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Last updated 05:30, Friday, 23 May 2008
CHAMPIONS Workington completed back-to-back wins when they beat Carlisle by four wickets at Edenside.
So far the champions have not been able to field professional Simon Beare but the Kiwi jetted back to Britain at and will be ready to resume next tomorrow.
Old adversary Pervez Shah was recruited at a sub professional by the west Cumbrians but he had one of his less distinguished afternoons – failing to take a wicket and scoring only six runs.
But Workington were still able to collect the victory after bowling out the home side for 138. County pace bowler Matthew Gorley took 5-24 and spinner Simon James had 3-23.
The Carlisle innings was boosted by a fourth wicket stand of 53 between professional Usman Saeed, who eventually finished on 54, and John Davies who made 31.
Workington had reached their target by the 34th over with opener Calum Moffat (58) the early mainstay
Newly-promoted Penrith had an excellent seven-wicket win at Furness after they had bowled out the home side for 122.
Mick Tuer took 3-32 and got support from Kriss McLean (2-16) and John Iniff (2-30).
Openers Andrew Hall and Nicky Burns put on 52 for the first wicket so Penrith had a solid platform on which to build. Hall eventually finished with 48, including eight boundaries, before he was stumped and teenager Alex Alexander (25no) eventually steered Penrith home in the 35th over.
It’s been a poor start to the season so far for Keswick and they were in more trouble at home to Dalton as they slid to defeat by six wickets.
Keswick could only manage 134-8 and professional Dinuk Hettiarachchi scored 48 of those with John D’Leny adding an unbeaten 24 further down the order. Brian Bell took 4-24.
Hettiarachchi took 3-36 but Dalton won nicely on 135-4 with Chris Gleaves top-scoring on 37.
Cockermouth were among the runs at Duddon Sports but they couldn’t finish the job as the home side held out to earn six points from a backs-to-the-wall draw.
In Division One, Wigton won a thrilling game at the Ernest Valentine Ground, beating Workington Seconds by two wickets.
Paul McKeown scored 53 not out for Workington in their total of 175-6 and then took three wickets when Wigton just scraped home on 179-8
Appleby Eden just couldn’t force a win at Ulverston from a game which they dominated from start to finish.
New professional Tillakaratne Sampath was in a hurry to impress on a delayed debut as he had missed his flight for the previous week’s home game with Egremont.
He top scored with 71 in an Appleby Eden total of 201-5 and had best support from Mark Ousby (43no), Andy Barr (33) and Phil Brabbins (22). Phil Cook took 4-31 and Ousby had 3-22 when Appleby just couldn’t squeeze out the last two wickets with the home side finishing on 110-8.
David Ferguson took 4-26 for Lanercost when Keswick Seconds were bowled out for 118 and then the home side hammered 119-1.
Australian professional Paul Duffett scored an unbeaten 128 but was still unable to keep Cleator at the top of the Premier Division.
In a thrilling and high-scoring encounter at Haverigg, Cleator had to settle for nine points from a drawn game – but Duffett almost got them home.
Cleator’s inability to squeeze eight extra runs at Haverigg meant that Millom’s six-wicket win at Whitehaven put them clear top.
Two delayed Higson Cup-ties were completed after being rained off last week.
But in the case of Haverigg and Cockermouth they had to go to a bowl out after rain again intervened.
Replying to Haverigg’s 195-8, Cockermouth had reached 127-6 when play ended. Haverigg seemed to be in charge and in the bowl-out that followed they won 2-0.
Millom (174-5) beat Penrith (173-6) by five wickets
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