Chorley-Leyland derbies in both divisions
Chorley players rush to congratulate pro Gaurav Dhar on another wicket
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Please note that there will be a limited results and reports service this Saturday (25 June) and the following Saturday (2 July).
The website will be fully updated in due course. If you spot any errors, omissions or amendments in scorecards please email the league website administrator, Mike Latham at lathambaxendale@btconnect.com, so that the league statistics can be as accurate as possible.
The Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls) reaches the halfway stage on Saturday with St Annes holding a 15-point lead over defending Champions Leyland.
St Annes have played 12 matches and have 128 points with Leyland second (12-113). Chorley (11-107) and Morecambe (11-100) are also in close contention at the top.
While St Annes are at home to Preston on Saturday there's no doubt about the game of the day. That's at Fox Lane where Leyland entertain Chorley. Andy Holdsworth's side have already surpassed last season's points tally of 103.
Chorley's Iain Critchley bowls to Netherfield's John Huck
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Spinner Gaurav Dhar and Iain Critchley have played a big part in Chorley's success so far; pro Dhar has 34 wickets at 15, left arm spinner Critchley 26 at 13.
Leyland's pro Brett Pelser has been in top form with 465 runs and 30 wickets and Luis Reece, when university and Unicorns commitments allow has scored 500 runs at 83.
Leyland pro Brett Pelser is in fine form with bat and ball
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Barrow pro Pieter Malan leads the run charts with 676 runs at 84 including three hundreds; St Annes pro Dinuk Hettaiarchchi has 42 wickets. Preston captain Lukman Vahaluwala has taken 36 wickets as has Morecambe pro Anwar Ali.
Dinuka Hettiarchchi again leads the wicket charts
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Behind Reece in the amateur batting awards so far (sponsored by TWP Financial Planning) Alex Davies (Darwen) has 431 runs, St Annes' Atiq Uz-Zaman 427 and Fleetwood's Adam Parker 406.
Elsewhere Morecambe are at home to Blackpool; Barrow entertain Lancaster; Darwen play Carnforth and Fleetwood are home to Kendal.
In Division Two defending Champions Leyland (11-134) are away at second-placed Chorley (11-127). Teenaged leg-spinner Alex Williams and slow left arm Stephen Cartwright have played big roles for Leyland so far; Williams has 31 wickets and Cartwright 25. Leyland opener Wes Royle has 393, second only to Morecambe's Gulam Maje (415).
On Sunday Preston vie for a place in the regional Final of the ECB National Club Championship when they play Ormskirk at West Cliff.
Action continues in the Jamie Heywood Twenty20 Cup sponsored by Latham Baxendale on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.
Six Northern League cricketers are in the Cumberland side for the three-day Minor Counties Championship game against Suffolk at Mildenhall CC, starting on Sunday. Liam Livingstone (Barrow), Chris Williams and Ikram Ullah (Morecambe), Alex Atkinson (Netherfield), Richard Gleeson (Blackpool) and Jon Miles (Kendal) are all included in the Cumberland side.
The following Sunday, 3 July Cumberland are away at Berkshire in the semi-final of the MCCA Trophy. The game will be played at Falkland CC (11am), with the final scheduled for Lord's
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Please note that the Darwen v Lancashire Colts fixture has been rearranged from Sun 3 July to Sun 24 July to accommodate Darwen's ECB National Club Championship regional Final against Prestwich (at Prestwich CC).
Jamie Heywood Twenty20 Cup sponsored by Latham Baxendale
(all 6-15pm starts)
Wednesday 22nd June
Preston v Chorley
Thursday 23rd June
Netherfield v Barrow
Friday 24th June
Darwen v Leyland
Lancaster v Morecambe
St Annes v Blackpool
Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls)
Fixtures
Round 13
Saturday 25th June
1pm start
Division One
Barrow v Lancaster
Darwen v Carnforth
Fleetwood v Kendal
Leyland v Chorley
Morecambe v Blackpool
St Annes v Preston
Netherfield free date
Division Two (Second XI)
Blackpool v Morecambe
Carnforth v Darwen
Chorley v Leyland
Kendal v Fleetwood
Lancaster v Barrow
Preston v St Annes
Netherfield free date
Sunday 26th June
1pm start
ECB National Club Championship
Group 5
Semi - Final
Preston v Ormskirk
