Lancashire League Handbook 2015

17 Moorhouses Brewery continued their sponsorship of the 20/20 competition and the weather was an improvement on that of 2013. After the group stages, Nelson, Church and Haslingden qualified as group winners andwere joined by Lowerhouse in the semi finals. Lowerhouse met Nelson at Seedhill and overcame their hosts by 4 wickets after dismissing them for 91. Scores were a tad higher at Bentgate where Haslingden made 150 for 4 with Alex Coleman unbeaten on 85. But he was upstaged by Harvey Aspin who blasted an unbeaten 97 with 9 fours and 5 sixes as Church booked their place in the final with 14 balls left. Lowerhouse hosted the final and Church batted first and with 5 overs to go were 81 for 4 until Phil Gilrane unleashed an unbeaten innings of 46 with 5 fours and a six to post a total of 132 for 8.Lowerhouse needed 45 from the last 5 overs with 6 wickets left until Kamran Basharat joined the attack and helped to restrict the home side to just 26 runs from the last 5 overs. It had been 40 years since Church had won a senior trophy and their success was witnessed by a fantastic crowd of over 2000. Michael Neser made most runs as a Professional with 981 (3 centuries & 7 50's top score 191) for Todmorden and he went home at the end of July to join an ATeam tour sowhat hemight have achievedwill never be know. Daryn Smit took 88 wickets for Ramsbottom with 11 five wicket hauls and a best of 7 for 10 against Bacup on 1st June. The Senior Batting award is made to the amateur batsman scoring most runs in leaguematches during the season. InThird place with 730 runs, five 50's was Phil Hayes of Haslingden. In second place, with 743 runs (one century 129 no and four half centuries) was TomParton of Ramsbottom. But the winner this year with 774 runs 1 century, a top score of 102 and 5 half centuries andwith an average of 35.18was LeviWolfenden of Church. The Senior Bowling award is made to the amateur bowler who takes most wickets in leaguematches during the season. In Third place with 50 wickets, a best of 5 for 37 and with 50 or more wickets for the 2nd successive season it was Hassan Fazal of Enfield. Second, for the second year in a rowwith 66 wickets and I understand a career best, AndrewBentley of Church But in top place this year we had a true Lancashire Legend. He seemed to be