RECORDS AND NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS.
Highest number of wickets in one season as professional Tom Lancaster, 1892, 127 wickets (average 7.00)
Highest number of wickets in one season as an amateur Tom Lancaster, 1904, 112 wickets (average 7.73)
JJ Bowles (pro) took over 100 wickets per season 1919,1920 &1921
F Slater took all ten wickets for 51 runs v Burnley, May 7th 1927.
Highest aggregate score in one season C. C. Hunte (pro) 1959, 1,437 runs.
Des Fothergill & Eddie Paynter scored 248 for the fourth wicket v Colne, Sept 3rd 1949 a league record.
Clyde Walcott in his first season for the club (1951) scored 1,137 runs and in 1953 1,117 runs.
Clyde Walcott scored 191 v East Lancs in the Worsley Cup a record individual score for the club (1951).
Clyde Walcott, 1953, had a batting average of 101.54 a Lancashire League record for one season.
Nyron Asgarali, 1956 his second season with the club, scored 1,021 runs.
Conrad Hunte (pro) established three club records in season 1959 by scoring 1,437 runs, five centuries and fifty or over on thirteen occasions.
Total runs in 1959 were 3,709, average 25.23 per wicket setting anew record for both total and average.
Conrad Hunte (pro) topped the Lancashire League averages, 1960, for both average and aggregate with 1,125 runs, average 56.25 including four centuries and eleven scores of fifty or more.
Mike Ranson 1966, scored 604 runs average 46.46 to top Lancashire League averages and win the Mathew Brown Trophy for most runs.
E Slinger won Mathew Brown Trophy for most runs 1967.
Ian Metcalf scored the fastest 50 in 1967 v Church in 35 minutes.
E Slinger, 1968 scored 814 runs at an average of 32.56 to break the club amateur batting record for runs scored.
Dik Abed, 1968, took 120 wickets at an average of 8.76, the highest number of wickets since 1896. top of the League averages.
1968, Worsley Cup v Colne June 30th saw record receipts of £298 13s 0d
Dik Abed, 1971, took 101 wickets at an average of 7.96 to top League averages .
David Stanley, 1970, scored 544 runs to win the League Mathew Brown Trophy for most runs.
Dik Abed, 1975, took 100 wickets for 10.78 and scored 827 runs at an average of 41.35.
Frank Martindale, 1975, won the Evening Telegraph Award for most victims (37).
Dik Abed, 1976, completed ten years as Enfield pro. Scoring 5,528 runs at an average of 26.57 and taking 969 wickets at an average of 10.26.
Frank Martindale, 1976, won the Evening Telegraph award for most victims (32) for the second year running. He also won the Mathew Brown Trophy for most victims.
Frank Martindale, 1977, for the third year running won the Evening Telegraph and Mathew Brown Trophy for most victims.
1978, Geoff Dixon and Dave Stanley had a 1st wicket of 129 runs in the Worsley Cup Final vRawtenstall, a record in the cup for the club.
1979, cash receipts of £1,089 in the Worsley Cup Final v Burnley Sun Aug 5th was a record for the ground.
Madan Lal (pro), 1980, scored 1,087 runs at an average of 77.64, and took 72 wickets at an average of 16.44.
Keith Barker, 1983, scored 132 runs against Rawtenstall a club record.
Madan Lal, 1984, scored 1105 runs at an average of 65.00 topping the league averages.
Michael Devenney, 1990, took 50 wickets in first full season in the 1st Xl, which won him the league under 25 bowling award.
Gary Barker, 1991, broke amateur batting record scoring 888 runs at an average of 40.36. He won the league under 25 batting award.
Gary Barker, 1992, scored 823 league runs at an average of 43.30, the highest by an amateur. He won the league batting award.
Gary Barker, 1994, highest aggregate score in one season by an amateur, 897 runs.
Liam Jackson, 1997 & 1998 won the league under 23 player of the year award.
Liam Jackson, 2000, scored 597 runs, winning the league and under 25’s award for most runs.
Liam Jackson, 2001, scored 469 runs , winning the league under 25’s batting award. He also took 42 wickets and was joint winner of the league under 25’s bowling award.
Liam Jackson, 2001, won the League Young Player of the year award for the third time in five years.
Andrew Barker, 2004, scored 52 v Lowerhouse completing 50 runs on all Lancashire League grounds.
