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OUT NOW: The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025 Here is how you can get your digital hands on a 40-page ebook celebrating a historic summer of cricket. The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025 features highlights from Merseyside Cricket Online's coverage of the season's biggest moments - including Ormskirk's win at Lord's and the all-Comp Lancashire Cup final. It also features full results from all three 1st XI divisions - and My 2025, a new and exclusive series of articles featuring a handful of the people who make local cricket tick. To get yours, click here!

OUT NOW: The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025

Here is how you can get your digital hands on a 40-page ebook celebrating a historic summer of cricket. The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025 features highlights from Merseyside Cricket Online's coverage of the season's biggest moments -…

30.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OUT NOW: The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025 Here is how you can get your digital hands on a 40-page ebook celebrating a historic summer of cricket. The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025 features highlights from Merseyside Cricket Online's coverage of the season's biggest moments - including Ormskirk's win at Lord's and the all-Comp Lancashire Cup final. It also features full results from all three 1st XI divisions - and My 2025, a new and exclusive series of articles featuring a handful of the people who make local cricket tick. To get yours, click here!

OUT NOW: The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025

Here is how you can get your digital hands on a 40-page ebook celebrating a historic summer of cricket. The Merseyside Cricket Online Story of 2025 features highlights from Merseyside Cricket Online's coverage of the season's biggest moments -…

30.10.2025 09:58 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Cricket’s forever home in Wavertree: Fundraising fight goes on to secure club’s future Words by HENRY ECCLES Phill O'Brien, Chairman of Wavertree Cricket Club In mid-September, Phill O’Brien was walking down the path that ran alongside Wavertree Cricket Club when he bumped into a woman walking her dog. Unaware that she was speaking to Wavertree’s chairman, she mentioned the work the cricket club had done replacing the wall that used to block the community’s view of the ground with a much more open fence.

Cricket’s forever home in Wavertree: Fundraising fight goes on to secure club’s future

Words by HENRY ECCLES Phill O'Brien, Chairman of Wavertree Cricket Club In mid-September, Phill O’Brien was walking down the path that ran alongside Wavertree Cricket Club when he bumped into a woman walking her…

14.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

ECB Premier Division Team of the Year… who’s made the cut from each club? Mattie McKiernan made more than 1,100 league runs... is he in the Team of the Year? (yes) For nearly six months, the finest cricketers in the region have scrapped and strived for a place in this... the ECB Premier Division Team of the Year. The rules are simple, but worth repeating: One player from each club, in a balanced XI, with a 12th player from the bottom side.

ECB Premier Division Team of the Year… who’s made the cut from each club?

Mattie McKiernan made more than 1,100 league runs... is he in the Team of the Year? (yes) For nearly six months, the finest cricketers in the region have scrapped and strived for a place in this... the ECB Premier Division…

27.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Division One Team of the Year… who’s made the cut from each club? Liverpool's Finn Hulbert bowled his side to promotion... has he made the team of the year?Picture by ANGUS MATHESON This week's squabbling over England's Ashes squad was merely a preamble to this, the Merseyside Cricket Online Division One Team of the Year. The rules are simple, but worth repeating: One player from each club, in a balanced XI, with a 12th player from the bottom side.

Division One Team of the Year… who’s made the cut from each club?

Liverpool's Finn Hulbert bowled his side to promotion... has he made the team of the year?Picture by ANGUS MATHESON This week's squabbling over England's Ashes squad was merely a preamble to this, the Merseyside Cricket Online…

26.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Division Two Team of the Year… who’s made the cut from each club? Ainsdale's Dilanka Auwardt took 106 wickets in the league... is he in the Team of the Year?Picture by ROGER GREEN It's that time of year again... with no cricket until April, what better way to spend the next few months than arguing about the Merseyside Cricket Online Division Two Team of the Year? The rules are simple, but worth repeating: One player from each club, in a balanced XI, with a 12th player from the bottom side.

Division Two Team of the Year… who’s made the cut from each club?

