Morecambe Cricket Club is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 club based in the tourist resort of Morecambe

Morecambe

Morecambe is a resort town and civil parish within the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. As of 2001 it has a resident population of 38,917. It faces into Morecambe Bay...

, Lancashire

Lancashire

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. The club plays its home matches at Woodhill Lane in the Northern League.

The club runs four teams, the 1st and 2nd teams playing in the Northern League. The 3rd and 4th teams compete in the Westmorland League.

There is a named professional for each season. For the 2011 season it will be Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith

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, who has played cricket in Heysham

Heysham

Heysham is a large coastal village near Lancaster in the county of Lancashire, England. Overlooking Morecambe Bay, it is a ferry port with services to the Isle of Man and Ireland. Heysham is the site of two nuclear power stations which are landmarks visible from hills in the surrounding area...

. He has a top score of 301 at st peters tennis ball cricket arena!

The club also runs a number of junior teams, varying in age ranges and they all compete against local sides.