The Northern Cricket Club, located in Crosby on north Merseyside, England, was founded in 1859. The original clubhouse was in Rawson Road in nearby Seaforth until 1879, when the club moved to Haigh Road in Waterloo Park. In 1907 the club moved again, this time to its present site in the picturesque Moor Park area of Crosby, seven miles to the north of Liverpool. By 1961, the cricket club shared its grounds with hockey, squash and crown green bowls, and in this year the four sports merged to form the Northern Club.
The cricket club are members of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition, an ECB accredited Premier League, and were 1st XI champions in 2005. The club runs six senior Saturday teams in total, all playing in this league, plus social Sunday and midweek teams, and junior teams at U9, U11, U13 and U15 age groups.
The club is amongst the top multi-sport clubs in the North West. It has three cricket pitches, all on the Moor Park site, and regularly hosts Lancashire second team and other representative matches.
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