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 The new electronic scoreboard arrived in April |
 Situated on the Tea Room |
 And operated from the Committee Room. |
 Chairman Rod Kenyon welcomed professional Tama Canning back to the club at the pre-season party with top group Wasted on April 16th. |
 Tama helped Wasted tune up |
 And then turned on the style with REM's Everybody Hurts |
 The first home match on April 18th was a day of firsts |
 Colne veteran Gary Hunt registered the first league run on the new board |
 Tama had the first appeal |
 Jimmy Hayhurst had the first wicket of the season |
 Was this the first match to feature four Wilsons? Poor Barney didn't know if he was coming or going |
 Tama took his first wicket of the season |
 And Colne made 135-9 in 41 overs in a rain reduced match |
 Adam Wilson made 24 before being the victim of the season's first controversy |
 But Tama swept away any doubts |
 Hitting five huge sixes |
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 Tama hit an unbeaten 73 as the light faded and the camera man's hand got shakier |
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 In Accrington's five wicket win which took the club to the top of the table for the first time in two decades. |
 Accrington's first opening day win since 1993 |
 A Girls Cricket Tournament organised by the Hyndburn Cricket Development Group with local schools competing was held at the club on April 20th. Peel Park aka Denmark won the event |
 Russ Cuddihy and Graham Lloyd took over coaching the seniors |
 And the pre-match ritual changed |
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 Tama appeals but the Haslingden match marks the end of the winning run. |
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 Enfield skipper Mas and Matt meet before the toss |
 Another old friend returned. Nathan Astle with Keith, Tama and Rod |
 Things have changed since Nathan was last here and Peter took this opportunity to point one or two things out |
 Russ also had some words with the League Exec |
 They've played against each other before but today was the first time that Mas had faced his son Mohsin in a match |
 Jimmy was soon in need of some running repairs |
 Facing a daunting total Tama led from the front but it was not enough as Enfield won by 44 runs |
 The new look 3rds won their first home match against Bacup on May 15th |
 A rare sight indeed - four slips, but no slip ups as the firsts got back to winning ways against Rawtenstall on May 16th. |
 At Todmorden, Zed and Tama relaxed inbetween match winning performances |
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 With Mohsin (27) the senior partner in an opening stand of 40 |
 But all good things.... |
 Tama survived an early chance |
 But was soon scoring runs |
 As was Zed |
 In a match winning unbeaten 52 |
 As that winning feeling returned |
 It was barbie time after the Inter League win over Oldham |
 The quarter final against Littleborough brought a famous visitor |
 In former West Indies captain Richie Richardson |
 Things went downhill from 59-5 in a 10 wicket defeat |
 Accrington 2nds hit the highest ever score by any Accrington team when they made 313 against Rishton at Accrington on June 13th. Four players, Sajed Sadiq (60), Sagawat Hussain (76), Tofeeq Khan (51) and Scott Hudson (65) all made half centuries which is also a club record. |
 Accrington Stanley were the visitors on July 7th. Captains John Coleman and Dave Hargreaves met before tossing up More pics |
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 It took a long time but umpire David Hurst eventually raised his finger to signal the dismissal of Rawtenstall's Will Cook-Martin for 15. |
 Well what do you do when you are the skipper and you're out? |
 Visually impaired international cricketer Mark Pickup visited the club and awarded one of his caps to Matthew for helping him out. |
 Russ Cuddihy held a buffet at the club for his Elite Cricket Coaches on August 11th. Tama, Alviro Petersen, Danny Kegg, Jimmy Hayhurst, Andy Eland, Dave Kennedy, Alven Burrows and Peter Barratt all made the photo call. |
 CC's Takeaway became the first winners of a new cricket tournament sponsored by the British Army. |
 Rain flooded the ground on August 20th but the match against Burnley the following day began on time |
 We had some welcome visitors at the Burnley match. Tariq Hussain and Mark Stevenson catch up on old times with Peter Barratt |
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 Hard working Tea Ladies Christine Greenwood, Christine Sneddon and Iris Barratt prepare to spread |
 Moh hit 27 in the last home match an 8 wicket defeat by Lowerhouse |
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 Jimmy took a fine caught and bowled off John Simpson at Haslingden in the last match of the season. |
 Then it rained but Waheed and Zed enjoyed the food. |
 And the pies were good |
