Sehan stars as Stags are caught cold

HASLINGDEN beat Norden by seven wickets on Sunday in the second round of JW Lees Lancashire League Division 1 matches.

The Stags won the toss and chose to bat, but from 70-4 they were all out for 80!

Sehan Weerasinghe claimed 5-14 while

Gary Sudworth took 4-23.

The home side had a flaky start to their reply and were 25-3 – but man of the match Weerasinghe eased them across the finishing line with a fine knock of 47.

Greenmount proved too strong for Ramsbottom.

After losing the toss and being asked to field, Rammy struggled to make inroads into the home batting line-up, with Jack Harrison and Chesney Hughes putting on 71 for the first wicket, Harrison eventually falling for 36.

Hughes went on to make 51 while Andrew Kerr added 63 and Lewis Dove an unbeaten 60 as the home side put together a knock of 287-7 from their 50 overs.

Daniel Pyke was the pick of Rammy’s bowlers with 4-72.

The visitors’ top four batsmen all played their way in but struggled to build on firm foundations – Jonathan Dack (15) was first to go with the score on 40, Alex Olpin (22) followed on 60 and Kieren Grimshaw (22) on 78.

Senuran Muthusamy top-scored with 30 and there was a defiant unbeaten 26 from Pyke further down the order, but the visitors were all out for 140 in the 34th over.

In Division 2, Bacup lost out at Crompton, who won by two wickets.

The visitors won the toss and batted first, reaching 189-9 off their allotted overs, Matthew Collinge with 87 the top scorer, Carl Taylor claiming 4-49 for the home side.

In a close finish, Neil Hornbuckle and Jack Bradford both took three wickets apiece for Bacup but Crompton reached their target after 47 overs, Denis Louis (40) top-scoring.

Rawtenstall travelled to Rishton and won comfortably.

After winning the toss and electing to bat first, the home side struggled against the attack of Ishaq Hussain (3-16), Ryan Ayres (4-30) and Rizwan Shafiq (2-31). Daniel Briggs top-scored with 16 for Rishton.

Hussain then proved as effective with the bat as he hit an unbeaten 51, Rishton claiming just the one wicket – that of Musa Rehman, caught Chris Sanderson off Briggs’ delivery – as the away team strolled to a nine-wicket victory.