Economists Cricket Club
"Back to back South Manchester Casual League Champions, 2022 and 2023"
and "Cup winners 2024"
Directions Results for 2022 Results for 2023 Fixtures for 2024
Rostherne CC
About Us
Welcome to our homepage. We are a mid-week club, currently playing in the South Manchester Casual Evening Cricket League. With many friendly fixtures as well - plus in most years a week-long tour of the Netherlands - we play approximately thirty games per season.
Our home games are played at the picturesque Rostherne CC ground, set on the beautiful Tatton Park Estate on the edge of Rostherne village. Please note that the route to the ground from Manchester has changed due to the opening of the new A556 bypass (2017). For directions to the ground see the "Directions" link above.
We hope you enjoy visiting this website. If you are interested in playing mid-week evening cricket in a friendly and competitive team, please contact the club through the secretary. Although our origins were in the Manchester universities, we are now composed of players from all parts of the community and of all abilities.
Winter Nets 2023/24
Nets will be held at Abraham Moss Library & Leisure Centre, Crescent Road, Crumpsall, Manchester, M8 5UF. The dates are 8pm on Thursday from November 2nd to December 14th and January 4th 2024 to April 11th 2024. The charge is our usual £3 per person. Whether on a regular or sporadic basis, your support for these evenings is important for the Club and its finances. If you know anyone who would like to join our Club nets also provide a good opportunity to bring them along to meet our members.
A little bit of history
The Club's origins date from the 1970s when members of the Department of Economics at Manchester University first decided to form a team to play evening friendly games. Regular fixtures were against other departments, university staff and economists at other universities.
In the 1980s ECC joined the VUMAN League - an evening league formed between various departments and faculties of the university. Results in the early years were decidedly mixed, despite the Club widening its playing base to include the economists at Salford University. Fortunes changed in the early 1990s with an influx of playing talent from both within the two universities and from weekend clubs in the Manchester and North Cheshire area. Seven league titles followed in eight years.
In 2002 we joined the Casual League which, despite its name, represented a significant step up in class. We have won the League title four times in 2008, 2017, 2022 and 2023 and the Cup three times in 2018, 2021 and 2024 (after reaching the final six times).
Tours
In 2001 we toured the Netherlands that July for the first time. The hospitality of our Dutch friends has always been excellent and we've now been fifteen times. Click here to see a report of the 2016 tour penned by our tour captain, Andy Thompson.
Contact Details
Club Secretary - secretary@economistscricketclub.net
Webmaster - webmaster@economistscricketclub.net