We are delighted to announce the signing of Ben Chapman, as our club pro for the forthcoming 2021 season ✍
Ben is one of our own, starting as a junior at Monton & was a formidable force even then! Ben has vast playing experience & we’re thrilled to have him as club pro for 2021
We are delighted to announce the signing of
@jakesandham1
on a 2yr contract. Jake is one of Monton’s own, playing as a junior/senior here. He’s a much respected, outstanding cricketer, he’s a positive force both on and off the field. Here’s to 2022 - Welcome home Jake! 🏏
It’s with great sadness to hear of Nigel Warne’s passing, his dedication & hard work to district & junior cricket over the years, has been nothing short of heroic. At Monton, we sincerely thank him for all he’s done, his legacy will live on, he will be greatly missed. RIP Nigel.
Congratulations to our U18s for winning the champions final to be crowned GMCL league winners for 2022 with a 7 wicket win over
@GlodwickCC
today.
@benjy82137887
led from the front with 2-17 and 35 with the bat to earn player of the match!
T20 - SPONSORSHIP NEWS - 2021
We are pleased to announce that the main sponsor for the T20 kit this season will be
@SEVENBRO7HERS
the support from local business is very important to the club and we appreciate all sponsorship during these uncertain times.
Best wishes to our 1st captain Josh Lenihan who has had knee surgery to repair a snapped ACL and Meniscus - captain mentality, playing on throughout the season with grit, professionalism and loyalty - Rest up, Josh!
Look who
@flintoff11
had the pleasure of meeting after his recent Lancashire trial...
@montonsquad
‘s very own Junaid! 🙌🏼 Thanks for your time Freddie, made Junaid’s day! Keep up the super work, MJ 🏏
Congratulations to our 1st XI on being promoted to the
@GtrMcrCricket
prem 2 with a win away to
@WhalleyRangeCC
! Win next week and they will take the league title!
We’d like to wish two of our Monton CC young guns, Will & Benjy, an amazing time as they fly out to play cricket in Melbourne, Australia this week for
@boxhillcc
Let’s go, boys! All the very best! 🏏🙌🏼☀️🇦🇺✈️
Well done to our opening batsman
@benjy82137887
for scoring 118 for
@GmclJ
U18s representative team v the Liverpool Comp U18s side today at Alder CC! 👏
We also say goodbye to our Overseas, another great young man, who has had an amazing season for us, Shem Watson! Shem took 34 catches and 10 stumpings, in addition to his 425 runs!!! It’s been a pleasure to have him playing for us and we will hopefully see him again soon.
We are delighted to announce that Sri Lankan, Dushan Vimukthi will return to Monton as our club pro for season 2023, last season Dushan scored an incredible 999 runs, took 76 wickets and 13 catches, it will be a pleasure to welcome him back for season 2023.
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Clubmark Accreditation for 2022!
Well done to all the volunteers at the club that have put in an incredible amount of their own time and effort, to make this happen for our club!
1st TEAM CAPTAIN NEWS 2021
Delighted to announce that
@joshlenihan
will continue to captain the 1st team, with
@kershaw_joe1
as his vice. This will be Josh’s 8th season as c’tain and Joe’s 3rd as vice. As always we are grateful for their commitment, time and dedication.
Josh Lenihan; wholeheartedly one of our own, from being a young talented lad with an enjoyment and love of cricket, to the leader and superb cricketer that he is today.
Great article...Thank you, captain!
Ground looking particularly good in the sunshine! Our new head groundsman, Paul Tatton, is putting lots of time and effort in ready for the start of the season...
Happy Friday everyone!
Well done to our U18s who won their 2nd final in 2 weeks today! A great spirited match against NordenCC in the final of the summer cup 🏆🏏 Well done to everybody involved in the U18s’ incredible season, you’ve done yourselves and the club proud! 👏🏼
Congratulations to Junaid Riaz on his selection for the Lancashire U16s squad for the winter training squad and the upcoming 2022 season.
