Werneth making steady progress

DARREN SHADFORD... ended the season on a high note with wickets and runs.

CRICKET: WERNETH may have ended the Lake Garage CLL season on a low note with defeat at Rochdale, but they will look back on the summer with a justifiable sense of satisfaction.

The most successful of our four local side, Werneth made progress with a team ethic which served them well.

All-rounder Alan Durose did well throughout, while the bowling of Mark Dronsfield was a revelation and youngsters such as Matt and Joe Taylor turned promise into achievement.

And the efforts of professional Darren Shadford, back to fitness during the second half of the season, were also a factor.


CROMPTON’S nine-wicket defeat at Littleborough rather typified their campaign, but with a new professional on the way and some better amateur talent expected in their line-up, 2011 might not be quite so traumatic.


ROYTON will also be hoping for a change in fortune after a run of poor results which culminated in defeat at home to Milnrow.

Luke Procter will be back as professional and it is to be hoped the players who remain at the club will pull in the same direction following this summer’s squabbles.


OLDHAM will have to adjust to life without Mel Whittle. A professional who can bowl plenty of overs is an obvious starting point.


SHAW’S Dale Highton, the former Crompton CC spin bowler who currently plays for Middleton in the Lake Garage CLL, is one of four English players who will represent Cheltenham CC in Australia this winter.

Also heading for a winter’s cricketing action at the Melbourne club are Highton’s Middleton team-mates Grant Jones and Danny Royle, and Lancashire’s Steve Cheetham, the ex-Heywood fast bowler.


A BOWL-OUT decided the Ashton and Oldham Alliance’s Charlie Scoltock Shield, with Friends beating Europa Exiles 3-0.

In the plate competition, Newtonhurst and St Mary’s HC chose to share the trophy rather than go to a bowl-out.

Newtonhurst clinched the Phoenix Trophy with victory over Greengate.

Batting first, Newtonhurst recorded 169 for eight, S Potts making 64 and A Simpson claiming three for 32.

In reply, R Jackson posted 37 but Greengate were 50 runs short of their target when the final wicket fell.

S Drummond took two for four from three overs.

Man-of-the-match Potts was presented with the Roy Warner Trophy.