In a close game played in terrible conditions both teams put on a good display but Middleham failed to take advantage of wickets remaining and failed to reach the required target.

The game was played on a rather soggy wicket and an extremely slow outfield due to rain that had fallen during the day. The Winkers team was put into bat in this 20 over match and reached 92 for 3 with two batsmen retiring on 25. The outfield made bowling and fielding very difficult and it has to be to the credit of the new recruits of Connelly and Wetheridge who both produced some good figures.

The reason for Middleham's downfall was the slow scoring rate during the Middle of the innings when the lesser Winkers bowlers were on. This left the batsmen who had to come in little opportunity to get in and they basically had to hit out from the first ball they received in order to try and keep up with the required run rate. Middleham eventually finished with a total of 88 from 20 overs just 5 runs from victory. Main stay of the batting was David Boorman who held the innings together but yet again Phil Woods failed to deliver to his true potential. David Hutton, David Boorman (retired on 25) Hugh Boorman continued but the run rate fell and not enough runs were made from the weaker bowlers.

Overall a good effort played in quite appalling conditions and not helped by the deteriorating light at the end of the innings.

Scorecard

Winkers

Bowling

H.Boorman 3-0-10-1, D.Boorman 3-0-14-0, D.Shaw 2-0-12-1, M.Connelly 3-0-11-0,

H.French 2-0-15-0, P. Woods 2-0-12-0, P.Wetheridge 3-0-7-1, H.Davison 2-0-10-0.

Middleham