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Match Day 31st July 2010

Leyland stretch lead at to 35 points

Captain Makinson the hero with eight for 17

By Michael Latham



Leyland players celebrate their dramatic win over Chorley

Leyland moved 35 points clear at the top of the Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls) after a dramatic victory over derby rivals Chorley at Windsor Park.

David Makinson's side swapped the sunshine of Malta, after completing their traditional week-long mid-season tour for gloomy overcast Lancashire skies but acclimatised superbly to earn a maximum 15-points haul from a thrilling, low-scoring game.

After the start was delayed for 35 minutes due to morning drizzle Leyland, invited to bat by Chorley captain Andrew Holdsworth struggled on a slow, damp pitch as Chorley gave one of their best bowling and fielding performances of the season. Chorley's substitute professional Andrea Agathagelou, the Rishton professional, appeared to have put the skids under the leaders with an inspired display of leg-spin bowling. Agathagelou captured seven wickets for 23 runs as Leyland collapsed from 59 for 1 to 89 all out, and that after Andrew Makinson and Tayyab Afsar mustered an invaluable 19 for the last wicket.


Chorley's Kieran McCullagh makes a fine catch to dismiss Nathan McDonne

Included in the Lancashire Second XI's star's haul was his provincial captain back home in South Africa, the Leyland professional Brett Pelser. Opener Chris Parkinson top scored with 30 off 97 balls. Luis Reece (16) and Andrew Makinson (20, including two huge sixes off Agathagelou) were the others to reach double-figures. Billy Smith played a fine supporting role with three for 26 off 17 overs.


Chorley sub-pro Andrea Agathagelou took seven wickets in a losing cause

But Leyland captain David Makinson was in no mood to let slip Leyland's hard-earned lead at the top after news came through that Barrow had moved into second place after victory over St Annes. Makinson bowled superbly to take eight for 17 off 14 overs as Chorley subsided from 20 for none to 25 for 7 and then 60 all out.


Leyland skipper David Makinson was the hero with eight for 17

Afsar began the collapse by catching Agathagelou at mid on off Makinson. Only four Chorley batsmen troubled the scorers as Makinson claimed three leg before decisions, bowled two more and saw Kieran McCullagh and Smith fall to superb catches by Luis Reece and Pelser respectively. Pelser supported his captain by taking two for 12 off 14 overs. Makinson captured the final two wickets in successive balls just as light drizzle turned to heavier rain and no sooner had last-man Chris Harty been despatched leg before the heavens opened at just before a quarter to seven.

Barrow moved above defending champions St Annes into second place after completing an emphatic victory at Ernest Pass. Invited to bat St Annes made a disastrous start losing Atiq Uz-Zaman leg before to Graham Dawson first ball. Though skipper Andy Kellett stood firm St Annes slumped to 14 for 6 and were eventually bowled out for 83, Kellett last man out for 37 off 85 balls. Paul Wilks showed fine resistance for a second Saturday in a row, making 15 off 63 balls while last man Ben Willis made an unbeaten 18.

Dawson and Barrow skipper Daryl Wearing each took four wickets and pro Pasan Wanasinghe, bravely opting to play despite learning of the death of his mother back home in Sri Lanka, the other two. St Annes fought hard, pro Dinuka Hettiarachchi and Nick Jones each taking two wickets as Barrow fell to 39 for 4 before Wanasinghe (25 not out) and vice-captain Chris D'Leny (35 not out) saw them home despite a break for rain.

St Annes have announced that the league's leading wicket-taker Hettiarachchi will be rejoining them as professional for a third season in 2011.

Leyland (played 17-201 points) lead Barrow (17-166) and St Annes (17-160) with Darwen (17-145) now fourth after victory by 100 runs at Morecambe.

John Cordingley's side have been the big improvers in 2010 and former Church CC bowler Chris Wade has proved a vital capture. Tall medium-pacer Wade took five for 15 as Morecambe collapsed to a dismal 42 all out at Woodhill Lane after Darwen had been dismissed for a modest 142, Chris Williams taking four for 34.

The teenaged Alex Davies top scored with 39 off 78 balls for Darwen, an innings of great maturity in the circumstances. Reg Cupit and pro Mandla Mashimbyi each took three wickets.

Kamran Anwar (two for 6) and Neil Cordingley (three for 21) supported Wade's heroics with only Cumberland batsman Ikram Ullah making double figures for Morecambe.

