Lancashire League Handbook 2025

LCL Handbook 2025 23 However, no play was possible, so Darwen became runners up, Over the season Scott Friend made 632 runs, Punit Bisht 522 and Reece Davies 488, Reece also took 37 wickets behind David Bowden who led the way with 45 and Kamran Anwar and Olly Wetton took 27 apiece. The Champions were again well served during the season by Liam Bedford with 570 runs including 1 century 3 half centuries and a top score of 100. Professional Ockert Erasmus scored 332 runs, passing 9000 league runs and Qasim Shah 459. With the ball Ockert and, Bharat Tripathi both took 47 wickets and both passed though the 600 league wicket mark and Harry Snowden took 31 with Fergus Bailey taking 27. This is Burnley’s 19th Lancashire League Championship. The best individual performances awards went to the amateur with the highest score in a league match went to Jonny Whitehead of Lowerhouse and he achieved it at Middleton on 8th June in a total of 380- 6, a club record and with a score of 189 which is also a league amateur record score, including 18 fours and 8 sixes. The best bowling return in a match and with 8 for 20 at Rochdale on the 10th of August, to bowl Rochdale out for 57, was by Bharat Tripathi of Burnley. This year there was one just wicket keeper with 5 victims in a match and that was at Enfield on 23rd June, five catches for Harry Butterworth of Rochdale. In Division Two the batting award for 782 runs, two centuries and two half centuries a top score of 157 an average of 37.23 went to JJ Fielding of Ramsbottom. The bowling award went to Ali Sartaj of Rishton who took 46 wickets at 14.10 each, 2 five wicket hauls and a best of 5 for 10. For the second year in a row, Harry Caton of Ramsbottom was wicketkeeper with most victims in Division Two, a total of 28 victims with 18 catches and 10 stumpings. The Premier League batting award went to Ali Ross of Clitheroe who made 716 runs, a top score of 105, three centuries and three fifties and an average of 47.73. The bowling award was won by Hamza Ali of Todmorden who took 51 wickets at an average of 14.39, a best of 5 for 32 with 3 five wicket hauls.