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FIXTURES 21st and 22nd AUGUST 2010

Double top Leyland look to consolidate

Readers Cup Final on Sunday



Blackpool's Richard Gleeson in action for Cumberland at Sedbergh School

Furness Building Society Northern Premier Cricket League (incorporating Readers Cricket Balls) leaders Leyland have a 28-point lead over Barrow with five games left in the league season.

David Makinson's side are at defending champions St Annes on Saturday while Barrow visit Kendal.

Leyland (played 20-230pts) are clearly in the driving seat but Barrow (20-202) are pushing them hard and with 15 points for a win batting first and 12 for a win batting second the situation can quickly change.

In third place defending champions St Annes (20-188) are being chased by Darwen (20-171) and Blackpool (20-157).

Leyland have still to play Barrow at Fox Lane on Bank Holiday Monday, 30 August. Their other fixtures are at home to Kendal and Darwen and away at Preston.

Barrow host Fleetwood and Preston and travel to Chorley.

St Annes inflicted Leyland's only league defeat of the season so far on 5 June when they prevailed by one wicket at Fox Lane in what many seasoned observers described as one of the best Northern League matches of all time.

Darwen pro Mohmmad Zaman Khan leads the run charts with 911 league runs at an average of 53.59 while St Annes pro Dinuka Hettiarachchi has taken 77 league wickets at 10.69. Barrow pro Pasan Wanasinghe (62) and Kendal pro/captain Ross McMillan (50) have also reached the 50-wickets milestone in 2010.

Zaman Khan is chasing Scott Hookey's club record of 1,078 runs established in 1988.

In the race for the Castle Awards St Annes' Atiq Uz-Zaman leads the way in the batting with 745 runs but faces stiff competition from the Barrow pair of Jon Miles (725) and Greg Platten (697).



Kendal's Chris Miller has a club record and the Castle Award in his sights

Kendal off-spinner Chris Miller took five wickets in his side's low scoring win at Chorley and has taken 49 wickets. He leads Lancaster's Ben Simm (46) and Darwen's Kamran Anwar (44) in the race for the Castle Bowling Award. Miller is also chasing the Kendal club record for an amateur of 52 wickets held jointly by Jiva Malik and Brian Evans.



Darwen's Kamran Anwar- 44 wickets and a cup final to look forward to this weekend

Barrow wicketkeeper Chris D'Leny (30) leads the way from Leyland's Matthew Watkinson (25) and Netherfield's John Huck (23).

Fleetwood's Ryan Smith has taken 17 catches and Leyland's Luis Reece 14.

Leyland also lead Division Two with 204 points from 19 games with five to play. There are three other sides in contention with Blackpool (19-183) 21 points behind and Darwen (20-173) and Chorley (19-169) in the frame.

Chorley batsman Stu Naden has hit 711 Division Two runs at an average of 44.44 and is closing in on the club record of 721 by Bob Dickinson set in 1993. Leyland's Australian guest player Daniel Hall has 665 runs at 55.42 and John Pallett's club record of 793 runs established in 1991 is in his sights.

Blackpool bowlers Ross Parker (42 wickets) and skipper Kevin Reid (37) lead the wickets-taking charts alongside Morecambe's Nick Milner (41).

Blackpool wicketkeeper James Smith has 23 victims and Preston's Yasin Patel has taken 10 catches.

On Sunday Morecambe are at home to Darwen in the final of the 2010 Readers Cup Division One.

The Division Two Readers Cup Final is on Sunday 5 September when Chorley are at home to St Annes (1pm).

Cumberland CCC played their final three-day Minor Counties Championship game of the season against Suffolk at Sedbergh School ending on Tuesday. The game ended in a thrilling draw at 6.55pm on the final day with Suffolk, chasing 383 to win closing on 334 for 9.

Suffolk topped the Eastern Division table going into the game but were pipped by Lincolnshire with Cumberland finishing a highly creditable third.

Four Northern League cricketers represented Cumberland with Blackpool's Richard Gleeson taking four wickets on debut and a stunning second innings catch to dismiss Suffolk's Martyn Cull for 115. Morecambe's Ikram Ullah kept wicket superbly took five first innings dismissals to add to his first innings' 58 while Netherfield's talented teenaged batsman Alex Atkinson hit 49 and 41 and Barrow's Jon Miles hit 59 and 21. Former Blackpool pro Marcus Sharp took ten match wickets.

Scores:

Cumberland v Suffolk at Sedbergh School.

Cumberland 354 for 9 (C Thompson 65no, J Miles 59, I Ullah 58) and 268 for 8 dec;

Suffolk 240 (B France 60, M Sharp 6 for 78) and 334 for 9 (M Cull 115, T Huggins 56, H Adnan 55).

Match drawn.

A reminder that from next weekend, 28 August, the last four rounds of league games will start at 12-30pm.



Netherfield's Alex Atkinson impressed playing for Cumberland this week

Fixtures

Saturday 21st August

Division One

(Round 22 of 26)

1-00pm start

Carnforth v Netherfield

Darwen v Lancashire Colts

Fleetwood v Lancaster

Kendal v Barrow

Morecambe v Chorley

Preston v Blackpool

St Annes v Leyland


Division Two

(Round 21 of 26)

1-00pm start

Barrow v Kendal

Blackpool v Preston

Chorley v Morecambe

Lancaster v Fleetwood

Leyland v St Annes

Netherfield v Carnforth

Darwen no game


Sunday 22nd August

Readers Cup Final

Division 1

at Morecambe CC

40 overs
1-00pm start

Morecambe v Darwen

League

Division 2

1-00pm start

Barrow v St Annes


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