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Newsletter – 6 July 2017

Last weekend On Saturday, the top-of-the table game resulted in a 29-run win for Collegiate at ; the visitors leap-frogging their opponents to move six points clear at the top of the table. Man-of-the-match Azeem Rafiq proved the difference between the sides, rescuing the visitors from 24-3 with a fine 103, and then taking 3-45 in 15 overs to put the brake on the home side’s response. After ending Neil Longhurst’s resistance, Josh Varley completed the job for the visitors with 5-37. Wakefield Thornes’ crushing win over Wickersley left them just 16 points behind the leaders and these three look destined to fight it out for the title. Hallam took advantage of Treeton’s slip-up at home to Cleethorpes to move up to fourth with a comfortable win over Sheffield & Phoenix; whilst Barnsley slipped into the bottom two after losing out to Appleby Frodingham in a very tight finish at Brumby Hall. On Sunday, the Rudgate Brewery trophy brought disappointment for Sheffield Collegiate and Treeton, who both lost out against Yorkshire League North opposition. Our sole representative in the semi-finals, and the first YSPL side to reach that stage, will be Wickersley, who beat Appleby Frodingham in a low-scoring game at Brumby Hall. Saturday Barnsley Woolley Miners v Appleby Frodingham Barnsley WM 143 (46.1 overs) David Hunt 37, Ben Bramley 3-29 Appleby Frodingham 144-9 (46.2) Alex Grimes 64*, Dan Waldron 5-32, Harpreet Singh Bhatia 3-48 Appleby Frodingham (12pts) beat Barnsley Woolley Miners (4pts) by 1 Sheffield & Phoenix United v Hallam Hallam 212-9 (50) Will Hale 116 (132 balls; 2x6, 10x4), Matthew Rees 3-50, Bilal Anjam 3-56 Sheffield & Phoenix United 100 (35.4) Bilal Anjam 50, Charlie Bourne 6-19 Hallam (12pts) beat Sheffield & Phoenix United (0pts) by 112 runs Tickhill v Aston Hall Tickhill 177 (45.5) Jordan Lowe 53, David White 45, Aqab Ahmed 4-42, Josh Coulson 4-48 Aston Hall 154 (43.3) Nic Smit 41, James Stuart 4-41, Usman Muzaffar 4-49 Tickhill (12pts) beat Aston Hall (2pts) by 23 runs Treeton v Cleethorpes Treeton 136 (36.4) Will Street 32, Joe Baker 4-20, Fred Lumby 3-41, Lee Charlton 3-68 Cleethorpes 139-2 (24.5) Vusi Sibanda 100* (76 balls; 1x6, 19x4) Cleethorpes (12pts) beat Treeton (0pts) by 8 Whitley Hall v Sheffield Collegiate Sheffield Collegiate 208 (46.1) Azeem Rafiq 103 (91 balls; 5x6, 6x4), Chris Purshouse 47, Pieter Swanepoel 4-29, Callum Bethel 3-65 Whitley Hall 179 (45.5) Neil Longhurst 54, Danial Rafiq 33, Josh Varley 5-37, Azeem Rafiq 3-45 Sheffield Collegiate (12pts) beat Whitley Hall (2pts) by 29 runs Wickersley Old Village v Wakefield Thornes Wakefield Thornes 320-7 (50) David Toft 102 (85 balls; 4x6;10x4), Mathew Jordan 67, James Wolfenden 57, Iftikhar Afzal 3-68 Wickersley Old Village 167 (33.5) Stuart Guy 44, Isaac Spencer-Jones 42, Steve Morgan 3-31, 3-58 Wakefield Thornes (12pts) beat Wickersley Old Village (0pts) by 153 runs League table P W T L C/o Ab Bat/pts Bwl/pts Ded Pts 1 Sheffield Collegiate (5) 12 9 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 120 2 Whitley Hall (3) 12 8 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 114 3 Wakefield Thornes (1) 12 8 0 3 0 1 2 2 0 104 4 Hallam (-) 12 6 0 4 1 1 2 2 0 84 5 Treeton (10) 12 5 0 4 2 1 8 2 0 82 6 Appleby Frodingham (2) 12 5 1 5 0 1 4 2 0 78 7 Cleethorpes (6) 12 5 0 5 0 2 4 4 0 76 8 Wickersley Old Village (4) 12 4 0 6 1 1 4 0 0 60 9 Aston Hall (7) 12 3 0 6 2 1 6 2 0 56 10 Tickhill (-) 12 3 0 7 1 1 4 4 0 52 11 Barnsley WM (8) 12 3 0 8 0 1 6 4 0 50 12 Sheffield & Phoenix U (9) 12 0 0 10 1 1 0 0 0 8 Last season’s positions in brackets Sunday – Rudgate Brewery Trophy quarter-finals Appleby Frodingham v Wickersley Old Village Wickersley OV 159 (43.1) Shajh Younis 37, Matt Fowler 4-38 Appleby Frodingham 138 (37.2) Matt Morland 32, Kieran Lindley 46; Umaid Asif 4-31 Wickersley OV beat Appleby Frodingham by 21 runs Sheffield Collegiate v Yorkshire Academy Sheffield Collegiate 171 (45) Eliot Callis 38, Humphrey Eldred 30, 4-35 Yorkshire Academy 177-4 (40) Ben Birkhead 54, Jared Warner 41 Yorkshire CA beat Sheffield Collegiate by six wickets Treeton v Harrogate Harrogate 286-9 (45) 33, George Ross 57, Kallen Bond 35, Edward Wilson 50, Ben Birtles 4-64 Treeton 137 (27.2) Chris Cobb 60, Greg Norton 32; George Ross 3-53, Kallen Bond 6-25 Harrogate beat Treeton by 149 runs York v Stamford Bridge York 270-6 (45) 136, Andy Collins 79, Ryan McKendry 3-37 Stamford Bridge 274-5 (37.5) Will Rhodes 42, Ryan McKendry 112*, Dom Rhodes 84* Stamford Bridge beat York by five wickets. The semi-final draw is Harrogate v Yorkshire CA and Wickersley v Stamford Bridge – ties to be played on 6th August. Tuesday This Tuesday evening, a Yorkshire Vikings XI beat a YSPL XI by 44 runs in a t20 friendly match at Sheffield Hallam University Sports Park, Bawtry Road, Sheffield. Yorkshire Vikings 194-4 (20) Jonathan Tattersall 52*, 36, Shaun Marsh 60, Jack Leaning 36, Umaid Asif 3-24 YSPL XI 150-9 (20) Billy Root 44, Azeem Rafiq 3-15

