Economists Cricket Club
"South Manchester Casual League 2024 Champions and Cup Winners"
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 2024/25
Nets will be held at Abraham Moss Library & Leisure Centre, Crescent Road, Crumpsall, Manchester, M8 5UF. Our sessions will be held from 8 to 9 p.m. every Thursday (except December 26th and January 2nd) from November 7th to April 10th 2025. 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 five times in 2008, 2017, 2022, 2023 and 2024 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