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Match Day 11th September 2010

Barrow clinch runners-up spot

Simm, Pedder and Naden set new club records

By Michael Latham



Lancaster players applaud Ben Simm off the field after his record-breaking achievement

Barrow clinched the runners-up spot in the Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls) as a memorable season endured a watery end. Just five definite results were possible in both divisions after heavy overnight rain but Barrow made sure of the highest position since they joined the league in 2004 after an eight wickets win over Preston at Ernest Pass.

Preston struggled to 122 for 9 in their 50 overs, losing eight wickets for 63 after reaching the relative prosperity of 59 for 1. Barrow skipper Daryl Wearing used nine bowlers with spinners Gary Collins and Liam Livingstone each taking two wickets. Preston pro Bilal Asad was top-scorer with 25 on what was believed to be his final appearance for the club after five fine seasons at West Cliff.

Cumberland county opener Jon Miles hit an unbeaten 58 in Barrow's reply and finished the season with 878 runs at an average of 46.21, second only to St Annes' Atiq Uz-Zaman in the Castle Awards.

Pasan Wanasinghe bowed out after four seasons as the club's popular professional with an undefeated 41 and finished in style, hitting Krishan Parekh for six to take Barrow past the winning post.

Barrow's previous highest placing was sixth in 2009 but they won 16 and lost only four games and their final points-tally was 30 points more than that with which St Annes won the title last year.

Skipper Daryl Wearing had promised the Barrow faithful at last season's club presentation evening that they would challenge for the title and he was as good as his word.

With champions Leyland suffering a wash-out against Darwen at Fox Lane, Barrow closed the gap at the top to nine points. Leyland (265pts) were leaders, Barrow (256pts) runners-up and defending champions St Annes (236pts) third with Darwen (209pts) and Blackpool (199pts) completing the top-five and the Lancashire Cup places for next season.

Lancaster were the most improved side in 2010, recovering from the wooden spoon to finish seventh. Michael Stevens' side had a dramatic 62 runs win over Carnforth at Lodge Quarry to end the season with a maximum points-haul.

In a match reduced to 44 overs per side after a shower interrupted Lancaster's innings after 15 overs, the visitors posted 166 for 8 with skipper Stevens (33), pro Roy Silva (37) and Kiran Uppour (31) the main contributors. Carnforth pro Gareth Pedder took the two wickets he needed to surpass Warren Quinn's Northern League club record of 53 wickets set last year, having Tim Barry caught by Lewis Bradley and then Stevens caught behind by Tom Barnfield.




Carnforth pro Gareth Pedder celebrates a new club bowling record

Pedder proved his versatility by keeping wicket impressively for the final 12 overs, having finished with 54 wickets at 19.57.

Lancaster off-spinner Ben Simm needed five wickets to set a new club record for an amateur and beat Kendal's Chris Miller to the Castle Bowling Award. Silva bowled superbly for Lancaster to take five for 34 but Simm claimed three victims as Carnforth slumped to 86 for 8.

Opener Ryan Nelson batted majestically to make 65 for Carnforth off 92 balls and took his season's aggregate up to 666 runs at an average of 37.00.




Ryan Nelson hits Ben Simm for four on his way to 65 for Carnforth

Nelson was ninth man out for Carnforth, brilliantly caught in the deep by Tom Burrow off Simm. Simm was then hit for three successive sixes by Pedder before the Carnforth pro holed out to Silva at deep extra cover off the last ball of the 30th over. Carnforth were bowled out for 104 and Simm, with figures of five for 70, ended the season with 61 wickets at an average of 19.97.

Simm beat Brian Charlesworth's club record for an amateur of 60 wickets set in 1961 and won the Castle Award for the second time in the last three seasons after taking 46 wickets for Kendal in 2008.

Netherfield stalwart Craig Walmsley ended his 21-year career at the club in style as they beat Chorley by ten wickets at Parkside Road. Walmsley, who made his Netherfield debut in 1990, was sportingly afforded a guard of honour by the Chorley players as he came out to bat at Parkside Road for a final time after announcing his retirement.

The talented left-handed batsman scored over 5,500 Division One runs for the club with a season's best of 814 in 2006. It was a splendid act of sportsmanship by Andy Holdsworth's side, especially after they had been skittled for 40 in just 21 overs. Stuart Nixon took seven for 20 and Ryan Wilson three for 20 did the damage with only opener Jack Catterall (22 off 54 balls) reaching double figures.

Walmsley (9 not out) and Ben Haddrick (30 not out) hurried Netherfield to victory in 6.3 overs.

The other Division One games at St Annes and Morecambe were abandoned without a ball being bowled. Darwen pro Mohammad Zaman Khan was denied the chance to reach one thousand runs but finished top of the league run charts with 965 runs at 48.25.



Chorley players sportingly applaud Craig Walmsley onto the field for his final innings for Netherfield (photo courtesy Sue Parry)

Atiq Uz-Zaman lifted the Castle Batting Award for the third successive season after making 927 runs at 54.53 for St Annes. St Annes' pro Dinuka Hettiarachchi was denied the chance to become only the third bowler in league history to take 100 wickets in a season. The Sri Lankan spin ace was stranded on 94 wickets at average of 11.80 with fellow countryman Wanasinghe taking 74 at 11.96. Barrow 'keeper Chris D'Leny won the Castle wicketkeeping award and Fleetwood's Ryan Smith the fielding award.

