Weekend Review: Derbyshire And Cheshire Cricket League

A fantastic Finals Day on Sunday which stretched for nearly 10 hours saw Woodley fail to add the trophy to the Bissenden Cup.

The club went down to Newton who were chasing a moderate 114-9 and got home easily by six wickets with time to spare.

Earlier in the day Newton had been involved in a thrilling semi-final against Whaley Bridge.  Newton put up an imposing 169-7 but Whaley Bridge took them to the final ball.  With three needed and the last pair at the wicket a run-out gave Newton victory. Woodley had a comfortable 65-run win over Tintwistle in the second semi.

Semi Finals

• Newton 169-7 (Stuart Nugent 40; Daniel Weston 33) Whaley Bridge 167-9 (Jake Higginbotham 42;Dale Jones 60; Stuart Nugent 3-30)
• Woodley 161-8 (Jamie Garde 70) Tintwistle 96ao (Jamie Kay 3-19; Jack Trowsdale 3-7)

Final

• Woodley 114-9 Newton 115-4 

Readers Division One

An epic game at third placed Newton saw the home team beat leaders Woodley by a very narrow margin.  Chasing Newton’s 155ao the visitors needed 11 with the last pair at the wicket but Newton held their nerve winning by three runs.  Dove Holes beat Old Glossop by 15 runs in a high scoring game to keep second place and are now only 18 points behind with two games left.

• Broadbottom 173ao Tintwistle 174-8 (Karl Handforth 86)
• Dinting 150ao (James Adamson 4-35) Hayfield 154-2 (Calum Ramsay 70; Erich Von Molendorff 48)
• Dove Holes 233-9 (James Gemmell 46; Jack Gregory 89) Old Glossop 218ao (Anjum Mirza 76; Rob Adderley 50; Dan Waterhouse 4-32)
• New Mills  149ao (Jack Hadfield 54; Mike Burnard 7-50) Hazel Grove 173-9 (Michael Burke 42; Simon Evans 48; Josh Stevens 4-35)
• Newton 155ao (Jamie Kay 4-38) Woodley 152ao (Conor Cranwell 49; Rhys Goodall 4-25)

Division Two

Whaley Bridge are promoted  and showed their credentials for the top division with an emphatic eight wicket win over Dove Holes.  The race for the other promotion place lies between Pott Shrigley and Stalybridge who met at Gorse Hall Road with the former winning easily.

• Buxworth 171ao (Ian Walker 75; Philip Trueman 4-32) Birch Vale 177-2 (Thom Bannister 62; Jud Leyland 41)
• Chapel 121ao  Hollingworth 62ao (Harry Beal 6-27)
• High Lane 143-9 (Kyle Eiselt 42)  Charlesworth 180ao (Steve Leech 44; Oli Cheetham 4-42)
• Stalybridge 66ao James Bridgford 6-25)  Pott Shrigley 68-2
• Whaley Bridge 126-2 (Henry Holden 55;Lee Jones 42*) Dove Holes 125ao

Division Three

Newton remain in top spot despite going down to Woodley who narrowed the gap to 15 points.  At the bottom Chapel are doomed with the other relegation place looking to be between Broadbottom; Stalybridge and Hayfield.

• Hayfield conceded the game to Broadbottom 
• Hazel Grove 138ao  Chapel 139-2 (Max Newiss 54; Ted Bradley 74*)
• Old Glossop 139-5  Stalybridge 136ao
• Woodley 200-9 (Rami Prince-Navaratnam 105) Newton 85ao (Luca Bray 4-32)

Division Four

Leaders Tintwistle were not in action and it allowed Hollingworth, (who comfortably beat Dinting), to close the gap to 38 points

• Charlesworth 85ao New Mills 232-8 (George Sheldon 46; Ben Ransom 60; Usman Ali 65)
• Hollingworth 205-9 (Michael Osborn 48) Dinting 73ao
• Pott Shrigley 116-4 (Andy Tomenson 48*)  Buxworth 113ao (Dylan Moore 40)