Haverigg Cricket Club will be celebrating its 125th Anniversary this weekend and a great deal of planning has gone into getting as many people connected with the its past to attend as possible.

It is set to be a busy few days at Poolside, with the players and staff from Bootle AFC playing an inter-club match there tomorrow night.

The weekend will finish with Haverigg hosting the Higson Cup final for the third year in a row, as holders Furness look to maintain their grip on the trophy when they take on Keswick on Sunday.

But between all that is the big day, with a host of activities taking place at the ground, based around the Villagers' Cumbria Cricket League fixture against Vickerstown on Saturday, which include a 'Past and Present Corner' to celebrate the club's history and a disco and karaoke to follow in the evening.

Captain Drew Postlethwaite said: "We're not all Haverigg born and bred - I'm from Millom myself and my whole family live in Millom, but I've never played for any club other than Haverigg. A lot of the players there now are exactly the same.

"There have been quite a few lists drawn together - who do you still know that can come, who still lives in the area - and I think we had a list of about 120 people to go through to find out where they live and whether they can make it, by whichever way we could get in touch with them."

Haverigg, who are trying to bounce back into the Premier Division at the first time of asking, are involved in a fascinating promotion race, with therm currently five points off leaders Furness 2nd XI and third-place Hawcoat Park not yet out of the equation.

Postlethwaite said: "At the start of the season, people were saying to us 'you won't lose a game, you'll have it won by now,' and all the sort of stuff. You can only play what you're up against and if you're playing against good teams at their ground, it's not just a case of turning up every week and it being a given you're going to win."