Rishton for Lowerhouse on 26th June 2005. Ryan Harris (144) & Jonathon Finch (123) created a new Lancashire League 1st wicket partnership of 257 on 29th April 2007. During the 2011 season Lowerhouse became the first team to win all 13 home games. In 2011 & 2012 no side scored 200 or more runs against Lowerhouse 1st XI. Chris Bleazard scored his 100th Lancashire League half century for Lowerhouse against Burnley at Lowerhouse on June 4th. On 4th August 2013 Chris Bleazard became only the 3rd batsman of all time to pass the 15000 run barrier whilst scoring a century against Enfield. Joe Martin set a record 42 victims (39ct 3st) during the 2013 season and surpassed this with 54 victims (47 ct 7 st) in 2014. NELSON Nelson won their first 9 matches in season 1919 with Morfee, (pro) and A. Pollard bowling unchanged until the seventh match. Nelson dismissed Church in a League match on May 3rd 1924 for 9 runs. In season 1928, Nelson 1st and 2nd teams both lost their first match, (versus Bacup) and then never lost another match and the Club established a record by winning the Senior and Junior League Championships and the Worsley Cup in the same season. Nelson is the only Club to have won the Championship in four successive seasons, 1934-5-6-7. Learie Constantine scored 192 not out in 118 minutes against East Lancs on 2nd August 1937. In a Worsley Cup game June 6th, 7th and 8th 1939, Nelson scored 441 runs and Lowerhouse replied with 274 runs. On 2nd July 1995 in the game Nelson v Enfield after 28 overs Nelson were 79 for 9. T. Kegg 100 and M. Warburton 5* put on 98 runs for the final wicket. This was a club record for a last wicket partnership. This was Trevor Kegg’s highest score and the first No. 9 batsman to score a century for Nelson C.C. Joe Scuderi made an amateur record score in the Worsley Cup for Nelson on 9th May 2004 with 155 at Rishton. He made 1000 eight times (7 Nelson 1 Colne) and holds both the amateur and professional batting records for runs in a season. Michael Bradley set a new Lancashire League record for wicket keeping dismissals in August 2007 with 712.