[4] Earlier in that year it had also received a smaller grant from Sport England.
[6] The club has a junior section and has in the past developed players who have been selected for the Academy of Lancashire Cricket Club, which exists to further develop young talent with the aim of seeing its members become professional players.
Former players for the team include the Australian all-rounder George Tribe, the county spinners Dusty Rhodes and John McMahon, former Lancashire captain Ken Grieves, the West Indies Test player Derick Parry, the Zimbabwean Kevin Curran and the Indian bowler Chetan Sharma.
[10] Its most recent Test player to act as a professional was Paul Wiseman, the New Zealand off-spin bowler in 2005.
The record wicket-taker in a single season was Tribe, whose 148 wickets in 1949 were a record at the time for the Central Lancashire League (equalled in the same season by George Pope, who took 148 for Heywood and later beaten by Dattu Phadkar with 154 for Rochdale in 1955); the historian of the Leagues, John Kay, wrote that Tribe "suffered badly from indifferent fielding" at Milnrow.