Oldham fail to overturn result

OLDHAM Cricket Club have failed in their bid to get the result of their disputed CLL defeat at Werneth nullified.

Pollards club officials sought to have the defeat deemed a draw after the scorers wrongly gave Werneth five runs after believing the umpires had signalled a penalty.

Werneth won by four wickets with eight balls to spare and Oldham claimed the addition of five runs at a critical stage of the game had a bearing on the result.

But the CLL’s management committee, after discussing Oldham’s complaint, deemed the original result must stand.




WERNETH captain Andy Walker has been warned about his future conduct by the CLL’s management committee after a display of anger in the local derby against Royton.



The umpires reported Walker for hitting the middle stump out of the ground in frustration after the run out of a colleague.

Walker immediately apologised to the umpires and also again after the game and the umpires reported the behaviour was totally out of character.

It was decided there was no need to hold a full disciplinary hearing, but the management committee has reprimanded Walker and warned him of his future contact while reminding him of his responsibilities as team captain.




THE CLL has climbed down over its threat to punish Oldham’s Mel Whittle and Stuart Moore for comments made in the Chronicle.



Whittle criticised an umpiring decision in the league game against Heywood, while Moore also hit out at the standard of officiating and the administration of the league.

The management committee had originally alleged the comments from Whittle and Moore had brought the league into disrepute.

But after receiving a response from Oldham in which the club claimed the league were preventing free speech and the pair were only replying to questions put to them, the committee has done an about-turn.

No further action will be taken against Whittle, even though the management committee still believe he has contravened the spirit of the game.

Moore, meanwhile, is to be asked to meet the management committee so both parties can air their views.




LEAGUE secretary Alan Wright has hit out at clubs for failing to notify him with results of games.



Mr Wright agreed to take on the additional duty so results could be quickly given to the Press Association, who in turn supply them for Teletext, and also the national and regional press.

But in the last month Mr Wright has had to chase clubs on 11 occasions because they have failed to notify him with results.

He said: “I am concerned and annoyed because I took on this task to assist the press and help publicise the league.

“I rarely get to see the end of games, my wife takes calls when matches finish early and sometimes my social life is interrupted by phone calls I receive or have to make.”