This weekend On Saturday, leaders Sheffield Collegiate are at home to bottom club Sheffield & Phoenix, whilst their nearest challengers, Whitley Hall, travel to play Aston Hall in a potentially tricky game. Third-placed Wakefield Thornes will seek to put pressure on the leaders by continuing their recent good form, and are at home to Tickhill. Old rivals Hallam and Treeton meet at in what looks a very interesting game. Both Lincolnshire clubs are at home; Barnsley, in urgent need of points, are at Cleethorpes, and Wickersley visit Appleby Frodingham hoping to end a run of three league losses. On Sunday, the YSPL t20 finals day sees the winner of the SYSCL t20 competition, Coal Aston, take on last years losing semi-finalists, Appleby Frodingham, and in the second game, Aston Hall take on last year’s winners Sheffield Collegiate.

Saturday Appleby Frodingham v Wickersley Old Village Umpires: Nick Oddy & Dave Robinson Aston Hall v Whitley Hall Richard Blakeley & David Goodlad Cleethorpes v Barnsley Woolley Miners Terry Bateman & Stuart Roberts Hallam v Treeton Michael Clarke & Bob Cummins Sheffield Collegiate v Sheffield & Phoenix United Jonathan Crabtree & Harry Fidler Wakefield Thornes v Tickhill Philip Hulme & Ray Knowles Sunday YSPL t20 competition – Finals day (at Cleethorpes) Appleby Frodingham v Coal Aston (SYSCL) (10.30am) Duncan Jones & Iain Robb Aston Hall v Sheffield Collegiate (2.00pm) Nick Oddy & Carl Williams Final (5.30pm) tba

Statistics

Highest team scores 417-3 (50) Sheffield Collegiate v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (22 April) + 320-7 (50) Wakefield Thornes v Wickersley OV (1 July) 314 (48.4) Wickersley Old Village v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (3 June) 300-8 (50) Treeton v Tickhill (27 May) 289-9 (50) Treeton v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (17 June) 280-7 (50) Appleby Frodingham v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (29 April) 278-8 (48.2) Whitley Hall v Aston Hall (22 April)

Leading averages (qualification 250 runs; average 40.00) Name Club M I N/o Runs HS Ave 50 100 S/r Tom Rowley Sheffield Collegiate 10 10 0 663 216 66.60 3 3 98.66 Vusi Sibanda Cleethorpes 10 9 2 402 100* 57.43 3 1 117.82 David White Tickhill 11 11 1 562 121 56.20 3 1 83.01 Will Hale Hallam 11 11 2 485 116 53.89 3 1 66.16 Chris Siddall Whitley Hall 7 7 1 300 101* 50.00 1 1 60.98 Nic Smit Aston Hall 10 9 2 329 118* 47.00 1 1 75.81 Mark Cummins Wickersley OV 10 10 3 320 71 45.71 3 0 53.96 David Toft Wakefield Thornes 10 10 0 435 102 43.50 3 1 81.61 Sam Drury Treeton 10 9 2 304 84 43.43 3 0 100.83 Matt Cartwright Aston Hall 10 10 2 335 103* 41.88 1 1 55.65 Neil Longhurst Whitley Hall 7 7 0 286 103 40.86 1 1 77.09

