Four Blackpool players in Dream Team
Blackpool's Ross Parker and skipper Kevin Reid
both made the Dream Team |
Four Blackpool players made the Scratching Shed
Division Two Dream Team based on their performances in the
Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League
(incorporating Readers Cricket Balls).
Blackpool missed out to Leyland in the thrilling
title race but gained consolation as captain Kevin Reid, Ross
Parker, Adrian Darlington and James Smith all represented the
runners-up in the mythical selection
Sponsored by Scratching Shed Publishing, the
firm behind the design and printing of the league handbook,
the Dream Team is selected at the end of each season and is
based upon the following criteria:
The captain of the championship-wining
side;
The best all-rounder (based on one point for
every run and ten points for every wicket);
The best amateur wicketkeeper, based on total
dismissals;
The top four batsmen, based on runs scored
(top five if one is top all-rounder);
The top four bowlers, based on wickets taken
(top five if one is top all-rounder). In the event of a tie
between the last two categories wickets shall count as ten
runs.
Leyland captain Chris Dovey the Dream Team
having captained his side to the championship.
The best all-rounder was Morecambe's Nick Milner
who scored 582 runs and took 54 wickets during the season, an
outstanding effort by the club chairman
Morecambe
chairman Nick Milner was the top all rounder in Division
Two |
The leading wicketkeeper was James Smith with 31
dismissals
The top batsmen were Daniel Hall (Leyland) with
846 runs; Chorley's Stu Naden (740); Kendal's Donovan Du
Plessis (603), Milner (582) and Blackpool's Adrian Darlington
(581).
Leyland's
Daniel Hall was a Dream Team selection
|
Chorley's
Stu Naden scored 740 runs in 2010
|
Three of the top four amateur bowlers all
reached the 50-wickets mark for the season to win selection
for the Dream Team.
Ross Parker and Kevin Reid captured 105 wickets
between them for Blackpool, Parker sharing the Castle Award
with Milner on 54 wickets.
In a close-run battle for the final bowling
place Leyland's Steven Pallett, who in 2009 captured his 500th
Northern League wicket, took 38 wickets and edged out Darwen's
Christian Davies (37) and club-mate Tayyab Afsar (35).
St Annes' Adam Taylor (518) edged in as fifth
batsman due to Milner's heroics, earning 518 points to
Darwen's Christian Davies (370 points).
The 2010 Scratching Shed Division Two Dream Team:
14th September 2010
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Adam Taylor and Nick Milner also featured in
the inaugural Dream Team in 2009 which was as follows:
Adam Taylor (St Annes);
Wes Royle (Leyland);
Danny Welbourne (Lancaster);
David Catterall (Chorley);
Craig Atkinson (Lancaster) captain;
Kieran McCullagh (Chorley) all-rounder;
Nick Milner (Morecambe);
David Watson (St Annes) wicketkeeper;
Stephen Cartwright (Leyland);
Tim Lambert (Lancaster);
Richard Thomas (St Annes).
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