Rain ruined a fascinating finish at Lune Road with Lancaster 38 short of victory with three wickets remaining against Preston.
The home side had been 68 for 7 but David Heywood (15 not out) and Lee Sparks (who hit an unbeaten 44 off 25 balls) then combined to thwart the rampant Preston pro Bilal Asad (three for 40) and captain Lukman Vahaluwala (three for 31).

Bilal Asad had held Preston's innings of 158 together with 76 off 71 balls as off-spinner Ben Simm went to the top of the amateur bowling chart, recording five for 53 to take his season's tally to 41 wickets. Tim Barry weighed in with four for 50 as Preston were hampered by Vahaluwala batting down the order after splitting his webbing on his hand last week.

Lancaster suffered hamstring injuries to pro Roy Silva and opening batsman Jamie Heywood.

Stuart Nixon returned the season's best bowling analysis, nine for 77 but still finished on the losing side as Fleetwood defeated Netherfield by 40 runs at Broadwater. The Netherfield opening bowler went desperately close to becoming only the third player in Northern League history to capture all ten wickets in an innings, pro Nick Kruger claiming the wicket of Fleetwood captain Matt Clark, batting number nine.

Wicketkeeper Dean Bell held the innings together with a superb 91 off 131 balls. Fleetwood pro Matt Frith then showed he had recovered from a dislocated shoulder, taking seven for 28 off 10.1 overs as Netherfield were dismissed for 138, Kruger top scoring with 44 off 47 balls. Frith wrapped up the innings with a deadly spell, trapping two visiting batsmen leg before and clean bowling another.
Latham Baxendale Twenty20 Cup winners Netherfield lost their last nine wickets for only 50 runs.

Gareth Pedder steered Carnforth to safety at Shap Road as Carnforth salvaged a draw against Kendal with a battling display. Veteran John Denwood wheeled his way through 18 overs to take five for 80 as Kendal reached 193 for 7, pro and captain Ross McMillan making 77 and Terry Hunte an undefeated 48. McMillan took two for 17 off 13 overs but stand-in opener Adam Cowperthwaite (30) and Tom Barnfield (34) batted well before Pedder hit an undefeated 45 to help his side close at 152 for 6.

FIRST DIVISION SCORES

BARROW v ST ANNES

Barrow (12pts) defeated St Annes (0pts) by 6 wickets

St Annes 83 (G Dawson 4 for 17, D Wearing 4 for 19) Barrow 86 for 4

CHORLEY v LEYLAND

Leyland (15pts) defeated Chorley (3pts) by 29 runs

Leyland 89 (A Agathagelou 7 for 23) Chorley 60 (D Makinson 8 for 17)

FLEETWOOD v NETHERFIELD

Fleetwood (15pts) defeated Netherfield (3pts) by 40 runs

Fleetwood 178 (D Bell 91, S Nixon 9 for 77) Netherfield 138 (M Frith 7 for 28)

KENDAL v CARNFORTH

Kendal (8pts) winning draw; Carnforth (4pts)

Kendal 193 for 7 (R McMillan 77, T Hunte 48no, J Denwood 5 for 80) Carnforth 152 for 6 (G Pedder 45no)

LANCASTER v PRESTON

Preston (7pts) winning draw; Lancaster (4pts)

Preston 158 (Bilal Asad 76, B Simm 5 for 53) Lancaster 121 for 7 (L Sparks 44no)

MORECAMBE v DARWEN

Darwen (15pts) defeated Morecambe (3pts) by 100 runs

Darwen 142 (C Williams 4 for 34) Morecambe 42 (C Wade 5 for 15)

Blackpool no game

FURNESS BUILDING SOCIETY
( INCORPORATIN READERS CRICKET BALLS )
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

Division One

Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 L NR4 BP Pts
Leyland 17 5 9 1 0 1 1 10 201
Barrow 17 4 7 0 1 3 2 13 166
St Annes 17 2 9 1 0 3 2 10 160
Darwen 17 4 3 3 1 5 1 32 145
Blackpool 17 4 4 1 0 5 3 17 141
Morecambe 17 1 6 1 0 6 3 22 125
Lancaster 18 1 4 2 1 5 5 26 118
Netherfield 17 1 4 1 1 6 4 21 105
Kendal 18 1 1 3 2 7 4 46 103
Preston 18 3 0 1 4 7 3 27 92
Fleetwood 17 2 0 2 1 10 2 37 84
Chorley 18 1 2 0 3 10 2 32 82
Carnforth 17 2 0 0 3 10 2 37 78
Lancashire Colts 9 1 1 1 0 4 2 18 57


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SECOND DIVISION

In Division Two, Leyland completed a fine club double by regaining the leadership after a tense five wickets win over overnight leaders Chorley at Fox Lane.

