The 2010 fixture list has been published and the fixtures can be seen on tha tab. Additionally, the cup draws have been made and the games for the Preliminary round can be seen on fixtures for 9th May.

Over 270 people attended the annual dinner where all the league winners received their trophies and individual medals as well as the winners of the batting and bowling averages and wicketkeeping awards for each division.   Commerative awards were given to three retiring officials:  President, Charles Walsh, after over 60 years of service to the league, Treasurer, Derek Blease, and Umpires Secretary, Bob Mansfield.  The competition also gives Outstanding Achievement Awards to people who has given long service to cricket in the area and these were awarded to 5 people:  Trevor Wilde of Thornton Cleveleys, John Pallett of Leyland, Phil Walsh of Penwortham, Joe Dooley of Great Eccleston and Don Thornton from the Umpires Association.

 

 

 

 

Further awards were given to John Smith who won the Nompere Trophy for 2009 as the top panel umpire and Bill Hacking of Penwortham was the top club umpire. For the scorer's prizes, Liz Gregory of Fylde won the senior prize and Beth Caunce of Croston the junior prize.  White Coppice won the Bob Millward Fair Play Trophy.  Liam Hurt of Leyland won the Junior Player of the year as selected by the junior section.  The senior player of the year went to Mohammed Nadeem of Great Eccleston for scoring over 850 runs and taking a number of vital wickets.  Finally, the Club of the Year, which is awarded for a combination of factors including success on the pitch, fair play and discipline of players as well as the adminstration of the club, went to Vernon Carus.

 

Palace Shield Averages 2009
Batting
	Name	Club	Team	Innings	Not Outs	Runs	HS	Average
Premier	Ian Dunn	Vernon Carus	1st	21	5	840	100*	52.50
Division 1	Chris Gunn	Fulwood and Broughton	2nd	18	9	422	71*	46.89
Division 2	Stephen Caunce	Croston	1st	17	7	466	80	46.60
Division 3	Stuart Cross	Gregson Lane	1st	14	3	592	118	53.82
Division 4	Andy Loeber	Garstang	3rd	15	6	454	121	50.44
Division 5	Stephen Harris	White Coppice	2nd	22	4	687	82*	38.17
Division 6	Andy Miller	Leyland	4th	14	5	279	68*	31.00
Bowling
	Name	Club	Team	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average
Premier	Ashit Jariwala	Penwortham	1st	156.1	34	432	41	10.54
Division 1	Tom Wilcock	BAC/EE Preston	1st	158.1	24	494	47	10.51
Division 2	Keith Marsh	Croston	1st	305.5	96	627	61	10.28
Division 3	Rowan Garstang	Grimsargh	1st	116.3	25	302	34	8.88
Division 4	Les Christopher	Eccleston	2nd	217.2	60	500	49	10.20
Division 5	Sifton Prince	Leyland	3rd	165	59	297	47	6.32
Division 6	Ash Moreau	Blackpool	4th	78.4	19	217	31	7.00
Wicketkeepers
	Name	Club	Team	Catches	Stumpings	Total
Premier	Paul Fairhurst	New Longton	1st	22	10	32
Division 1	Carl Acton	Torrisholme	1st	23	6	29
Division 2	Dan Curwen	Garstang	2nd	23	13	36
Division 3	Alex Squires	Grimsargh	1st	11	5	16
Division 4	Nick Gale	Longridge	3rd	12	12	24
Division 5	Stephen Harris	White Coppice	2nd	25	8	33
Division 6	Jack Grieve	Fleetwood	3rd	23	0	23

For those new to our league, details of all clubs are available on the clubs page with links a map of their loacation and to the club website where applicable.