Cleckheaton CC move clear of drop zone after hard fought victory

A second successive victory lifted the Moorend team 19 points clear of the bottom two.

They had to work hard, but posted what turned out to be a challenging total when they made 236 with opener Hisan Ahmad hitting 60 and valuable lower order runs coming from Jack Luxton (24), Lachlan Doidge (20) and James Stansfield (19).

Pudsey recovered from the loss of three early wickets to threaten with their chase, but ran out of wickets as they were all out for 223 with Khizer Qadeer (5-33) doing most of the damage.

Hartshead Moor continued to build momentum in Division Two with an emphatic eight-wicket success over Northowram Fields.

Moin Hussain took 5-53 as the visitors were bowled out for 195 then Moor comfortably chased down the runs with almost 14 overs to spare as Muhammad Waleed hit a superb unbeaten 112, including 18 fours and two sixes, and joined with Hasnat Yousaf (54no) in an unbroken 145 third-wicket stand.

Elsewhere in Division Two Spen Victoria went down by 100 runs to Streethouse as they were unable to chase their opponents’ 251.

Alex Midgley made 42 and Zahir Shah 40, but they were all out for 151. David Charles (4-68) and Sam Carroll (4-53) had been their best bowlers.

Gomersal lost by seven wickets to Keighley after making 191-6 with Haris Mahmood hitting 68 and Seth Gorman 51no.

Scholes bounced back from their defeat by Heckmondwike & Carlinghow with a 74-run win over East Leeds in Division Three.

Christian Jackson (64) top scored in a Scholes total of 205 before Greg Keywood (3-34) and Umair Hussain (3-12) helped bowl out East Leeds for 131.

Heckmondwike & Carlinghow lost by seven wickets to leaders Adwalton after their 249 was chased down. Wajid Hussain (54), Ubaid Altaf (43) and Owais Hussain (37) were their top scorers.

Liversedge were swept aside by East Ardsley as they were all out for 109 in reply to 297-7. Openers Paul Cooper (28) and Fahad Imam (22) top scored.