A busy Bank Holiday weekend at The iMEP gets underway with Worsley Cup action on Saturday when Accrington take on Greenmount in an all Division 2 clash
The clubs have already met once this season with Greenmount winning a hard fought encounter two weeks ago at the same venue but they have never met in the Worsley Cup before.
Accrington make three changes with Abbaas Ahmad and Zain Hanif replacing Jacob Clarke and Ali Hasham.
Greenmount name an unchanged team.
Match Ball Sponsor is G and E Hayhurst.
On Sunday Accrington welcome joint leaders Rishton to the iMEP Arena for a local derby.
In 258 previous Lancashire League meetings both clubs have 91 wins with 75 draws/no results and one tie.
In the last five seasons Rishton have four wins to Accrington's three with four no results.
Rishton beat Bacup last Sunday and Accrington won for the first time at East Lancs.
Accrington pick from twelve with Asad Khan, Jacob Clarke and Ali Hasham returning in place of Zain Hanif and Ryan Bond.
Rishton make a change with Richie Fox returning in place of Sahan Senapathi.
The Match Day Sponsor is Steven Lowe.
The Match Ball Sponsor is Heritage Shops
The seconds are out of the Junior Cup so have a blank Saturday but on on Sunday they travel to Rishton for the reverse fixture.
The thirds travel to the Brookhouse Aerospace Birch Hall Cricket Ground on Monday to face Darwen 4th XI.
This season we are looking back at the historic Lancashire League championship winning season of 1975 and also the less successful season of 1995 when Colin Miller was professional.
A Bank Holiday to forget saw Accrington beaten on both days after winning their opening five fixtures in 1975. On Saturday May 24th 1975 Accrington lost for the first time going down to a last over defeat at the hands of title rivals Burnley at Turf Moor by just 2 runs.
The following day Sunday May 25th 1975 Accrington lost for the second time in successive days as their title hopes took a major blow with a 6 wicket home defeat to local rivals Enfield.
Professional Colin Miller hit 89 and skipper Mark Aspin 53 but Accrington went down to a first home defeat of the season losing to Lowerhouse on run rate by 5 wickets on Saturday May 27th 1995.
To get the feel of the club back in 1995 please visit the monthly Newsletters on Crickethistory.website.
https://crickethistory.website/club/accrington/accrington_newsletters_1995/index.html
