Lancashire League Handbook 2023

23 took over and victory was achieved in the 39th over and Paul Houldsworth the Great Harwood 2nd team captain lifted the JW Lees Junior Knockout Trophy for 2022. In Third Eleven cricket we returned to promotion and relegation with the three divisions based this year upon where Clubs had ended up via the end of season play-offs from 2021. Division 3 had ten teams and Norden were runners up with 12 wins and 6 defeats, this was the same record as the winners but 8 extra bonus points earned the title for Todmorden. Division 2 had nine teams and the difference here was one extra win, Lowerhouse 3rds won 12 and had the same number of bonus points as the title winners but that one extra win helped Haslingden to take the title. The overall winners of Third eleven cricket are of course the Division One winners and the margin between runners up, Walsden and the Champions was quite a significant 37 points and so retaining the title they took in 2021 were Great Harwood 4th XL. The League presents awards for individual performances, we start with the best individual performances in a match which are awarded for performances in Division one games. The winner for the highest score by an amateur was again Josh Tolley and remarkably it was against Walsden, as in 202, but this time at Norden with a score of 177 including 19 fours and 7 sixes. The best bowling return in a match was 8 for 16, all caught, against Darwen in the last game of the season, by Andrew Sutcliffe of Todmorden. The wicket keeping award went to Matthew Dawson of Walsden who had 5 victims twice in first Division matches, against Rochdale on 31st July and in the last match of the season against Lowerhouse. The overall season individual winners are for most, runs, wickets and catches. In Division two the batting award was won by Denis Louis of Crompton with 861 runs, two centuries and five half centuries. The bowling award was shared by 2 bowlers took 42 wickets each, Phil Aspinall of East Lancs and Toby Bulcock of Accrington. SamTucker of Church took the Division Two wicketkeeper award with a total of 36 victims with 31 catches and 5 stumpings. The Division One batting award went to Josh Tolley of Norden who made 1047 runs, two hundreds and 7 fifties and a top score of 177, an average of 61.58 . The award for most wickets again went to David Bowden of Darwen with