page_title: Bury Cricket Club
section_title: History of the Club
hierarchical_section_title: Bury Cricket Club / History of the Club
caption_attribution_description: English: The new (2013) pavilion at Bury Cricket Club
context_page_description: Bury Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Greater Manchester Cricket League, which plays its home games at Bury Sports & Social Club, Radcliffe Road, Bury, Greater Manchester BL9 9JX. The current club captain is Jon Wiggans.
context_section_description: The club was founded in 1845, initially playing its cricket in the Townside district of the town. However, the arrival of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway required the club to seek pastures new. They then located to Foundry Street in the town, but this land was also required for development, with the building of Barlow's Mill in 1852.
  Once again the club had to move and found a site at Buckley Wells, currently Bury Grammar School's playing fields, where they stayed until 1922.
  In 1919, Samuel Roberts provided land on Radcliffe Road to be used for sporting facilities for the people of Bury following the end of the Great War. It was here that Bury Cricket Club finally settled and this land is now Bury Sports & Social Club where the grounds are used by both the cricket club and Bury Rugby Union Football Club. The club also has a Squash section and Bury Chess Club also use the facilities.
  Historically, records of cricket matches at Radcliffe Road can be found right back to the late 1840s including a game in 1888 where Bury took on a side of touring Parsees.  The ground has also hosted two Lancashire County Cricket Club 2nd XI matches, the first against Northumberland County Cricket Club in 1908 and the second against Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2nd XI in 1953.
  In the 1930s the annual tour to North Wales was begun, which still continues to this day. More recently, in 1996, the club went professional, and in recent years has employed first class players from around the world.
  As part of the NatWest Bank Cricket Force initiative, Bury CC were nominated for, and won, the Lancashire Cricket Board OSCA (Outstanding Service to Cricket Award) in 2013.  This was due to all the work that was put in getting the ground ready for the 2013 season and particularly the finishing work that was done on the new pavilion.
caption: The new pavilion at Bury CC opened in 2013
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