Ainsdale's Dilanka Auwardt took 106 wickets in the league... is he in the Team of the Year?Picture by ROGER GREEN It's that time of year again... with no cricket until April, what better way to spend the next few months than arguing…

25.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Christ, this could be happening…’ Jamie Barnes on his Lord’s knee-slide and what trophy win means to the club Jamie Barnes celebrates getting Penzance skipper Brad Wadlan It was possibly the first knee-slide ever attempted on the main square at Lord’s, and it will probably be the last. But Jamie Barnes can be forgiven for getting lost in the moment. He had just taken the key wicket of Penzance captain Brad Wadlan, the last specialist batter standing in Ormskirk’s way, with their opponents still 94 runs short of their target.

Watching on the stream, a highlight of Saturday was watching Jamie Barnes attempt a knee-slide on the main square at Lord's. So I asked him about it.

23.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘Christ, this could be happening…’ Jamie Barnes on his Lord’s knee-slide and what trophy win means to the club Jamie Barnes celebrates getting Penzance skipper Brad Wadlan It was possibly the first knee-slide ever attempted on the main square at Lord’s, and it will probably be the last. But Jamie Barnes can be forgiven for getting lost in the moment. He had just taken the key wicket of Penzance captain Brad Wadlan, the last specialist batter standing in Ormskirk’s way, with their opponents still 94 runs short of their target.

Watching on the stream, a highlight of Saturday was watching Jamie Barnes attempt a knee-slide on the main square at Lord's. So I asked him about it.

23.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘This tops 2015…’ Toby Bulcock on why Lord’s was the pinnacle of his long career in cricket Toby Bulcock (right) takes it all in after Ormskirk win the ECB National Club Championship Winning the ECB National Club Championship was a career highlight for all of Ormskirk’s players on Saturday - including the one man who has touched similar heights before. Toby Bulcock was the star when Cumberland won the Minor Counties Championship in 2015, taking 7/45 across two innings in a 10-wicket win over Oxfordshire in Carlisle.

More Lord's reaction... here's Ormskirk spinner Toby Bulcock comparing Saturday to his previous career high

23.09.2025 11:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How Ormskirk’s Calum Turner found the perfect wedding present as Penzance’s dodgy dossier backfired Calum Turner on his way to 111 for Ormskirk at Lord's Calum Turner skipped his brother’s wedding to play at Lord’s - and made amends with a unique gift. “I've offered him my man of the match medal,” he said, after his superb 111 led Ormskirk to victory in the ECB National Club Championship. On a sticky wicket, he was the only man to consistently time the ball, scoring heavily square of the wicket and occasionally climbing into a straight drive worthy of the grand setting.

How Ormskirk’s Calum Turner found the perfect wedding present as Penzance’s dodgy dossier backfired

Calum Turner on his way to 111 for Ormskirk at Lord's Calum Turner skipped his brother’s wedding to play at Lord’s - and made amends with a unique gift. “I've offered him my man of the match medal,”…

22.09.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From guests in the dressing room to heroes on the pitch: How Ormskirk wrote themselves into history books Ormskirk in the Lord's dressing room after their win On Friday, the day before the ECB National Knockout final, Ormskirk’s players were settling into the visitors’ dressing room at Lord’s when there was a knock on the door. “We were getting comfortable, putting our bags in, and a tour came in with 20 people,” captain Gary Knight recalled. “The guide said, oh sorry, excuse me, do you mind if we do the tour?

Here's my first bit of reaction to Ormskirk's National Club Championship triumph... skipper Gary Knight on making himself at home at the Home of Cricket.

22.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Threlkeld has double vision ahead of Lancashire’s final showdown Words by HENRY ECCLES Lancashire's Ellie Threlkeld in action (Photo by Ashley Allen - ECB/ECB via Getty Images) It’s 118 days since Ellie Threlkeld led Lancashire to their first professional trophy - now they have the chance to double up. Having seen off Surrey in the Vitality County T20 in May, the Red Rose side take on Hampshire in the Women’s One-Day Cup final today.

Threlkeld has double vision ahead of Lancashire’s final showdown

Words by HENRY ECCLES Lancashire's Ellie Threlkeld in action (Photo by Ashley Allen - ECB/ECB via Getty Images) It’s 118 days since Ellie Threlkeld led Lancashire to their first professional trophy - now they have the chance to…

21.09.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Turner masterpiece and Holden heroics lead Ormskirk to Lord’s dreamland Ormskirk are national champions, the first Love Lane Liverpool Competition side ever to claim the honour, after battling to a 25-run win over Penzance at Lord's. Opener Calum Turner made his sixth century of the season as Gary Knight's side, asked to bat first under threatening skies, posted a lopsided 217, bowled out in the last of their 40 overs.

