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Southport Trinity CC
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Welcome to the website of Southport Trinity Cricket Club, a thriving local club which has been playing cricket at The Rookery for over a hundred years.
We currently run 3 senior sides on a Saturday and 4 junior teams playing midweek.
The club always welcomes new members of all ages and abilities so feel free to contact us if you are interested in joining the friendliest and fastest growing club in Southport.
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Indoor Nets 2010 - Updated
Senior nets start this week at KGV on Thursday 4 February at 8pm for an hour. The final session will be on 8 April. There is a change to the start date for junior nets. These will now start on Mo
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National Club Championship First Round Draw
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Leading Stats
Highest Percentage Wins in All Seasons
Southport Trinity CC - 1st XI : 42.05%
Top Batting Average in All Seasons
Most wickets in All Seasons
Best Bowling Average in All Seasons
Most Catches in All Seasons
ClubMark
The process of achieving ClubMark accreditation includes the adoption and implementation of various policies required by the England & Wales Cricket Board.
These policies have been clearly set out and, along with other relevant information about the club, can be found by following the link above.
These policies have been clearly set out and, along with other relevant information about the club, can be found by following the link above.
STCC - A BRIEF HISTORY
A Short History of Southport Trinity Cricket Club
Cricket was first recorded in Southport around 1859. Cricket then was organised according to social class divisions. The smaller clubs tended to play locally with the bigger clubs playing teams from a wider area.
In 1898 Holy Trinity Sunday School Athletics Club was formed which is our root and should be taken as the year of foundation. The Sunday school played regular cricket in 1899. Please note that Southport Trinity’s cricket origins started with the formation of Holy Trinity Cricket Club.
The smaller clubs got together in 1898 to form the Southport and District Amateur Cricket League. The league has traditionally covered an area of about twenty miles radius from Southport Town centre.
From its early years the distinction was made between the 'town' teams - often church based and playing on public parks - and the 'country' teams from the rural towns and villages inland across the flat West Lancashire Plain. In the town the church teams were to the fore - Derby Road Primitive Methodists, St.Paul’s, All Saints, St.Phillip’s, High Park Wesleyans and Holy Trinity.
Holy Trinity started playing on the sports fields on Manchester Road and then around 1906 moved to “The Fields” at Churchgate. In 1922 Roe Lane ground was opened and Holy Trinity moved there and shared the ground with Southport Trinity football club.
The Southport cricket league has not always been harmonious with altercations over various issues. From time to time the religious influence predominated and for fifty years the league was chaired by the indomitable Clem Blake, a Rechabite Methodist, who stood no nonsense. In 1958 the religious element insisted on the withdrawal of Holy Trinity because the hockey section, that also shared the ground, had opened a bar which was available to all users of the ground.
The club moved to the South-West Lancashire District League where they spent 20 unsuccessful years before being readmitted as Southport Trinity in 1980 back into the Southport and District League with 3 teams playing. They started in the 2nd, 4th and 5th Divisions. The 1st XI won promotion fairly quickly, as did the 2nd XI first to Div 3 and then Div 2. The 3rd XI struggled and went up and down between 4th and 5th Divisions.
Southport Trinity’s inclusion signalled another era of geographical expansion with clubs from the Wigan area such as Orrell Red Triangle, Norley Hall and Winstanley Park. Maghull and Litherland from the Liverpool suburbs also joined. By the celebration of its centenary in 1998 the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League was back to six divisions.
With the Millennium approaching Southport & District Amateur Cricket League teams like Fleetwood Hesketh, Maghull and Orrell Red Triangle had achieved ambitions to join a reorganised and expanded Liverpool and District Cricket Competition. The local equilibrium was upset by the politics surrounding the E.C.B Premier League. The necessity of a 'pyramid' system below Premier level caused manoeuvring by some ambitious clubs who were attracted by opportunities for promotion. This alienated other clubs for whom a Merseyside based pyramid was not attractive. The formation of the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance was an attempt to guarantee a two-way flow in the pyramid.
In 2003, Southport Trinity was one of the founder members of the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance which was one division of twenty four 1st XI comprising 14 teams from the Merseyside Competition and ten teams from the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League. In 2004, the league was split into two divisions with promotion and relegation now in operation, and by 2005, within the new revamped pyramid system, there was now a direct route for successful clubs in to the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition.
In 2005, Southport Trinity were promoted to league one of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition where they remained for 2 years before being relegated back into division one of the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance where the club is at present.
In 2009, the future of the former Merseyside Competition and Southport & District Amateur Cricket League clubs is uncertain as there are certain expansion proposals being put forward by the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition yet to be implemented. When the outcome is known the history of this club will be updated and hopefully Southport Trinity will still be playing competitive cricket for many years to come.
