Vaux Ribblesdale League : Icing on Cherry's cake (15 Sep 1997)

15 September

Vaux Ribblesdale League : Icing on Cherry's cake

Lancashire Evening Telegraph

CHERRY Tree brought their incredible double winning season to a close with a crushing victory over Whalley in the Vaux Ribblesdale League.

John Hughes took 5-20 wickets as Whalley were bowled out for 54, but Cherry Tree lost six wickets as they secured maximum points and continued their 23 game unbeaten league run.

Clitheroe defeated Great Harwood with Mark Bolton rounding off his season in style with an innings of 61, backed up by Jonathan Fielding's half century.

Matthew Cheesbrough captured five wickets, but could not get the final victim as Clitheroe held on at 227-9. Fielding rounded off the match with a six wickets performance as Harwood reached 129-9 in 27 overs.

Teenager Andrew Jaggers staked his claim to a first team place next season when he took 6-47 in Earby's win over Blackburn Northern. Northern's innings ended on 158-8 and Earby raced to a 10 wicket win with professional Jonathan Harvey undefeated on 105 and Nigel Hodge 55 not out. Read comfortably beat Baxenden with Shahid Nawaz on form with both bat and ball in the nine-wicket victory.

Oswaldtwistle Immanuel took the honours against Settle, setting a target of 200-4 declared after just 23 overs with Roger Watson 71 and Matthew Lawrence 65 not out. Settle reached 146-6 in 31 overs with Tim Green 71.

There was no play in the game between Edenfield and Barnoldswick and Ribblesdale also had to settle for two points against Padiham despite an innings of 90 from Gurinder Singh and Mark Harvey's 50 not out for Padiham.

Results: Clitheroe 227-9 (5), Great Harwood 129-9; Earby 163-0 (5), Blackburn Northern 158-8; Ribblesdale Wdrs 166-8 (2), Padiham 132-3 (2); Read 163-1 (7), Baxenden 161; Oswaldtwistle 200-4 dec (5), Settle 146-6; Whalley 54, Cherry Tree 60-6 (7); Edenfield v Barnoldswick (no play), two points each.

Source :: Lancashire Evening Telegraph (https://www.reednews.co.uk/let/)