Turner masterpiece and Holden heroics lead Ormskirk to Lord’s dreamland

Ormskirk are national champions, the first Love Lane Liverpool Competition side ever to claim the honour, after battling to a 25-run win over Penzance at Lord's. Opener Calum Turner made his sixth century of the season as Gary…

20.09.2025 17:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECB National Club Championship final: Penzance v Ormskirk LIVE! Follow all the action from Lord's as Ormskirk stake their claim to be the first National winners in the Love Lane Liverpool Competition's history... first ball at 11am.

I can't be at Lord's today sadly, but you can follow all the action here. Yes it's the same YouTube stream as everywhere else - but by using this link you're supporting local cricket journalism.

20.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECB National Club Championship final: Penzance v Ormskirk LIVE! Follow all the action from Lord's as Ormskirk stake their claim to be the first National winners in the Love Lane Liverpool Competition's history... first ball at 11am.

I can't be at Lord's today sadly, but you can follow all the action here. Yes it's the same YouTube stream as everywhere else - but by using this link you're supporting local cricket journalism.

20.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The last few ups and downs as Love Lane Liverpool Competition season comes to a close Ormskirk are champions, Birkenhead Park are down, Liverpool, Ainsdale and Northop Hall are promoted. Congratulations or commiserations to all, as appropriate. But there is still plenty to play for in the final round of fixtures... Premier Division – Relegation Battle Premier Division relegation battle Sep 20 Points Wins BatP BowlP HtH Wigan NOR A 184 4 50 49 26 Colwyn Bay BOO H 160 3 51 44 24 …

The last few ups and downs as Love Lane Liverpool Competition season comes to a close

Ormskirk are champions, Birkenhead Park are down, Liverpool, Ainsdale and Northop Hall are promoted. Congratulations or commiserations to all, as appropriate. But there is still plenty to play for in the final…

19.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECB National Club Championship final: Knight prepares his troops with Ormskirk 80 overs from immortality Ormskirk celebrate winning the Love Lane Liverpool Competition title “It will be a great day in the history of Ormskirk Cricket Club - but it could be the greatest.” Gary Knight has learned a lot in his five years as captain, including apparently how to write a killer intro to a cup final preview. Maybe winning the Love Lane Liverpool Competition every year is getting old, and he’s setting his sights on adding a few cricket journalism awards to the trophy cabinet.

ECB National Club Championship final: Knight prepares his troops with Ormskirk 80 overs from immortality

Ormskirk celebrate winning the Love Lane Liverpool Competition title “It will be a great day in the history of Ormskirk Cricket Club - but it could be the greatest.” Gary Knight has learned a…

19.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECB National Club Championship final: Penzance skipper Wadlan unleashes his four-pronged pace attack on Ormskirk Penzance CC celebrate winning the Cornwall Premier League 2025 They’ve dominated their league in recent years thanks to a big-scoring top order and a destructive seam attack. Now they are looking to become the first club from their region to win the ECB National Club Championship. Ormskirk might feel like they’re playing in a mirror when they line up against Penzance on Saturday.

ECB National Club Championship final: Penzance skipper Wadlan unleashes his four-pronged pace attack on Ormskirk

Penzance CC celebrate winning the Cornwall Premier League 2025 They’ve dominated their league in recent years thanks to a big-scoring top order and a destructive seam attack. Now they…

18.09.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECB National Club Championship final: Turner’s hot streak helps Ormskirk build momentum ahead of Lord’s trip Calum Turner batting in the semi-final against Knowle & Dorridge There have been plenty of highlights for Calum Turner in the second half of the season - in more ways than one. The powerful opener hit his stride as Ormskirk clinched their third successive league title, culminating in a brilliant unbeaten 134 off just 85 balls against Wallasey on Saturday.

