Hall of Fame
The Felling Cricket Club Hall of Fame celebrates and honours the exceptional individuals — both players and club administrators — who have made a lasting impact on the club throughout its proud history. It recognises those whose performances, dedication, leadership, and service have helped shape Felling Cricket Club into one of the most respected and successful clubs in the North East of England.
Paul Burn (1995 - 1996)
Paul Burn is widely regarded as one of the great players to have hailed from the North East. He enjoyed great success during his time at Felling with both bat and ball, the pinnacle of which came in the 1996 season when he smashed the club batting record for the most league runs scored in a season racking up 1173 runs at an average of 90.23. Burn was a classy right-handed batsman who also bowled right-arm medium pace. He made his debut in County Cricket for Durham in the 1985 Minor Counties Championship against Cumberland and went on to represent the county in over 40 Championship matches.
Chris Pleasants (1972-2013)
A loyal servant to Felling CC for over 40 years left arm seamer Chris Pleasants is currently the leading wicket taker in England for any one club side with over 3500 first XI wickets to his name.
During his tenure Chris played an integral part in guiding Felling to no fewer than 31 major honours winning the league championship on five occasions. Chris has twice been named Durham Senior League Player of the Year, the first coming in 1998 a year in which he claimed career best figures of 9 for 30 against Seaham Harbour and 9 for 33 against Horden. The second coming a decade later in 2008 when Chris finished with 44 league wickets at an average of 11.25.
Madan Lal (1987-1994)
Madan Lal was Felling Cricket Clubs most high profile and all time best professional cricket player, spending 7 seasons with the club winning honours galore.
No one who witnessed his testimonial match, jointly held with Arnie Sidebottom of Yorkshire which featured the full Indian Test team against Yorkshire's 1st XI at a packed High Heworth ground on the 12th of July 1988 will forget it.
Bilal Rana (1997 - 1999)
Bilal Rana was already a highly respected player in his home nation of Pakistan having played 107 First Class matches when he arrived at Felling in 1997. Boasting an impressive 364 wickets at an average of 20.92 and no less than twenty-five First Class five wicket hauls. He was also a more than capable batsman having scored 3961 runs at an average of 26.40 including three first class hundreds.
Big things were expected when news broke he had signed for Felling and he did not disappoint. Rana spent three trophy laden seasons with the club the first being the treble winning season of 1997 in which the club went unbeaten winning the Durham Senior League, the Armbrister Trophy and the Tyneside Charity Bowl. More success followed the next season in the form of a second treble as the club added the much coveted Northern Rock Bowl, Gateshead MBC and the Durham Senior League Cup to the already bulging trophy cabinet. In Ranas final season the Tyneside Charity Bowl was won for the fifth time and the Armbrister Trophy reclaimed.
A renowned hard hitter capable of destroying the best attacks from the off and attacking Slow-Left-Arm bowler blessed with great accuracy and the ability to turn the ball sharply. In 1997 he topped the DSL batting and bowling averages claiming 87 wickets at 9.8 and scoring 738 runs with an average of 73.8.He went one better in 1998 when he scored 1050 league runs an impressive average of 105.1
Stuart Walker (2015 - 2017)
Stuart Walker a hard-hitting opening batsman signed from Whitburn in 2015 renowned for his aggressive approach from the first ball. Stuart played three seasons at Felling accumulating 3059 league and cup runs surpassing 120 on no less than six separate occasions.
As captain Stuart guided the club to our first league championship success in nineteen years by presiding over the North East Premier League Division 1 title in 2016. In despite of this success it will however be the 2015 season for which Stuarts name will remain synonymous with the club. In his first season at Felling Stuart blasted a club record 1496 runs and in doing so also set the North East Premier League Division 1 batting record by racking up a mammoth 1136 league runs at an average of 56.5