Weekend Review: Derbyshire and Cheshire Cricket League

A sun-baked Saturday saw Woodley push on towards the title in Division 1, with Whaley Bridge looking set for Division 1 cricket next year.

Hazel Grove captured silverware, winning the Hawke Trophy with a win over Tintwistle.

Readers Division One

Woodley pushed onwards to the title with a 90 run win at Dinting and now have a 32 point lead over Dove Holes.  Down at the bottom Hazel Grove have a lot to make up if they are to avoid the drop, but the other place looks to be a battle between New Mills; Hayfield; Tintwistle and Old Glossop, who did themselves a big favour with a narrow win over the Millers.

•Broadbottom v Newton  (result not available)

•Dinting 140ao (Jamie Kay 4-38) Woodley 230-8 (Daniel Kay 56; Conor Cranwell 41)

•Dove Holes 207-7 (Daniel Jones 58; Jack Gregory 46) Tintwistle 189-9 (Kieran Davies 40; Nathan McKeowan 73)

•Hazel Grove 92ao  Hayfield 95-8 (George Wood 49; Dominic Nunn 4-26)

•New Mills 123ao (Jack Hadfield 40; Rob Adderley 7-29) Old Glossop 135-9 

Division Two

Whaley Bridge look set for promotion after a win over Buxworth.  The second promotion spot looks as though it will go to the wire with Pott Shrigley, (easy winners over Charlesworth) and Stalybridge, (who overcame bottom placed Dove Holes) separated by only six points.

•Buxworth 173-7 (Ross McCormack 52) Whaley Bridge 244-5 (Luke Schofield 122; Elliott Simmonds 56*)

•Chapel 95-3  Birch Vale 94ao (Harry Beal 6-35; Aiden Theyer 4-17)

•Charlesworth 42ao (Seth Mawhinney 6-23) Pott Shrigley 45-4

•High Lane 69ao (Ahsan Saleem 4-16) Hollingworth 73-5

•Stalybridge 129ao (Paul Scowen 4-20) Dove Holes 110ao (Kieran Jones 51; James Brady 4-21)

Division Three

Newton stayed at the top after a six wicket win over Stalybridge but Woodley kept the pressure on them, beating Broadbottom comfortably by seven wickets. With Chapel doomed to the drop it now looks to be a battle between Stalybridge and Broadbottom to avoid joining them.

• Hayfield 61-2 Chapel 59ao

•Newton 126-4 (Oliver Marrow 51*) Stalybridge 123-6

•Old Glossop 213-6 (Ethan Lumb 44; Anjum Mirza 98* Hazel Grove 133ao

•Woodley 110-3 (Daniel Oldland 43*)  Broadbottom 109-9 (Jarrad Ince 4-28)

Division Four

Tintwistle piled on the runs at home to Buxworth with Damian Weatherhead leading the way with a century.  He was backed up by Steve Morris, (81) and Sam Bird, (52*) as they topped the 300 mark.  It was too many for the visitors and the win kept Tintwistle at the top.  Hollingworth are in the second promotion spot after a 14-run win over Charlesworth

•Hollingworth 185-8 (Michael Osborn 99; Edward Watson 4-34) Charlesworth 171ao (Deepan Sampath 51*; Jack Schofield 4-35)

•Pott Shrigley 102ao  New Mills 44ao (Vinny Allen 4-18; Jon Crook 4-2)

•Tintwistle 301-5dec (Steve Morris 81; Damian Weatherhead 100; Sam Bird 52*) Buxworth 170-9 (Fraser McCormack 85)

Hawke Trophy Final 

The Hawke Trophy final was played at Dove Holes and Hazel Grove took the honours beating Tintwistle by 126 runs.

• Hazel Grove 215-9 Tintwistle 89ao

Pictures by John Parkins