Club Honours
1st team
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 1 champions: 1924*, 1938*, 1944*, 1950*, 1999
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 2 champions: 1954
Sandhurst Shield winners: 1957*, 1996, 2008
2nd team
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 2 winners: 1928*, 1939*, 1947*(tied with Croston), 1948*, 1958*, 2003
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 3 winners: 1948*, 1985
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 4 winners: 1925*, 1990
Pochin Cup winners: 1938*, 1939*, 1948*, 1950*, 2003, 2005
Years marked with an asterisk denote honours gained as Holy Trinity CC.
Cricket was first recorded in Southport around 1859. Cricket then was organised according to social class divisions. The smaller clubs tended to play locally with the bigger clubs playing teams from a wider area.
In 1898 Holy Trinity Sunday School Athletics Club was formed which is our root and should be taken as the year of foundation. The Sunday school played regular cricket in 1899. Please note that Southport Trinity’s cricket origins started with the formation of Holy Trinity Cricket Club.
The smaller clubs got together in 1898 to form the Southport and District Amateur Cricket League. The league has traditionally covered an area of about twenty miles radius from Southport Town centre.
From its early years the distinction was made between the 'town' teams - often church based and playing on public parks - and the 'country' teams from the rural towns and villages inland across the flat West Lancashire Plain. In the town the church teams were to the fore - Derby Road Primitive Methodists, St.Paul’s, All Saints, St.Phillip’s, High Park Wesleyans and Holy Trinity.
Holy Trinity started playing on the sports fields on Manchester Road and then around 1906 moved to “The Fields” at Churchgate. In 1922 Roe Lane ground was opened and Holy Trinity moved there and shared the ground with Southport Trinity football club.
The Southport cricket league has not always been harmonious with altercations over various issues. From time to time the religious influence predominated and for fifty years the league was chaired by the indomitable Clem Blake, a Rechabite Methodist, who stood no nonsense. In 1958 the religious element insisted on the withdrawal of Holy Trinity because the hockey section, that also shared the ground, had opened a bar which was available to all users of the ground.
The club moved to the South-West Lancashire District League where they spent 20 unsuccessful years before being readmitted as Southport Trinity in 1980 back into the Southport and District League with 3 teams playing. They started in the 2nd, 4th and 5th Divisions. The 1st XI won promotion fairly quickly, as did the 2nd XI first to Div 3 and then Div 2. The 3rd XI struggled and went up and down between 4th and 5th Divisions.
Southport Trinity’s inclusion signalled another era of geographical expansion with clubs from the Wigan area such as Orrell Red Triangle, Norley Hall and Winstanley Park. Maghull and Litherland from the Liverpool suburbs also joined. By the celebration of its centenary in 1998 the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League was back to six divisions.
With the Millennium approaching Southport & District Amateur Cricket League teams like Fleetwood Hesketh, Maghull and Orrell Red Triangle had achieved ambitions to join a reorganised and expanded Liverpool and District Cricket Competition. The local equilibrium was upset by the politics surrounding the E.C.B Premier League. The necessity of a 'pyramid' system below Premier level caused manoeuvring by some ambitious clubs who were attracted by opportunities for promotion. This alienated other clubs for whom a Merseyside based pyramid was not attractive. The formation of the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance was an attempt to guarantee a two-way flow in the pyramid.
In 2003, Southport Trinity was one of the founder members of the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance which was one division of twenty four 1st XI comprising 14 teams from the Merseyside Competition and ten teams from the Southport & District Amateur Cricket League. In 2004, the league was split into two divisions with promotion and relegation now in operation, and by 2005, within the new revamped pyramid system, there was now a direct route for successful clubs in to the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition.
In 2005, Southport Trinity were promoted to league one of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition where they remained for 2 years before being relegated back into division one of the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance where the club is at present.
In 2009, the future of the former Merseyside Competition and Southport & District Amateur Cricket League clubs is uncertain as there are certain expansion proposals being put forward by the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition yet to be implemented. When the outcome is known the history of this club will be updated and hopefully Southport Trinity will still be playing competitive cricket for many years to come.
Club Honours
1st team
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 1 champions: 1924*, 1938*, 1944*, 1950*, 1999
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 2 champions: 1954
Sandhurst Shield winners: 1957*, 1996, 2008
2nd team
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 2 winners: 1928*, 1939*, 1947*(tied with Croston), 1948*, 1958*, 2003
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 3 winners: 1948*, 1985
Southport & District Amateur Cricket League Division 4 winners: 1925*, 1990
Pochin Cup winners: 1938*, 1939*, 1948*, 1950*, 2003, 2005
Years marked with an asterisk denote honours gained as Holy Trinity CC.
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