JW Lees in £100,000 deal
Date published: 25 September 2015
CRICKET: THE new Pennine Cricket League received a huge boost last night with the news that brewery JW Lees will sponsor the competition to the tune of £100,000 over the next four years
The league, an amalgamation of the Central Lancashire and Saddleworth and District leagues, gets under way in 2016.
Each year the Middleton-based family company will give £5,000 to the league, £10,000 in continued support of the Wood Cup and put £10,000 into a cricket development fund. The JW Lees name has been associated with the CLL for more than three decades.
GREENFIELD are hosting a four-team Twenty20 competition at their Ladhill Lane ground tomorrow.
The home team face Austerlands at 10.30, followed by Delph against Bury at 1.30pm. The final gets under way at 4.30pm.
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