Stand Cricket Club, established in 1853, is situated between Hamilton Road and Higher Lane in Whitefield, Bury, Greater Manchester. The Club was a member of the Central Lancashire League between 1993 and 2004, then moved to the Lancashire County League for the 2005 season. Since joining the LCL the club have won the Walkden Cup (2008), the Hulme Trophy (2009), the 2nd XI Last Six Competition (2010) and the 3rd XI League, the Bryden Trophy (2006, 2007, 2008).
For the 2011 season the club will be running three senior teams and five junior teams (U11's, U12's, U13's, U15's, and U17's).
Famous players have included Warren Hegg of Lancashire County Cricket Club and England.
Famous quotes containing the words stand, cricket and/or club:
“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot!
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry, “God for Harry! England and Saint George!””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“The creation of “strong-minded” women, so-called, is due to the individualism of men, to the modern selfish and speculative spirit which absorbs everything within itself and leaves women nothing but self-assertion for their protection and support.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 44 (February 1870)