| Competition : Warburtons Bolton League |
| Match : Heaton v Bradshaw play at "Lower Pools" |
| Date : 12th June 2004 |
| Toss : won by Heaton who decided to field first |
| Umpires : McAndrew, Ashworth |
| Result : Farnworth SC won by 64 runs |
| Points : Heaton 4, Farnworth SC 20 |
| Weather : Partly cloudy to start, becoming warm and sunny later |
| Pitch : slightly soft & damp at the start, but well grassed, drying later |
| Farnworth SC | |||
| R. Hope | run out | 53 | |
| M. Ashworth | c West | b Jones | 9 |
| K. Murray | c Booth | b Rayment | 21 |
| C. Walsh | c Rayment | b Hirwani | 31 |
| D. Eckersley | c Booth | b Rayment | 0 |
| K. Ahmed | st Booth | b Hirwani | 1 |
| Cunningham | b Hirwani | 4 | |
| G. Murphy | b Rayment | 1 | |
| A. Bradley | st Booth | b Hirwani | 4 |
| S. Ahmed | not out | 4 | |
| R. Taylor | b Hirwani | 0 | |
| extras | 5 | ||
| total (all out) | 124 | ||
| Bowling : Fearick 10-1-31-0; Jones 8-2-25-1; Hirwani 15-2-34-5; Rayment 11-2-22-3 | |||
| Heaton | |||
| G. Carson | lbw | b Cunningham | 2 |
| M. Mort | c&b Cunningham | 11 | |
| P. Rayment | lbw | b Eckersley | 2 |
| J. Fearick | lbw | b Cunningham | 12 |
| S. Booth | c Murray | b Eckersley | 9 |
| J. West | lbw | b Eckersley | 1 |
| D. Jones | run out | 3 | |
| Hirwani | c Murphy | b Eckersley | 1 |
| L. Booth | c Cunningham | b Eckersley | 8 |
| J. Cross | b Eckersley | 0 | |
| C. Lawton | not out | 1 | |
| extras | 10 | ||
| Total (all out) | 60 | ||
| Bowling : Cunningham 11-1-28-3; Eckersley 10.4-4-23-6 | |||
| Report : After a good start by FSC, the Heaton bowlers managed to restrict them to a very modest total. In reply, on a day when the swing bowlers were in their element, Dean Eckersley produced a top spell. The feature of this game was the lack of consistency & quality of umpiring decisions that would make anyone wonder if the rules had suddenly been changed. How many more times this season will the Heaton team struggle to make 100 runs against mediocre opposition, we wonder? |