Friday 3rd October
Amateur Awards
Atiq Uz-Zaman dominated the Castle Awards for
Batting for the third successive season. The former Pakistan
Test player scored 927 runs and was presented with the award
by Matthew Castle at the League's end of season presentation
evening held at Leyland Golf Club.
League Chaiman Norman Poole with Amateur
Awards sponsor Matthew Castle presenting Atiq Uz Zaman (St
Annes ) with the Division 1 Batting award
Lancaster off-spinner Ben Simm won the bowling
award for the second time in three years after taking 61
wickets. Simm had taken 46 wickets for Kendal in 2008.
League Chairman Norman Poole, Ben Simm
Division 1 Bowling Award winner and Amateur Award Sponsor
Matthew Castle
The wicketkeeping prize was won by Barrow's
Cumberland County player Chris D'Leny who took 35 dismissals
during the season. D'Leny also received the Malcolm Beaty
Trophy, awarded annually to the leading wicketkeeper in
Division One on the proviso that the tally includes at least
one stumping.
Ryan Smith (Fleetwood) won the fielding prize
with 19 catches.
League Chaiman Norman Poole with Amateur
Awards sponsor Matthew Castle presenting Ryan Smith with the
Division 1 Top Fielder Award
The Division Two awards were sponsored for the
first time by Scratching Shed Publishing and helped raise the
profile of the players in second eleven cricket.
Leyland's Daniel Hall won the batting prize with
846 runs for the champions.
The bowling prize was shared between Morecambe's
Nick Milner and Blackpool's Ross Parker who each took 54
wickets.
Blackpool's James Smith won the wicketkeeping
prize with 31 dismissals and Preston's Yasin Patel was top
fielder with 12 catches.
League Chairman Norman Poole
Tony Hannan
MD of Division 2 Award Sponsors Scratching Shed
Publishing
Younis Patel father of Yasin Patel reciving the
Top Fielder Award
League Chairman Norman Poole
Tony Hannan
MD of Division 2 Award Sponsors Scratching Shed
Publishing
James Smith Division 2 Wicketkeeping Award
winner
Tony Hannan, the MD of the sponsors was on hand
to make the awards.
Andy Sneddon from Black Dragon Badges and
Promotions, suppliers of medals and trophies to the League,
kindly sponsored the Fair Play awards which were won by
Lancashire Colts (Division One) and Chorley (Division
Two).
Norman Poole League Chairman
Jason Swift
captain of the Lancashire Colts
winners of the Division 1
Fair Play Award
Dave Pick League Treasurer
League Chairman Norman Poole,
Leyland C
C captain David Makinson with the Division 1 Champions
Trophy
and
Robert Cairns CEO of League sponsors The
Furness Building Society
At the dinner League sponsors Rob Cairns, CEO of
Furness Building Society presented David Makinson and Chris
Dovey, captains of Leyland First and Second XIs respectively
with the league championship trophies and made presentations
to Daryl Wearing, captain of Division One runners-up Barrow
and Kevin Reid, captain of Division Two runners-up
Blackpool.
League Chairman Norman Poole,
Leyland C
C captain Chris Dovey with the Division 2 Champions
Trophy
and
Robert Cairns CEO of League sponsors The
Furness Building Society
League Chairman Norman Poole,
Barrow CC
captain Daryl Wearing with the Division 1 Runners Up
Trophy
and
Robert Cairns CEO of League sponsors The
Furness Building Society
Neil Pullen, representing Readers made
presentations to John Cordingley, captain of Readers Cup
Division One winners Darwen, Tommy Clough, captain of
runners-up Morecambe, Ian Mawdesley, captain of Readers Cup
Division Two winners Chorley and Adam Taylor representing
runners-up St Annes.
League Chairman Norman Poole
Neil Pullen
of Cup Sponsors Readers
John Cordingley of Darwen Division
1 Readers Cup winners
Mike Latham from Latham Baxendale presented the
Latham Baxendale Twenty20 Cup to Mike Rigg, team manager of
winners Netherfield.
Norman Poole League Chairman
Mike Latham
of Sponsors Latham Baxendale
presenting the Latham
Baxendale Twenty/20 Cup
to Mike Rigg the Netherfield team
manager
Members of the Division 1 Dream team for
2010
Atiq Uz Zaman (St Annes), Adam Parker (Preston) David
Makinson Leyland) Chris Miller (Kendal) Ben Simm
Lancaster)
Members of the Division 2 Dream team for
2010
Nick Milner (Morecambe) Kevin Reid (Blackpool), Chris
Dovey (Leyland), Ross Parker (Blackpool)
Adam Taylor (St
Annes) James Smith (Blackpool) Steven Pallett
(Leyland)
The Amateur Awards for Division One players were
introduced in 2005 and previous winners have been as
follows:
Batting:
2005 Terry Hunte (Kendal) 841 runs
2006 Ian Austin (St Annes) 1,075 runs
2007 Chris Parry (Netherfield) 724 runs
2008 Atiq Uz-Zaman (St Annes) 1,005 runs
2009 Atiq Uz-Zaman (St Annes) 792 runs
2010 Atiq Uz-Zaman (St Annes) 927 runs
Bowling:
2005 Kevin Howarth (Kendal) 50 wickets
2006 Andrew Mercer (Darwen) 56 wickets
2007 Lukman Vahaluwala (Preston) 49
wickets
2008 Ben Simm (Kendal) 46 wickets
2009 Warren Quinn (Carnforth) 53 wickets
2010 Ben Simm (Lancaster) 61 wickets
Wicketkeeping (Malcolm Beaty
Trophy):
2005 Duncan Whalley (St Annes) 40
dismissals
2006 James Ellis (Fleetwood) 32 dismissals
2007 Ikram Ullah (Kendal) 36 dismissals
2008 James Smith (Blackpool) and Duncan
Whalley (St Annes) both 34 dismissals
2009 Duncan Whalley (St Annes) 37
dismissals
2010 Chris D'Leny (Barrow) 35 dismissals
Fielding:
2005 Neil Cordingley (Darwen) and Phil
Dennison (Morecambe) both 12 catches
2006 Gareth Cordingley (Darwen) 17 catches
2007 Mark Lomas (Morecambe) 20 catches
2008 Mark Lomas (Morecambe) 18 catches
2009 David Fisher (Preston) 14 catches
2010 Ryan Smith (Fleetwood) 19 catches
