Stars on show at Pollards

OLDHAM Cricket Club is the venue for a star-studded Sri Lanka v Oldham Twenty20 match tomorrow night (5.30).

The Sri Lanka team will be captained by Oldham professional Chinthaka Jayasinge and includes Werneth pro Kaushal Lokuarachchi and former Coppice paid man Sajith Fernando.

Oldham’s team of South Africans, which is likely to be led by ex-Crompton player Gareth Steenkamp, features Pollards overseas amateur Nick Maree, his Werneth and Royton counterparts Nathan Griffin and Simon Harmer, and Heyside’s free-scoring professional Roelof Hugo.

Admission is £3 for adults (under-16s enter free) and the full line-ups are:

Sri Lanka X1: Jayasinghe (Oldham/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Ruvin Peiris (Heywood/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Shantha Kalawitigoda (Farnworth/Sri Lanka); Joevantha Kulathunga (Burnley/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Fernando (Egerton/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Pramuka Liyanage (Astley Bridge); Bathiya Perera (Glossop/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Loku (Werneth/Sri Lanka); Tharanga Lakshitha (Denton St Lawrence/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Ian Daniel (Ashton/Sri Lanka ‘A’); Viraj Perera (Prestwich); Ruvan Disanayake (Shaw).

Oldham/South Africa Select: Goolam Bodi (Todmorden/South Africa); Werner Coetsee (Middleton/South Africa ‘A’); Steenkamp (Stretford); Hugo (Heyside); Harmer (Royton); Lloyd Kingston (Moorside); Maree (Oldham); Rudi Keiser (Littleborough); Neil Bredenkamp (Church); Paul Van Der Berg (Clayton West); Griffin (Werneth).


CROMPTON under-18s play host to their Werneth counterparts this week in the semi-finals of the Taylor Cup.

The other last-four tie features Middleton at home to Rochdale.

Quarter-finals scores — Clifton 78, Werneth 82-2; Rochdale 91-5, Heywood 89-4; Crompton v Walsden — match abandoned, rain — Crompton won bowl-out 1-0; Middleton 80-4, Bury 60-6.