ECB National Club Championship final: Turner’s hot streak helps Ormskirk build momentum ahead of Lord’s trip

Calum Turner batting in the semi-final against Knowle & Dorridge There have been plenty of highlights for Calum Turner in the second half of the season - in more ways than one. The powerful…

18.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘I was in the zone… there had to be one outcome’: Ormskirk’s Sam Marsh on THAT six and looking ahead to Lord’s Sam Marsh celebrates after hitting a six off the last ball to win the league for Ormskirk Sam Marsh admits his title-winning six for Ormskirk was a bit of a blur, as he prepares for Saturday’s ECB National Club Championship final at Lord’s. Heaved over the long leg-side boundary at Birkenhead Park, it completed a dramatic run chase off the last ball, when nothing but a six would do, and secured his side’s 14th Love Lane Liverpool Competition title.

‘I was in the zone… there had to be one outcome’: Ormskirk’s Sam Marsh on THAT six and looking ahead to Lord’s

Sam Marsh celebrates after hitting a six off the last ball to win the league for Ormskirk Sam Marsh admits his title-winning six for Ormskirk was a bit of a blur, as he prepares for…

17.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love Lane Liverpool Competition report, reaction and round-up: September 13-14 Ormskirk celebrate winning the Love Lane Liverpool Competition title ECB Premier Division: Ormskirk seal title with last-ball six in finish which will go down in Comp folklore It was not the prettiest shot played in the Love Lane Liverpool Competition’s 133-year history. But it might just have been the most dramatic. Needing six runs to win the title off the last ball of their league season, Sam Marsh, Ormskirk’s bowler-who-bats, cleared his front leg and swung with all his might - and hit the jackpot.

Love Lane Liverpool Competition report, reaction and round-up: September 13-14

Ormskirk celebrate winning the Love Lane Liverpool Competition title ECB Premier Division: Ormskirk seal title with last-ball six in finish which will go down in Comp folklore It was not the prettiest shot played in the…

15.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TITLE RACE UPDATE… How Ormskirk can win the league tomorrow, and how Northern can take advantage if they don’t Ormskirk won the league last year; Northern's last title was in 2021 ECB Premier Division title race Club Points Sep 14 Sep 20 Wins BatP BowlP Ormskirk 391 BPK (a) 14 75 31 Northern 373 WIG (h) 13 75 33 Only two games produced results in the Love Lane Liverpool Competition's top flight on Saturday... and both had a huge impact on the title race.

TITLE RACE UPDATE… How Ormskirk can win the league tomorrow, and how Northern can take advantage if they don’t

Ormskirk won the league last year; Northern's last title was in 2021 ECB Premier Division title race Club Points Sep 14 Sep 20 Wins BatP BowlP Ormskirk 391 BPK (a) 14 75 31 Northern 373…

13.09.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘We’re just a group of mates…’ Clein’s Liverpool on the brink of ending a 26-year wait for top-flight cricket Liverpool CC's Aigburth home(Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) Liverpool were last in the top flight in 1999 - before the ECB Premier League era, before the three-division era… before most of their players, including rookie skipper Jared Clein, were born. Now they know a win against Spring View, or a washout, will secure promotion to the Premier Division. An outsider might expect a club which shares a name with the league to be one of its leading lights, but that has not been the case since 1981, when Liverpool won the last of their six titles.

‘We’re just a group of mates…’ Clein’s Liverpool on the brink of ending a 26-year wait for top-flight cricket

Liverpool CC's Aigburth home(Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) Liverpool were last in the top flight in 1999 - before the ECB Premier League era, before the three-division era… before…

12.09.2025 16:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘We’re just a group of mates…’ Clein’s Liverpool on the brink of ending a 26-year wait for top-flight cricket Liverpool CC's Aigburth home(Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) Liverpool were last in the top flight in 1999 - before the ECB Premier League era, before the three-division era… before most of their players, including rookie skipper Jared Clein, were born. Now they know a win against Spring View, or a washout, will secure promotion to the Premier Division. An outsider might expect a club which shares a name with the league to be one of its leading lights, but that has not been the case since 1981, when Liverpool won the last of their six titles.

‘We’re just a group of mates…’ Clein’s Liverpool on the brink of ending a 26-year wait for top-flight cricket

Liverpool CC's Aigburth home(Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images) Liverpool were last in the top flight in 1999 - before the ECB Premier League era, before the three-division era… before…

12.09.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheshire Lines skipper Helsby on being the last ever winners of Southport & District league Cheshire Lines celebrate winning the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League in its final ever season Cheshire Lines have been crowned as the last ever champions of the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League. With just one game to go, the Allerton side cannot be caught at the top and will join Division Two of the Love Lane Liverpool Competition next season.