Highest individual scores (top 12) 216 Tom Rowley – Sheffield Collegiate v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (22 April) + 128 Dave Rodgers – Wickersley OV v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (3 June) 121 David White – Tickhill v Barnsley (13 May) 120 Jordan Lowe – Tickhill v Sheffield Collegiate (3 June) 118* Nic Smit – Aston Hall v Whitley Hall (22 April) 116* Harshal Vyas – Appleby Frodingham v Wickersley OV (22 April) 116 Will Hale – Hallam v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (1 July) 113 Tom Rowley – Sheffield Collegiate v Appleby Frodingham (13 May) 107 Shahj Younis – Wickersley OV v Appleby Frodingham (22 April) 103 Matt Cartwright – Aston Hall v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (27 May) 103 Neil Longhurst – Whitley Hall v Aston Hall (22 April) 103 Azeeem Rafiq – Sheffield Collegiate v Whjitley Hall (1 July)

Wicket-keeping dismissals (qualification 15 dismissals) Name Club Catches Stumpings Total dismissals Liam Mitchell Hallam 16 5 21 David Hunt Barnsley WM 13 7 20 Paul Fenn Treeton 12 7 19 Tom Froggett Wakefield Thornes 8 9 17 Sam Chatterton Whitley Hall 12 4 16 Alex Grimes Appleby Frodingham 12 3 15

Fielding dismissals (qualification 8 dismissals) Name Club Catches Run-outs Total Keiran Lindley Appleby Frodingham 9 1 10 Nick Dymock Hallam 8 1 9 Nathan Firn Barnsley WM 5 3 8 Matt Fowler Appleby Frodingham 8 0 8 Matthew Gouldstone Sheffield & Phoenix Utd 7 1 8 Paul Hilton Appleby Frodingham 8 0 8

Leading averages (qualification 20 wickets; average 25.00) Name Club Ov Md Runs Wkts Best 5wi Econ Strike/R Ave Steve Morgan Wakefield Thornes 112.0 20 409 33 5-53 3 3.65 20.36 12.39 Alex Osmond Cleethorpes 83.5 13 289 22 6-35 2 3.45 22.86 13.14 Akila Isanka Wakefield Thornes 100.5 11 393 29 5-33 2 3.90 21.30 14.04 Richard Wilkinson Whitley Hall 86.1 8 310 22 6-27 1 3.60 23.50 14.09 Harry Clewett Cleethorpes 107.5 12 428 27 5-63 1 3.97 23.96 15.85 Muhammad Waheed Treeton 117.5 17 400 22 5-37 1 3.39 32.14 18.18 Shane Smith Hallam 130.2 25 420 22 4-60 0 3.22 35.55 19.09 Aqab Ahmed Aston Hall 120.1 17 495 24 5-57 2 4.12 30.04 20.63 Umaid Asif Wickersley OV 97.0 8 463 22 7-37 1 4.77 28.95 21.05 Ali Jehangir Barnsley WM 106.1 9 485 22 4-39 0 4.57 28.95 22.05 Callum Bethel Whitley Hall 111.0 10 479 21 4-51 0 4.32 31.71 22.81

Best bowling (top 12) 7-37 Umaid Asif – Wickersley OV v Barnsley WM (27 May) + 6-19 Charlie Bourne – Hallam v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (1 July) 6-27 Richard Wilkinson – Whitley Hall v Barnsley WM (10 June) 6-35 Alex Osmond – Cleethorpes v Appleby Frodingham (10 June) 6-40 Mark Williams – Hallam v Cleethorpes (13 May) 6-43 Matt Dixon – Sheffield Collegiate v Wakefield Thornes (27 May) 6-77 Matthew Rees – Sheffield & Phoenix Utd v Wickersley OV (3 June) 5-14 Alex Osmond – Cleethorpes v Sheffield & Phoenix Utd (6 May) 5-28 Luke Shutt – Sheffield Collegiate v Cleethorpes (29 April) 5-30 Mahmood Rasool – Wakefield Thornes v Aston Hall (24 June) 5-32 Dan Waldron – Barnsley WM v Appleby Frodingham (1 July) 5-33 Akila Isanka – Wakefield Thornes v Cleethorpes (3 June)

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