First versus Third at Vernon Road
St Annes wicketkeeper Duncan Whalley
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The final group games in the Jamie Heywood Twenty20 Cup are completed on Friday evening preceding an interesting programme of games on Saturday and Sunday.
Morecambe's game at Lancaster was washed out last Tuesday. The captains tossed a coin to determine the result and Lancaster won 3-2. Morecambe need to beat Carnforth on Friday to ensure they win the North 2 Group and host Finals Day on Sunday 17 July. If Carnforth win the teams will all tie on four points but Morecambe have a vastly superior run-rate.
The other game involves Barrow entertaining Netherfield with Kendal having already won North 1 Group. Darwen and Blackpool are also through to the last four.
On Saturday Division One leaders St Annes are at home to third-placed Leyland in the Match of the Day. St Annes came a cropper at Chorley last Saturday with Andy Holdsworth's side moving up to second by virtue of their win by 117 runs. Chorley have no game on Saturday. The current position is: St Annes (played 14-143pts), Chorley (13-128) and Leyland (14-127).
Leyland leg-spinner Tayyab Afsar
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Fourth-placed Morecambe travel to Ernest Pass to take on Barrow while fifth-placed Netherfield are at Preston. Kendal, in sixth are at home to Blackpool.
Elsewhere Fleetwood are at home to Darwen and Lancaster host Carnforth.
In Division Two leaders and reigning champions Leyland (13-164) are at home to St Annes and third-placed Blackpool (13-121) will hope to take advantage of second placed Chorley's (13-141) free date by catching up ground when they entertain Kendal.
Readers Cup quarter-finals on Sunday
On Sunday the Readers Cup reaches the quarter-final stage with four Division One ties and three in Division Two. Lancashire Colts travel to play St Annes at Vernon Road in D1, Leyland are at home to Blackpool, Netherfield play Barrow and Kendal are at home to Chorley. In D2 cup holders Chorley are at home to Kendal.
Last Sunday Morecambe lost at home to Northern in the ECB National Club Championship regional final. Northern made 267/4, Chris Tipper making 124 and a depleted Morecambe side put up a strong fight before closing on 212/8. Darwen are the League's sole remaining representatives and travel to play Prestwich on Sunday in the Group 6 Final.
The League's two remaining sides both lost in the LCB Lancashire Cup. Blackpool were defeated by six wickets at Bolton League side Greenmount while Barrow lost by nine runs at home to CLL side Rochdale despite a magnificent 139 from pro Pieter Malan.
Netherfield were knocked out of the Cumria County Cup, beaten by six wickets at Workington.
Cumberland lost their MCCA Trophy Semi-Final against Berkshire by 58 runs at Falkland CC. Morecambe's Chris Williams took a county one day record of 6/49.
The report can be found here:
http://cumberlandccc.play-cricket.com/content/view.asp?id=10343078&cid=200
This coming Sunday the County resume three-day Championship action when they entertain Bedfordshire at Sedbergh School. No less than seven Northern League players are in the Cumberland XI: Chris Williams and Ikram Ullah (Morecambe); Jon Miles (Kendal); Richard Gleeson (Blackpool); Alex Atkinson (Netherfield); Graham Dawson and Liam Livingstone (Barrow). The other players are Gary Pratt (captain), James Lowe, Chris Thompson and Marcus Sharp.
Next Friday Netherfield's Alex Atkinson captains a Northern League U-21s XI against the MCC at Kendal CC, the game starting at 11-30am.
Cumberland and Netherfield batsman Alex Atkinson |
Barrow pro Pieter Malan leads the D1 batting charts with 759 runs at an average of 84.33, followed by Leyland's Brett Pelser (591 at 65.63) and Luis Reece (532 at 66.50). St Annes' Atiq Uz-Zaman (511 runs at 42.58) and Preston captain Lukman Vahaluwala (509 at 36.36) have also topped 500 runs in league games.
Vahaluwala has also captured 42 wickets at 13.19, his haul bettered by just two professionals, St Annes' Dinuka Hettiarachchi (57 wickets) and Morecambe's Anwar Ali (43).
Duncan Whalley leads the wicketkeeping charts with 32 dismissals while Atiq is top fielder with 13 catches.
Preston opener Sajid Patel
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Jamie Heywood Twenty20 Cup sponsored by Latham Baxendale
(all 6-15pm starts)
Friday 10th July
Barrow v Netherfield
Morecambe v Carnforth
Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls)
Fixtures
Round 15
Saturday 9th July
1pm start
Division One
Barrow v Morecambe
Fleetwood v Darwen
Kendal v Blackpool
Lancaster v Carnforth
Preston v Netherfield
St Annes v Leyland
Chorley free date
Division Two (Second XI)
Blackpool v Kendal
Carnforth v Lancaster
Darwen v Fleetwood
Leyland v St Annes
Morecambe v Barrow
Netherfield v Preston
Chorley free date
Sunday 10th July
2pm start
Readers Cup Division One
Quarter-final
40 overs, 2pm start
Kendal v Chorley
Leyland v Blackpool
Netherfield v Barrow
St Annes v Lancashire Colts
Readers Cup Division Two
2pm start
Blackpool v Leyland
Barrow v Preston
Chorley v Kendal
NB - Fleetwood v St Annes scheduled for Sun 17 Jun
ECB National Club Championship
Group 6 Final
45 overs, start 1pm
Prestwich v Darwen
Minor Counties Championship
at Sedbergh School
three days, starting Sunday,
11am start each day
Cumberland v Bedfordshire
