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Cricket: Armstrong content as Skem adjust to life at top

SKELMERSDALE’S first seven games in the Business Assistance Liverpool Competition have been rather like a debutante’s introduction to polite London society in the 1950s: full of terribly enjoyable occasions but a little spoilt by the possibility of a nervous collapse. Read

Cricket: Derbyshire outplay Lancashire to win by 100 runs

DERBYSHIRE boosted their chances of reaching the quarter-finals of the Friends Provident Trophy when they outplayed Lancashire at Derby to win by 100 runs. Read

Cricket: Bowdon late win shocks Bootle

BOWDON, one of two clubs in The Right Move Abroad Cheshire County League to have reached the final of the Cockspur Cup at Lord’s – Bramhall are the others – pulled off a sensational last-ball win in a second round game against Bootle at Wadham Road. Read

Cricket: Draw sees Oxton extend lead at the top of the table

THERE was a thrilling finish to the top match in the First Division of The Right Move Abroad Cheshire County League, when Oxton emerged with sufficient draw points to keep their place at the top of the table. Read

Cricket: Alderley Edge back into pole position

ALDERLEY Edge muscled their way back to pole position in The Right Move Abroad Cheshire County League ECB Premier Division with a thrilling last over victory over Macclesfield thanks a fine all-round performance by Cheshire’s Jason Whittaker. Read

Cricket: Wallasey devastated by Hightown bowler

JANNISAR KHAN caused devastation in the Wallasey ranks as Hightown enjoyed one of the quickest wins of the season. Read

Cricket: Hall over as rivals start to close the gap

NORTHOP HALL’S reign at the top of the Competition’s First Division could soon be over as a chasing pack of four clubs converge. Read

Cricket: Burscough go second as rain halts play

BIRKENHEAD ST MARY’S remain top of the Merseyside and Southport Alliance following the seventh week of action, with three games falling to the weather and their clash with Alder ending in a draw. Read

Cricket: Mike Watkinson confirms Andrew Flintoff likely to be unavailable for New Zealand test series

LANCASHIRE cricket manager Mike Watkinson has confirmed that Andrew Flintoff is likely to be unavailable for all of England’s Test series with New Zealand through injury. Read

Cricket: Nottinghamshire in seven-wicket victory over depleted Lancashire

A QUICKFIRE 69 not out from overseas batsman Adam Voges gave Nottinghamshire a seven-wicket victory over a depleted Lancashire – who lost Dominic Cork to an overnight back spasm – and stretched their lead at the top of LV County Championship Division One. Read

County game venue moved

CHESHIRE’S final MCCA Knockout Trophy group match against Cumberland on Sunday, June 1 has been switched from Bramhall Cricket Club to Marple. Read

Leaders Birkenhead St Mary’s facing Alder test

BIRKENHEAD ST MARY’S with five wins to date lead the way in the Bromborough Paints Merseyside and Southport Alliance. Read

Batticciotto bows out ahead of Queensland return

NANTWICH’s star Overseas batsman Glen Batticciotto who has twice topped 150 in four innings in The Right Move Abroad Cheshire County League ECB Premier Division this season, makes his last appearance against Chester Boughton Hall today before being recalled to Australia to take up a first-class appointment with Queensland on June 1. Read

Bootle will have to stop Hey to progress in cup

THOSE who believe that the top division of the Business Assistance Liverpool Competition plays some of the very best cricket in the country must explain a notable gap in its Curricuum Vitae – no club from the Competition has yet appeared in a national knock-out final. Read

Huyton hope for some luck

THESE are the toughest of times at Huyton CC. The club’s first team, relegated by a distance from the Business Assistance Liverpool Competition’s Premier League in 2007, has yet to win a match this year and is bottom of the First Division table by 22 points. Read

Cheshire’s surprise loss

LAST year’s finalists Cheshire slipped to a surprise defeat at the hands of Oxfordshire in the MCCA Knockout Trophy at the weekend. Read

Oxton go top of the table

ANDY BIRLEY’S nicely-balanced Oxton side whipped Timperley by 10 wickets at Townfield Lane to go top of the First Division in The Right Move Abroad Cheshire County League. Read

Cricket: Lancashire in thrilling three-wicket win over Yorkshire

FRANCOIS Du Plessis hit a brilliant unbeaten 77 to give Lancashire a thrilling three-wicket Friends Provident Trophy win over Roses rivals Yorkshire at Old Trafford. Read

Vics hit

BIRKENHEAD ST MARY’S maintained winning form in the Bromborough Paints Merseyside and Southport Alliance in a thriller at Rainhill which went to the last over. Read

RIGHT MOVE ABROAD CHESHIRE COUNTY LEAGUE ECB PREMIER DIV

CHESTER BOUGHTON HALL (won toss, 20 pts.) beat HEATON MERSEY (9 pts.) by 4 wickets Read

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