JACK SIMMONS was born at Clayton-le-Moors , near Accrington in East Lancashire, on March 28, 1941, and was made a member of the local cricket club, Enfield, in the Lancashire League, when he was three years old. He is still a member, continuing a family tradition that has existed through his grandfather and father for over 100 years. Jack was only fourteen when he made his first-team début, a bowler of unusual variety, with off-spin, leg-spin and seam, and a batsman of no mean ability. He was at Enfield when the West Indian Test players, Clyde Walcott, Conrad Hunte and Nyron Asgarali, and the Australian, Des Fothergill, were professionals, and also when Eddie Paynter, a good friend of his father, returned to the team as an amateur after his days as a professional were over. Simmons was coached by Walcott, a player who had a great influence on his development.
Simmons soon attracted Lancashire's attention. He had trials at the same time as Peter Level and went into the second team as an eighteen-year-old in 1959. He was later invited to join the staff but turned down the offer, deciding instead to continue his apprenticeship as a draughtsman. Lancashire's coach at the time, Stan Worthington, told him he would be asked again when he was 21 and had served his time. But that invitation never arrived. When trials with Northamptonshire also came to nothing, Simmons resigned himself to a life as a professional in the leagues.
He played with Baxenden and Barnoldswick in the Ribblesdale League and had joined Blackpool in the Northern League before Lancashire renewed their interest in him. He was now 27; it was 1968, the year before the John Player Sunday League started, and Lancashire's staff needed strengthening. Norman Oldfield, now their coach, had gone to watch two youngsters in an inter-league match, and when he saw Simmons get 80-odd runs, plus some wickets, he invited him to play in the Second XI again. Simmons's first game for the Seconds was also Clive Lloyd's, while the West Indian was in his qualifying year. His first-team début came the same season (1968), on his home ground of Blackpool: he scored 1 and 0 against Northamptonshire and took three wickets for 44 runs.
Lancashire wanted Simmons primarily as an off-spinner, to succeed John Savage, and his batting skills languished when he settled into a tail-end position, usually at No. 8 or No. 9, in a Lancashire team blessed with an abundance of good batsmen. A reminder that the ability was still there came when he batted at No. 3, as night-watchman, in a Championship game at Hove in 1970 and scored a fluent 112, the first of his four centuries for the county. He played an important part in Lancashire's revival in the 1970s, besides going to the other end of the world to lead Tasmania into the Sheffield Shield and also to an astounding Gillette Cup final win over Western Australia in 1989-79. Jack scored 55 not out and took four for 17 to become man of the final, a game he looks back on as perhaps the highlight of his career.
One-day cricket has suited him. His great value as a player, of it was emphasised only last year when Lancashire won the Benson and Hedges Cup for the first time by beating Warwickshire at Lord's. When Alvin Kallicharran threatened to take Warwickshire's total out of Lancashire's reach, Simmons stifled and frustrated him and in eleven immaculate overs conceded only 18 runs. This followed two for 23 in eleven overs against Nottinghamshire in the semi-final and one for 25 against Essex in the quarter-final. The true measure of a player, however, is in the first-class game, and here Simmons has scored 7,309 runs and taken 774 wickets. Of the fourteen bowlers who have taken more wickets for Lancashire than Simmons, only one, the immortal Johnny Briggs, has scored more runs. Simmons has every right to stand among Lancashire's top all-rounders.
EDDIE PAYNTER, the Lancashire left-hand batsman, was born at Oswaldtwistle on November 5, 1901, but he was twenty-five years old before he received his first chance in the Lancashire XI. In his school days at Clayton-le-Moors, Paynter, because of the lack of facilities, never enjoyed an opportunity of playing cricket, but his father was captain of Enfield Second XI and when young Edward was sixteen he was taken into that team. Paynter says that his elder brother, Arundel, was a very fine left-arm fast bowler and revealed more promise than he did, but was killed in the War. Paynter during his boyhood was naturally keen about the game. He read all the cricket books he could find and followed the doings of Lancashire from the newspapers. His ambition was to be a hitter--how he has fulfilled that objective!--but he never imagined he would play for his county.
After he left school, an unfortunate accident befell him, for he lost the tops of the first and second fingers of the right hand, and because of this, it is amazing he has developed into such a grand cover point and fielder in the deep. It was in 1920 that Tom Lancaster, the former professional to Enfield C.C., became convinced of Paynter's abilities and introduced him to the county authorities. Paynter came under the expert coaching of J. T. Tyldesley, to whom he says he owes practically everything for his advance in the game, but Lancashire in those days possessed so much talent that he had to wait more than ten years before he commanded a regular place in the county eleven. He hit his first century in 1931--against Warwickshire at Old Trafford--and the same year appeared for England against New Zealand at Manchester, but the real turning point of his career occurred the following summer when he scored 152 against Yorkshire at Bradford. That innings probably placed him in the forefront of Lancashire cricket.
