44 Tuesday, September 2, 2008 theboltonnews.co.uk

Bolton Association PWLNR TBPAPPts Daisy Hill . . .24 17 43023238 Atherton . . . .24 14 541105220 Little Hulton .24 15 630102219 Walshaw . . . .24 14 37061217 Walkden dodge the rain Darcy Lever .24 14 730167217 Edgworth . . .24 12 840114183 Spring View .24 11 85085176 Blackrod . . . .24 9114095147 Golborne . . .24 71331146130 Elton ...... 24 51360269124 A&T ...... 24 71250138123 Flixton ...... 24 51450198112 Standish . . . .24 5154010596 to strengthen their grip Adlington . . .24 2175014262 SATURDAY

FLIXTON vELTON League Elton won by 6wkts Flixton by Gordon Sharrock GChambers bDonnelly ...... 7 NMoors bDonnelly ...... 10 WALKDEN’S relentless NBlair bHolt ...... 8 ZManjra c&b Holt ...... 16 march towards the title RClews lbw bFitton ...... 26 continued unabated on Sun- FAafreedi cHall bDonnelly ...... 27 KWellings cFitton bLomax ...... 8 day, when they beat the DWilliams ...... 29 weather to score a widely- ANaseer cLomax bDonnelly ...... 0 SKelly bHolt ...... 2 predicted victory away to MHughes bDonnelly ...... 1 basement club Heaton. Extras ...... 5 Total ...... 139 They are still not mathemati- Bowling: Donnelly 15-4-34-5; Holt 18-4- cally certain but, after beating 50-3; Fitton 9-2-33-1; Lomax 3-0-21-1. long-time leaders Egerton in Elton PLomax bNaseer ...... 45 Saturday’s pivotal fixture, Mike MHall cWilliams bNaseer ...... 22 Bennison’s side reinforced AAli c&b Wellings ...... 12 their championship credentials DMurray st Williams bNaseer . . . . .13 AStansfield out ...... 10 with an emphatic 10- win DFitton not out ...... 11 Having restricted Heaton to JHamnett not out ...... 14 128-9 they knew they had to get Extras ...... 13 a move on if they were going to Total (for 4) ...... 140 Bowling: Aafreedi 15-1-54-0; Hughes 4- beat the rain in pursuit of a 0-18-0; Naseer 15.3-2-50-3; Wellings 5-0- revised target of 116, and they 7-1. didn’t hang around, knocking ATHERTON vWALSHAW off the runs without loss in just Atherton won by 8wkts 13 overs. Walshaw Praveen Gupta served notice RFaulkner cGreenough bMullaney .11 by hitting the first three balls MWatt cGreenough bMullaney . . . . .0 DMills cNuttall bMullaney ...... 3 for four on his way to 71 not out JFielding cNuttall bMullaney ...... 27 and he had good support at the JPilling bBaines ...... 7 other end from Stephen AMurphy cNuttall bBaines ...... 3 AStephenson cWalsh bBaines . . . . .7 Davies, who hit an unbeaten 38. ALeech cNuttall bBaines ...... 7 Egerton bounced back from DHolland not out ...... 11 Saturday’s morale-sapping LRiley bBaines ...... 12 defeat with a 42-run win at AMarshall bBaines ...... 5 Extras ...... 1 Westhoughton in a rain-affect- Total ...... 94 ed game. Bowling Mullaney 18-1-58-4; Baines But it might have been a dif- 17.1-3-35-6. ferent story if Danny Guest had Atherton SMullaney not out ...... 84 not denied Dwayne Smith a PWest cStephenson bFielding . . . . .5 hat-trick and gone on to hit 60. MGallagher st Watt bFielding ...... 3 Smith, who reached 50 wick- JBirch not out ...... 2 Extras ...... 5 ets for the summer with figures Total (for 2) ...... 99 of 8-95 off 25 overs, dismissed Bowling: Murphy 3-0-43-0; Faulkner 4-4- Saj Fernando and Syd De Silva 16-0; Fielding 7-3-13-2; Marshall 2-0-18-0; with successive balls, but Riley 3.3-0-24-0. Guest managed a single off the BLACKROD vASTLEY & hat-trick ball and went on to Blackrod won by 32 runs guide the long-time league HOWZAT: Egerton wicket-keeper Daniel Guest celebrates the wicket of Walkden’s Sam Reidy on Saturday Blackrod leaders to a total of 220. JPryle cHope bLokuarachchi . . . . .49 ’s professional until the weather finally got the ABhojani cHope bLokuarachchi . . .30 Weather interruptions meant Pro Majeed top-scored with fell agonisingly short at 151-7. HBhojani cMCutt bLokuarachchi . .35 Westhoughton’s was 71 and Anthony Hilton hit an Greenmount’s chances of fin- Weerakoon earned his keep, better of both fielders and bats- Ashraf bNicklin ...... 41 reduced to 35 overs, giving unbeaten 38 as ishing runners-up suffered a making decisive contributions men, forcing the umpires to SBhojani c&b Nicklin ...... 17 posted 203-9. Bradshaw, set a blow when they lost at home to with bat and ball in the eight- abandon proceedings with CSanderson cJCutt bNicklin ...... 4 them a revised total of 165. But NTong run out ...... 1 they struggled in the face of revised target of 154 off 27 Astley Bridge by 45 runs. wicket win Social Circle. Horwich on 41-2 in reply to GWalsh not out ...... 