Young cricketers smash world record

Young cricketers from around the country joined the 45,000 kids who smashed the Giant Sleepover Guinness World Record.

Clubs up and down the land were asked to take part in the fifth annual sleepover on Saturday June 14.

More than 900 youngsters from Lancashire bedded down as the previous record - 33,093 - was obliterated. The West Lancashire Cub Scouts were visited by the ECB's cricket factory.

But clubs from all over the land joined in with participants from Aldworth, Bedford, Belvedere, Beverley Town, Bransgore, Devizes, Goatacre, Ilkley, Newcastle & Hartshill, North Mymms, Nutbrook, Penn, Shotley Bridge, Snettisham, South Milford and Shepperton.

To break the record all the kids had to have their lights out for at least seven hours and not sleep in their own beds.