Chorley struggled to 88 all out with only Mark Richardson (24) and Ian Oakes (20) making double figures as Monty Cottam and Stephen Cartwright each took three wickets. Ian Farrington and Wes Royle posted 31 for the first wicket but Leyland then slumped to 57 for 5, Chorley skipper Ian Mawdsley taking four for 42.
After a break for rain some fine batting by Tom Reece and Cartwright took Leyland home.

Leyland (15-155) lead Chorley (17-150) by five points with two games in hand. Blackpool are third (15-143) with Darwen (17-139) in fourth.

Blackpool had no game but Darwen were frustrated by the weather after bowling out Morecambe for 80 at Birch Hall in a match reduced to 40 overs per side, Michael Douglas taking five for 17. Despite Graeme Cassidy taking four wickets the home side looked well placed at 60 for 4 when rain stopped play at 6.39pm.

Fleetwood completed a successful afternoon for the club with a six wickets win at Parkside Road., Chris Stanhope leading the way with 57 after Neil Gregson captured five home wickets as Robbie Lambert hit 67.

Ian Allington and Guy Heffernan hit half centuries to steer Barrow to 189 for 7 at Vernon Road, Greg Whitehead helping salvage a draw for St Annes with an unbeaten 46.

In the battle of the bottom two at Lodge Quarry Wayne Tomlinson made 91 off 132 balls and Neil Dugdale 51 off 59 balls as Carnforth rattled up 203 for 9. Oliver Field took six for 45 for Kendal who were 121 for 5 in reply when rain stopped play for a second time. Opener Darren Nightingale was unbeaten on 55.

The game at West Cliff was abandoned after Preston reached 117 for 4 against defending champions Lancaster.

SECOND DIVISION SCORES

CARNFORTH v KENDAL

Carnforth (8pts) winning draw; Kendal (4pts)

Carnforth 203 for 9 (W Tomlinson 91, N Dugdale 51, O Field 6 for 45) Kendal 121 for 5 (D Nightingale 55no)

DARWEN v MORECAMBE

Morecambe (4pts) winning draw; Darwen (4pts)

Morecambe 80 (M Douglas 5 for 17) Darwen 60 for 4 (G Cassidy 4 for 16)

LEYLAND v CHORLEY

Leyland (12pts) defeated Chorley (1pt) by 5 wickets

Chorley 88 Leyland 92 for 5 (I Mawdsley 4 for 42)

NETHERFIELD v FLEETWOOD

Fleetwood (12pts) defeated Netherfield (2pts) by 6 wickets

Netherfield 174 (R Lambert 67, J Winder 43, N Gregson 5 for 43) Fleetwood 176 for 4 (C Stanhope 57)

PRESTON v LANCASTER

Match abandoned (4pts each)

Preston 117 for 4 (Z Patel 42) Lancaster did not bat

ST ANNES v BARROW

Barrow (9pts) winning draw; St Annes (4pts)

Barrow 189 for 7 (G Heffernan 63, I Allington 58, G Costin 7 for 44) St Annes 153 for 8 (G Whitehead 46no, P Williams 40)

Blackpool no game

FURNESS BUILDING SOCIETY
( INCORPORATING READERS CRICKET BALLS)
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

Division Two

Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 l NR4 BP Pts
Leyland 15 3 6 3 0 1 2 18 155
Chorley 17 3 5 2 3 2 2 26 150
Blackpool 15 4 5 2 0 3 1 11 143
Darwen 17 4 3 0 4 2 4 23 139
Lancaster 17 2 6 0 0 5 4 9 127
Preston 17 3 3 2 1 4 4 19 125
St Annes 15 2 2 1 3 4 3 30 103
Morecambe 16 2 3 2 0 6 3 14 100
Fleetwood 15 0 5 1 0 7 2 23 95
Barrow 15 1 3 1 1 5 4 22 94
Netherfield 17 3 1 0 0 10 3 23 92
Kendal 15 1 0 0 3 7 4 25 59
Carnforth 16 0 0 1 0 13 2 25 37

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