Derby delight for Crompton

CROMPTON possess bragging rights over Oldham - at least until the next time they meet - after defeating their neighbours by seven wickets in the Lake Garage CLL at Glebe Street yesterday.

Simon Wright took five for 29 as Oldham were skittled for 123, Mel Whittle top scoring with 30. And professional Mohammed Zaman Khan struck an authoritative 72 as Crompton made 124 for three to claim maximum points.

Werneth’s players were breathing a huge collective sigh of relief last night after ending a miserable spell of defeats with a 64-run victory over Unsworth.

Deputy professional Roelof Hugo struck 85 and overseas amateur Chris Rogerson an unbeaten 41 as Werneth racked up an impressive 241. And Werneth restricted their hosts to 177 for eight despite 59 for home professional Wayne Madsen, 41 from Chris Long and 35 by Anthony Gregorio.

Royton also returned to winning ways with a 17-runs defeat of Clifton at the Paddock. Paid man Luke Procter hit 69 and John Punchard 51 as Royton were bowled out for 204, Alex Rodzoch taking five for 31.

Clifiton were then dismissed for 187 despite Rodzoch’s fine knock of 77.

Sunday scores: Crompton 124-3 (Z Khan 72), Oldham 123 (Whittle 30, Si Wright 5-29); Milnrow 179 (Skuse 44, Jennings 39), Middleton 182-9 (Core 48); Monton and Weaste 146-0 (Green 73 n.o., Din 62 n.o.), Ashton 140 (Gaskin 35, Jayasinghe 4-28, Scott 3-42); Norden 238-3 (Symes 78, Malik 49, Firth 49), Walsden 237-9 (Rawlinson 105, D Fitton 3-37, Makin 3-67); Radcliffe 192-7 (Tariq 87, Berry 60, Slawson 4-31, Purser 3-37), Heywood 143 (Pawson 44, Tariq 5-27, Smalley 4-43); Rochdale 178-9 (Smith 54, Smit 5-64), Littleborough 138 (Smit 43); Royton 204 (Procter 69, J Punchard 51, Alex Rodzoch 5-31), Clifton 187 (Alex Rodzoch 77); Unsworth 177-8 (Madsen 59, Long 41, Gregorio 35, Burston 3-55, Durose 3-67), Werneth 241 (Hugo 85, Rogerson 41 n.o., Richards 3-48).

Rain affected every game on Saturday when Oldham produced the best result of our four local teams with victory over Rochdale.

After making 184 for eight from 45 overs, Adnan Shafiq hitting 43, Oldham restricted Rochdale to 135 for eight as the visitors chased a revised target of 141 off 31 overs. Neil Inkpen maintained his fine form with five for 57.

Werneth scored a respectable 196 for eight off 45 overs against leaders Norden, but the revised target of 154 proved well within Norden’s compass, the visitors losing only three wickets.

Young Joe Taylor confirmed recent promise with an unbeaten 62 for Werneth.

Professional Mohammed Zaman Khan hit 48 and Glenn Rigby 46 as Crompton made 164 for eight declared at Littleborough.

Boro were set a revised target of 145 after a heavy shower and they reached that for the loss of three wickets thanks to Callum Rushton’s unbeaten 44 and 43 from Tom Pye.

Royton fought out the day’s only rain-affected draw. Mark Woodward hit 49 in their 164 all out at Middleton, the home side’s stand-in professional Luke Woodcock taking five wickets for 70.

Saturday scores: Ashton 97-2, revised target (Hodge 41 n.o.), Rochdale 118 (Yousaf 4-25), Ashton 5pts, Radcliffe 0 pts; Clifton 154-3, rt (Nisar 92), Unsworth 190 (Madsen 80, Nisar 5-58), Clifton 5pts, Unsworth 0 pts; Heywood 150-7 (Wallwork 36 n.o., Cross 32, Purser 30, Jayasinghe 4-54), Monton and Weaste 112-1, rt (Green 56 n.o., Din 37), Heywood 0pts, Monton 4 pts; Littleborough 147-3, rt (Rushton 44 n.o., Pye 43), Crompton 164-8 dec (Z Khan 48, Rigby 46, Tomlinson 3-45, Smit 3-62), Littleborough 5pts, Crompton 0pts; Middleton dnb, Royton 164 (M Woodward 49, Woodcock 5-70), match drawn, 2pts each; Oldham 184-8 (Shafiq 43), Rochdale 135-8, rt (Inkpen 5-57), Oldham 4pts, Rochdale 1 pt; Walsden 99-3, rt, Milnrow 137 (Dryden 53, Priyadarshana 5-40), Walsden 5pts, Milnrow 0 pts; Werneth 196-8 (J Taylor 62 n.o., Rogerson 38, Arthur 3-65), Norden 154-3, rt (Symes 45, Brierley 35 n.o.), Werneth 0pts, Norden 4 pts.