Welcome to the homepage of Dalton Cricket Club.

Founded over 126 years ago, Dalton Cricket Club is still a small, friendly and traditional village cricket club.

The Club is in West Lancashire, halfway between Wigan and Ormskirk, and is situated on the top of a hill near Ashurst's Beacon. From our modern pavilion (next to the Prince William Inn) the ground has superb views of the rural surroundings and distant hills.

A lovely spot to enjoy watching and playing cricket, a frequent comment being, "Never been here before - what a lovely, picturesque ground".

Although a small club, we field

• 3 Saturday teams (in the Southport & District ACL)
• a Sunday XI (friendlies)
• Junior team(s) (also in the Southport & District ACL)

as well as organising winter indoor nets (usually Jan-Apr), a summer tour (for the last 30 years)and an Awards evening (in autumn).

But being small doesn't mean a lack of success or progress:-

• We have had 3 Saturday teams for over 30 continuous years, and in the last 11 have been respective league champions 3 times and lifted league KO Cups thrice.
• In April 2009 we produced our first ECB 'Coaches Association' coach and then were awarded a 'near-maximum' 'Awards for All' grant of nearly £10,000 which led to the preparation of brand new 2-bay outdoor nets
• Later on in December we were awarded £8,800 by SportEngland for ground and coaching equipment to improve even further our playing facilities.
• In 2010 the outdoor nets (May) and bowling machine (June) were in use, and by July the Club had two ECB Level 2 coaches.
• 2011 saw the pavilion completely refurbished before the arrival of a digital scoreboard and pitch covers, another ECB Level 2 coach trained up, the winning of the Pochin KO Cup, and the award of 'Clubmark' (the ECB 'kitemark' for a safe, child-friendly, and well-managed club)

In spite of our successes and plans, we are still a friendly, family cricket club playing the game in a traditional way, so it was very appropriate that at the end of 2009 our 2nd XI 'keeper, Albert Bain, won a ''Lifetime Achievement Award - for Commitment to Sport' for the West Lancashire area.

We have 6 classes of membership:

• Life
• Full
• Unwaged / Students (18+)
• Juniors (U18's)
• Ex-players / Social
• Family (parents/guardians/carers of junior members) - free.

So if you're in the area during the season -

• pop 'up' to the Club during the season (plenty of parking space)
  -(Tuesday evening is 'selection + netting' night )
• pop into our nearby H/Q - "The Beacon Inn"
  
• or ring our contacts for a chat.
  
• - and don't forget to look at the Owzat page for the latest news and info.