We’re proud of you, MJ 👏🏼🏏
The 2022 cricket season… 1 senior league title, 2 promotions, 3 U18 trophies and so many key performances along the way. Thank you to all our cricket section members… we are on our way!
We say goodbye to our pro for the season, Dushan Vimukthi. Not only is Dush a great man, he has had an incredible season for us; scoring 999 runs, taking 76 wickets and 13 catches across all 3 formats (League, Cup & T20). Thank you so much Dushan, we will see you again soon!
NEW SIGNING: Monton CC are pleased to announce the signing of Harley Kershaw on a long term deal. Harley will focus on learning life skills before joining up with the U9s development squad in the 2028 season
#welcomeharley
#montonfamily
Good luck from all at
@MontonSquad
and
@MontonSports
to Sam and George today. They are making their debut for Lancashire U10's against Cheshire U10's. 🏏🏏🏏 🌹🌹🌹🌞🌞🌞
Well done to our u12s for winning the Salford youth cricket association u12s cup final yesterday against Roe Green CC. A superb batting and fielding performance from all the lads.
The good news continues at Monton CC! We are also delighted to announce that our captain Jake Sandham has committed to another year at Monton. Jake’s stats speak for themselves, 114 wkts and 833 runs over the past 2 seasons, making him a valuable asset to Monton cricket club!
Thank you to everyone who attended last nights senior awards night. It was a great night with some excellent performances recognised. Well done to
@kershaw_joe1
@JoshLenihan
and their team on winning the big money quiz!
Thanks to Dev Kumar who organised an internal 6-a-side softball cricket competition down at Monton yesterday, it was a fantastic day, we had 80+ players playing 40+ games over the whole day! Community spirit at its best. Love this club!
Well done to our U18s winning at Heaton last night, this means they will now progress through to the performance league finals day on 4th Sep. Awesome lads, you've done yourselves & the club proud
2nd TEAM CAPTAIN NEWS 2021
Delighted to announce that
@Dev_Kumar1993
will captain the 2nd team, with Matty Swift as his vice. Dev & Matt are both top Monton lads & have so much enthusiasm for the upcoming season! Bring on the spring!🏏
Next up is Ben Chapman, our pro for 2021. It’s a well-known fact that Ben is a bit (well, a lot) of a Mummy’s boy, “Mum, I just need 2 more bats from Romida, to go with my other 5!” 😂So who better to choose for today’s ‘In the Spotlight!’ on Mother's day
Today was the start of the 9th season of
@JoshLenihan
’s captaincy of the first team, making him the longest serving captain in the clubs history! What an incredible accolade for our club captain! Both Dan McAvoy and
@tomk26
have paid tribute to this achievement 📸
Black armbands & a minute’s silence
@RoytonCc
today against or 3XI in honour of the great man Nigel Warne, who has given so much to district & Salford cricket for so many years
#thankyou
#remember
#respect
Proud of the work going into the whole squad this year. We balance junior development with success, we run things principally, the future of our club is in the hands of our homegrown talent. Our junior section is the strongest it’s been in years
#Volunteers
In the Spotlight today, Monton stalwart
@aamirriaz12
- his encouragement, compassion & energy at Monton is infectious, he’s ‘the big brother’ to not only his little bro MJ, but to so many teammates/juniors who look up to him too 🏏
Not a bad way to finish off an innings from our U18 vice captain and 1st team opening bowler 👏
Our U18s carried on their great form over the last 3 days beating
@SOUTHWESTMCRCC
on Sunday and
@EdgworthCRC
last night
Our Sri Lankan Professional, Dushan Vimuthki, has landed safely in Manchester! Last season Dush scored an incredible 999 runs and took 76 wickets, here’s to more of the same this season, it’s great to welcome him back to Monton, we can't wait to get the season going now!
We now have our MAR camera fully installed and ready for the rest of the season at Monton! It is a great piece of equipment and something we can use to develop/coach, as well as providing people with the opportunity to watch home games, from far and wide.