Accompanying D. R. Jardine's side of 1932-33 to Australia Paynter earned undying fame. In the fourth Test Match at Brisbane he developed tonsilitis but got up from a bed of sickness and scored a noble 83; he also enjoyed the distinction of making the winning hit, which gave England the Ashes. A lot of people considered he should have gone with G. O. Allen's team to Australia, but the majority of the players had been picked for the tour when in August, 1936, he registered hundreds in three consecutive innings. Last season, Paynter surpassed all previous efforts. He set up a personal record by hitting 266 against Essex at Manchester and at Hove went better, scoring in five hours, 322--the highest innings ever made by a Lancashire professional. Although small in stature, Paynter invests his strokes with remarkable power and when in punishing form he drives, cuts and pulls with delightful facility, as those who watched the magnificent display at Hove last July will testify.
Full name Clyde Leopold Walcott
Born January 17, 1926, New Orleans, St Michael, Barbados
Current age 80 years 57 days
Major teams West Indies, Barbados, British Guiana
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Other Referee
CLYDE WALCOTT emerged as a force in West Indies cricket immediately after the Second World War, and for a decade he was an integral part of the West Indies side, immortalised as one of the Three Ws -- Walcott, Weekes and Worrell. He first hit the headlines in 1945-46 when he added an unbroken 574 for the fourth wicket with schoolmate Frank Worrell for Barbados against Trinidad at Port-of-Spain - it remains the record West Indian stand for any wicket. He was 20.
A well-built and powerful batsman with a crouching stance, he was a savage driver and cutter, but also possessed a solid defence when the need demanded. His versatility meant that he was also a times wicketkeeper or first slip, and a useful fast-medium change bowler too.
In India in 1948-49 he made 452 runs in the Tests, and continued that form on the historic 1950 tour of England. He struggled - as many did - against the Australian attack of Lindwall and Miller, but between 1953 and 1955 he had no equals. Against Australia he scored a then-record West Indian aggregate of 827 runs in a series, including a record five centuries.
Walcott is a great favourite in Lancashire where he played for Enfield from 1951 to 1954. Since then he has gone to live in British Guiana, where he is coaching their young players as well as playing for the Colony.
Full name Conrad Cleophas Hunte
Born May 9, 1932, Greenland Plantation, Shorey's Village, St Andrew, Barbados
Died December 3, 1999, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (aged 67)
Major teams West Indies, Barbados
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Administrator
CONRAD HUNTE was born in a one-room house on Barbados's Atlantic coast. His father worked on a sugar plantation, and Conrad was the oldest of nine children. He began playing cricket with the village boys at the age of six, using a palm-frond as a bat. His father was more anxious that he should get an education, and prevailed enough to ensure that his teenage son got work as a primary school teacher. But cricket slowly won the contest. Batting first in a representative match between two local leagues at Kensington Oval in 1950-51, Hunte was dropped on nought by Denis Atkinson, and went on to 137 not out. That secured him a place in the Barbados team when he was just 18, and he made 63 on debut against Trinidad. However, there was little first-class cricket in the Caribbean at that time, and his progress was frustratingly slow. He made 151 and 95 for Barbados in the important matches against E. W. Swanton's XI in 1955-56, and hoped that would get him selected for the 1957 tour of England. In the meantime he went to work at a bus plant and cotton mill in Lancashire, trying to get a chance in the Leagues. Out of sight, out of mind, he was omitted in 1957 - allegedly because he never replied to a letter - and spent that summer playing for Enfield.
He finally got his chance in front of his home crowd, when Pakistan toured the West Indies early the following year, and batted throughout his first day in Test cricket, making 142. Two Tests later at Kingston, Hunte made 260 - an innings overshadowed because his partner in a stand of 446 was Garry Sobers, who scored his record 365 not out - and followed that with a third century, a mere 114, in his fourth match, at Georgetown. Since Sobers made twin centuries, he was again second fiddle. Such form could not last, and he struggled in the subcontinent in 1958-59. My success had gone to my head, he admitted later. When the tour reached Pakistan, he was dropped. But, for all their strengths, West Indies were short of opening batsmen; indeed, throughout his Test career, Hunte never had a settled opening partner. Also, his class was not in doubt, and by Australia in 1960-61 he was a fixture, making the crucial throw in the Tied Test that stopped Wally Grout scoring the winning run, and then hitting 110 at Melbourne.
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