I’VE said it before and I’ll say it again, Farnworth is a special sporting town.

In a previous column in 2015 I listed the array of top talent to have come from there, a roll of honour of which no town of its modest size has any right to be able to boast.

It has produced cycling’s six-time Olympic gold medallist Jason Kenny, former England cricketer and Ashes hero Frank ‘Typhoon’ Tyson, footballers of the highest calibre like World Cup winner Alan Ball, Tommy Lawton, Paul Mariner and Wanderers legend Tommy Banks.

Rising professional boxing star Jack Flatley is from Farnworth and this week another of the town’s sporting sons made an impressive first-class debut for Lancashire Cricket Club when Josh Bohannon, pictured, shone with the bat, hitting 52 and 32 and taking a wicket in a narrow defeat to leaders Surrey.

There are not many sporting facilities in Farnworth but the place just keeps churning out talent.

And just for good measure, Farnworth Cricket Club are in the final of the Hamer Cup on Sunday – the showpiece game of the Bolton League season.

It really makes you wonder what they’ve been putting in the water round there down the years!