Saturday, August 14

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Division One
League leaders Baildon shrugged off the disappointment of their Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield final defeat by Yeadon by taking another step towards the league title.

They scored a crushing 143-run win over Lightcliffe with openers Darren Wilson (77) and skipper Ross Todd(54) setting Baildon on course for a total of 233-7.

Schoolboy leg-spinner Siraj Hussain (3-50) and Ian Towers (3-44) were the best of the Lightcliffe bowlers.

The home side were bowled out for just 90 in reply as spinner Jamie Abbott picked up 4-17.

Like Baildon, second-placed Hanging Heaton also picked up maximum points. as they thrashed East Bierley by 192 runs.

Nabeel Hafeez hit a magnificent 149 as Hanging Heaton made 326-7 declared. Chris Goodaire 78 and Michael Royce (51) led the run spree.

Relegation-threatened East Bierley were never in the hunt and were bowled out for 134 as Michael Horner (3-57) and Peter Byrne (3-3) went to work. James Petty's (44) was the only contribution of note for Bierley.

Hanging Heaton are now five points behind Baildon and 16 ahead of third-placed Pudsey St Lawrence.

The defending champions proved too good for their neighbours as they recorded a 68-run win in the Pudsey derby. Lee Mortimer's (61) helped St Lawrence to post a score of 165. Wasim Bashir was the pick of the bowlers with 4-41.

Congs were soon in a spin when they replied. Young spinner Adam Hopkins took 5-25 as Congs were all out for 97.

Cleckheaton's hopes of avoiding relegation suffered a setback as they went down by 30 runs against Bowling Old Lane.

Old Lane batted first and made 233, thanks largely to Kamran Siddique (73) and Fazal Hussain (62).

Young bowlers Joe Bowman (4-53 and, Gareth Jowett (4-70) were the main wicket takers for Cleckheaton.

It was a third youngster, 15-year-old Shahid Rehman, who caught the eye with the bat. He made an unbeaten 50 playing against his dad Khalid who was in the Old Lane side. Massaver Masadique (37) and Bowman (33, were the other significant contributors to a total of 203-9. Haroon Meherban (4-48) was the pick of Old Lane's bowlers.

Bradford & Bingley's experienced trio of Warren Allitt (94), Adam Swallow (62) and Peter Clarke (33) played a significant part in their side's 13-run win over Woodlands. Their runs enabled Bradford & Bingley to make 221-7 - a total that was just too many for Woodlands who replied with 208-7. Michael Pearson (42), Elliott Milnes (32) and Scott Richardson 31) were their main contributors,

Farsley won the middle-of-the-table encounter with Morley. Asif Amir hit 69 as Farsley made 192-9, despite the efforts of Matthew Dowse (4-35) and Richard Winn (3-61). Morley's reply of 142 all out included 42 from young Chris Rodwell. James Higgins was the most successful bowler with 3-23.

Division Two

Hartshead Moor took another big stride towards clinching promotion with a nail-biting one-wicket win over second-placed Gomersal.

They were indebted to an unbroken last-wicket stand of 32 between Andy Waudby (21no) and Jack Baldwin (7no) as they edged home. Until they came together, Ryan Kitson (3-24) and Josh Fell (3-25) looked to be winning the game for Gomersal.

It was Gomersal's second successive one-wicket defeat and they now trail hartshead Moor by 28 points and have Windhill, Spen Victoria and Undercliffe breathing down their necks.

Kurrum Rashid took 6-20 as Windhill dismissed Great Horton for 99 to set up a five-wicket win.

Teenage spinners Danny Simpson (5-22) and Oliver Davison (5-28) bowled Spen Victoria to a 20-run win over Saltaire. Steve Dunn (40) was the only Saltaire batsman to impress in a total of 112.

Skipper Mark Loker (38) had continued his good form with the bat in the Spen innings of 132. Michael Robinson bowled well to return figures of 5-21 for Saltaire.

Undercliffe cruised to a nine-wicket win over Manningham Mills with Sam brookes (66no), Liam Brearley (43no) and Jack Carter (47) steering their side past the Mills total of 160. Mohammed Jehangir (79) top scored for Mills while Tahir Mahmood (5-27) and Abid Jahangir (3-43) bowled well for Undercliffe.

Keighley won a low-scoring game with Bankfoot by 33 runs. Paul Wilkinson was their match-winner, making 59 not out in his side's total of 104 and taking 3-11 as Bankfoot perished for 71. Nick Gomersall top scored with 37 while Andrew Coppen took 4-17 for the winners.

Idle have had little to cheer this season so their 10-wicket win over the nine-men of Brighouse was a welcome boost, Rob Gibson took 3-11 as Brighouse were bowled out for 52, then matt booker (31no) steered his side to victory,