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■ Flintoff: may have retired from f?.Test cricket,', b u t : Clitheroei f: Cobras could have unearthed a 'natural replacement in the years to come.
: - Cobras U9 s ta r Harry Lang (pictured Ze/f) single-handedly demolished Longridge U9s with a searing spell of pace bowling , backed up with some aggressive batting.
' ■. On a fast, bouncy track, the l i t '
' Longridge batsmen were rievert , comfortable with his express pace
' as he ripped the heart out of their. : innings with seven wickets fo r : - two runs in his three-over spell. ; . .What,-made i t even more:
: remarkable a performance was that it contained two hat-tricks and all seven batsmen were clean.
; bowled in a burst of unerring accuracy unheard of from some one so young. But for a no-ball Lang could
"have made it aif eight-wicket all;. _ bowled ha ul.I = ? ’
v, ,i Not continued with the car-; ‘ nage he had wreaked with the ball,'Lang continued his demoli tion of Longridge with a domi-, nant batting display with fellow orange helmetted Eli Smith., . The pair dispatched the bowl-'
ing to all parts in a brisk partner-.: ship of 30 runs, thus helping th e : Cobras to an emphatic 80-run ■victory.
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SMILERS: Alan and Anita Whatley present the Rose :bowl in their name to winners Brett and Sutcliffe.
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E^st Lancs pair land Sabden ; /doubles prize
SUPERB.v’bW l in g ; ' ton and Cliff Hope and broughtfvictory and a / -21-18 against fellow Sab- secdnd Sabden bpenfcden bowlers Bob Wright ’
charity.do'ubles t i t le s ' and Keith Stansfield in this year/to East Lan-’-f’Tthe semis and quarters cashirebowlersPaul-j'respectively
BLUES manager - Peter Smith believes that home form could be the ' key to success this season. Clitheroe finished the 2008/09 campaign
in their highest-ever position in the non league pyramid despite winning just nine
. of their 20 league games a t Shawbridge. ' - •And as of yet Smith’s side are still to ■
record a ■victory a t home in this season’s ; UniBond League First Division North' ha'ving lost 3-2 to Chorley, followed by a 1-; 1 draw against Skelmersdale United. Smith said: “Our home form is especial
ly important;! am a big believer that you have got to try and entertain your home, supporters. We have to do tha t away as well but i t’s vital a t home. I want to give- the supporters good football to watch and that’s what we are t r3nng to do. , r ' '; “We are definitely going to give it a go ; this season and really go for it. Sometimes
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;. when you want to play more attacking . football a t home i t creates gaps a t th e . back, but that’s'a risk we’ll take.”
, ..But the Blues have started well away.
; from home ■with a 1-0 win at Warrington. on the opening game of-the season; which'i was followed by a 2-2 draw against Gar- , forth Town on Tuesday.
■ -^; Kevin Brown returned from injury to r
- give Clitheroe the lead after. 27 minute's,', but his strike was cancelled out by the ; home side’s Tom Greaves just after the interval. Robert Grimes then gave'the,- Ribble Valley side the lead with 10 min-.' utes left, but heartbreak struck when .; . Greaves grabbed his brace at the d e a thT ; :
byPanBIack .“I was gutted for the lads on Tuesday
night,” said Smith; ‘We played well and probably created enough chances to have won two games. But we’ve got to start being ruthless in front of goal and make
- sure that we punish sides. At 2-1 they, have always got a chance to get back into it. Unfortunately they did and it was a huge shame because our overall performance was good. “We should have really shut up shop
after scoring a late goal ourselves and taken the three points but we have got a young side and I think that is'where the inexperience creeps in sometimes. They are still learning the game but these lads will definitely, start coming of-age. We
: have only lost one game so far but we ■ could have won all four and I think that’s the way the league is going to go .this year.”
- ’-■'But results so far this year already.
; show how fa r .this young side.has come. ; In 'March ; Skelmersdale: thrashed Clitheroe_6-0 a t Shawbridge
; as the 2008/09 season was coming,to a: ■ close. But a Jonathan Forbes strike ' ensured-that the
Blues.took a'point from Saturday’s game/
' - Smith added: “Skelmersdale are one of the better sides in this league and
: should have .won that game,-but'what’s /pleasing is that we are creating plenty of “chances so we'will 'score goals and win matches.”
' ~ t - GIVING IT A GO: Peter Smith
'B rett and Paul Sut-./ c liffe ::-v ;
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;;S'They!ifted the Alan/i and^Anita;W,halley-;> iRosebowl,*and £80 in
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vJohn‘’Rbbinson'and |. ■ Dave Sullivan 21-12 inS; [a. rain-soaked final at-J’:. 'Sabden Bowling Club;;:
.The competition, spon
sored by Bailey and Gar re t t (Chemists) Ltd of Kiddrow.-Lane Health Centre,' Burnley, and
prizeVmoneyi’each,fy!nters6ft’Communica- after.'defeatihgithe;;-tion Solutions, was held homester p a ir in g■
overtwo days. K Pauline Stansfield, one o f / the organisers, thanked: competition sponsors,-raffle prize
The:-cbmp'etition'f- donorsT who included
was held in aid of Der-; v Clitheroe’s Booths super- ian;House Children’si'Hmarket.-and iDawsons
.-HospiceV'./vj/f;^^-^^^ /( -d ep a r tm en t ' store - :a«Earlier,ithis;year,St bowlers aifdsupporters
they.'woh'tbejvillagefc forwhat she described as club’s inaugural Peter Kan “absolutely brilliant” Lambert Open Dou-::!icompetition. ■ blekin *aid;of PendlcT: side Hospice!j”'f.;
ifeThe:'pair,', who play.; : for. East 'Lancs' Bowl/ ing Club,' 'got;thrbugh;
' to’Hie Rosebbwl final t ibyisdefeating;'* Gary/: StephensonandiRoy.'
;Hope 2L9 in the semi- f in ^ .’-i
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^^Robinso'n and' Sulli-!i i'ran;\TOn tlifqugh 21-16/ ‘agaiimtyTony,'Single*:
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