Gomersal revive hopes with overdue first victory of season
Gomersal held their nerve to secure their long awaited first win of the season in Division Two of the Bradford Cricket League.
The bottom side defeated Streethouse by two wickets to give themselves hope in their fight to stay in the division.
Streethouse were bowled out for 190 as Logan Silverwood, Asad Hamid, Adam Holroyd and Chris Rhodes took two wickets each.
It was not plain sailing for Gomersal to chase down their target, but handy contributions throughout the order, led by Brandon Silverwood's 37, Joe Shuttleworth's 30 and Seth Gorman’s 27, saw them edge home with an over to spare.
Spen Victoria produced one of their best displays of the season to defeat Division Two promotion chasers Hunslet Nelson by three wickets.
James Russell (5-29) and Andrew Robertson (4-29) routed Nelson for only 91. Spen also lost wickets, but Chris Harris (26) and Louis Jackson (24no) guided them home for a welcome victory.
Hartshead Moor were unable to halt the run of second-placed Keighley as they lost by 59 runs on DLS.
Keighley made 178 despite Lewis Lomax's 4-39 and Muhammad Waleed’s 3-37, but Moor could only reply with 87-7 from 23.2 overs.
Cleckheaton piled up the biggest Premier Division score of the season and recorded the largest run victory as they made 403-8 and defeated Farsley by 299 runs.
Josh Sullivan led the way with a superb 157 as he smashed eight sixes and 14 fours. He was joined in a third wicket stand of 236 by overseas player Muhammad Ammer (80) while Khizer Qadeer also weighed in with 42,
Farsley were quickly reduced to 49-6 and were all out for 104 as Jack Luxton took 3-37 and Qadeer 3-42.
Second-placed Scholes kept the pressure on the Division Three leaders with an eight-wicket win over Hopton Mills.
Greg Keywood (3-27) and Hunter Jackson-Sullivan (4-29) bowled well as Hopton Mills were dismissed for 131 then Scholes made light work of the chase with James Robson (50no) and Christian Jackson (40) seeing them home in just 18 overs.
Liversedge went down by 46 runs to Wrenthorpe despite responding bravely to their opponents’ big 314-6 score.
Hamzah Hafeez hit 98 and Wasim Nazir 50, but they were all out for 257. Usman Qureshi (4-62) was Sedge’s best bowler.