title: Littleborough Cricket Club
text: # Littleborough Cricket Club
  
  Littleborough Cricket Club, based in Littleborough, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, is an English cricket team currently playing in the Central Lancashire League.
  
  The club was founded in 1839 and play on the famous Hare Hill ground.
  
  Littleborough were founder members and inaugural champions of the Central Lancashire League, and they have been league champions on twenty occasions, the last time being in 2005.
  
  Littleborough hold Lancashire Cricket Board Focus Club status and are ECB Clubmark accredited. Two senior teams play in the CLL in addition to a 3rd XI who play in the North Manchester League.
  
  The club's junior section fields teams in the CLL at U18, U15, U13, U11 and U9 age groups and the juniors receive expert coaching at the club during the summer on Monday evenings.
  
  From start of the 2018 season Littleborough moved to the Lancashire League.
  
  ## Professional players
  
  Many notable professionals have appeared in the Littleborough side over the years, including Sir Garfield Sobers, Joel Garner, Ezra Moseley, Franklyn Stephenson, Andy Roberts, Mike Whitney, and Stuart Law. The club's professional player engaged for 2012 is the Queensland batsman Clinton Perren. Littleborough is also the home club of the Surrey and England international Chris Schofield.
  
  ## Club honours
  
  ### NMCL Division 2 Champions
  
  2015
  
  ### Hodson Cup Winners
  
  2015
  
  ### CLL champions
  
  1892, 1911, 1912, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005
  
  ### Wood Cup
  
  1935, 1941, 1942, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999
  
  ### JW Lees Lancashire Challenge Trophy
  
  1997, 2005
  
  ### 2nd XI champions
  
  1910, 1920, 1928, 1936, 1973, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2005
  
  ### Burton Cup
  
  1985, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011
  
  ### Aggregate Cup
  
  1932, 1935, 1936, 1977, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005
  
  ### Whittaker Cup
  
  2006, 2007,
  
  ### Taylor Cup
  
  1996, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2016
  
  