Cricket: BOWDON MAKE IT FOUR IN ROW; Cheshire County League.Byline: MIKE TALBOT-BUTLER BOWDON made it four ECB See electronic code book. Premier Division titles in four seasons when they beat Bramhall by seven wickets, a result which sent the bottom club down. With 13 wins and 371points, Bowdon have already surpassed last season's final record of 12 victories and 365 points in the Murray Smith There are several people named Murray Smith.
With Gary Yates For the director, see Gary Yates (director) Gary Yates (born September 20, 1967) was a capable off-spinner who played for Lancashire from 1989 to 2004. He often seemed to be underrated as a 4 day player, and most of his notable appearances came in the OD team. taking 4- 18 and Steve Cockram 3-28,Bramhall were ousted for 115,Bowdon having the match won inside 27 overs with Steve Ball unbeaten on 51. This is Bowdon's eighth league title in 29 seasons,plus one shared,and has again been a triumph for skipper Steve Bramhall. His consistent team has been spearheaded by Lancashire all rounder Yates, who is in line to finish both the league's top rung etter and wicket- taker. He has 786 runs and 69 wickets. The race is on for the runners-up spot with Nantwich favourites to repeat their 1997 performance after chalking up victory number 11 by three wickets at home to Oxton, whom weredism issed for 117 (GrahamCashin 49).Barrington Browne returned 6-34 to top 50 wickets for the season. Nantwich bats men ran into trouble against Oxton's Aussielegspinner Rod Stafford, whose 5 -41 return took him over the halfcentury,but his countryman David Celep (56)and skipper Andy Newton (30) steered theDabbers home. Nantwich are 15 points ahead of Oulton Park, who also registered victory number 11,by four wickets at home to Didsbury, who declared at 193-9(Jhangir Abbas 63). Oulton's best bowler was Stuart Eaton (4-35), who has assumed the captaincy for the remainder of the season following Andy McIlroy's resignation. McIlroy has also been suspended for the last three league matches by his club for directing verbal abuse verbal abuse Psychology A form of emotional abuse consisting of the use of abusive and demeaning language with a spouse, child, or elder, often by a caregiver or other person in a position of power. See Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Spousal abuse. to an umpire during and after a recent defeat by Bowdon.McIlroy is clear to play in the Fred Graham Trophy final on September 14. Chester Boughton Hall's fortunes, which have slumped in recent weeks, revived a little with a winning draw at Macclesfield where they ran up 191-9(Matt Griffiths 56,Mark Hillaby 4-61). Macc mustered 133-8(MikeReed 44) when the match was abandoned due to bad light with six overs remaining. Urmston were well beaten at home by Neston, managing only three points but are not yet down. Neston's first win in seven games was achieved after they had restricted Urmston to 161-8, thanks to Dave Jones taking 5-66. B Thomas scored 74 and Simon Marshall an unbeaten 49 in Neston's rapid response of 164-3 in only 39 overs. Fresh from his maiden county championship half-century for Lancashire against Surrey's Test bowlers at Old Trafford two days earlier,Mark Currie (44)helped Alderley Edge run up a massive 268-6 against Hyde. Hyde replied with a spirited 252-8(DaveFitsimmons 81,Garry Peacock 77). |
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