Cheshire Lines skipper Helsby on being the last ever winners of Southport & District league

Cheshire Lines celebrate winning the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League in its final ever season Cheshire Lines have been crowned as the last ever champions of the Southport & District Amateur…

12.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cheshire Lines skipper Helsby on being the last ever winners of Southport & District league Cheshire Lines celebrate winning the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League in its final ever season Cheshire Lines have been crowned as the last ever champions of the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League. With just one game to go, the Allerton side cannot be caught at the top and will join Division Two of the Love Lane Liverpool Competition next season.

Cheshire Lines skipper Helsby on being the last ever winners of Southport & District league

Cheshire Lines celebrate winning the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League in its final ever season Cheshire Lines have been crowned as the last ever champions of the Southport & District Amateur…

12.09.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ups and downs, ifs and buts, rain and shine… Love Lane Liverpool Competition permutations for Saturday, September 13 Just two games to go, but there is still plenty to play for in the Love Lane Liverpool Competition. Titles in all three divisions are up for grabs, as well as one relegation slot in both the Premier Division and Division One, and two promotion places in the second tier. A win can be worth between 20 and 25 points, while a draw or a defeat can yield between 0 and 10 and a tie is worth 15 to both sides.

Ups and downs, ifs and buts, rain and shine… Love Lane Liverpool Competition permutations for Saturday, September 13

Just two games to go, but there is still plenty to play for in the Love Lane Liverpool Competition. Titles in all three divisions are up for grabs, as well as one relegation slot in…

12.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Captain Green hails ‘brilliant atmosphere’ as Ainsdale secure promotion Dilanka Auwardt Ainsdale captain Oli Green was in the middle at Prescot & Odyssey when his side’s promotion from Division Two was secured - thanks to a game happening 15 miles away. Northop Hall’s four-wicket win at Caldy knocked the Wirral side out of the race, meaning promotion for both the Welshmen and Green’s side. “I was actually batting at the time, so I couldn’t celebrate,” Green said, after securing his main objective in his first season in charge.

Captain Green hails ‘brilliant atmosphere’ as Ainsdale secure promotion

Dilanka Auwardt Ainsdale captain Oli Green was in the middle at Prescot & Odyssey when his side’s promotion from Division Two was secured - thanks to a game happening 15 miles away. Northop Hall’s four-wicket win at Caldy…

11.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Captain Green hails ‘brilliant atmosphere’ as Ainsdale secure promotion Dilanka Auwardt Ainsdale captain Oli Green was in the middle at Prescot & Odyssey when his side’s promotion from Division Two was secured - thanks to a game happening 15 miles away. Northop Hall’s four-wicket win at Caldy knocked the Wirral side out of the race, meaning promotion for both the Welshmen and Green’s side. “I was actually batting at the time, so I couldn’t celebrate,” Green said, after securing his main objective in his first season in charge.

Captain Green hails ‘brilliant atmosphere’ as Ainsdale secure promotion

Dilanka Auwardt Ainsdale captain Oli Green was in the middle at Prescot & Odyssey when his side’s promotion from Division Two was secured - thanks to a game happening 15 miles away. Northop Hall’s four-wicket win at Caldy…

11.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Northop Hall’s promotion season turned on one result, says skipper Slater Paul Jenkins A 12-run defeat at Wavertree in June was the turning point that inspired Northop Hall to promotion from Division Two, according to skipper Ben Slater. The result left the Welshmen 35 points behind second place Caldy after 10 games of the season, with the Wirral side and Ainsdale looking locked-in for the top two. Now, 10 games later - nine wins and one draw, compared with just four wins, a draw and five defeats for Caldy - Slater’s side can look forward to Division One cricket next year.

Northop Hall’s promotion season turned on one result, says skipper Slater

Paul Jenkins A 12-run defeat at Wavertree in June was the turning point that inspired Northop Hall to promotion from Division Two, according to skipper Ben Slater. The result left the Welshmen 35 points behind second place…

11.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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