Its been a long road to the final with the weather causing delays, but today was made for a cup final!!
Burnley 2nd’s took on Todmorden at the Centre Vale ground. We were batting first and after losing Aiden Tate (1) to a run out. Matthew Tomlinson and Joe Marshall both put on 19 each. When Tomlinson was dismissed, Gareth Halley (17) partnered with Marshall and took the score to 65. After this we lost 4 quick wickets with Aqib Mahmood taking 4/12 until Steve Brunt rescued the innings by scoring 39 off 46. Burnley were all out for 144.
Gareth Halley started the bowling strong sending the opening batters Dunkley (1) and Abbas (11) along with Atherton (5) back to the dressing room early leaving Todmorden 22/3.
Tom Stansfield (21) partnered captain Ben Sutcliffe (20) and put on a strong partnership, before being despatched by Ishaq Khan. Then we had the “Battle of the Ben Sutcliffe”…… The Todmorden captain was bowled by “Bar” his namesake and then tod were in trouble, they had made 76 but lost their top batting order. Ishaq took another 3 wickets giving him figures of 6 overs, 4 maidens, 4 wickets for 10 runs. Then ‘Brunty’ stepped up and took 2/1 and polished off the tail end to give Burnley the win and bring home the silverware.
Chairman of the JW Lees Lancashire Cricket league stepped up to present the trophy and in his speach mentioned several players that had a good game today but Man of the Match was given to 15 year old Ishaq Khan.
Captain Matt ‘Chocky’ Thornton lead the team to the final and bagged the trophy. All the players picked up their medals, the trophy and now the party can get started.
