Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in English cricket, apart from the Furness area, which belongs to Cumbria County Cricket Club. The club has held first-class status since it was founded in 1864 and plays at Old Trafford Cricket Ground as well as at other grounds around the county. It was a founder member of the County Championship in 1890 and has won the competition nine times, including a shared title in 1950 and the 2011 championship, which ended a gap of 77 years since its last outright title in 1934. Lancashire has won 26 major honours in its history, and its limited overs team is called Lancashire Lightning. Archie MacLaren's 424 for the club in 1895 remains the highest first-class score by an Englishman, Ernest Tyldesley is the leading run-scorer with 34,222 runs, and Brian Statham took a club record 1,816 wickets. The club won the Twenty20 Cup for the first time in 2015.