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NESTON CRICKET

Top competitive league cricket has been played on one of the best playing arenas in the North West for over 100 years, here at Parkgate on the wirral.

During this time, the club has hosted many top flight games, including County teams, Minor Counties, representative matches and even the England Ladies cricket team! 

We have two very good wickets with a fantastic view from the balcony of the new clubhouse, looking towards the welsh hills with parkgate in the foreground.  It is possibly one of the best settings for cricket in cheshire.
Neston CC has produced many players who have gone on to win top honours in the game, the most famous being Ken Cranston. Ken played for and captained Lancashire and England in 1947/8 against the all conquering Australians.  As well as host of Cheshire age group games we also provide players from Under 11 to Over 60!

The club runs four senior men's teams on a Saturday, a Sunday Academy League as well as friendly teams and junior sides from Under 9 to Under 17!  The junior section is particularly strong with many qualified coaches. Strong emphasis is put on junior enjoyment and development.
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A very good junior set up.
The incredible setting at Parkgate!
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Viewing from the balcony!
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A Brief History of Cricket at Neston.

The first recorded game of cricket in Parkgate was in 1881 and then at it's present ground from 1895.
Neston had two sides from 1900 and they played in the Liverpool and District Competition from 1908 which was not formally put into a league structure until 1949, when Neston was one of the original 16 clubs from the Liverpool, Wirral and Lancashire areas.  We have won it 5 times which is quite a feat as some clubs have never won it!  We moved  to the newly formed Cheshire League for the 1999 season, which made geographical sense as many clubs on the Wirral and Cheshire made up the Liverpool League.  We were runners-Up in 2013, which is the best we have achieved since joining in 1999.
1st XI Neston Cricket Captains:

1895-1901 H.M.Speechly
1902-1910 A.Barrett
1911-1913 F.G.Gilling
1914 F.Cramer-Roberts
1915-1918 WW1
1919 F.J.Kirby
1920-1921 G.B.Eaton
1922 A.Barrett
1923 L.Ravenscroft
1924 H.I.Okell    
1925 H.J.Beausire
1926 G.Trantom
1927-1928 F.J.Griffiths
1929 J.H.B.Sullivan
1930-1933 H.J.Beausire
1934-1938 A.J.K.Barne
1939 H.J.Beausire
1940 E.F.Goodwin
1941 G.A.McDonald
1942 R.A.Nokes
1943 G.A.McDonald
1944-45 H.G.E.Prescott
1949-60 Ken Cranston
1961-64  Brian Johnson
1965-68 Donald Hughes
1969-70 Brian Ennion
1971-75  Keith Jackson
1976-78 Jim Marshall
1979-87 Norman Halsall
1988-93 Phil Davis
1994-96 Peter Barber
1997-99  Stan Clifford
2000-01 Phil Davis
2002-03 David Collyer
2004-06 Ben Thomas
2007-08 Stan Clifford
2009-10 Jack Smith
2011 Andy Roberts
2012-14  David Hurst
2015 Brad Donelan
​2016-17 Simon Stokes
​2018-  David Hurst
1000 Runs in a season

1933 W.E. Bates
1952 K. Cranston
1989 P.A.Davis
1990 P.A.Davis
1994 P.A.Davis
2009 J.Smith

10 Wickets in an Innings
1924 H.J.Beausire
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Ken Cranston
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Warming up in the nets in The West Indies in 1948.
Liverpool and District Competition Champions

1956 1st XI Division - Runners-Up
1957 1st XI Division - Champions
1965 1st XI Division - Champions
1966 1st XI Division - Runners-Up
1969 1st XI Division - Champions
1970 1st XI Division - Champions
1980 1st XI Division - Runners-Up
1982 1st XI Division - Runners-Up
1987 1st XI Division - Runners-Up

1992 1st XI Division - Champions

​Neston moved into the Cheshire Premier League in 2000.

ECB Cheshire Premier Competition 
2007 Premier Division - Runners-Up
2013 Premier Division - Runners-Up

Cheshire Cup
1983 Winners
1985 Winners
​1989 Runners-Up
1992 Runners-Up
1995 Runners-Up
​2017 Runners-Up
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Cheshire T20
​2012 Winners
​2017 Winners
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2nd XI League Champions
1961, 1964, 1966, 1993, 1997, 2013, 2016

2XI Cup
1992

3rd XI League Champions
1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2016, 2017
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3XI Cup
2016, 2017

4th XI League Champions
2017
County and Country while playing for Neston

England - Ken Cranston

Lancashire - Ken Cranston, Phil Davis, Simon Marshall

Cheshire - Henry Beausire, John Halliwell, Derek Little, Robert Littler, David Mount, James Swift, Tony Vickery, David Watts, Brian Johnson, Brian Ennion, David Costain, Donald Hughes, Norman Halsall, Keith Jackson, Mike Byrne, Arthur Byrne, Charles Coombes, Steve Gardner, Phil Davis, Nigel Aston, Simon Marshall, Chris Finegan, David Hurst, Will Evans, Andy Clarke, Ashley Davis, Matty Stewart
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Ken Cranston bowls in the Test trial game, England v Rest of England, Test Trial, Edgbaston, June 3, 1948.
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Cranston tosses with West Indies captain George Headley ahead of the Guyana Test in January 1948.
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