Booth, Triangle and Warley maintain excellent starts
TRIANGLE, WARLEY and Booth all made it two wins from two in the Premier Division of the Halifax Cricket League last weekend.
Triangle defeated champions Illingworth St Mary’s at Grassy Bottom by 41 runs.
Cumulative contributions from Kurtis Whippey (53), Tom Watson (49), Josh Graham (44) and Christian Silkstone (43) proved decisive in a Triangle total of 267-8.
Graham (4-53) had an excellent afternoon as he took some important St Mary’s wickets at regular intervals, the tenth wicket falling with one ball remaining – 226 all out.
Booth beat Sowerby Bridge by seven wickets. Booth’s opener Hasnain Wajid (96) was bowled with the scores level, aiming for an 85-ball century.
The Bridge had earlier taken its only consolation by denying its hosts the maximum points haul at 165-9.
The match at Shelf Northowram HT produced the most runs of the day with 561, keeping the scorers busy for 78.4 overs,
The visitors’ innings was dominated by a 149-run partnership from Alex Schofield and Adam Fawcett (60) as a challenging 292-6 was posted.
However the chase ended some 23 runs short at 269 all out.
Copley’s troubles continued as they could only manage 1489 at Thornton after having been sent in to bat. Whilst an all out total was avoided the scoring rate was well below four runs per over.
The figures of Mark Clayton (4-27), the fifth bowler used by Thornton, rather proved the point. As did Thornton’s winning total of 150-6 in 32.4 overs.
Mytholmroyd defeated Blackley by 52 runs. Batting first, Royd totalled 205 all out in 39.3 overs, the main contributors to the score being Taufeeq Ahmed (61 not out) and Jack Earle (60).
The Blackley innings in reply only lasted 34.2 overs as it fell for 153 all out.
When Warley, batting first, struggled to 124-8, visiting Bradshaw must have given itself a chance of an upset.
Bradshaw, however, fared even worse and needed tailenders Aaron Buckley and Matthew Crowther to raise the score from 75-9 to 101 all out, as Warley scraped home by 23 runs.
The tightest contest of the day came in the First Division where visitors Great Horton PC beat Clayton by one run.
There was also a tight finish at Upper Hopton with the home team sneaking a one-wicket win in a low scoring affair against Luddendenfoot.
Oxenhope are in all sorts of trouble and even managed a worst score than last week’s 95 all out.
The match at The Trinity Oval saw just 30.4 overs required as Low Moor HT skittled out its visitors for a meagre 50 all out.
The home team then took just 11 overs to score 51-2.
Second Division Cullingworth recorded the highest score of the day against Leymoor, with Bilal Khalid (104 not out) tearing the Golcar team’s bowling apart taking just 48 balls to reach his century in an unbeaten sixth-wicket stand of 168 runs with skipper Chris Welch (68 not out), to post a tough target at 290-5.
Tough it proved as Leymoor managed only 141 all out.
Bradley & Colnebridge just failed to match the Queensbury score of 152-5 as four home batsmen hit 20 runs or more.
Irfan Rashid (43) was last out with his team some 12 runs shirt of the target at 141 all out.
Augustinians bowled out its visitors, Southowram, for 119 but thens collapsed to 79 all out.
Seven Stones batsmen at Outlane failed to trouble the scorers, with only two efforts of 19 runs giving Outlane any resistance, and the home team took just over 13 overs to register an eight-wicket win at 68-2.
Results: Premier Division: Mytholmroyd 205, *Blackley 153. Sowerby Bridge 165-9, *Booth 171-3. SBCI 292-6, *Shelf Northowram HT 269. Copley 148-9, *Thornton 150-6. *Triangle 267-8, Illingworth 226. *Warley 124-9, Bradshaw 101. First Division: Great Horton PC 172, *Clayton 171-9. Oxenhope 50, Low Moor HT 51-2. Luddendenfoot 114, *Upper Hopton 115-9. Second Division: Southowram 119, *Augustinians 79. *Cullingworth 290-5, Leymoor 141. Stones 67, *Outlane 68-2. *Queensbury 152-5, Bradley & Colnebridge 141.
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