#monton
@MyActionReplay
What a weekend, as the 3s and 4s both win to make it 4 from 4 for
@MontonSports
! Superb work from all involved. Special mention goes to Leary, who started his 24th season for the club with a 4 for!
NEW SIGNING
Pleased to announce that Alex Jones has joined us from local club, Roe Green. Alex is a formidable force, we witnessed that yesterday at senior training - lighting quick in the field, great batsman & superb bowler, we can’t wait to see Alex pull on a Monton jersey!
Well done to our u11s on their superb win against
@greenmountcc
this evening in the qtr finals of the ECB Lancs KO cup, 60 runs each but our u11s win, as we only lost 4 wkts to Greenmount’s 5. Finals day will take place this Sunday
@Highfield_CC
@lancscricket
@MontonSports
The start of the season is in sight, here's the 1st of our upcoming ‘in the spotlight’ player profiles, a bit of fun & some superb answers!
First up is Monton's Mr Dependable & 1st team club captain Josh Lenihan...Who knew he was the superstitious kind!?
Our 1st XI made it 2 from 2 in their T20 group with a great win at
@RoeGreenCricket
. Vimukthi (87 from 64) and
@aamirriaz12
(42 from 31) helped us recover from 16-3 to chase 151 to win 3 down. McAvoy picked up 3-35 to help us keep the hosts under 160.
Congratulations to Second Year Student Denholm Yates - Who has accepted his place to study Sports Science
@ManMetUni
starting this September.
Best of luck!
Good to see 7 juniors making themselves available for Sunday’s senior 3rd XI game against
@broxCC
This is testament to the development going on in the junior section and them getting a chance to play, this is giving them the confidence to move into the senior teams!
#development
JUNIOR CRICKET UPDATE 🏏
GMCL Entries made this season
3 x U9s
2 x U11s
2 x U13s
1 x U15s
1 x U18s
It is great to see so many team entries this season! We are always more than happy to welcome new junior players to Monton, if you're interested in joining, please get in touch🙂
Two superb wins yesterday for our 1s and 2s! Top performances from:
1s
@aamirriaz12
74, Vimukthi 6-42, G. Brown 3-48 (plus two catches)
2s Anand 5-31 & 55 not out
MONTON 2S ARE PROMOTED! Congrats to
@MontonCC
2s who, despite not playing today, have been promoted from Division 4S&W following other results going their way today.
THORNHAM 2S ARE PROMOTED! And well done to
@thornhamcc
2s who have sealed promotion today from Division 4N.
Congratulations to the following Monton Juniors who have been selected to represent Lancashire.
George Brown - Lancs U11
Sam Keane-Hailey - Lancs U11 development
Junaid Riaz - Lancs U13 development
Umar Chughtai - Lancs U14
@lancscricket
@MontonSports
#monton
#proud
‘Many hands make light work!’
Thanks to everyone who turned out this morning for our annual ground force day! Big thanks to Josh for the breakfast barms too! Ground now ready to go & we can’t wait for the season to start! 🏏
The moment a 14 year old gets his first senior hundred! Well batted George Warren who got 101 today, as well as joining the famous “Ran out by mayburs club”… what a day for the young man!
We're pleased to announce that Tom Kershaw has become our main club coach.
@tomk26
is a Monton lad, PE teacher, senior player and a highly qualified cricket coach, he will undertake all coaching at Monton, from the juniors right through to the seniors. What an asset to the club!
Oh, we have been busy sorting all this too...
👇
New Club Coach ✅
Assistant Club Coach ✅
6 Parents Completing their Level 1 ✅
Junior District Trials Booked In ✅
Representative Games Booked In ✅
Summer Camp being Organised ✅
New Club Membership System ✅
As 2019 comes to a close we are catching up with a bit of news from Monton CC.
1/7. We have signed our Pro for next season, we welcome Nick Kelly from NZ, Nick is a left arm off spin bowler & top order batsman, he sub pro’d for us in 2018 which is where our relationship began.
