“I’ve got tickets for all five Ashes Tests,” said my friend. “It’ll be the trip of a lifetime.”
22.03.26Features
Chris Read believes the overseas signing of Australian batting superstar Meg Lanning for this summer’s Vitality Blast T20 campaign is a great thing for the development of the county game and not just for Lancashire.
20.03.26Features
Kyle Hogg played an integral part in Lancashire’s 2011 County Championship title triumph and is now helping develop the next crop of England men’s stars as the Under 19s’ bowling coach. In between, he has packed a lot in, with plenty of highs and some unenviable lows.
18.03.26Features
Last summer’s double-winning head coach Chris Read has revealed four reasons why the opportunity to succeed Paul Shaw at Emirates Old Trafford just over two years ago was “very, very appealing”.
16.03.26Features
Many a Red Rose fan will have the likes of Farokh Engineer, Sir Clive Lloyd and Wasim Akram up there in the conversation as the best ever overseas players to represent this great county.
15.03.26Features
David Thorley knows a fair bit about packing a punch, with Lancashire landing some heavy blows in 2025 to cement their place as the undisputed market leaders in English women’s cricket.
13.03.26Features
It’s time to get our thinking caps on and put ourselves in Steven Croft’s shoes. Let’s have a look at the key decisions facing the county’s new permanent head coach ahead of the first game of 2026
11.03.26Features
“He had this knack, a little bit like Simon Kerrigan, that when he got into a good place, you thought you were going to get a wicket every ball." Former Lancashire wicketkeeper John Stanworth on Ian Folley.
09.03.26Features
David Thorley, Lancashire’s director of women’s cricket, says Chris Read “really shone through” during the interview process for the county’s new head coach during the second half of 2023.
08.03.26Features
The Northerners are on the up when it comes to Disability cricket in England, and Lancashire are absolutely doing their bit in that regard. And the county’s Quest head coach John Hughes couldn’t be happier.
06.03.26Features
“This team has got to own the fact that they’re very good and have had success."
01.03.26Features
“Lloyd, when not in action, tends to shamble about like some amiable Paddington Bear,” wrote John Arlott in 1983. “[He is] capable, though, of exploding into action like a roused panther.”
Prior to Christmas, Lancashire's men's and women's squads both took to Rivington Pike as part of the pre-season training. On a cold and wet November morning, Lanky Lanky went along to see what it was all about.
25.02.26Features
Local League cricket across Lancashire and the North West has changed significantly over the last decade or so, and Greenmount Cricket Club can attest to that more than most.
23.02.26Features
Daniel Gidney says playing a key part in the growth of Lancashire’s women’s programme, a highlight of which was last season’s double title triumph, is the “proudest moment in my career”.
Unless you read the match reports and listen to the testimony of team-mates, it is easy to overlook the widely-held belief that Edrich was one of Lancashire’s bravest batsmen, or the persuasive argument that had he been skipper throughout 1956, the county’s wait for an outright Championship win would have lasted a mere 22 years instead of 77.
19.02.26Features
“It was like building a house,” says Paul Shaw as he continues to discuss helping set the scene for Lancashire’s double-winning summer of 2025. "Hopefully now, they're beginning to put the roof on the thing."
Dave Halliday is a recognisable face front of house at Emirates Old Trafford. Chances are that if you’re a regular watcher of Lancashire Cricket, you will have a had a conversation with a man who has been working for one of his two sporting loves for the last three decades.
16.02.26Features
As Lancashire’s glorious double success was sealed in Southampton last September, the Red Rose beating Hampshire in a high-scoring Metro Bank One-Day Cup final, there was someone sat “glued” to their TV screen in Barnsley as proud as punch. Paul Shaw. The man who was central to laying the foundations.
14.02.26Features
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