• Wigan Cricket Club is an English sports club in Lancashire founded in 1848. Located at Bull Hey, Parsons Walk, near the town centre of Wigan, its members...
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  • Wigan Warriors are an English professional Rugby League club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club competes in the Betfred Super League, the top...
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    played in the town since 1872. Wigan Warriors, originally called Wigan FC, were formed out of the Wigan Cricket Club to provide a sport to play during...
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  • 21 November 1872 Wigan Football Club was founded by members of Wigan Cricket Club at a meeting in the Royal Hotel, Standishgate. Wigan F.C. played on Folly...
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  • sent off in a World Club Challenge game during the match, as he was given his marching orders following an illegal elbow to Wigan centre Joe Lydon as...
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    offshoot of Wigan Cricket Club, and a member of the short-lived British Football Association, playing at Prescott Street. They were followed by Wigan County...
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  • County Cricket Club. Boyden rose through the age groups at his local Euxton Cricket Club. From 2021 to 2022, he played for Wigan Cricket Club. In the...
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    World Club Challenge was the 15th consecutive annual (and 22nd overall) World Club Challenge and was contested by Super League XVIII champions, Wigan Warriors...
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    Central Park was a rugby league stadium in Wigan, England, which was the home of Wigan RLFC before the club moved to the JJB Stadium in 1999. Its final...
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    Adam Keighran (category Wigan Warriors players)
    Keighran made his club debut for Wigan in their 32-4 victory over Castleford. On 24 February, Keighran played in Wigan's 2024 World Club Challenge final...
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  • footballer for Parramatta Eels, Wests Tigers and Wigan Warriors is also a former player. Cricket portal http://flcc.nsw.cricket.com.au/ Official website...
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    the New Zealand Cricket Almanack player of the year in 1973. Redmond met his wife whilst playing club cricket for Wigan Cricket Club in England. After...
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  • John Gray (English sportsman) (category Wigan Warriors players)
    footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played cricket for Warwickshire and Marylebone Cricket Club, as a left-hand bat, and right-arm medium-fast bowler...
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  • Henry Wall (cricketer) (category Cricketers from Wigan)
    son of Thomas Wall, the founder of the Wigan Observer, Wall played the majority of his club cricket for Wigan (but did briefly play for Sefton Park in...
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    within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is three miles (4.8 km) east of Wigan and covers an area of 2,580 acres (1...
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    Michael Maguire (rugby league) (category Wigan Warriors coaches)
    club the Wigan Warriors. He was previously the head coach for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Wests Tigers in the NRL. In his first year as Wigan Warriors'...
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  • between the clubs with them both being considered two of the best in England. Wigan Warriors Leeds Rhinos The rivalry between Leeds Rhinos and Wigan Warriors...
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    Jussi Jääskeläinen (category Wigan Athletic F.C. players)
    Wigan Athletic on a free transfer. In his first season with Wigan, he won the League One title. He left Wigan after two seasons to join Indian club ATK...
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    24,642. Newton-le-Willows is on the eastern edge of St Helens, south of Wigan and north of Warrington, equidistant to Liverpool and Manchester. Within...
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  • football club, nicknamed "The Warriors" Warriors (cricket team), the name used by the combined Eastern Province and Border first class cricket teams in...
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    Thomas Leuluai (category Wigan Warriors captains)
    London Broncos in the Super League, before moving to Wigan for the first of his two spells at the club. Leuluai was a member of the 2008 World Cup-winning...
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  • Accrington, Ashton, Blackburn, Oldham, Whalley and Wigan from other towns. Lancashire County Cricket Club was founded with the object of, it was said, "spreading...
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  • Liam Botham (category Wigan Warriors players)
    Flintoff at Old Trafford. Botham left cricket in 1997 after one senior season and signed for rugby union club West Hartlepool, where he played as a wing...
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  • Football Club and Bradford Cricket Club bought Park Avenue in 1879 and this resulted in the club becoming "Bradford Cricket, Athletic and Football Club". The...
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    Martin Offiah (category Wigan Warriors players)
    rugby league clubs Widnes, Wigan, London Broncos and Salford City Reds, and in Australia for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and St. George clubs. It is believed...
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    street on Wigan Lane. The area also contains the large Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Victorian Mesnes Park, Cricket, Tennis and Bowls clubs and a Tesco...
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    article: Rules of Surrey Football Club (1849) Other early clubs include the Great Leicestershire Cricket and Football Club present in 1840. On Christmas Day...
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    Sunderland, Wigan Athletic and West Ham United. Sunderland and West Ham United returned to the top flight after absences of two years, while Wigan Athletic...
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  • William Wall (cricketer) (category Cricketers from Wigan)
    the founder of the Wigan Observer, Wall played his club cricket for Wigan, before making his only appearance in first-class cricket for Lancashire in 1877...
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    Floodlight (section Cricket)
    success that the owners of the White City Ground took over the "Wigan Highfield" club and moved them to play Rugby League games at the ground under floodlights...
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