So good to see our senior ladies T20 squad, Monton Titans enjoying their cricket... A good win for them this evening against Shireshead and Forton CC ladies. The future is bright here at Monton.
It's great to see the club so busy on a Tuesday evening, 30+ seniors in full training, and an U12 cricket match going on! What we love to see
@MontonSports
🏏 🙌
Congratulations to
@MontonSquad
players Junaid Riaz (39, 2-18), Archie Brown (WK) and George Brown (1-8), who helped Salford District U13s reach the final of the 2019 Hacking Cup.
This season we have 12 juniors representing Salford District, two of which also represent GMCL We are very proud of all our juniors at Monton but when they play representative cricket, it’s a special achievement, they will always have our full support, awesome lads
#proud
#monton
Alongside their GMCL west league trophy and now the GMCL league trophy the U18s will have a chance for a third trophy in the cup in the next week. We will face the winners of
@NordenCC
and
@Greenfield_C_C
who play on Wednesday.
Our first outdoor net session of the season took place this evening, even amidst all the rain we’ve had! It was wonderful to have so many seniors join us. Looking forward to seeing you all next Tuesday! 🏏
The rain didn’t stop play for all our teams over the weekend! Congrats to the 1s who are through to the next round of the Derek Kay cup. A comfortable win for 3s and the 4s fell short. Great team and club effort from all players, with some good individual performances!
We are pleased to join forces with
@OpeningUpCC
their incredible charity work for Mental Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention is more important than ever, in these uncertain times. Together we can support each other and help raise awareness.
Unfortunately, all cricket has been cancelled this weekend. A difficult, yet responsible & justified decision & stance, for the greater good of our cricketing community. The welfare of all is paramount. Thank you for our oppositions’ understanding and support, see you all soon.
Happy to announce that Chris Costa has re-joined us, after spending 3 years at Wilmslow.
Chris started his cricketing days at Monton, joining us when he was 9 yrs old, he went on to play for all the senior teams and was one of the Wood Cup & League winning 1st team, back in 2009
We are really proud of our 1st XI team today.....7 of the 11 players were from the U19s squad, 5 first team players unavailable, playing against seasoned pros, you all did the club proud. The future is bright for Monton. Well done, lads!
Up next ‘In the Spotlight’ is Monton CC legend, Tommy Leary. If there are any stats you need to know about any match/fixture, then Tommy’s your man! He loves talking cricket & has such an interest in all teams at Monton & is a proud player & clubman.
Wasn’t to be for our 1st team today as our 10 game unbeaten run came to end as we were beaten by a very good
@ShawCricketClub
side in the semi finals. Thanks to all that came to support the lads and best of luck to Shaw CC in the final.
Best of luck to our 1st XI and U18 opening batsman
@benjy82137887
, who will play in a national finals day at Arundel in Sussex for
@MyCricketMCR
today!
2 big games for Monton 1st XI this weekend. We host top of the league Elton in the league on Saturday and on Sunday we host Shaw in the semi-final of the Derek Kay Cup. All support welcome.
Today’s in the spotlight is the one and only Jordan Bromley, he reckons he’s the most annoying at the club, but we think he’s a great lad with a big heart!
Good luck to our very own Benjy Marsden, who is in South Africa for some warm weather training and getting some local game time…Here he is bowling against Johannesburg University!
Speaking of the U18 match on Sunday, there were half centuries for
@benjy82137887
,
@Mj_riaz213
, Ben Keane-Hailey, Alfie Jones and Dhruv Sugandha… shot of the day, another reverse sweep by Keane-Hailey 🔥
A super Saturday for our 1s & 2s, with a win away at
@MottramCricket
and a home win against
@OfficialGolbyCC
respectively. Special mention to Ben Keane-Hailey scoring 109 not out, and for also getting 2 runs off the last ball to win the match for the 2nd XI! Great knock, Ben! 🏏