Skipper Mulhall is Lumb award winner
TYRONE Nurse is bang on course for his British Super Lightweight title fight against Jack Catterall.
The 27-year-old champion from Huddersfield faces the unbeaten southpaw from Chorley on the big bill at the First Direct Arena in Leeds a week on Saturday.
Nurse has just returned from a successful training camp in Tenerife, which trainer Chris Aston reckons has been ideal preparation.
“Liam and Ryan Walsh, who have been at British, European and World level, have a gym in Tenerife and we’ve had an excellent eight days there,” said Aston.
“We sparred with the Walsh brothers and also with the Armenian lightweight Artem Haroyan, who is 14-1 and a WBA Continental title holder, and it was good work.
“Tyrone ate well because of the heat out there – we were surprised how much he could eat with his weight coming down – so he has come back lithe and light and really strong.
“Everything went really well and now we are back for a good week and to lose the last few pounds.”
Nurse, who drew with Joe Hughes in his last British title had been dismissed for just 93 in 41.2 overs – after Mulhall had put them in.
Shufflebotham had figures of three for 27 off 14 excellent overs – nine of them maidens.
The win ruined Bradford’s unbeaten qualifying record, which included a win over Huddersfield at Lascelles Hall, and also gave our lads revenge for the defeat to the hosts in the 2016 showpiece.
Mulhall, who plays for Slaithwaite in the Sellers Junior League, won the Under 17 batting, wicketkeeping and allrounder prizes.
He averaged 114.5 with the bat, scoring 229 runs in eight innings but with only two dismissals.
With his nine victims behind fight in Leicester, last fought on May 13, also at the Leeds Arena, when he outpointed Staffordshire’s Andy Keates.
Catterall hasn’t fought since April, when he won by technical ko against Martin Gethin at Manchester Arena to retain the WBO Intercontinental Lightweight title. the sticks – two stumped and seven caught – he took the G Boothroyd Trophy as best Under 17 all-rounder.
His Slaithwaite teammate Jay Cyrus won the bowling prize with 10 wickets at an average of just seven, while the outfield catching prize went to Daniel Payne of Almondbury Wes, with eight.
Worcestershire captain Joe Leach has signed a new three-year contract after steering the county to promotion in the Specsavers County Championship this summer.
Leach was at the forefront of Worcestershire topping the Division Two table after finishing with a second tier high of 69 wickets at an average of 19.39.