Godea missiles put Heyside in cruise control
Reporter: KEVIN RICHARDSON
Date published: 25 July 2011
Photo: Chris Sunderland
FOUR MORE . . .Heyside's stand-in pro Pieter Malan flicks Glodwick bowler Imran Asghar for a boundary on the way to a vital knock of 74.
CRICKET; A TERRIFIC spell of bowling from Bromwell Godea sent Heyside hurtling towards an emphatic 112-run win over Glodwick and a repeat of the 2008 Tanner Cup final showdown against Bamford Fieldhouse.
The overseas amateur, who is enjoying a fine debut season in the Saddleworth and District Cricket League, wrecked the Warren Lane side’s hopes of glory with superb figures of five for 18.
South African Godea ripped out Glodwick’s first four batsmen with only 10 runs on the board, including the prized wickets of in-form opener Mark Whitehead and professional Rehan Rafiq, who eventually departed after a debate as to whether the ball had carried to wicketkeeper James Cummings.
The visitors to Little Hey Street had seen their dream of a first Tanner Cup final appearance blown away in an instant.
Glodwick made a promising start. Nigel Stock’s team reduced Heyside to 98 for four – Godea did his bit with the bat by scoring 37 – only for stand-in pro Pieter Malan and Mark Barnes to put the innings back on track.
Barrow’s paid man and brother of Shaw’s overseas amateur from 2010, Andre, put on 83 in 15 overs alongside Barnes (35).
Malan, who came in to replace fellow South African Roelof Hugo, compiled a classy 74, before he was caught by wicketkeeper Adam Brown off Stock.
Ben Holt, with 26, and Stuart Moore (23) accumulated useful late-order runs to help lift Heyside to 238.
Imran Asghar, with four for 26 from his nine overs, was the stand-out performer with the ball.
Glodwick looked to Whitehead and Andrew Pearce to forge a solid opening stand but Godea, with pace rarely seen in the Saddleworth League, had other ideas.
With numbers one to four gone in a matter of minutes, the tie was as good as over, especially as the visitors were effectively down to 10 men because of a finger injury to Brown.
Mark Parkinson, who finished unbeaten on 27, and Stock (30) stemmed the surge of wickets by adding 49 for the fifth wicket.
Shahid Mahmood entertained with a rapid 33, which included three sixes and three fours, but the damage had already been done.
Bamford’s 56-run win at Greenfield trod a similar path.
The Hollin Lane outfit, who can now look forward to avenging the cup-final defeat by Heyside three years ago, were 144 for five against a side who had pushed them to the brink 24 hours earlier.
However, wicketkeeper Neil Williams (35) and Marlon Black (29) assumed the Malan/Barnes roles by hoisting Bamford up to 206 in eight overs.
Former West Indian Test player Black was quickly into his stride, with three sixes in his 24-ball stay.
After posting 236 for nine, Bamford were in the ascendancy, and they soon had their hosts in trouble by removing overseas amateur Rahul Panta and Peter Gill with the score on five.
Adam Hayes (16) and captain Alex Peters (28) took the total beyond 50, and there were useful contributions from Joe Hepworth, who made 30, and 15-year-old Liam Parfitt, with 32, but Greenfield were always chasing a lost cause.
THE final is on Sunday, August 14, with the venue to be decided by the toss of a coin.
