Readers Cup Final on Sunday
Blackpool's Richard Gleeson in action for
Cumberland at Sedbergh School |
Furness Building Society Northern Premier
Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls) leaders
Leyland have a 28-point lead over Barrow with five games left
in the league season.
David Makinson's side are at defending champions
St Annes on Saturday while Barrow visit Kendal.
Leyland (played 20-230pts) are clearly in the
driving seat but Barrow (20-202) are pushing them hard and
with 15 points for a win batting first and 12 for a win
batting second the situation can quickly change.
In third place defending champions St Annes
(20-188) are being chased by Darwen (20-171) and Blackpool
(20-157).
Leyland have still to play Barrow at Fox Lane on
Bank Holiday Monday, 30 August. Their other fixtures are at
home to Kendal and Darwen and away at Preston.
Barrow host Fleetwood and Preston and travel to
Chorley.
St Annes inflicted Leyland's only league defeat of
the season so far on 5 June when they prevailed by one wicket
at Fox Lane in what many seasoned observers described as one
of the best Northern League matches of all time.
Darwen pro Mohmmad Zaman Khan leads the run
charts with 911 league runs at an average of 53.59 while St
Annes pro Dinuka Hettiarachchi has taken 77 league wickets at
10.69. Barrow pro Pasan Wanasinghe (62) and Kendal pro/captain
Ross McMillan (50) have also reached the 50-wickets milestone
in 2010.
Zaman Khan is chasing Scott Hookey's club record
of 1,078 runs established in 1988.
In the race for the Castle Awards St Annes' Atiq
Uz-Zaman leads the way in the batting with 745 runs but faces
stiff competition from the Barrow pair of Jon Miles (725) and
Greg Platten (697).
Kendal's
Chris Miller has a club record and the Castle Award in
his sights |
Kendal off-spinner Chris Miller took five
wickets in his side's low scoring win at Chorley and has taken
49 wickets. He leads Lancaster's Ben Simm (46) and Darwen's
Kamran Anwar (44) in the race for the Castle Bowling Award.
Miller is also chasing the Kendal club record for an amateur
of 52 wickets held jointly by Jiva Malik and Brian Evans.
Darwen's
Kamran Anwar- 44 wickets and a cup final to look forward
to this weekend |
Barrow wicketkeeper Chris D'Leny (30) leads the
way from Leyland's Matthew Watkinson (25) and Netherfield's
John Huck (23).
Fleetwood's Ryan Smith has taken 17 catches and
Leyland's Luis Reece 14.
Leyland also lead Division Two with 204 points
from 19 games with five to play. There are three other sides
in contention with Blackpool (19-183) 21 points behind and
Darwen (20-173) and Chorley (19-169) in the frame.
Chorley batsman Stu Naden has hit 711 Division
Two runs at an average of 44.44 and is closing in on the club
record of 721 by Bob Dickinson set in 1993. Leyland's
Australian guest player Daniel Hall has 665 runs at 55.42 and
John Pallett's club record of 793 runs established in 1991 is
in his sights.
Blackpool bowlers Ross Parker (42 wickets) and
skipper Kevin Reid (37) lead the wickets-taking charts
alongside Morecambe's Nick Milner (41).
Blackpool wicketkeeper James Smith has 23
victims and Preston's Yasin Patel has taken 10 catches.
On Sunday Morecambe are at home to Darwen in the
final of the 2010 Readers Cup Division One.
The Division Two Readers Cup Final is on Sunday
5 September when Chorley are at home to St Annes (1pm).
Cumberland CCC played their final three-day
Minor Counties Championship game of the season against Suffolk
at Sedbergh School ending on Tuesday. The game ended in a
thrilling draw at 6.55pm on the final day with Suffolk,
chasing 383 to win closing on 334 for 9.
Suffolk topped the Eastern Division table going
into the game but were pipped by Lincolnshire with Cumberland
finishing a highly creditable third.
Four Northern League cricketers represented
Cumberland with Blackpool's Richard Gleeson taking four
wickets on debut and a stunning second innings catch to
dismiss Suffolk's Martyn Cull for 115. Morecambe's Ikram Ullah
kept wicket superbly took five first innings dismissals to add
to his first innings' 58 while Netherfield's talented teenaged
batsman Alex Atkinson hit 49 and 41 and Barrow's Jon Miles hit
59 and 21. Former Blackpool pro Marcus Sharp took ten match
wickets.
Scores:
Cumberland v Suffolk at Sedbergh
School.
Cumberland 354 for 9 (C Thompson 65no, J Miles
59, I Ullah 58) and 268 for 8 dec;
Suffolk 240 (B France 60, M Sharp 6 for 78) and
334 for 9 (M Cull 115, T Huggins 56, H Adnan 55).
Match drawn.
A reminder that from next weekend, 28 August,
the last four rounds of league games will start at
12-30pm.
Netherfield's Alex Atkinson impressed playing
for Cumberland this week |
Fixtures
Saturday 21st August
Division One
(Round 22 of 26)
1-00pm start
Carnforth v Netherfield
Darwen v Lancashire Colts
Fleetwood v Lancaster
Kendal v Barrow
Morecambe v Chorley
Preston v Blackpool
St Annes v Leyland
Division Two
(Round 21 of 26)
1-00pm start
Barrow v Kendal
Blackpool v Preston
Chorley v Morecambe
Lancaster v Fleetwood
Leyland v St Annes
Netherfield v Carnforth
Darwen no game
Sunday 22nd August
Readers Cup Final
Division 1
at Morecambe CC
40 overs
1-00pm start
Morecambe v Darwen
League
Division 2
1-00pm start
Barrow v St Annes
