CCTV footage shows a group of more than 30 youths fleeing from police after they caused more than £700 of damage to a cricket club.

Bradshaw Cricket Club has been blighted by problems with anti-social behaviour involving young people and was again targeted over the weekend.

A video shows 32 teenagers gathered outside the club at around 9.30pm on Saturday before they start to panic and run as police arrived following a call from a concerned resident.

When club members arrived to open on Sunday they found sponsor advertising hoardings that had been installed just 18 hours earlier damaged.

These will now have to be repaired and cost around £700 in the first place.

Local businesses pay to sponsor a board and the club then uses some of that money to pay to have it made.

However, the club will now make no money from these because it needs to shell out to have them repaired.

The club has regularly faced problems over the past year with large groups of teenagers gathering at weekends and causing damage.

Club chairman Steven Dickinson said: “It has just got out of hand now. We are just getting vandalised on a regular basis. It is difficult for all small sports clubs to make ends meat. It doesn’t help when people damage the club.”

The club met with police on Sunday and officers have been carrying out patrols at the club to try and deter further incidents.

Mr Dickinson said the club has circulated the footage on social media and has been given a number of names and is now deciding its next move and thanked people for their support.

He added: “You just question why are you doing this? You are there as chairman of the club, to run the club, to make it a better facility, to make it a good place for people to go.

“You actually question is there any point in trying. Then when you get the response, we have had people all of the UK supporting us. It is quite nice that people are thinking about us. It is good to see people care.”

A Greater Manchester Police spokesman confirmed they were called to the club on Saturday night to reports of anti-social behaviour.