Saturday, June 26

Full scorecards League Tables First team review

Division One

Baildon are the new leaders in the title race by just a single point from defending champions Pudsey St Lawrence.

Baildon gained a maximum 20 points as they beat relegation-threatened East Bierley by 186 runs with Chris Reynolds making a supeb 124 and Afzal Khan (79) in a total of 287. East Bierley were bowled out fopr 101 in reply with Jamie Abbott (4-15) and Dan Atkinson (4-25) doing the damage.

Pudsey St Lawrence lost the leaderships despite inflicting an 81-run defeat on Cleckheaton.

Skipper James Milligan (89), Matthew Lumb (78) and Duncan Butler (35) carried them to a score of 291-8. Leading wickettaker Stuart Houlbrook picked up three for 58 for Cleckheaton.

Cleckheaton made 210-6 in reply with their young batsman Shahid Rehman getting 56 and skipper Russ Noble (33)

Rehman's dad Khalid was also in the runs for Bowling Old Lane. he made an unbeaten 102 as his side defeated Yeadon by eight wickets.

He hit a six and 13 fours and shared a second-wicket stand of 132 with Fazal Hussain (72)

There were two more century makers at Wagon Lane where Bradford & Bingley skipper Peter Clarke hit 122 and Warren Allitt (106) in the 79-run win over bottom-team Pudsey Congs. Clarke struck five sixes and 14 fours while Allitt's innings contained a six and 19 fours. Their efforts eanbled Bradford & Bingley to make 275-5 before bowling out their rivals for 196 with Michael Davies taking am impressive seven for 55.

Fort Congs Keegan Moodley made 77 and Phil Allkinson (50).Thre was also an encouraging bowling performance from Chris Doey (4-64)

David Knight made an unbeaten 83 as Lightcliffe secured a four-wicket win over Farsley. He steered them past Farsley's total of 189 which owed much to the efforts of Nigel Thornton (58) and Asif Amir (36)

Division Two

Gomersal's title bid continues to gain momentum. They took another step towards their goal with a 24-run win over Great Horton,

Skipper Chris Rhodes took five for 35 as Gomersal dismissed Great Horton for 143 in reply to their total of 167. Josh Fell (43), Andy Fearnsides (36) and Craig Lightowler (35) were Gomersal's main scorers. Zabir Ashraf (40) was the top scorer for Great Horton.

Second-placed Hartshead Moor wasted no time in inflicting a five-wicket defeat on Windhill. Martin Riley continued his good form by taking five for 50 as Windhill were skittled for 99. Hartshead had a few scares before easing home in 17.4 overs with Nicky Ward making 32.

Third-placed Bankfoot are just five points behind Hartsead Moor and 13 adrift of leaders Gomersal afre a 120-run win over Brighouse.

Ironically it was Nicky Gomersall (75) who was top scorer as Bankfoot made 259-7 before dismissing Brighouse for 139 with Nigel Hanson (3-22), Chris Ignatowski (3-28) and Nickos Harabalidas (3-0) doing the damage.

Liam Brearley made 82 as Undercliffe maintained their promotion challenge with a 55-run win over Spen Victoria. Skipper Sam Brookes (4-49) and Abid Jahangir (4-35 helped dismiss the visitors for 160 in reply to Undercliffe's 215.

Lowly Idle suffered a narrow one-wicket defeat at Keighley. Andy Massheder's 63 helpedIdle to 215-8. Keighley were made to fight for their victory and the last wicket pair were at the wicket when their win was confirmed. Luke Chapman (54)top scored for Keighley.

Manningham Mills opener Mohammad Jahangir (85no) and Mohammad Faisal (62no) shared an unbroken stand of 158 as they steered their side to a ten-wicket win over Saltaire.

Yassir Qadim (41) and Michael Robinson (31) top scored in a Saltaire total of 157. Hamza Khan took three for 12.