Schools have been hosting their annual sports days at East Lancs.

The school were delighted to welcome children and parents from St Silas C E Primary School for their sports day.

Also, this summer Queen Elizabeth’s Primary School primary and nursery school pupils hosted their sports day at the venue. The club also welcomed pupils from the Tauheedul Boys’ School as they held their end of year BBQ.

The children enjoyed glorious weather as the summer made triumphant return.

Any other schools wanting to use the East Lancs CC facilities please do e-mail events@eastlancscc.com.

Members East Lancs Legends Blind baseball club have started training at Alexandra Meadows.

The team did Blackburn proud recently winning bronze at the International Blind Baseball tournament in Erd, Hungary.

The club, which is not affiliated to the club despite the name, meet every Monday evening and have been using the outfield to practice.

Blind baseball is played with a team of five blind/visually impaired players and three sighted volunteers.

All players must wear shades throughout the game to ensure everyone has the same level of vision, as blindness is a spectrum as people can still have residual vision.

The players listen to audio queues which indicate the bases.

The ball has a bell inside it and in the field the players listen to hear where the ball has been hit, when they locate the ball, they will throw it to a sighted catcher at base 2, in order to get the person batting out.

The club welcomed Pakistan cricket legend Mohammad Yousuf to East Lancs.

As well appearing in a World Cup final Yousuf, one of the most stylish and prolific batters of his era famously scored a world record 1,788 Test runs in a calendar year (2006)

Yousuf visited the club thanks to the team from Greenbank Lawyers, who are Gold Patrons of our Twenty20 Business Club.

He met with players during their match and also spent time talking to some of the younger players in the pavilion.