DENTON WEST CRICKET CLUB

Denton West Cricket Club play in the Greater Manchester Cricket League. The club is ECB Club Mark accredited and runs junior cricket from school year 3 up to year 13, and into open age competition... Along the way we have been champions of Lancashire and league champions a number of times in different competitions. Today we are the most successful club in the Lancashire County League with 6 junior teams and 3 senior teams regularly competing for honours... The Gorton Cricket Club's history features some of Manchester's most famous industrialists as players, officials and benefactors, and a number of players from Manchester City FC of the twenties including the like of Eli Fletcher, Tommy Johnson and Eric Brook. As Reddish & Gorton Cricket Club and then Denton West Cricket Club we produced one of the world's greatest cricketers. We are not actually sure if there were such things as ‘coaches' in those days but he certainly took advice from someone to bowl ‘line and length' to which he..

Primary location: Manchester United Kingdom