FIRST DIVISION SCORES

BARROW v PRESTON

Barrow (12pts) defeated Preston (0pts) by 8 wickets

Preston 122 for 9 Barrow 123 for 2 (J Miles 58no, P Wanasinghe 42no)

CARNFORTH v LANCASTER

Lancaster (15pts) defeated Carnforth (2pts) by 62 runs

Lancaster 166 for 8 Carnforth 104 (R Nelson 65, R Silva 5 for 34, B Simm 5 for 70)

LEYLAND v DARWEN

Match abandoned (4pts each)

No Play

MORECAMBE v BLACKPOOL

Match abandoned (4pts each)

No play

NETHERFIELD v CHORLEY

Netherfield (12pts) defeated Chorley (0pts) by 10 wickets

Chorley 40 (S Nixon 7 for 20) Netherfield 41 for 0

ST ANNES v FLEETWOOD

Match abandoned (4pts each)

No play

Kendal No match

FURNESS BUILDING SOCIETY
( INCORPORATIN READERS CRICKET BALLS )
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

Division One

Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 L NR4 BP Pts
Leyland 25 6 11 2 2 2 2 25 265
Barrow 25 7 9 2 1 4 2 26 256
St Annes 25 4 11 3 0 4 3 20 236
Darwen 25 7 3 4 1 7 3 39 209
Blackpool 25 5 6 2 2 6 4 26 199
Morecambe 25 1 9 1 1 9 4 38 182
Lancaster 25 2 6 4 2 6 5 40 180
Netherfield 25 2 6 1 2 8 6 32 164
Fleetwood 25 4 0 4 2 12 3 53 143
Kendal 25 2 1 4 3 11 4 61 138
Carnforth 25 3 1 1 3 15 2 54 126
Preston 25 4 0 1 6 10 4 38 124
Chorley 25 1 2 0 5 15 2 51 103
Lancashire Colts 13 1 2 1 0 7 2 28 79


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SECOND DIVISION

In Division Two Chorley's Stu Naden scored the six runs he needed to beat Bob Dickinson's club record against Netherfield at Windsor Park. Dickinson scored 721 runs at 48.06 in 1993.

The Readers Division Two Cup holders made 172 for 8 in a game reduced to 34 overs per side. Naden reached 24 off 17 balls before he became one of Muhammad Nazir's five victims and the teenaged right-handed opener, who will shortly leave for a winter playing in Australia ended the campaign with 740 runs at an average of 38.95.

Netherfield looked beaten at 122 for 7 but skipper Tom Barton hit an undefeated 36 off 18 balls including four sixes and one four to steer his side home by two wickets with three balls to spare. Wicketkeeper Shane Hyland made 47 off 61 balls.

St Annes won a rain-reduced game at Broadwater, defending their modest 97 for 8 by bowling out Fleetwood for 71. Richard Thomas took five for 46 and Nick Jones four for 17.

Champions Leyland reached 7 for 0 against Darwen at Birch Hall before the game was abandoned and the remaining three games all fell foul of the elements.

Leyland (248pts) were champions with Blackpool (229pts) in runners-up spot. League President Brian Standing journeyed to Stanley Park to present Blackpool captain Kevin Reid with the runners-up trophy.

Overnight rain had caused an early postponement at Stanley Park and ruined a potentially fascinating match with Blackpool's Ross Parker and Morecambe's Nick Milner tying for the Scratching Shed Bowling Award with 54 wickets apiece and Reid just three behind on 51.

The award will now be shared by Parker and Milner. Leyland's club record holder Daniel Hall hit 846 runs at 60.43 to lift the Scratching Shed Batting Award while Blackpool wicketkeeper James Smith and Preston's Yasin Patel won the respective fielding awards.

Chorley (212pts), Darwen (192pts) and St Annes (180pts) completed the top five with defending champions Lancaster trailing in a disappointing 11th.

SECOND DIVISION SCORES

BLACKPOOL v MORECAMBE

Match abandoned (4pts each)

No play

CHORLEY v NETHERFIELD

Netherfield (12pts) defeated Chorley (4pts) by 2 wickets

Chorley 172 for 8 (M Nazir 5 for 46) Netherfield 174 for 8 (S Hyland 47)

FLEETWOOD v ST ANNES

St Annes (15pts) defeated Fleetwood (2pts) by 26 runs

St Annes 97 for 8 (John Wilkinson 4 for 35) Fleetwood 71 (R Thomas 5 for 46, N Jones 4 for 17)

DARWEN v LEYLAND

Match abandoned (4pts each)

Leyland 7 for 0; Darwen did not bat

LANCASTER v CARNFORTH

Match abandoned (4pts each)

No play

PRESTON v BARROW

Match abandoned (4pts each)

No play

Kendal no match


FURNESS BUILDING SOCIETY
( INCORPORATING READERS CRICKET BALLS)
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

Division Two

Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 l NR4 BP Pts
Leyland 24 6 8 5 0 1 4 26 248
Blackpool 24 6 9 2 0 5 2 15 229
Chorley 24 5 6 2 4 5 2 45 212
Darwen 24 6 4 0 4 4 6 26 192
St Annes 24 6 3 1 4 7 3 34 180
Morecambe 24 5 5 2 0 8 4 18 177
Barrow 24 2 5 2 3 7 5 37 158
Netherfield 24 5 3 0 0 13 3 29 152
Preston 24 3 3 3 1 8 6 29 147
Fleetwood 24 2 5 1 2 12 2 41 145
Lancaster 24 2 6 0 0 10 5 19 141
Kendal 24 3 1 1 3 11 5 32 116
Carnforth 24 0 1 2 0 18 3 47 79


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