Crushing defeat for Crompton

CRICKET:

CROMPTON’S misery in the Lake Garage CLL continued yesterday with a crushing defeat at title challengers Milnrow.

A toothless bowling attack leaked runs at an alarming rate as the home side piled up a massive 335 for seven off their 50 overs.

Opener and captain Paul Winrow made an excellent 113, while Max Power produced fireworks in his knock of 74.

Facing such a daunting total, Crompton capitulated and were skittled for a mere 87, Vikas Tokas taking five for 35.

Werneth have not had much to shout about in recent weeks, either, and their gloom deepened with a seven-wicket home defeat against Middleton.

Only Matt Taylor (30) offered any real resistance in Werneth’s 108 all out as Danny Core (four for 11) and Raza Hussein (three for 39) cashed in on some poor batting.

Middleton scored the runs they needed for the loss of three wickets, stand-in professional Jonathan Carters hitting an unbeaten 41 and Steve Davey 35.

Elsewhere, Heywood won the top clash of the day against Norden at Crimble, the home side’s Danny Pawson hitting 102 and visiting professional Michael Price an unbeaten 114.

And the prolific Clinton Perren made an undefeated 121 as Littleborough successfully chased down 238 at Walsden, for whom Perren’s professional counterpart Duminda Perera struck 119 not out.

Only one game was played on a rain-hit Saturday, Walsden winning at Radcliffe.

Scores —

Saturday: Radcliffe 103-8 (Shackleton 7-49), Walsden 157-6 (Rawlinson 63, Ul-Haq 6-53).

Sunday: Clifton 181-6 (Griffiths 84, Puchert 40, Lord 38 not out), Ashton 177-9 (Kadodia 47, Asif 38); Heywood 231-4 (Pawson 102, Bhatia 50), Norden 224-7 (Price 114 not out); Milnrow 335-7 (Winrow 113, Power 74), Crompton 87 (Tokas 5-35); Rochdale 250 (Spearman 90, Dawson 45, Scott 4-55, Green 3-71), Monton and Weaste 130 (Green 47, N Avery 4-31, G Butterworth 4-41); Royton 176-3 (Z Khan 90, Brown 40), Oldham 173 (C Joy 45, Gossayn 43, Fasil 40, Z Khan 6-38, Hodson 3-27); Unsworth 184-3 (Long 63, Wiggans 56 not out), Radcliffe 182 (Murtaza 57, Wiggans 6-28); Walsden 238-9 (Perera 119 not out), Littleborough 240-6 (Perren 121 not out, Forden 55); Werneth 108 (M Taylor 30, Core 4-11, Hussein 3-39), Middleton 109-3 (Carters 41 not out, Davey 35).