0 some impressive bowling by overs, made a good fist of it They appeared to have the Weerakoon took 7-35 as Social Eagley’s 213. MWignall cBullock bLokuarachchi . .0 with their professional Muzum- job half done when they bowled Circle were dismissed for 95 The rain wrecked any chance IBhojani not out ...... 0 Tom Fairclough, who took 6-48, Extras ...... 13 and were skittled out for 123. dar the backbone of their reply the visitors out for just 136, but then hit an unbeaten 33 as of a at Castle Hill, where Total (for 8) ...... 190 It was an exciting finish at with an unbeaten 89. But the they had no answer to Bridge Farnworth, passed their Tonge’s reply to Kearsley’s Bowling: MCutt 10-3-13-0; Nicklin 10-1- Little Lever, where the home bowlers, notably Patel, who pro Pramuka Liyanage, who revised target of 77. 169-7 was halted after just 10 42-3; Lokuarachchi 18-3-67-4; Bennett 10- 1-57-0. side managed a three-run vic- took 5-54, made it a tight con- took 7-30, and were bowled out The Eagley-Horwich clash overs, by which time the home Astley &Tyldesley tory over Bradshaw. test and in the end the visitors for a disappointing 91. produced some good cricket side had reached 23-2. JCutt not out ...... 82 MCutt cAshraf bABhojani ...... 6 Lokuarachchi bTong ...... 4 CBullock bTong ...... 0 Daisy Hill on verge of Association title joy RSmith cSanderson bAshraf ...... 0 SHope cPryle bAshraf ...... 21 PBennett cPryle bSBhojani ...... 11 SNicklin bAshraf ...... 0 DAISY Hill need just nine Bolton Association The prolific Steven Mullaney, wicket. Naeem Ashraf led Set 119 to win, Standish fell TPemberton st Sanderson bTong . .14 JChurch bAshraf ...... 4 points from their remaining by Liam Chronnell who had earlier taken 3-30, Blackrod to victoryat just short on 114-7 despite the CBradshaw bAshraf ...... 0 two fixtures to be crowned completed afine all-round Golborne, who were best efforts of Tony Kelly (56). Extras ...... 16 champions. theorybut highly unlikely, display as he blasted an dismissed for 97. Spring View were made to Total ...... 158 unbeaten 60 to help the Bowling: Tong 15-4-55-3; ABhojani 4-0- Their clash with bottom club overhaul DaisyHill at the top. Chasing arain-reduced target work for their four-wicket 14-1; Ashraf 16.5-1-60-5; SBhojani 6-0- Adlington was avictim of the visitors home without the loss triumph over Edgworth. 21-1. The St James Street outfit of any . of 63, the pro struck 42 not weather on Sunday,but were well on course for out to sealasix-wicket win. David Gornall took 6-57 in Third-placed Little Hulton Edgworth’s 124, while Naz ADLINGTON vDAISY HILL victoryagainst Spring View maximum points at Adlington Earlier,Ashraf claimed 3-13 Match abandoned sealed anarrow win against Khan top scored with 40. on Saturday, or Darcy Lever after amassing 236-6 before and Neil Tong 4-10 as Daisy Hill Elton. MWood lbw bMaqsood ...... 41 the following week, would the rain prevented the home Golborne’s batting Mike Crookson then saw the guarantee Duncan Brooks’ SBrooks run out ...... 53 side’s reply. Abdeel Ali (58), Michael Hall surrendered meekly. Wiganers home with 41 after AZaidi bMaqsood ...... 70 side the title. (58)and Dexter Fitton (55 not Tahir Maqsood had picked up Rob Faulkner set up JWilde cKing bMaqsood ...... 0 Second-placedAtherton, who ProAtif Ali Zaidi (70), Azam out) helped the Buryboys set 5-44. AShah cBoden bKing ...... 53 Shah (53), Sean Brooks (53) Walshaw’s five-run success DGleave c&bMaqsood ...... 1 trail the leaders by 18 points, achallenging 211-3. Darcy Lever were not given and Mark Wood (41) were all against Standish in another SDunning not out ...... 6 kept alive their slimhopes But asuperb unbeaten 48 the opportunity to see SEvans not out ...... 0 with a10-wicket mauling of among the runs, while Sohaib fromFarook Butts, aided by rain-affected match. whetherthey could Extras ...... 12 Maqsood picked up 4-45. The captain hit 59 in his side’s Total (for 6) ...... 236 Astley &Tyldesley,while Ashley Perry (48) and Saheel successfully chase Flixton’s Bowling: Hunt 5-0-22-0; King 14-2-87-1; Little Hulton, Walshaw and Atherton romped to victory Mohammed (46), steered 169-6, Dave Bowden was the 145-5 after the weather Speak 6-1-25-0;Ellison 11-0-48-0; Maq- Darcy Lever could all, in after skittling A&T for just 77. Little Hulton home by one pick of the bowlers with 5-58. intervened at Hacken Lane. sood 9-0-45-4.