With just 1 week to go, Vernon Carus retai their lead at the top of the Premier Division. Longridge have won division Division 1. Penwortham have won Division 2 with Gregson Lane winning Division 3 with Norcross second. Leyland have won Division 4 from Fulwood and Broughton with Leyland winning Division 5 as well. Whittle-le-Woods have won Division 6 with Penwortham winning the Sunday competition, .
Roll of Honour 2010
Winners Runners Up
Division 1 Longridge
Division 2 Penwortham
Division 3 Gregson Lane Norcross
Division 4 Leyland Fulwood and Broughton
Division 5 Leyland
Division 6 Whittle-le-Woods
Sunday 1 Penwortham
Meyler Cup Whittingham and Goosnargh Vernon Carus
Loxham Cup Fulwood and Broughton Vernon Carus
Crabtree Cup Kirkham and Wesham Vernon Carus
20/20 Vernon Carus Leyland
Whittingham and Goosnargh are the 2010 winners of the Meyler Cup after beating Vernon Carus in the final. Whittingham, who last won the trophy in 1972, the year before Vernon Carus joined the competition, won the toss and batted first. Mohsin Mohdi got them off to a flying start scoring 78 off 73 balls. Whittingham were pegged back in the second half of the innings to finish on 175. Vernons were kept quiet by some excellent controlled bowling and never really looked like getting close eventually being bowled out for 97. Mohsin Mohdi was a clear winner of the man of the match.
Fulwood and Broughton have won the Loxham Cup beating Vernon Carus in the final by 77 runs at Penwortham. After losing the toss, Fulwood batted first and got off to an explosive start with Michael Kippax scoring 83 quick runs. Vernons held their catches well to restrict Fulwood to what looked to be a competitive 212 all out in the final over. Vernons lost early wickets and were never really in the hunt before being dismissed for 135. Michael Kippax was man of the match.
Player of the month for July is Ashit Jariwala of Penwortham who took 21 wickets in the month. Team of the month for July were Gregson Lane in Division 3 who took a maximum 60 points from their 5 games.
Kirkham and Wesham defeated holders Vernon Carus in the final of the Crabtree Cup. In the fixture that took place at Croston Cricket Club, Kirkham & Wesham restricted Vernon Carus to 115 with Imran Desai and Javid Patel taking 3 wickets each. In reply Don Parker took 4-10 from 8 as Vernons edged on top however 30 not out from Desai helped Kirkham & Wesham home by 2 wickets.
Vernon Carus won the 20/20 competition beating Leyland in the final. The finals day was played at Great Eccleston in breezy conditions and began with Leyland posting 156 against Norcross. In reply, Norcross were going well but kept losing wickets eventually being all out for 113. In the second semi-final, Fulwood started at a blistering pace against Vernons but then lost wickets to become 92 for 7. They recovered from there to reach 150 all out and then looked to be on top before Vernons rallied to win by 4 wickets. In the final, Leyland were reduced to 26 for 4 early on and stuttered along to reach 130 with Vernons raching the target with 9 balls to spare.
Congratulations to Arthur Rose who was honoured at the LCB OSCAs dinner at Old Trafford on July 2nd. Arthur was awarded the main prize of the evening for Outstanding Services to Cricket with the Special Recognition Award. Also nominated for awards at the dinner were Tom Howarth of Longridge for Lifetime Achievement and John Pallett of Leyland for Building Partnerships.
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With the league expanding to 84 Saturday teams in 2011, there will still be 2 teams promoted from divisions 1 to 6 if the criteria for the higher division is met. To accomodate this, 3 teams will be relegated from division 2, 3 and 4 and 4 teams from division 5 - if there are suitable teams for promotion.
New features are being introduced to the website including averages which are now being compiled dynamically on the performance page for each division. Have a look around the site and follow links to the junior site for details.
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.
