Hefty ban for Moorside player

CRICKET:

Moorside player Jacob Rice has been banned from playing until next July for violent conduct.

The charge came about after an incident at the end of the Saddleworth League clash at Droylsden on September 1.

The home side had just won a low-scoring contest when Price apparently struck one of the Droylsden players.

It was the latest of several episodes of bad behaviour the league’s executive committee has handled this season. Shahid Mahmood (Glodwick), Ben Holt (Heyside) and Carlisle Stewart (Micklehurst), all received significant suspensions.



GLYN Partington reached the notable landmark of scoring 1,000 runs in Division Two.

The Greenfield all-rounder smashed 1,086 runs in 19 innings, at an average of 72.4 — more than enough to clinch the second XI batting prize.

Jeff Lawrence was the last player to achieve the feat in Division Two. He rattled up 1,209 runs in 1999.

Ryan McGrath, of champions and Moore Cup winners Saddleworth, won the bowling honours with 42 wickets at 10.7.

The Saddleworth club can look forward to collecting a host of awards at the end-of-season presentation night at the White Hart, Lydgate, on Friday, October 25.

As well as the Division Two trophies, the Well-i-Hole outfit also won the Brennand Cup (combined points for Divisions One and Two). First-team skipper Brian Lord also won the Neil Parish Trophy for the most dismissals by a wicketkeeper.

The JK Bacon Trophy — the last six competition — was retained by Uppermill.