Chapple to retain Lancs captaincy.

Chapple is beaming after he removes Jimmy Adams at Southport.

Lancashire veteran Glen Chapple is set to retain the role of club captain for the 2014 season as the 39-year-old sets his sights on a sixth season in charge of the Red Rose outfit.

Paul Horton will undertake the role of vice-captain after a successful 2013 campaign which saw the Australian-born opener score 645 runs in just ten matches.

The opening bowler was an instrumental figure in Lancashire's return to Division One of the County Championship taking 53 wickets at an average of 20.74.

Paul Horton celebrates his century in the
final home fixture of the season.

Chapple was one of three bowlers to claim 50 wickets for the 2011 Champions, with fellow opening bowler Kyle Hogg claiming player of the year for his accumulation of 60 victims and Simon Kerrigan's performances earning him a test debut.

Horton enjoyed a run of good form upon his return to the first team, after a finger injury had forced him to miss several of the Division Two Champions fixtures.

The 31-year-old has scored over 8,000 first-class runs and will commence his eleventh season at Lancashire with the role of second in command.

Scoring three centuries and as many fifties, Horton's partnerships with youngster Luis Reece gave Lancashire an incredible finish to the 2013 season, with the pair already sharing five hundred-run stands after six different opening combinations were tested. 

Chapple has been captain of Lancashire since 2009, after Stuart Law left the club.

The 2014 season will be Chapple's 23rd at the club, where he hopes to build on what has already been a formidable career.

Chapple is one of only five players to score 7,000 runs and take 700 wickets for Lancashire, overcoming a number of injuries throughout his later years.