Weekend Preview July 19th/20th

Weekend Preview July 19th/20th

Next to bottom club Accrington face eighth placed Bacup at Tony's Pizza and Kebab House Lanehead Cricket Ground on Sunday. 

Bacup lost to Greenmount and Accrington were beaten by Crompton last Sunday.

Bacup won the reverse fixture back in May by 183 runs with professional Chirag Khurana hitting 234. 

Accrington make three changes with Abbaas Ahmad, Waqar Ashraf and AN Other replacing Zain Hanif, Noah Cronshaw and Damian Clarke. 

New captain Jacob Clarke will lead the team. 

Bacup make one change with George Sumner replacing Jack Bradford.

The seconds host Bacup at The iMEP Arena in the reverse fixture.

On Saturday the club hosts a Junior T10 Festival with a 12.30pm start.

This weeks teams

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.

Accrington gained revenge for a defeat at Bacup at the end of June by handing the Worsley Cup finalists a 6 wicket defeat at Thorneyholme Road on Saturday July 19th 1975.

The Match Ball Sponsor is G and E Hayhurst Bakery.

Left arm spinner Ibrar Ali took a career best 8-23 to bowl Todmorden to a 27 run win over Accrington at Centre Vale after his team had been bowled out for 113 on Sunday July 16th 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

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