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Disciplinary result

Ryan Nurse the Greenfield Overseas Amateur who has played 1st Class cricket for Barbados, appeared before a League Disciplinary Committee on June 25th, after being reported by Umpires on two consecutive days (May 24th & May 25th)
After being dismissed L.B.W. in Greenfield's match at Bamford, he showed dissent by using foul and abusive language towards the Umpire, when leaving the field, smashed plastic cladding in the dressing room doorway with his bat, and then sat at the edge of the ground shouting more abuse towards the Umpire. The second offence occurred twenty four hours later in Greenfields home Tanner Cup 1st round tie with Hollinwood, when again he was given out L.B.W. In leaving the field he had to pass the Umpire at the Bowlers end, when he smashed down the wickets with his bat.
The Disciplinary Committee, suspended him for a total of 10 matches, but because Greenfield had given him a 3 match ban of their own, this was reduced to 7 matches.
Greenfield then submitted an appeal against the ban, but at an Appeals Panel Hearing, the decision of the Disciplinary Committee was upheld and his 7 match ban started with fixtures on Saturday July 5th.
He will not be eligible to play again for the Club until 23rd August, and meanwhile as ECB regulations require for a 4 match ban or more, The matter has been reported to the LCB County Board.

 

J.W.Lees Inter League Knock Out - Match Report

Ribblesdale League V Saddleworth League
played at Whalley C.C June 8th

The Saddleworth League won the toss and Captain Steve Howard made the only decision possible to bat on a hard, dry track, that had been played on the previous day, and was obviously not going to get any better. The Ribblesdale opening bowlers bowled accurately and the Saddleworth openers Howard and Mike Small started cautiously. Unfortunately Small was run out for 7 and Howard then holed out leaving us 28 for 2. Francis Sutherland and Gareth Dent began a repair job, concentrating at first on not losing another wicket and we were averaging less than three per over with 15 overs gone. Gradually Sutherland in particular picked up the run rate before being caught at mid wicket for a very good 42. Mudassar Butt came in and immediately took the attack to the bowlers and this seemed to give Dent more confidence before he was dismissed for an excellent 60. Needing some more quick runs, tail ender Sadaqat Shazad was sent in and duly obliged by hitting three sixes, meanwhile Mudassar was caught on the deep mid wicket boundary for 46 and when the innings closed Sadaqat was not out 38 off only 23 balls. 94 runs were added in the last 10 overs and the feeling was that our score of 220 for 5 should perhaps be good enough.

When the Ribblesdale innings started, it was in complete contrast to ours, their batsmen attacking from the first ball and the score mounted rapidly, aided it has to be said by some loose bowling. The first wicket fell at 93 in only the 15th over, but the introduction of leg spinner Rashid Khan into the attack pegged back the batsmen who then found runs hard to come by. Opening bat James was superbly stumped by Alex Griffiths for 74 and suddenly the game changed, with the result that our opponents were reduced to 138 for 4 with only 18 overs left. Rashid completed his 9 over spell with the verv good figures of 2 for 22. At this point we felt we were in a winning position, but as events proved we were unable to drive home our advantage, as a 54 run stand in only 6.3 overs with Neil Cordingley dominant swung the game back to Ribblesdale, before we again took three quick wickets to leave our hosts on 201 for 7, but yet again we couldn't remove Cordingley who was undefeated on 48 when they passed our total with a couple of overs to spare, and he was adjudged man of the match by the Umpires.

Although disappointed to lose, we put up a credible performance and the match was played in excellent spirit by both sides.
Ultimately the fact that we made a very slow, cautious start against an accurate attack, whilst Ribblesdale went for their shots and didn't allow our bowlers to settle into a rythym proved decisive. Their bowlers bowled 7 maiden overs out of their allotted 45 in comparison to ours who didn't manage one.

 

J.W.Lees Inter League Knock Out Competition...

1st Round Sunday 8th June. Ribblesdale League v Saddleworth League.
To be played at Whalley C.C....Start 1.30p.m.
The Saddleworth League have selected a 14 man squad as follows.
S. Howard .......Captain.  Saddleworth C.C.
N. Stock..........V / Capt. Glodwick.
G. Dent..........................Droylsden.
S. Firth..........................Heyside.
M.Butt...........................Hollinwood.
A. Aqeel........................Hollinwood.
R..Khan.........................Hollinwood.
Sadaqat........................ Hollinwood.
F. Sutherland.................Moorside.
L. Warburton.................  Moorside.
M.Small.........................Shaw.
R. Harrington..................Shaw.
A. Griffiths.......W /Kpr....Uppermill.
A. McVeigh....................Uppermill.

GLODWICK C.C.

Following the problems experienced with their ground re development, a further inspection was carried out on 15th May by the League Executive. It was pleasing to see that there had been a vast improvement and it was a unanimous decision that normal fixtures could be resumed.

 

GREENFIELD C.C.

Following an incident in a recent match the Greenfield Committee have suspended their overseas amateur Ryan Nurse for 3 matches.. Meanwhile the League are awaiting the Umpires report to decide if further action is necessary under the Leagues Disciplinary Tariff which was circulated to all Clubs before the start of the season.

 

Glodwick ground passed fit

As followers of the League are aware Glodwick C.C. were elected to play in the League in season 2007, but because of the very extensive ground extension and improvements they had undertaken during the previous winter, despite all their efforts the ground was deemed unfit for play for the whole of season 2007, resulting in their 1st team playing all matches away from home, whilst the 2nd XL did not play a League match.
A substantial area of the ground has been totally re turfed and more top soil tipped, and following a ground inspection on 15th April 2008, the League Executive passed the ground fit for play to start the season on 27th April.
It should be said that the decision was not unanimous with Kevin Richardson and the Acting League Secretary Trevor Harrison both of the opinion that the ground would not be fit for the end of April, and that if the current wet weather improved, probably the mid to end of May would be a more likely scenario. Their chief concerns being that a lot of the newly laid turf had not bedded in properly as yet and may well kick up when run on, was very uneven and very swampy in certain areas and that the areas of top soil would be too soft. It should also be said that in passing the ground, that has gone against the advice of the League's independent Ground Inspector who on the 7th April reported to the League that in his opinion it would not be fit to start the season.

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